Bass (Dicentrarchus labrax)

Bass (Dicentrarchus labrax)

Cobh was the venue for Myles Kelly’s Bass in 2010

Cobh was the venue for Myles Kelly’s Bass in 2010

Specimen weight: 4.536kg (10 lbs)
Record: 17lbs 13ozs, Doughmore Strand, 2000

Blue-backed, silvery hard-scaled fish with two adjacent dorsal fins of about equal size, the first with strong spines. Anal fin short, tail fin forked, pelvic fins (each with a spine and five soft rays) under pectorals. Corner of gill-cover spinous; edge of pre-operculum (cheek- bone) serrated. Grows to about 20 lb.

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