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Old 02-11-2007, 09:57 PM
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A load of Pollacks

Dont about you, but I get confused with Pollack & Whiting.

I always understood Whiting to have teeth & Pollack to have a protruding lower lip ....

What are these ones then :


I'd say a Whiting but had no obvious set of nashers ...

Then this one :



I'd say a Pollack as a protruding bottom lip .... and this one ....



What do you reckon guys - there are points on this as all fish were caught this year !
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Re: A load of Pollacks

The first one is a whiting. Underslung lower jaw and spade-end tail. The other two are pollack, protruding lower jaws, larger eye and concave tail fins, but unusually pale colouration.

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Re: A load of Pollacks

mad, never seen one that light. but looking at its shape id say bottom 2 are pollock.
if id caught it i would not have noticed it was a pollock due to it been so light in colour, good spot
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Re: A load of Pollacks

Might be the flash on the camera making them brighter ?

I am going with Pollack - as said - the concave tail & protruding jaw does it for me .... still not easy to spot these tiddlers IMHO !
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Re: A load of Pollacks

As already said, I'd go with:

1 - Whiting

2 - Pollack

3 - Pollack
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Agree with above
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