Orange-Spotted Trevally (Demudok)

July 18, 2011 / By JW / 1 minute of reading / 5 Comments

Identifying fish can be tricky. It appears I have identified the Orange-Spotted Trevally as the Island Trevally in some of my earlier video postings.

I would not have realise it if I did not dig-out some reference books and took a closer look. Make that a very close look.

Orange-Spotted Trevally (Carangoides bajad) also known as the Gold-Spotted Trevally, is a species of inshore marine fish in the jack family, Carangidae.

Local name: Demudok

Photo: Wikipedia

Characteristic

Orange-yellow spots on its side, count of fin rays and scutes are needed to distinguish it from related species with similar colouring.

Orange-Spotted Trevally are a powerful predator, takes a variety of small fish, nekton and crutaceans.

Reaches maturity at around 25 cm. Maximum recorded length 55 cm. Average size caught 20 – 30 cm.

Palate Rating **1/2 (Out of 5)

Though a good food fish it is seldom seen in the local markets. Mostly salted dried along with other Carangids.

I’d take one or two fish for the table and release the rest as they’re great fun to catch! As are all Trevally.

Distribution

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JW

Juan Wei is the founder of SFA. All he does is fish (and that's a myth)! His favourite type of fishing is sight-fishing where he can cast to the target fish and see it eat his presentation. See what he's currently up to on Instagram @juanwei

5 thoughts on “Orange-Spotted Trevally (Demudok)”

the boss
July 18, 2011 at 11:17 pm

helluva fighter this demudok…. real workout for us!

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1. sportfishin' asia
  July 18, 2011 at 11:38 pm
  
  Awesome fish!
  
  Would not mind catching them anytime but let us go for some of its larger sized Trevally cousins :)
  
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Frogfish
July 22, 2011 at 8:19 pm

I’ll take all I can catch and give it to my mother-in-law. That way I will be in her good books forever or while the demudok lasts. Mmmmm…need more fishing trips to keep mother-in-law happy.

BTW, here’s a real tip. Recently over the radiio, it was said that 80% of fishes caught in Sabah and Sarawak are treated with you know what for you know what reason. That is why mother-in-law wants fresh catch. Wife on the other hand is a little weird. Wants to eat sotong!

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1. sportfishin' asia
  July 22, 2011 at 10:00 pm
  
  Strange, I’d expect the MIL to be the weird one?
  
  Anyways…
  
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Caesar Desouza
April 8, 2013 at 12:48 pm

its also known as the golden spotted rock trevally

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