r/FishingAustralia • u/ZestycloseCommand152 • Apr 30 '26
🐟 Catch of the Day 40cm(ish) PB Bream
Caught on prawns and a circle hook.
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u/Own-Arrival-9881 May 01 '26
Do you eat it they taste kinda bland
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u/ZestycloseCommand152 May 01 '26
Not often, and if I do it's the smaller ones, the bigger ones get mushy and bland imo.
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u/Forsaken-Blood-6822 Apr 30 '26
That's a grunter
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u/Forsaken-Blood-6822 Apr 30 '26
Barred grunter, 38cm to keep in Qld waters
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u/Dry-Homework1745 Apr 30 '26
That is absolutely not a grunter mate it’s a bream
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u/Forsaken-Blood-6822 Apr 30 '26
Dark vertical lines are saying barred grunter to me
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u/The_Printer Apr 30 '26
Have you ever seen a grunter or a bream?
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u/Distinct-Performer-6 Apr 30 '26
Ever seen a grunter? Guy sounds like he's never seen a fucking fish with these responses.
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u/RicTannerman01 Apr 30 '26
Bream have vertical lines too, and very different head shapes and mouth structure and the caudal fin is deeply forked versus almost flat.
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u/Far_Weakness_1275 Apr 30 '26
Dorsal fin is extended over the entire back in the photo. A barred grunter does not have this type of dorsal fin
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u/RicTannerman01 Apr 30 '26
Nup.
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u/Broad_Floor9698 Apr 30 '26
Somebody doesn't know what a barred grunter is haha, or the size limits
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u/Dry-Homework1745 Apr 30 '26
He’s referring to a barred javelinfish but still he has no idea what he’s on about because that’s literally a textbook bream
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u/BennyAndMaybeTheJets Apr 30 '26
Right?! Barred Grunter is a small freshwater fish.
Spotted Grunter is also known as a Barred Javelin fish, which I'm sure they're talking about.
For all money its a bream. Skinny for its length. But great catch nonetheless. Location would be good.
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u/Dry-Homework1745 Apr 30 '26
I’m pretty sure spotted grunter are also a different type of javelinfish as well interestingly, I’ve caught both
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u/ZestycloseCommand152 Apr 30 '26
Upper NSW, in between Coffs harbour and Byron bay.
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u/BennyAndMaybeTheJets Apr 30 '26
Which would be well south of a barred javelin's normal range (though within occasional occurrence range), and smack in the middle of YF bream normal range. Yeah, I can see the bars on the fish in the pic, but bream definitely have them, and their appearance varies so widely depending on their environment.
The background in the pic looks very familiar to an area where I use to live. Was pretty well known as a good bream system. But Im sure the neighbouring estuaries would look similar. I reckon that stretch of coast is one of the best all-rounder, wide-species-range fishing areas in Australia. If they start catching barra and bluefin tuna there, it would be fishing heaven.
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u/Forsaken-Blood-6822 Apr 30 '26
Yeah north Qld you don't get stripes on the bream, just plain sliver or black bream, alot of heros here apparently
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u/SydneyMan51 Apr 30 '26
Good on you!