Fishing Report 8
October 2018
Monday
Right now the wind is pumping from the E at about 19kts.
Sunny with a max of 25. Wave ehight a.4 period 11 barometer 1020-1016.
High Tide 03.06 Low Tide 09.08
Tuesday
NE all starting at 18kts picking up to 25 by the evening.
Sunny with a max of 29. Wave height 1.5-2 period 9 barometer 1016-1010.
High Tide Neap High 03.41 Low Tide 09.42
Wednesday
NE gusting 25 by the afternoon. Sunny with a max of 25. Wave
height 2.1- 2.3 period 9 barometer 1012-1008.
High Tide 04.14 Low Tide 10.15
Thursday
NE gusting 19 climbing to 23 by mid-afternoon. Sunny with a
max of32. Wav height 2 period 9 barometer 1011 – 1007.
High Tide 04.47 Low Tide 10.15
Lagoon
Lots of catches of small Kob, Grunter both Javelin and Spotted were
made over the weekend however a good size Grunter of 3 – 4 Kg was caught on
Sardine strip bait, this Grunter was picking up the bait and the angler could
not set the hook after about the 4th time he got it and after a good
fight managed to land it, this fish was caught on the Estate in the picnic
area. I joined some informants on Friday night at the main carpark and we only
managed to catch a crab all the baits and bait combos came back neater than the
way they went it, win some loose some.
Surf
Unfortunately on Friday evening we had a drowning at the
swimming beach, our heartfelt condolences go out to the family. The bather got
caught in a rip during the rough sea and unfortunately could not get out of it.
As anglers we are always on the lookout for Rips but what should one do when
caught in one, your fist reaction is to try swim back to shore when in fact the
opposite must happen, swim with it and swim slightly side ways to get out of
however they do not go far out probably behind the back line at most, you
should be out of it before then and then let the waves bring you back, this way
you save energy which you will need to help you get out. How do you identify a
Rip Current? When you have what I call a shooting sea, (that is when the waves
wash up the beach stronger and go further up than normal) all this water needs
to go back into the sea and with the next lot of water pushing in behind it it
tends to make channel to the left and right of the point of the body of water,
this channel then take water from the water next to it and it runs back to the
sea with some speed, now when you have the big winter ground swell and the
sheer volume of water lying higher up the beach the draw back picks up some
force and the rushing water goes into the sea and pushes its way against the
waves and incoming water gaining more and more momentum over time getting
strong enough to knock an adult off their feet and take them out to sea, the
deeper the water gets the weaker the rip becomes. Anglers like fishing next to
or in the rip current as it helps get the bait into the feeding zone, please
remain vigilant the rip is not a toy.
Ski boat
With the big ground swell in the latter half of the week
made fishing very difficult on Friday and Saturday however yesterday a few vessels
went out and managed some nice size bottom including a Kob of 8kg, although
game fish was to target none were boated. On Saturday the South Durban Community
Environmental Alliance came to Mtunzini to speak about the effects of Oil
Exploration will have on our coast line and village. The information can be
down loaded from www.sdcea.co.za or from www.petroleumagencysa.com,
from a point of view of our whales this does not look good as they spend and
2-3 months every year resting in our bay, some years ago off the coast of
Madagascar they had to stop this type of exploration because over 100 whales
beached……..ExxonMobil have given the Government R110 million to rehabilitate
negative impacts during exploration……. How do you rehabilitate a whale? Breed
them in the Vaal Dam?
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