Fishing Report
28 September 2018
Weather for the weekend.
Friday
NE gusting 11 for most of the day however early evening the SW or buster
is going to come through gusting 34 bringing some rain. Sunny with a max of 37.
Wave height 1.1 period 9 barometer 1007-1001.
High Tide 05.15 Low 11.17
Saturday
SW gusting 19 by mid-morning then drops slowly throughout the day. Cloudy
with a max of 20. Wave height 2.1-2.6 period 7 – 10 barometer 1081-1028.
High Tide 05.47 Low 11.48
Sunday
NNE gusting 10 first thing and by late afternoon it will be gusting 24.
Partly cloudy with a max of 23. Wave height 1.9-1.7 period 12, barometer
107-1020.
High Tide 06.22 Low 00.15
Lagoon.
Live bait out , reel screams, fish on massive fight lasting all of a few
seconds only to find a 20cm Shad took off
with a mullet that took you ages to capture but hey that is the joys of estuarine
fishing after all they are nurseries for juvenile species and unfortunately we
have to put up with their naughtiness. The guys fishing with artificials are having
fun catching River Snapper and Pickhandle Barracuda with the off cob on the slow
trawl. One of my informants came into the shop after the long weekend to order
some rods and while flipping through the catalogue he told us what happened to
him “I had just caught a Pickhandle when put my bait out and started paddling
when crack something took me and snapped my rod” he forgot to loosen the drag
and he is not the first person this has happened to recently, please remember
to loosen your drag because when something decent hits you they do it as speed
(anyway we likes to sell rods). The baby Honeycomb rays are still in the lagoon
and are great fun to catch and give a great account of themselves, please
handle them with care and don’t tip them over, we think they practicing to
fight so when they get big and are in the surf they can give us a right hiding.
Surf.
Been very quiet in the beginning of the week due to the side wash, however
as it was getting dark an angler got stuck into a bus of something that kept
him busy for a long time only to be bust off when his line tangled with some
reeds and roots, according to the angler this fish would have been his personal
best and bossed him properly our guess by the description of the fight it could
have been a big something……. He was
using a Shad head with belly and surf board foam to float it, the Shad head was
from a big shad, it was slid out to behind the shore break on the incoming
tide. Early that evening the same Angler landed a small Shark on a “whole Baby
Mac” this was next to the new sand bank that has formed in front of Forrest
Lodge.
Ski Boat.
Today is the first “fishable day” since last Friday and
all those who can have launched this morning at first light for a bit of Snoek
hunting the later on moving to bottoms a few guys have flown down from Joburg
and let’s hope the trip is worthwhile for them.
Next events.
In order to accommodate the big boats the Bottoms comp
has been moved to the 29/30 September 2018. The reason for this is because the
silting from the slipway to the first corner has not been washed away as
expected but settled there. The format is the Comp will be fished on the Saturday with the Sunday being a reserve
day, entry fees are ( R350.00 - R450.00) per angler with prizes been awarded
for 1st, 2nd, 3rd then prizes for biggest fish
covering 5 Species. We are hoping to make this an annual event and the reason
we fishing it at this time of the year is that bottom fishing is at its best.
Entry forms will be available in the shop.
