fish ID please

Mon Aug 30, 2010 1:51 pm

Hi everyone whilst fishing Achill i caught these fish and was wondering on their id pollack or coalfish and dogfish or huss
Thanks i'm a beginner
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Re: fish ID please

Mon Aug 30, 2010 2:02 pm

Thats a dogfish and a coalie :)

Re: fish ID please

Mon Aug 30, 2010 2:40 pm

agreed, doggie and coalie. glad ye got some fish,which beach did ye fish?

Re: fish ID please

Mon Aug 30, 2010 6:30 pm

keem right down the western end, there was some clowns on waveblaster jet ski things so i wasnt expecting much but the mackeral just kept on comming. I tried keel the surfing beach without a bite :( and off the pier near corraun for the coalie.

Re: fish ID please

Mon Aug 30, 2010 9:29 pm

doggie and a coalie

Re: fish ID please

Thu Sep 02, 2010 6:14 pm

Lesser Spotted Dogfish and a Coalfish

Re: fish ID please

Thu Sep 02, 2010 6:38 pm

thats a doogie and a pollack not a coalie :)

Re: fish ID please

Sat Sep 04, 2010 1:50 am

doggie and a pollock to me.look at its lateral line its slightly curved where as a coalfishes is more straight and more whiter or more distingusable.did u try any of them marks i pmed u.if so pm me with info how they fished

Re: fish ID please

Mon Sep 06, 2010 1:50 pm

Doggie and Pollack,

Re: fish ID please

Mon Sep 06, 2010 2:43 pm

Al wrote:Thats a dogfish and a coalie :)


Like Al said its a dogfish and a coalie... the lateral line on a pollack has a far more pronounced curvature, another distinguishing feature of a pollack is the underbite which causes the bottom jaw protrude past the top...