Poll What's your Regional Preference in your Fish & Chip shops?

[Bobj]

Well, those aren't bad, but if you fish the top end, Fingermark Bream take some beating. Down in Tas, my favourite with chips was the Southern Sand Flathead.

Fingermark, (Qld) and golden snapper, (NT), are one and the same, lutjanus johnii, also called large scale sea perch...that's a mouthful!

And a close kin, the mangrove jack, l. argentimaculatus. I will be targeting them, along with barramundi in September, in the Keep River, far NW Northern Territory.

[Martin56]

Fingermark, (Qld) and golden snapper, (NT), are one and the same, lutjanus johnii, also called large scale sea perch...that's a mouthful!

And a close kin, the mangrove jack, l. argentimaculatus. I will be targeting them, along with barramundi in September, in the Keep River, far NW Northern Territory.

The Ozzie T.V. angler I liked to watch - Rex Hunt, liked "King George Whiting" & chips, more easily digestible for the oldies he said.

[Vagabond]

Fingermark, (Qld) and golden snapper, (NT), are one and the same, lutjanus johnii, also called large scale sea perch...that's a mouthful!

Hi Bobj We were on our own when we caught fingermark (Lutjanus johnii) in the NT, so dunno what the locals called 'em, but both sets of crews we went with on the Ord river (W.A.) and on Cape York (QLD) called them fingermark. I have also heard them called "John's snapper" I think in South Africa and of course restaurants the world over call any tropical sea fish with a spiky dorsal "Red Snapper"

 

Good luck at the Keep River - I remember it well, - wish I'd known where to look for the Gouldian finches BEFORE the trip !

 

 

The only fish I heard called "golden snapper" was a Moses Perch (Lutjanus russelli) by some fishos at Darwin (NT) It was definitely a Moses - thin yellow stripes and all. But then, all of the Lutjanids have umpteen different names (Australia's a big place ) - a quick glance at Grant's book will show just how many!

Edited May 9, 2018 by Vagabond

[Bobj]

The Ozzie T.V. angler I liked to watch - Rex Hunt, liked "King George Whiting" & chips, more easily digestible for the oldies he said.

If only KG whiting grew to 10 lbs, we would have a champion fish, both in fight and taste.

[Bobj]

Vagabond, Chuck this co-ordinate in your Google Maps: -16.06045, 129.08354

 

And, I fish the salty section of the Keep River to the brackish, about 120 km north of the National Park section.

[corydoras]

Battered Mars Bars are not that popular in the North of England Keith, but in Scotland I believe they're One of their "5 A Day".

How does one form ones beliefs? Like Andy I've never eaten a deep fried Mars bar nor do I know anyone who has.

 

I always have haddock. I don't eat wormy cod and I won't put that slightly fishy cotton wool called sea bass in my mouth.

 

Head up tp places like Wick and one can have just about any fish with your chips. Lemon sole, monkfish, plaice, proper scampi(langoustine). Not many places in Scotland do dogfish. We tend to feed them to the neighbours dog. My GSD used to love em.