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09-18-2008, 05:00 PM
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proud RA slinger
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Seabass?
Figured I would post this here since you guys are much more familiar with seabass than I am. Is this fish a seabass and have any of you ever seen this picture. This thing is huge and it resembles the white seabass you all have on your coast.
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09-18-2008, 05:05 PM
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Verloren im Meer
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Re: Seabass?
Where was this gorgeous animal taken?
Our White Sea Bass is actually not a bass, but a member of the croaker family: Sciaenidae http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croaker I have never seen this picture or this species, but it does resemble a croaker of some sort...
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09-18-2008, 05:06 PM
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Re: Seabass?
Weird. Looks like a hut in afghanistan or something.
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09-18-2008, 05:08 PM
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Brett
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Re: Seabass?
First thing I thought when I saw it was a giant replica of a hybrid rainbow trout mixed with a brown....
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09-18-2008, 05:13 PM
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Re: Seabass?
Courbines or giant sea bass are croakers (not our Black Sea bass). They are found up through Morocco and Mauritania and even into the nile delta. Similar to our WSB.
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09-18-2008, 05:51 PM
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proud RA slinger
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Re: Seabass?
found this on another website not related to spearfishing, but the link in the picture is a pretty interesting site. couldn't figure out what country it was from.
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09-18-2008, 06:24 PM
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Re: Seabass?
THey have loads of them on their site
They call them Courbines no doubt corbina. Or Una Bella Courbine in french. The photos below as well as your original are from Morocco and more specifically from a region called Dakhla.     
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09-18-2008, 06:27 PM
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Re: Seabass?
since WSB are in the croaker family there are species around the world that share similiar traits in Australia there croaker species related to WSB are called mulloway. That fish pictured looks like a species from the middle east or even a freshwater species in that region.
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09-18-2008, 06:30 PM
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Re: Seabass?
Cool fish. The spots on the lateral line are really cool. Sure looks like a WSB cousin. The last fish pic with the guy in green camo even shows that purple iridescence and some of the fish are showing the black spot near the insertion of the pectoral fin.
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09-18-2008, 07:09 PM
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Fishimis Decimus
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Re: Seabass?
Damn thats a small ass speargun if thats what he used....wonder if water quality was low.....
That might help explain for the darker complection......... |
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09-18-2008, 07:13 PM
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Larry Caragay
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Re: Seabass?
NicE WSB..
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09-18-2008, 08:27 PM
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thats fillet 'o' fish
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Re: Seabass?
ha im just curious if he shot it with 1 of those guns and then reached behind his back and pulled out the other to finish him off
  
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09-18-2008, 08:36 PM
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on a flopper tip
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Re: Seabass?
I was thinking kabeljou(kob), meagre, or mulloway at first.
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09-18-2008, 09:30 PM
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Re: Seabass?
i could be wrong but im pretty sure thats a chilean seabass
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09-18-2008, 10:12 PM
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Location: N. Queensland Australia/Marin County
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Re: Seabass?
looks like a black jew or mulloway to me. the spots along the lateral line are very similar.
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