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ColinW

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Lipped that is.

How do YOU tell the difference? Is a thin lipped mullet so strikingly different from a thick lipped that I would notice if I caught one, or should I go and check my photos of what I've assumed are all thick lips just in case?

Presumably they are easy to identify if you have them both side by side (or catch a lot more than I do!) but how would you identify a single individual fish?

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there is a thing to do with the gap between the two dorsal fins it identifies between thin, thick and golden grey

on one the gap is the length of the front dorsal fin , one is one and ahalf times the front dorsal and the other is twice the length of the front dorsal. This info isn't much use as I can't for the life of me remember which is which. Your best bet is to drop Vagabond a PM he will tell you everything you need to know.

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barry luxton Member

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The thicked lip tends to put more lipstick on :rolleyes:

 

Wot just like pete burns? :yucky:

Free to choose apart from the ones where the trust poked their nose in. Common eel. tope. Bass and sea bream. All restricted.


New for 2016 TAT are the main instigators for the demise of the u k bass charter boat industry, where they went screaming off to parliament and for the first time assisting so called angling gurus set up bass take bans with the e u using rubbish exaggerated info collected by ices from anglers, they must be very proud.

Upgrade, the door has been closed with regards to anglers being linked to the e u superstate and the failed c f p. So TAT will no longer need to pay monies to the EAA anymore as that org is no longer relevant to the u k . Goodbye to the europeon anglers alliance and pathetic restrictions from the e u.

Angling is better than politics, ban politics from angling.

Consumer of bass. where is the evidence that the u k bass stock need angling trust protection. Why won't you work with your peers instead of castigating them. They have the answer.

Recipie's for mullet stew more than welcomed.

Angling sanitation trust and kent and sussex sea anglers org delete's and blocks rsa's alternative opinion on their face book site. Although they claim to rep all.

new for 2014. where is the evidence that the south coast bream stock need the angling trust? Your campaign has no evidence. Why won't you work with your peers, the inshore under tens? As opposed to alienating them? Angling trust failed big time re bait digging, even fish legal attempted to intervene and failed, all for what, nothing.

Looks like the sea angling reps have been coerced by the ifca's to compose sea angling strategy's that the ifca's at some stage will look at drafting into legislation to manage the rsa, because they like wasting tax payers money. That's without asking the rsa btw. You know who you are..

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Norrie Member

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Hiya, This might help...:):)

 

 

 

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/aquarium/pages/t...greymullet.html

 

and

 

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/aquarium/pages/t...greymullet.html

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The easiest way to tell a thick-lip from a thin-lip is by what is referred to as the jugular interspace. If you look under the chin of a thick-lip the edges of the gill cover run parallel leaving a narow parallel gap. With the thin-lip this gap is not parallel but oval.

 

The only problem with this method is that the golden grey mullet looks the same as the thin-lip under the chin so you have to do futher checks comparing the eye size to lip thickness. The golden patch on the gill cover is not a distinguishing feature on golden greys as other species of mullet often exhibit one.

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The easiest way to tell a thick-lip from a thin-lip is by what is referred to as the jugular interspace.

 

Cheers Phil. I Googled "jugular interspace" and found this little booklet on fish identification which people might find quite useful. (It answers another one I've never been too sure of, doggies and huss!)

 

http://www.cfb.ie/pdf/fishbook.pdf

 

(Warning, if you are on dial up it is 1.7Meg)

 

P.S. One thing IS confusing me now. The front on picture of a thick lipped on the UK Aquarium site linked above looks like the pictures given in the booklet for a thin lipped! If that's not an oval shaped jugular interface, I don't know what one is.

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