THE LAZY
THUMB...
and other fishing stories....
By: Kent Venish
T
his obsession of mine with kob on
spoon with a multiplier and nylon
only took on a new meaning about
ten or so years ago. As the weeks go by I will
share my stories on this path of enlightenment
that I call, “The art of fishing without actually
fishing”.
Now before you all run off and refer me to a
shrink or the like, just take a read as these are
my own experiences and by NO MEANS the
only way to target kob on lure or spoon, however I’m quick to add that IT IS MY WAY, and
I’ve had many successes over the last fully documented 9 years.
Why kob you ask? Well, for one these are fairly
wily fish and when hunted in their natural
eating OR when they are more prone to eat ,
because I’m sure ALL fish eat all of the
time...it’s the way of the sea , then one needs
to find out what they like. No , not bait or what
lure, but what conditions they are most likely
to go on the bite , so to speak, let’s go back a
Angling Times Weekly SA
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bit before we actually get into the whys ,
where’s and whatfore’s concerning the kob.
Here we need to look at what it takes to hunt
these silver beauts of our fantastic South
African coast line.
For a while, I had been thinking and
admiring how the Bass societies of
the world could make a million zillion
dollar industry out of just ONE
species of fish. Well, I then embarked
on the same quest for glory by doing
this with spoon and kob in the sea and
not in rivers. I can hear many of you
sniggering and thinking, what a chop
to limit one’s self like that. Well Folks,
that may be so, BUT, over the last 10
years it’s been a most satisfying quest
and have had many successes, also
with many blanks. Anyway more of
this later.
Back to the equipment side of things. Being
taught on multipliers, I was determined to
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