Buffalo Bay Knysna South Africa
Submitted by Tagem on Mon, 2006-08-21 13:11
27lb Mussel Cracker caught on the Surf this weekend
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Buffalo Bay Knysna South Africa
Submitted by Tagem on Mon, 2006-08-21 13:11
27lb Mussel Cracker caught on the Surf this weekend |
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Adam Gallash
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Cracker Tagem!
What sort of fish is that Tagem?
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Tagem
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Buffalo Bay
It is a White Musselcracker(Brusher)Scientific Name: Sparodon Durbanensis
brenz
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how much does that have
how much does that have simular caractoristics of a bream! i wish bream did grow that big how much fun would that be on 4 lb
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Adam Gallash
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Eating
What are there eating qualities like? Looks a bit like the Robinson Sea Bream over here, but a very very big version.
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Tagem
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Eating qualities
They mainly go for Mussels,Red Bait and other invertebrates,they have very strong jaws and big teeth,specimes of up to 60lb have been caught.Very strong Fish
Adam Gallash
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Big
60lbs would certainly pull hard! Could almost be an off coloured pink snapper if it had the bump on the head. Nice fish all the same!
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nice fish ....... my pb
nice fish ....... my pb cracker is 18kg off the transkie coast(South Africa) Adam - its cousin the black cracker/poenskop grows a bump on its head after it reaches around 20kg - these are very slow growing fish and takes around 6-7yrs to become legal length of 600mm. u can catch both species landbased , but the monster blacks can be caught offsore aswell. these are rhino's of the sea ....... strong fish,that will reef u before u get a chance to think - 1mm leader is deff the go when targeting these fish plus strong hooks - seen 8/0's squashed flat from there powerfull jaws.
always released my crackers,unless in comps where fish needed to be weighed at club house(tried to protect the species as much as possible) - one of the best eating fish in South African waters.