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General => General Topwater & Jigging Discussion => Topic started by: Jay Burgess on May 12, 2007, 08:27:16 PM
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We got this popping out at some islands close to Karratha. I'm not sure whether it's a brassy, small GT or something else.
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Jay, it looks like a Blue Trevally, did the top half have a grey-blue tinge, it looks to have the scatted dark grey spots as well. Similer to a Bludger but to stocky and no dark blotches near the tail.
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It's a bad photo but I definately didn't notice any grey blue tinge on the top half. If anything it almost looked like it had a bronzie colour on certain angles of the light.
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Looks like a small GT .
Jon .
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I think you're right, either a GT or a Brassy (bit hard to tell from the photo). By the white on the lower part of the tail I'll say Brassy.
steve
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Papuan Trevally, bronzie colour on back, mainly silver with yellow tinge? good luck.
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Trevallies are such a hard species to ID, especially at that size. Everyone seems to have a different oppinion. Guess I'll never know exactly what it is eh ???
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Stop Press: :o: Papuan or Brassy Trevally [Caranx papuensis] often mistaken for a smaller GT, typically peppered with dark spots, distinct white trailing edge on the lower lobe of the tail. Papuan, Brassy, Small GT, sounds like it. ;D
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I want to catch a black trevally - not a black GT but a black trevally. They look quite spooky!!
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Ive heard a black trevally is a HAPPY MOMENT
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Its a small GT.
Black Trevally are awesome fighters for their size, caught plenty last year at the Rowleys off the back of the boat at night.
Ive heard a black trevally is a HAPPY MOMENT
Definitely is when you are eating them ;D. Had sambal black trevally at Christmas Island...to die for.
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I'd also say Brassy/Papuensis - Caranx papuensis
http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=6360 (http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=6360)
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Best pic I cauld find.
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Dunno, looks a bit stockier than the pic you posted Greg.
Not sure if this makes it any easier but here's a smaller one we caught on the same day.
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a happy moments is also known as a black trevally. I tell you what, you get stung by one and you'll bloody know about it........ What a great name - happy moments ;D
One of the guides caught one when we were bottom bouncing with plastics at Shoalwater. He didn't know what it was and was about the grab it when the other two of us started screaming at him not to touch it!!
Ive heard a black trevally is a HAPPY MOMENT
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Here's a pic of a Brassy I caught in Vanuatu late last year:
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Hmm yeah definately much stockier than the brassies pictured which look a bit more slender. The one I caught had a lot more grey too.
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Small GT for sure.
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Thanks Che. Gonna try the same spot again on saturday and see if I can get some of his big brothers. I hooked something on a Haymaker that was much bigger last time I was there that buried me in the reef, didn't get an ID.
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Ok fellows - Well done, now what about this one ?
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