Fishing Report 25
January 2019
Weather for the weekend.
Friday
S gusting 2 first thing then during the morning it swings to an E
gusting 6. Light rain is forecast all day with a max of 24. Wave height 2
period 10 barometer relatively stable at 1011.
High Tide 06.43 Low 00.22
Saturday
E gusting 7 first thing then during the morning it swings to a SE gusting
16 by late afternoon. Rain is forecast all day with a max of 21. Wave height 2
period 10 barometer 1013-1015.
High Tide 07.26 Low 00.22
Sunday
W gusting 3 first thing then swings to a NW early in the morning gusting
2 before swinging to an E during the late morning gusting 16 at its peak. Rian
is forecast in the morning then clears up with a max of 26. Wave height 1.6
period 9 barometer 1016-1011.
High Tide 08.12 Low 01.40
Lagoon.
There are still a lot of big prawns in the lagoon and the fish are
feeding on them like crazy, the spin off on that for the anglers is that there
are still Honey Comb Rays and Brown Sting rays to catch in the mouths area here
are good catches of Kob to be had and size ones, these Kob are not been caught
in the surf zone yet so they must be coming into the lagoon after the prawns.
In the mouth area at Amatikulu there are some very big prawns “as big as
Crayfish” I am told. The mouth is closed and they are probably trying to go out
to sea. So far the rain has not affected the colour of the water in the lagoon,
so those brave enough to fish in the rain today and tomorrow, go for it.
Surf.
4 of us fished the Banks on Tuesday thinking day after spring NE wind
with hot temperature all we caught was one little shark however it was good fun
getting a line out. This weekend does not look great for fishing for the first
part however Sunday the conditions turn for the better with a nice dropping
barometer. Fishing for the remainder of this past week was not great as we have
not received or heard of any catches been made. After following our little
Penguin that washed up a short while ago to its new home and final resting
place before she is released, she is now with a NGO called SANCCOB please do
not go to their Facebook page or their website as you will end up doing what I
did. I adopted a baby penguin, it costs R600.00 for the year it is with them
while they train or prepare it to be released, they have lots of Penguins for
adoption so here is my challenge, go and adopt one, this organization care for
all sea birds and is run with volunteers and need the public to assist with the
caring of these animals. I am the proud father of Equinox the 2nd.
Ski boat.
We can write January off as a bad fishing month as between now and the
end of next week it does not look like there is a decent gap in the weather,
however if conditions stay as forecast next week Friday is looking good.
