FISHING REPORT, 27TH DECEMBER 2008.
Christmas has come and gone and anglers can look forward to the New Year.
Angling conditions have suited shore based anglers lately as light to moderate Easterly winds have for the past few days blown consistently which makes for ideal angling.
The Umkomaas stretch has performed well over the past few weeks and is still yielding good results.
Small shad are being caught in the vicinity of the river mouth as has shoal kob and some better size grunter.
Certainly a great time for some anglers with the weather being the perfect gift. Fish caught in Port Edward have been plentiful including some large shad, a 25kg kob, some hammerhead sharks, grey sharks plenty bronze bream and even a 12,5kg dorado from the side.
Even the Durban North area has produced fish, a number of sandies, blue and brown rays. Lloyd Pereira and his dad Mike fished on Saturday evening and landed two brown’s, one of 16.53kg’s and the other 11.12kg’s, a blue ray of 6.84kg’s and lost a sandie of about 30kg’s in the shore break.
Ivan Stopforth landed a sandie of around 30kg’s from Umhlanga Light House on Saturday morning and in the Sheffield Beach area Rob Jameson landed a sandie of about 35kg’s as well as a massive shad of over 4kg’s.
A number of fish were seen landed in this area over the weekend.
The Beachwood area is also producing a variety of edible and in edible fish recently and the same can be said for almost the entire KZN coast.
Those anglers targeting big kingfish should persevere on the North Bank area with live shad as these big predators are still around.
Inedible such as sand sharks and a variety of skates have also been biting well and the odd really big honeycomb ray has also been landed.
Anglers fishing the Zululand beaches are now having some great angling as the much expected butterfly rays have now firmly entrenched themselves on this particular stretch of coastline.
The main areas for them now are the Port Durnford and Amatikulu areas.
The Tugella North Bank can also produce some good results at this time of the year.
The trading hours of The Kingfisher over the festive season are as follows:
Mon – Fri. 8:00am – 5:00pm
Sat. 8:00 – 1:00pm
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TRADING HOURS
The trading hours of The Kingfisher over the festive season are as follows:
Mon – Fri. 8:00am – 5:00pm
Sat. 8:00 – 1:00pm
Plus:
Every Sunday in December from 9:00 –1:00pm.
KINGFISHER FISHING CLINICS
The Kingfisher hosts a free Fishing Ski Clinic on their premises once a month by Markham Pollard.
These monthly 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.
Over and above this they also hold Rock and Surf clinics 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. To book for one of these free clinics (except for the month of December) phone the Kingfisher on 031- 368 3903.
2009 ESA Saltwater season 4
ESA Saltwater: Episode 1
Raymond and Trevor target raggies at Mazeppa Bay while the DSSA and OSSA team target a beautiful array of species at Vamizi on their Riviera sport fisher on their adventure travelling from Cape Town to Dar Es Salam.
The OSSA team boast a beautiful catch in this not to be missed episode
Broadcasting Dates 1st week January 2009.
ESA Saltwater: Episode 2
The LBSA team, Ray, Lloyd and Dean take a fantastic trip to the Seychelles while the DSSA team takes a look at targeting bigger species on Drop Shot. In OSSA the team produces some amazing catches on a Riviera Sport Fisher called Mistress.
Broadcasting Dates 2nd week January 2009.
ESA Saltwater: Episode 3
The LBSA team show us how to target reef dwellers in the Seychelles while The DSSA team target wave garrick in Sodwana. The OSSA team show us some notable catches on their epic adventure travelling on a brand new Riviera Sport Fisher from Cape Town to Dar Es Salam.
Broadcasting Dates 3rd week January.
ESA Bass.Episode 41, 23rd December.
Xavier and former SA Protea Captain Craig Fraser is back at Clanwilliam fishing for small mouth bass.
Episode 42, 27th December.
Xavier and the ESA angler makeover winner go fishing at Albert Falls to test out Sean’s new tackle. (Sean is an ESA Platinum member and his facet of choice is BASS! Xavier Tierberghien (ESA Bass Pro Angler) contacted Sean to give him the good news; Sean was obviously absolutely, thrilled.
He will be spending time with Xavier on a production shoot to be aired on Super sport and will receive fishing tackle, in his chosen facet, to the value of R10 000-00 sponsored by The Kingfisher. Congrats Sean and we look forward to seeing you on TV!)
Happy New Year from all at ESA.
Episode 43
Xavier and Tineka head out to Goedetrouw Dam to try and beat Tineka’s personal best. Xavier looks at the methods to use when trying to beat your personal best. Broadcasting dates 1st week January 2009.
Episode 44
ESA heads to Goedetrouw Dam for the first leg of the Bass Pro Series Final 2008. Broadcasting dates 2nd week January 2009.
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
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