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#1 Post by iano »

https://www.dropbox.com/s/nxb4q6qypve24 ... .44.52.jpg


https://www.dropbox.com/s/lpv23c2z7mqzi ... .36.47.jpg

washed up on local waterford beach today .about 8lbs in weight 18inches long

reckon its a lumpsucker ...what do ye think


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#2 Post by JOHN1 »

8lb thats a big lump of a lumpsucker :wink:
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#3 Post by chuckaroo »

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#4 Post by joebhoy »

Seen a few washed up over here following the Christmas storms but that's a fair specimen........
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#5 Post by Bassy Tom »

Yeh thats a nice lumpsucker alright Iano. Im from Tramore myself. All kinds washed up there lately, found a 70cm red band fish washed up in Tramore myself a few weeks back.
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#6 Post by lad123 »

All sorts of fish being washed up in the storms ..... fish that we didnt even know existed
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#7 Post by basstardo »

Saw one just like it washed up on an east cork beach this time last year.. About the same size too..
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#8 Post by samo »

Found one washed up on killiney a few years ago but not the size of that.
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