That's a great catch, hope that teaches you not to mess with a 'deity' fish again. :p Superstition in fishing can be hard to disprove, especially when luck can play an important part. Then there's the dilemma if you were to catch a queenie on your first catch; keeping it is bad luck, releasing your ...

Thanks for sharing the photo. It does look pretty small, much like the false scorpionfish.

Looks interesting indeed, it's probably different from the usual black damselfish we catch. I will look try to look that up.

Nah, I mean just smack the lure right infront of you. The sound and vibrations can travel quite far out in water, especially if you have calm waters. They might come in closer to investigate.

I'm not good with artificial lures but I did catch a Zebra Tilapia with one before. Cichlids can be aggressive and territorial and may attack your lure with some persistence casting close to them. I used intervals of quick successive jerks to provoke a strike.

Yeah, it does look like it. I would love to use the live photo but the angle is a little off. Nice catch on this uncommon fish!

That's still some decent catches there. Sometimes when I want excite the fish a little, I would smack the lure against the surface of the water a few times to mimic a frenzy feeding. This usually works quite well the first few times you use it and you may see the fish reciprocate with some surface a...

Welcome back Daryl, congrats on landing the fishes and the stay out unit life. Thanks for sharing your catches with us.

Nice catch and welcome to HLF, krukera19. That's a pretty good sized bass.

That looks like a Small spotted dart, do you have another picture of this fish at a better angle from top down?

This looks like a cross breed of Zebra and Flowerhorn Cichlid. If cichlid population density is high in that area, they're likely to cross breed.

Interesting, I've not seen this fish bred at local floating fish farms before. It looks like a Japanese Sea Perch . It's profile seems to be similar that of barramundi, being able to adapt from fresh and saltwater probably makes it a suitable for local breeding. I wonder if its meat quality can matc...

The damselfish family is pretty large, and quite frankly they can look quite similar among certain species. It probably isn't a charcoal damsel, its tail shape looks a little different.

This should be a juvenile monogrammed monocle bream, notice its large eyes and horizontal brown stripe.

Yes, they look very similar and the lack of unique features makes it hard to identify them.