Ok, it was only 14cm, but still a snoek......

[TOE 007]

i am sure i am gonna rattle some cages here now , but that look ,not like a snoek , but more like , PIKE , this is pure specilation offcourse , we have caught plenty of lil snoekies like that pesky lil things , just outside GB old harbour!

So you dorado 75 , i trust and value your opinion , so i will leave it at that !

 

[TOE 007]

i am sure i am gonna rattle some cages here now , but that look ,not like a snoek , but more like , PIKE , this is pure specilation offcourse , we have caught plenty of lil snoekies like that pesky lil things , just outside GB old harbour!

So you dorado 75 , i trust and value your opinion , so i will leave it at that !

 

[ThefishinMagician]

jb2 wrote:

Atlanticson wrote:

Pick handle barracuda this far south wow

May be we should start poping for some GT's this global warming think could work out for us guys in the Cape

Not likely. Some incredibly warm water comes into the bay and we get all kinds of straglers washed down.

I have a piece of wood that I picked up on Muizenberg that is marked "Umzimvubu".

A Mozambican dugout canoe was washed down to False Bay and we have had flying fish come into the bay as well.

If you collect sea beans (which I do!) you can find some from some faraway places.

A year or two ago, I guy spinning for Elf landed a small kingfish at the Strand Jetty.  There are 1 or 2 lost "soles" that make it down south.  how long they can survive in the cooler waters I dont know. 

PS>  What is a "Sea Bean"???

 

[aquadementia]

Looks like some kind of barracuda, but I dont think its a pickhandle. The tail and size of the eye dont really match a pickhandle. There are 8 species of barracuda in SA waters, most of them misidentified as Sphyraena jello. Its hard to tell from the pic without the fins erect. Cool catch

 

[jb2]

ThefishinMagician wrote:

jb2 wrote:

Atlanticson wrote:

Pick handle barracuda this far south wow

May be we should start poping for some GT's this global warming think could work out for us guys in the Cape

If you collect sea beans (which I do!) you can find some from some faraway places.

A year or two ago, I guy spinning for Elf landed a small kingfish at the Strand Jetty.  There are 1 or 2 lost "soles" that make it down south.  how long they can survive in the cooler waters I dont know. 

PS>  What is a "Sea Bean"???

Hi

I am not sure how long the guys last. I have seen weurd stuff turn up in Kalk Bay.

There must be very few that survive. They can be stragglers and little else.

As to seabeans. They are "lucky beans" or "ilucky". Those smooth round flattened seeds that wash up on some beaches. They grow on vines in tropical areas and are washed down to  turn up in the cape. Arniston is a good place to look for them.

I think the latin names of the sea beans are macuna and entada.

 

[wp34]

jb2 wrote:

ThefishinMagician wrote:

jb2 wrote:

Atlanticson wrote:

Pick handle barracuda this far south wow

May be we should start poping for some GT's this global warming think could work out for us guys in the Cape

If you collect sea beans (which I do!) you can find some from some faraway places.

A year or two ago, I guy spinning for Elf landed a small kingfish at the Strand Jetty.  There are 1 or 2 lost "soles" that make it down south.  how long they can survive in the cooler waters I dont know. 

PS>  What is a "Sea Bean"???

Hi

I am not sure how long the guys last. I have seen weurd stuff turn up in Kalk Bay.

There must be very few that survive. They can be stragglers and little else.

As to seabeans. They are "lucky beans" or "ilucky". Those smooth round flattened seeds that wash up on some beaches. They grow on vines in tropical areas and are washed down to  turn up in the cape. Arniston is a good place to look for them.

I think the latin names of the sea beans are macuna and entada.

Hakuna Matata??? LOL

 

[Dorado75]

Talking about china snoek, we caught a couple of them around 30cm yesterday between Strandfontein pavillion and seal island!

 

[Polychaete]

imported post

 

[Polychaete]

I can't remember but think this came out of Buffelsbay on a Chokka lure.   Definitively a Snoek, we got 3 that day.

 

[Dorado75]

Polychaete wrote:

I can't remember but think this came out of Buffelsbay on a Chokka lure.   Definitively a Snoek, we got 3 that day.

same sort of size fish that we got yesterday!

That fish at the beg of this thread is definitly no snoek!!!!

 

[Big Jonni]

Walla Walla I think!

 

[SSOL]

Anything Good Come out of Kalk Bay lately?

 

[Captain Haddock]

I dont think it is a walla walla, I caught a bunch of them on spoon in Durban harbour last year and they were much thinner and more eel like in the body, even the small ones.

It looks like a juvenile pickhandle with its tail just flattened in the pic...

 

[wahoo warrior]

definately a sea pike or pickhandle barracuda...the yellow markings a distinguishing feature between that and the greater barracuda....had one in my fish tank years ago...absolute terrors!