OMG Australian Rarities!!

[Aussienative]

Talking about spangled perch, i just remembered years ago when i was about 14, a mate and i were riding our bikes home from a day of fishing, We rode through some bushland on the edge of an estate to save some time, we came across what can only be described as a "puddle" , we had some prawns left over and decided to chuck a line in, what do ya know...... we caught spangled perch after spangled perch i couldn't believe it! i have no idea how they got there let alone survived!

 

[Steve_89]

oh really, share with us please, whats a better looking one? I'd love to learn more about the fish from down under

Probably not as good looking...but they are badass...

There is the sooty and barcoo grunters...

Another nice looking grunter is the Largescale Grunter (Terapon theraps)...they have spots that remind me of a juvie temensis...im pretty sure they are brackish/salt though.

Another cool grunter is the Silver Grunter (Mesopristes argenteus) found in fresh, salt and brackish.

There are a lot of fish found in Australia, particulary in FW that are pretty dull looking..but they have attitude.

 

[Hakon]

Nice

 

[guppy]

You just don't see many aussies in the USA. You have some great ones and some very strange ones as well.

 

[Timpon]

You just don't see many aussies in the USA. You have some great ones and some very strange ones as well.

And that goes for the fish as well I guess.

 

[Stone Like Fish]

^^^ ZING lol

 

[Steve_89]

And that goes for the fish as well I guess.

LOL

 

[dacox]

There are a lot of fish found in Australia, particulary in FW that are pretty dull looking..but they have attitude.

Same with here. They are fun to keep though.

 

[matymic]

muuray cod rock!!!!!!!!

 

[Volenti]

Here's a very informative website you guys may be interested in about aussie natives.... enjoy

http://www.nativefish.asn.au/fish.html

Also...... while there are a few aussies looking in this thread, has anyone gone out collecting fish in a local stream/river. I don't mean fishing for bass or golden perch in a stocked impoundment ie Summerset dam

In my local creek (south east QLD) I can get common gobies/gudgeons, smelt, small mullet, mouth allmighty*, glass perch, platys(sigh), Australian bass, common eels, various shrimp ect.

The mouth allmighty "look" like mini monsters but are incredibly boring, never saw them feed once in the months I had them, presumably nocturnal.