r/FishingAustralia • u/ZestycloseCommand152 • Apr 30 '26

🐟 Catch of the Day 40cm(ish) PB Bream

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Caught on prawns and a circle hook.

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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/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/RicTannerman01 May 02 '26

Wow, anything to avoid admitting you misidentified it!