Well done Michael, as you now know the thick bodied gropers have peg teeth, heavy scales, a large tail and thick lips. Juveniles, as the one you caught, are brown to green brown. Adult females are brown to reddish-brown. Each scale may have a darker red spot. The adult males …
You see, Nigel is a movie producer and this blue morwong followed the script! It’s a nice two kilo fish, perfect for baking whole, we like them scaled and the cavity filled with your favourite herbs and spices, three cuts along the body of the fish to even the cooking time. …
It was a very interesting day, for the second day a massive schools of bait fish, dolphins having a good feed and birds picking up the scraps. There were lots of activities and fun to watch the dolphins under the boat. Also on the way home a couple of humpback whales were put …
Yep, it was a nice day with Keith, Bruce, Phillip, Matthew and Harry and Bob from Florida. We had a very nice session with a massive school of baitfish on the surface with gannets and mutton birds diving like crazy to reach the food. And all stirred up by dolphins feeding and …
Gummy shark, like the one Martin caught yesterday is a very nice table fish. Ryan from Melbourne, also onboard knows it very well as Flake. The term flake is used in Australia to indicate the flesh of any of several species of small shark, but particularly the gummy shark. Th …