Please help ID this

[Royden]

Hi All,

 

Can anyone ID this?

 

[Royden]

Another,

 

Guys were just messing around in the end with rod in hand!

 

[plumberman30]

holy !!!!!!!! no idee   but its is super long!!!!!!!!:blah:blah:blah:blah

 

[Predator_828]

Whoa, some sort of eel. Never seen one of these in my life.

 

[Penguin Pete]

It's an OARFISH. A fish of the open ocean. Normally found in depths of 15 - 500m. Feeds on plancton.

Reference: Coastal Fishes of SA pg. 130

 

[Whaler]

jip a oar fish~! seen some pics on the web, they get really big!

 

[werries]

There's lots of info on these fish on Sealine...just do a quick search

http://www.sealine.co.za/view_topic.php?id=19873&forum_id=1&highlight=oar+fish

 

[Royden]

Thanks guys, thats it, its an oarfish! It was over 3.5m long! My gran donated one to the PE museum years ago and might still be there!

 

It washed up at flat rocks last night and seem the sharky's started supper on it!

 

Regards

 

[FISHWORX]

i hope nobody tried to slide it

 

[pietman]

FISHWORX wrote:

i hope nobody tried to slide it

Hahahahaha Would like to see that

 

[Tailwalker1]

You should have thrown a piece to see what would chow it!!! and if your really wanted to have slid the head!!!