Not seen one of these before?

[flappy]

At a guess I can definitely say that it is a fish..

 

[Had1]

A colourful one in the sun

 

[flappy]

Butterfish..?

 

[Wolf]

PASS

 

[Tatunka joe]

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A colourful one in the sun

Banging Huss bait ma Bute

 

[Had1]

Butterfish..?

PASS

3 beard rocking I think just different colouration I caught it in sw Ireland.

 

[Beach]

Any idea please?

It's a fish

 

[JLD]

3 bearded rocking as said. I ate on once 'cos it was big and died on me. They are quite tasty.

 

[Si-fly]

I believe there is actually also a 4th type of Rockling called a "Northern Rockling".....these look like 5 beards, but the head is proportionally bigger compared with the body than a 5 beard, and often mis identified as 5 beards according to a piece I read the other day.

 

[JLD]

Might that be another name for a torsk? Also a cod relative and also tasty although I've never seen one or eaten one myself.

 

[Si-fly]

Might that be another name for a torsk? Also a cod relative and also tasty although I've never seen one or eaten one myself.

I've no idea, I just read a piece identifying what looked like a 5 beard, as a Northern....and it did have much bigger head proportions....they did give ratios (head to body) between the 2 species, but I can't recount what they were now.
I'll see if I can remember where the post was....think on an LRF site

 

[Si-fly]

 

[tdxs133pm]

I caught it in sw Ireland.

That'll be a Cork(er) then.Have you lost 2?

 

[cap'nhaddock]

I believe there is actually also a 4th type of Rockling called a "Northern Rockling".....these look like 5 beards, but the head is proportionally bigger compared with the body than a 5 beard, and often mis identified as 5 beards according to a piece I read the other day.

The book Fishes of the Sea, N Atlantic and Med J & G Lythgoe says that the Northern Rockling has supplementary barbels fringing the upper jaw. The mouth is bigger and reaches back further.

 

[Mesmo]

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A colourful one in the sun

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Same as one of these which has been identified as a 3 bearded rockling