Kona’s and Rattlers. It is from this point on
that anglers should be concentrating on the
Dorado, which will start to move down the
coast and hold tight to any form at structure
such as buoy lines, floating logs, bottles etc.
Make sure that there is always a rod on the
boat rigged with a popper to have a cast at
these items of debris.
poppers and dropshot have caught plenty of
Kingies from the Pier as well as boats around
the moorings and the Coaling Terminal.
Small Strike Pro Goby Poppers have been
getting a more aggressive bite and better
size fish too. Sea Pike have also made an
appearance and have been taking most lures
used for Kingies. Remember to slow your
retrieve down somewhat when targeting the
Sea Pike. On the Grunter side of things,
some anglers have been lucky, fishing on the
eastern side of the sand banks using Cracker,
some nice fish up to 3,5kgs were landed in
the rains last week.
Local
Durban has started to heat up, with
catches of Sailfish and Dorado near the
ships. Most of the Dorado have been
landed on Rattlers and live bait. Tuna
have been landed off the Barge, as well
as a number of Garrick north of
Durban. Flat seas in the weeks to come
will surely produce Snoek.
Ski Boat
North
As with the Rock n Surf angling, offshore
fishing has been blessed with the arrival of
the summer species. Various catches of
Dorado, Sailfish and Wahoo have been
reported from the Zululand stretch between
Sodwana and Zinkwazi, with the odd
Yellowtail being landed as well. Cape Vidal
has seen plenty of Dorado which have been
caught along colour lines trawling small
South
Further down the coast, anglers have caught
Yellow Fin Tuna as well as a number of larger
Kingfish on poppers and live bait. Thebottom fish are feeding well if heavier
sinkers are used to combat the strong
currents.
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