Fishing Report 11 Jan 2021
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 still applies for this week.
Lagoon
The little Honey’s are still in the
lagoon and a dead one was found, we are not sure what caused it to die but I
suspect it was “turned over “to remove the hook, Dwane sent some pictures on
the correct way to safely remove the hook and let it go, turning them upside
down can cause the internal organs to twist and hurt the animal. Reports of
nice size Shad were reported in the area of the river mouth with most fish been
lost near the vessels due to bite off, when they are around use a short piece
of cable as a bite trace.
Surf
Young Kelan on Saturday set off with
his dad for a afternoon trip to the beach and managed a 69cm 4.32kg Shad which
he number plated and released, well doe young man, lots of reports of small Shad
, Hammers and Milky’ s been caught but if you persevere through the rats and
mice a bus will pick you up. Sunday was a blow out of note but during the past
week a lot of catches made with the odd flat fish, the Diamonds are not as
plentiful at this time of year unlike previous years so maybe we will have a
longer and later run of them, as I said to someone you have more chance of
getting one in the river especially near the mouth.
Ski boat
On Saturday we had an emergency when a
jet ski broke down just outside the mouth and was drifting towards the back
line, the skipper was advised to deploy his anchor and keep a flair handy but
not deploy it yet. We then started phoning the boats on the water and got hold
of Donald who was miles away, Johan got hold of Ernest at the wreck and he
offered to assist on his way back 2 other Jet Skies arrived on the scene and
tried to assist, as luck would have it Gert walked into the shop and offered to
assist as there were 2 people on the jet ski that had to be taken off so the jet
ski could be towed in, he hooked up the guys and the recovery began and all entered
the lagoon safely, big thanks to Gert and the other jet skis that waited for
the rescue to commence, great team spirit shown by all. We do have a VHF radio
in the shop but the land lady won’t let us string a copper wire along the facer
boards to get very strong signal, having a radio in the shop as it is open 7
days a week will go a long way to assist with boating safety, I will try ask
again, using cell phones does not work very well as most skippers and crew stow
their phones but the radios must always be on. Frikkie got a nice Couta (14kg)
earlier in the day whereas most boats reported Slinger and the odd other fish
been caught.
