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Title: Bit of an Oddity
Post by: Brett Guy on January 04, 2013, 09:16:28 AM

Thought some of you might be interested in this sooty I caught the other day. This colour variety is not common but turns up now and again if you fish the right area of the right system. This one has pretty good colour but the odd one is far better.

Title: Re: Bit of an Oddity
Post by: LilDave on January 04, 2013, 11:17:10 AM

Pretty!

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Post by: Binder on January 04, 2013, 06:17:46 PM

Evil looking brute.

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Post by: Sweetwater on January 04, 2013, 11:30:49 PM

Looks almost like a sooty grunter  / coal grunter hybrid.

Title: Re: Bit of an Oddity
Post by: takrat on January 21, 2013, 07:11:05 PM

I'm pretty sure someone crossed it with a Golden

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Post by: elops on January 22, 2013, 11:35:30 AM

Ever seen a white and black piebald Sooty Brett ?
Heres a similar morph H. tulliensis

Title: Re: Bit of an Oddity
Post by: Brett Guy on January 24, 2013, 05:31:46 PM

Funny you should say that. I spotted one while yakkin down a different creek(same system though) a week or so ago. Had heaps of white on it.

Title: Re: Bit of an Oddity
Post by: elops on January 24, 2013, 11:39:09 PM

Mate of mine keeps teasing me saying he has seen the white/black morphs but is yet to catch one.
There are some pure gold xanthic ones in that system  ;)

Title: Re: Bit of an Oddity
Post by: Sweetwater on January 25, 2013, 09:22:53 AM

I've caught some that have a purple tinge to them and in the same water some that tend towards green.

Title: Re: Bit of an Oddity
Post by: Brett Guy on January 25, 2013, 03:16:32 PM

Quote from: Member on January 24, 2013, 11:39:09 PM

Mate of mine keeps teasing me saying he has seen the white/black morphs but is yet to catch one.
There are some pure gold xanthic ones in that system  ;)

Yep. I have had a pure gold(or very close to) follow my lure once. They are there.