Fishing Report 4 Jan 2020
Weather for the Week.
Warm days and the wind is playable
however we on a low barometer most days so hang in there and chill fishing we
expect will be slow.
Lagoon
Another what we suspect as an Estuarine
Pipe fish was caught over the weekend exactly a year since the last one was
reported, these fish are previously thought to come back from extinction,
please study the picture and confirm either way, this is very important we get
the ID correct. In spite of the rain the water does not appear to have discoloured
as much as we expect so the fish are still there. Yesterday an angler using a River
Bream as live bait hooked a 340cm Zambie which gives it a ORI weight of about
700kg, this is after we deducted the boat and angler weight, it took several
hours to come to this conclusion as we had to correctly estimate the remaining
fuel as to get to a more accurate weight. In order to achieve this accuracy we
designed a compute module, patent pending.
Surf
For day visitors the gates at the park
are open from 6am to 6 pm to fishing permit holders only not for children and
family members to have a day out we have to wait for 11 more days to see if the
status changes, please do not abuse this and be the reason the park is closed
to angling, I see there are issue further south and the anglers have been told
to toe the line or else. Fishing was busy yesterday been the first opportunity
to have a proper fish for the year and almost everybody got a something,
Lee-yager bagged himself a 54cm Snapper Kob which is probably the stand out
fish of the day as it is not common to get Snapper Kob that big, there were
bigger Kob caught of over 60cm as reported by Tulane however they were
squaretails. Chris managed a Diamond at the banks while Neil and his gang also
fishing their settled for Shad and rats and mice. A picture was sent in by
another Neil of parasites on the fins of a Milky this is the feedback I got
when asking if they will harm the animal and must the anglers pull them off
like we do with the Kob “They can but I wouldn't worry. They are skin parasites
and won't cause any major problems”, this Neil also caught quiet a big Silago which
Gerhard stole and put it out as live bait but was not picked up. Christine
caught a fair size Kob but it just did not make size so back it went, Rudi
caught quite a few Milkies on one of his outings and took a brilliant side on
picture of a mature male, note the size of the claspers.
Ski boat
The Umlalazi Ski Boat armada took to
the seas in great spirits, the Rubber duck Club been the major contingent various
tactics to catch game fish were planned but alas it was not their day with a
few bottoms been caught, speaking to a few skippers the fish were very slow to
bite and far and few in between inflight of the fact the rock robbers were on
the fish it was suggested next time the anchor in the mid break and fish there (Stefan
please don’t try this I am only joking) The boats that went out deep fared
better as some game fish were caught in saying that on old year’s eve Pieter
got 3 Dorado and dropped a couple more including a decent size Couta, this was
in the bay or close in. Just in Byron on No Fine boated a 25kg Couta making it
the biggest so far this season.
From the Shop.
We had a very busy December holiday
season and thank you all for your support, it was fun seeing the old and new
alike and we hope you all made it home safe and are not sitting at your desks
this morning feeling grumpy. We are as the shop is like a morgue.
