Had a itch so I went scratching at Kasouga

FLUKE

Sealiner
MOULDIE wrote:
FLUKE wrote:
That's 3 seldom caught species all in one day, Well Done!! I also caught what I think is a Billy Bartle (the fish in the 1st pic) the other day and it was the biggest one I've ever caught at close on 35cm(estimate) they are really beautiful fish with the shiny spots and the orange on the pectoral fins.

Billy Bartel??? I call it Finger Fin
Quite right but you know us Border boys don't call anything by it's real name:fbash or maybe the rest of SA uses the wrong names::S
 

boepens

Sealiner
FLUKE wrote:
MOULDIE wrote:
FLUKE wrote:
That's 3 seldom caught species all in one day, Well Done!! I also caught what I think is a Billy Bartle (the fish in the 1st pic) the other day and it was the biggest one I've ever caught at close on 35cm(estimate) they are really beautiful fish with the shiny spots and the orange on the pectoral fins.

Billy Bartel??? I call it Finger Fin
Quite right but you know us Border boys don't call anything by it's real name:fbash or maybe the rest of SA uses the wrong names::S



I think the rest of the country got it all wrong :fbash:fbash:fbash

Elf? Cracker? Steenie? Hottie? Poensie? Kollie?
What clown thought up these names ? :fbash:fbash:fbash:fbash:fbash:fbash:fbash


As for the billybartle. There's a more colourfull one we get in rock pools its a smaller species. That's the billy. The brown one I've heard the old timers call butterfish.
Both r fingerfin species. :SSS
 

Capt Pete

New member
I know this is an old post

But Im trying to find out what a Billy Bartel looks like

A reference says this pic of yours could be a Billy Bartel its official name Two tone finger fin !!!!!!!!!
 
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