This is a kob that I won’t forget in a hurry. I was doing a sunset session with my crew last year when I got
If you fish at sea in South Africa – in the surf, from the rocks or in an estuary – you know what a dusky
Dusky kob have dominated Dr JD Filmalter’s work life for the past few years and few in South Africa know the species (and its plight)
Metaphysical aside, those dark hours between 3am and sunrise are my Dreamtime. Pretty freakin’ fortunate then that our much-treasured dusky kob (Argyrosomus japonicus) share similar early morning habits. At least when they enter our estuaries to party.
JD Filmalter is doing invaluable research on one of SA’s most iconic fish. The man is a mine of information on everything Argyrosomus japonicus. Here he shares some insights: