My Catches!

EmicMalta · December 22, 2007, 19:07:30 CET

Quote from: Arti2 on December 22, 2007, 11:16:45 CET
I think it was august and the wind was south west and there was no storm that month some moderate rough sea only. That day me and my friend saw a strange small fish in the surface. It was silver striped with black and had red feather like fins and one red feather like thing on its head. I managed to research some info on it but could not find any similar pic on the web. As it was like half dead we could grab it with our hands then we let it go. The mistake I made was not to take a photo of it. But I think it was a kind of tropical fish which comes with ships coming from abroad.

its a cornet fish. jast this week i saw about a 20 ones near from where we caught the white grouper but they use to ran away. We caught some and simonG says that its really nice if cooked in the oven

Robert · December 22, 2007, 20:06:24 CET

But cornetfish do not have red on their head...

EmicMalta · December 23, 2007, 08:25:10 CET

cornet fish

Robert · December 23, 2007, 10:56:50 CET

Is this variant more similar to what you saw? It's from the Sciaendiae family - a distant relative of the meagre.

Arti2 · January 03, 2008, 19:26:38 CET

Today I went spearfishing. Caught 5Kg(Total) Octopus, a seabass 1Kg 200g+, a small bream which is not in the pic and a green wrasse (also not shown in pic).

Arti2 · January 03, 2008, 19:29:03 CET

Another pic of the seabass.

Arti2 · January 22, 2008, 22:13:16 CET

Hello again. Today I went spearfishing again. I caught 7kgs and some fish shown in the pics.

Arti2 · January 22, 2008, 22:19:27 CET

The fish.

EmicMalta · January 23, 2008, 08:29:02 CET

Proset Arti2. Nice gurbel. Whats about that 'Gharab'. How is their colour. A bit strang cos look too black. Are they caught from the seaweed?

Arti2 · January 23, 2008, 13:40:48 CET

No I think the colour is because of the mating season.In the water they looked very bluish. I think they are males cause I had had a chance on a lighter coloured one which was plumpy, which I think is the female but I did not shoot as it will lay eggs.

skip · January 23, 2008, 15:13:17 CET

Nice to see people taking note of the possibility of fish about to lay eggs and not shooting them. Helps perserve things for the future. Well done

jon109 · January 23, 2008, 16:24:59 CET

i am not sure about the type of fish... but i don't think that fish mate before laying eggs! I think that after the female lays the eggs, the male will fertilize the eggs!

so maybe you killed the males and so the eggs will not be fertilized!

Arti2 · January 23, 2008, 16:47:38 CET

There were smaller males around dude. There was a kind of competition.
Thats why I left the female alone. And two of them was enough!

jon109 · January 23, 2008, 16:59:41 CET

hehe that's fine with me

good philosophy though!

u prosit for your cathes eh!

reg,

Jonathan

EmicMalta · January 23, 2008, 19:51:29 CET

You done the wright thing Arti2. If we continue to say cos this is a femail and this isa male, we will never catch a fish. If one sees a fish that seams that is with eggs, we will have to be responsable and not catch it.If then we says that cos of males use to fertilize fish, heqqqqqqqqqq....... what can we do?

Arti2 caught the ammount he needed to eat, so I will never say that he made or can do anything wrong.

Simetimes I use to catch baracudas and even somethimes when they are small they are with eggs and this is from january till august, so what can we do?

? The only thing is that one should be responsable for the fish he catch, even ifit is caught by a speargun or a rod.