This is the Footballer Coral Trout, named after its resemblance to a football player’s uniform.
Coral Trout is one of the most delicious tasting and beautiful reef fish of Australia
This Coral Trout has two distinct colour phases: the “footballer phase” which is whitish with black saddles, a yellow caudal peduncle and yellow fins, and a greyish form with a dark head, five dark saddles along the back, and small blue spots on body.For more info on see Fishes of Australia. Amihan Tackle
If these had sporting qualities like a striped bass they would be a cult fish. The colors and patterns are off the scale. Nature out does the imagination. The Smokey Eyes are perfect.
Plectropomus laevis, known commonly as the black-saddled coral grouper, cluespotted coral trout, blacksaddled coral trout, blue-spot trout, Chinese footballer, footballer cod, footballer coral trout, oceanic coral trout or tiger trout, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a grouper from the subfamily Epinephelinae which is part of the family Serranidae, which also includes the anthias and sea basses. It is found in the Indo-Pacific region.
