Fish Scale I.D

[King-Fish]

Can anyone help me Identify what fish this scale is from? I'm prety sure it is from a mulloway or bream and it was around the size of my thumbnail and from melbourne.
Cheers

[mr perch]

Originally Posted by King-Fish

Can anyone help me Identify what fish this scale is from? I'm prety sure it is from a mulloway or bream and it was around the size of my thumbnail and from melbourne.
Cheers

small mulloway mate.

[cmcwilliam16]

A mulloway or even a snapper

[Kim]

I think a jew

[King-Fish]

Cheers guys, man it would have been fun if I stayed connected as it was on the mullet rod trying to catch livies for the bigger jewies!

[yellow door 1]

Re- PM

Sorry mate - I used to have some scales lying around but I think I've thrown them out - all I have left is this dodgy pic

Maybe search you tube or google for vids of people cleaning mulloway or just a photo of their scales

[King-Fish]

Good idea, thanks for that.

[cr@zy_deep]

Here's a comparison for you:

Bream scale & otolith



Mulloway scale & otolith



sorry about the crappy photos they were taken with my iphone.

[yellow door 1]

Remembered to keep one

[King-Fish]

Thanks a lot for the photos guys, any more suggestions as to what it could have been?
It looks different to the scales pictured but I'm assuming their scales vary a bit. From memory it smelt like a mulloway too as thats the first thing I did to check if it was.

[yellow door 1]

Originally Posted by King-Fish

Thanks a lot for the photos guys, any more suggestions as to what it could have been?
It looks different to the scales pictured but I'm assuming their scales vary a bit. From memory it smelt like a mulloway too as thats the first thing I did to check if it was.

By the shape - and the skin left on the scale - it could be a carp

[yellow door 1]

There's a few swimming around with the Jewie schools - and they are taking on a more silver hue at the moment.

I'll grab a carp scale next time I nab one and get a better pic

[yellow door 1]

Originally Posted by King-Fish

Thanks a lot for the photos guys, any more suggestions as to what it could have been?
It looks different to the scales pictured but I'm assuming their scales vary a bit. From memory it smelt like a mulloway too as thats the first thing I did to check if it was.

p.s. Blokes with better noses than mine, tell me Carp and Mulloway have a similar odour.

[yellow door 1]

Here's a google image of a carp scale, next to the one you found.

if you ignore the snail like swirl in the middle - (Its been superimposed over the image) - the scales are a pretty good match

[King-Fish]

Thanks heaps Larry, you've helped me a lot. Unfortunately I think its a carp