ROCK & SURF
With weather steadily improving and warmer water pushing in
fishing should start gaining momentum as far as early summer
fish are concerned. Reports from the Kosi Bay area suggest that
a few big kingfish and some bigger sand sharks have already
been landed up there. Black fin sharks have also been caught
there during the late afternoon and early evening sessions.
The Zululand beaches are still fishing well with good catches
of garrick and kob being reported. The odd big sand shark and
diamond skate has been taken from the beaches at Port Durnford
and Amatikulu.
ROCK & SURF - North Coast
The North Coast is also fishing well with Barracuda rocks and
the Tongaat long beach area featuring quite prominent. Good
catches of mainly garrick are being taken on most days and the
odd big kob has also fallen foul to some anglers.
ROCK & SURF - South Coast
The South Coast is still firing an all cylinders with very good
catches of garrick being reported in the Toti, Winkle and Illovo
stretches. However most anglers here have changed their tactics
and are now targeting brusher which seems to be feeding on most
of the rocky points here. The Twini ledge and Doonside have
over the past few weeks produced some good numbers of above
average size fish. Anglers fishing for brusher have had some
big stumpies and even a few big pompano grabbing bait intended
for brusher.
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Left:Siva Govender with a shad of 4.796kg's caught at Scottborough during September 2008. Siva took first prize for the month of September, a 14' Kingfisher Poseidon 5pc Graphite Rod, valued at R1, 585.00 in The Kingfisher "Biggest Shad Competition". |
In the Port Edward area, a number of garick have been taken
over the past few days. Most of the fish are small though and
live baits are being used. There is the odd shad there and those
captured are much larger than last month. Bronze bream are also
on the bite and in between some really large stone bream are
giving good sport to reef fishermen. Other than that, last Saturday
morning an outing for Terry produced a number of blacktail,
a bronze bream and for his pleasure a brusher of 3,5kg, Terry’s
first good fish on his new lite HMG. All on prawn and on the
same morning, a friend of Terry’s landed a huge stone
bream of well over 4kg’s at Lighthouse Point. Last Sunday
morning was a bit weedy an all that was landed were large blacktail,
a lesser sand shark and using a red nylon sinker, an angry catfish
that came out of a crevice and stole it while Terry was baiting
up, a fight he won't forget. It took almost 5 minutes to retrieve
the sinker from it. Thanks Terry Nel from Tacklenet in Port
Edward for this report.
ROCK & SURF - Durban
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The Durban area itself should start fishing better now
but shad seem to be the only fish here that is causing
concern amongst anglers as almost any bait intended for
other species seems to be ravaged by shad. Apart from
the shad some garrick, small kob and the odd grunter has
been taken by anglers recently. The Durban Bay has started
to produce a few nice fish, in amongst the grunter caught
the odd early springer has been landed. A good springer
of about 6kg’s was caught from the center bank,
nice to have these fish back in the Bay.
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ROCK & SURF - Transkei
The Transkei is also still producing a steady flow of fish,
mainly garrick and kob. Two really nice size kob have recently
been caught at the Lighthouse area of Port St johns. Fishing
at night with artificial lures, Darryl Roberts succeeded in
landing a very big kob of 32 kg and not to be outdone Springbok
surfer and hardened angler Franki Oberholtze also landed a good
specimen of 30 kg the same night.
FISHING COMPETITIONS
Here with a summary of the results of the Zululand Interclub
fished at Sodwana Bay over weekend 10-11 October 2008. The competition
was won by boat Lihann from Richards Bay. 2nd was Squmfeme and
3rd Maxsea. Andre Joubert on his boat Frigate landed a kingfish
weighing 12kg, a tropical yellowtail of 15,5kg. J. Joubert on
the same boat landed a couta of 14,95kg. There were 2 marlin
released as well as a sailfish.
Tuna, wahoo and dorado were also boated. Unfortunately the fish
were not in abundance.
SKI BOATS & FISHING SKI'S
Ski Boats can start rigging their game fish equipment as the
first dorado have been landed in the Durban area as well as
few specimens on the South Coast. Anglers fishing on the Aliwal
Shoal recently have landed numerous wahoo and much to their
delight a few couta were found between them. Bottom fishing
is still producing good catches of daga and geekbek salmon as
well as good reds and rock cod. Thanks to Avril Farman for this
feedback on the recent Interclub fished in Zululand.
ESA
Here’s what you can see on ESA this week.
Be sure to join us next week for an exciting episode of ESA
Bass where we cross over to Von Bach Dam in Namibia for the
last round of the Invitational between Namibia and South Africa.
This week on ESA, the LBSA team takes us to East London, the
Kiwani area, where they target bronze bream. In DSSA we meet
up with Abel in Sodwana joined by ESA member, Chris Govender
as they explore the shallow water reefs on Drop Shot. Last but
definitely not least, in OSSA Mark and Garth takes us out to
Umhloti where they target geelbek, with great success.
KINGFISHER FISHING CLINICS
The Kingfisher hosts free fishing clinics on their premises,
53 Hunter Street, Durban once a month. They will be running
a spear fishing clinic on the 22nd November ( this as been changed
from the 8th, so please make a note of the new date), this clinic
will be run by Shane from Freedivers and will cover all aspects
of spear fishing, book early for this clinic as it should be
a good one. The Kingfisher also host a Paddle Ski Fishing clinic
by Markham Pollard, a Rock and Surf clinic run by Ivan Stopforth
and a Drop Shot clinic by Lloyd Pereira. These Clinics are very
informative and covers all the basics, including equipment,
knots, bait presentation, and tactics. These free clinics are
there to help beginners and experienced anglers to see what
the sport is all about and how to target certain species of
fish. It also shows anglers what equipment to use and also elaborates
on safety. These are very popular so book early to avoid disappointment.
To book for one of these free clinics phone the Kingfisher on
031- 3683903.
Any info about fishing, fish caught or competitions in your
area e-mail Mike at kingfish@iafrica.com or fax 031- 368 4137.
For the latest KZN fishing news presented by O.J., tune into
East Coast Radio at 5.40am Monday - Friday.
Any info about fishing, fish caught or competitions in your area e-mail Mike at kingfish@iafrica.com or fax 031- 368 4137.
For the latest KZN fishing news presented by O.J., tune into East Coast Radio at 5.40am Monday - Friday.
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