The Stonebream (Stinker Fish) Neoscorpis lithophilus

Photographs And Information On The Beautiful Stonebream Fish Of South Africa...

The Stonebream is a distinguished South African coastal salt water fish species that occurs in turbulent, rocky waters. The Stonebream is also known as the Stinker Fish and was first described in 1908. This bait robbing fish can grow to close to 60 centimeters and can reach a few kilograms in size. The Stonebream is a South African special as it is the only relative of the chub family in the country.

The Stonebream is one of the largest vegetarian fish species in the waters of the beautiful South Africa and feeds almost exclusively on red and green seaweeds. It feeds constantly throughout the day. The juveniles of this species make use of the entire intertidal zone and occasionally the estuaries and deeper rock pools.

Even though the Stonebream has quite strict vegetarian habits, like the Strepie, it will take flesh baits. It favours redbait and shrimp. It is a good eating fish and gets its alternate name (Stinker) from the bad odour omitted from the flesh when taken out of the water. The Stonebream is quite a strong fighting fish... Please click the link to see this websites personal records of catchments of the South African Stonebream.

How To Catch The South African Stone Bream

The Stonebream  often proves a very tricky fish to catch. Perseverance and patience is required when catching this hard fighting salt water fish species. Areas to fish for the Stonebream are primarily rocky areas with quite a bit of white water, although they are often caught in large tidal rock pools and in white water close to the shore.

The best bait for catching Stonebream are worms extracted from the rocky areas where they thrive at low tide. These worms are often amongst sea weed or mussels. Redbait and Shrimp are also 2 very good baits for catching Stone Bream. And with my many hours of perseverance I still have yet to catch one of these fish with Squid (Chokka) although the Dropshot fishing methods prove to land a lot of these fish! Camo Worm is a must for Stonebream on Dropshot!

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