Juvenile monitor lizard at Sentosa:

Pasir Ris : Not very productive...lots of small fish stealing bait. Perhaps I've been going at the wrong tide as I've been seeing people catching plenty with cast nets. However, a guy fishing nearby at one of the breakwaters caught a huge sicklefish (40+ cm): http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1187/119...

Nice catch! whereabouts did you go? (don't mind me asking) I can't disclose the exact locations but if you fish locally long enough, you'll find that you may commonly catch Spanish Flag Snappers from southwestern to eastern waters. The species of fishes caught suggests that I am fishing near rocky/...

Great catch there Angelfishing, the grouper must be quite like the ostrich burying its head in sand when there is danger. That's a myth on ostriches but certainly true for groupers! :lol: http://lh5.google.com/lycanders/RtIHOXxFiDI/AAAAAAAAApE/c0Pp8cY61WE/s800/sundaycatch.jpg Here's my baiting catc...

Wow, you're good TimL. Thanks for the identification, I couldn't find that fish on fishbase myself. :o Welcome to HLF TimL, hope you'll stay to help us with more fish identifications. :gift: Are you a marine biologist? :sweatdrop: Even though I have a biology degree, taken a few classes in zoology ...

2 possibilities: Chiloscyllium indicum (slender bamboo shark) or Chiloscyllium hasseltii (Hasselt's bambooshark). Slender Bamboo: http://www.fishbase.org/images/species/Chind_u0.gif Was the fish still alive when the photo was taken? I have no pics of hasselt's bamboo shark but I'm vouching for it. T...

It is Halichoeres bicolor: . There is a black spot between the 6th and 7th dorsal spine (IP and through much of TP) and a lateral stripe.
Reference: http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Species ... p?id=53816

Herrings are very difficult to tell apart...This individual could be a tamban (Sardinella albella or a deepbody sardinella S. brachysoma:. The difference lies in the gill raker count.