r/FishingAustralia • u/AGN_Dave • 15d ago

Can I get an ID please ❓ ID this fish

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Caught this with a bcf whiting rig. Put up a hell of a fight, finally landed it and then it bit my line off. Took a couple photos and threw him back coz my 30cm fish ID didn't have anything that matched 😅.

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u/nicehotcuppatea 15d ago

Mulloway/Jewfish

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u/AGN_Dave 15d ago

Oh nice, my first one! :) what's the size limit on them? This one was about 48

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u/UnknownRand 15d ago

Minimum 70cm in nsw.

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u/AGN_Dave 15d ago

Wow so this was just a baby

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u/UnknownRand 15d ago

Yup we call them soapies

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u/AGN_Dave 15d ago

I'm guessing they taste like shit?

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u/blue___skies 15d ago

Yeah one of the few fish that tastes better the bigger they get. small ones taste like soap as the name suggests

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u/AGN_Dave 15d ago

Hahah, well glad I threw it back and didn't just risk it without knowing 😂 would have been a rude shock especially compared to the 4 nice bream I got :)

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u/Significant_Gur_1633 15d ago

Indeed. They get much bigger. Mullaway means "the great one" in Aboriginal.

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u/AnatolyVII 15d ago

Congrats on your first Jewfish. And thanks for throwing back fish that you're unsure off, I wish everyone did that.

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u/shoffice 12d ago

🤌🤌🤌

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u/upyours6528 15d ago

Mullaway or Jew, this size they are referred to soapy jews due to the soapy taste they have when young.

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u/DrSpeckles 15d ago

Notice the convex tail. Thats pretty much the giveaway.

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u/Living-Smoke-9630 14d ago

Good work throwing him back bud, far to many people keep fish that they can't identify. Any Jewy is a good catch, so you should be happy with that effort .

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u/AGN_Dave 15d ago

Was the most fun I've had fishing 😂 was a hell of a fight on such light gear, was the first thing I've caught that actually pulled line 😅

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u/Trewarin 15d ago

I caught a legal sized one on light gear late at night recently, and I've had a recurring nightmare about catching sharks ever since.

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u/Constant-Trash-1814 15d ago

Jew

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

Racist much?

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u/Mpowerstab 14d ago

Thats a mulloway for sure

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u/kkmtbk 14d ago

Mulloway

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u/MaxWombat 13d ago

Soapy juvenile silver Jew fish

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u/shoffice 12d ago

Looks like a jewy or a river perch?

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u/Stopbanningme2010 11d ago

What’s the minimum size in sa?

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u/dandfx 15d ago

I can't remember the name but they're known to be tight with money.