Wierd cob

[Mouldz]

This cob was caught in Port Alfred during the river comp. it weighed 5.6kg ,but its wierd shape is attributed to a injury early in life

 

[stinkmossel]

lobotes?

 

[damian27]

yoh that thing looks very strange. the body looks almost like a spottie. i wonder how much it would have weighed if it was normal.

 

[Mouldz]

stinkmossel wrote:

lobotes?

whos boats ???

 

[Japie]

Looks like a tripple tail (Lobotes)

 

[Dorado75]

looks like its mommy had a good time with a white steenbras!

 

[Hannes101]

Japie wrote:

Looks like a tripple tail (Lobotes)

also think its a lobotes..

 

[Mouldz]

Hannes101 wrote:

Japie wrote:

Looks like a tripple tail (Lobotes)

also think its a lobotes..

Can someone pleeease tell me what labotes is? some kind of desease?

 

[afghan]

Could be wrong, but isn't Port Alfred too South for a Lobotes?

Does look like one though.

 

[Japie]

Lobotes is a tripple tail

 

[aquadementia]

Nice idea but no its just a spastic kob. No its not too far south. There has been one caught in the Gamtoos by sealiner Ian Senekal

 

[Mouldz]

Japie wrote:

Lobotes is a tripple tail

Whats a triple tail,some kind of fish?vvidevb

 

[Hannes101]

there found around the globe. same family as the oscar fish we buy in petshops just a saltwater version.

 

[Dorado75]

here is a pic of one i took underwater here 180 km off the coast of angola

 

[Probeer nog]

 

Lobotes Lobotes surinamensis

 

 

 

Known from the Kromme River (Cape St. Francis) northwards . Angling record: 16.8 kg; spearfishing record: 2.2 kg

 

[Mouldz]

Probeer nog wrote:

 

Lobotes Lobotes surinamensis Nah I think this is just a deformed cob,eaten too much of the sewerage that flows into the river

 

 

 

Known from the Kromme River (Cape St. Francis) northwards . Angling record: 16.8 kg; spearfishing record: 2.2 kg

 

[Psyco bob]

Check the Gallery

http://www.tugelamouth.co.za/

They plentifull here

 

[cracker jack.]

that doesnt look like a kob to me! i thawt about the exact same fish you guys thawt of as soon as i saw the photo! no kob can be so different in shape

 

[Mouldz]

cracker jack. wrote:

that doesnt look like a kob to me! i thawt about the exact same fish you guys thawt of as soon as i saw the photo! no kob can be so different in shape

I have been living and fishing in Port Alfred ,have never seen or even heard of a triple tail

 

[cracker jack.]

strange things happen these days with fishing boet!