Fishing Report 11
February 2019
Monday
SSW gusting 6 swinging to an S briefly before the wind
settles to a SW gusting 10 for the remainder of the day. Partly cloudy with a
max of 29. Wave height 1.3 period 13 barometer 1007-1005.
High Tide 07.14 Low Tide 00.54.
Tuesday
NE gusting 10 first thing swing to a SE gusting 7. Partly
cloudy with some rain forecast in the evening and a max of 31. Wave height 1.5
period 12 barometer 1004-1001.
High Tide 07.55 Low Tide 01.29.
Wednesday
SW gusting 21 with rain forecast all day max temp 24. Wave height
1.5-1.9 period 11 barometer 1006-1011.
High Tide 08.55 Low Tide 02.15
Thursday
SW gusting 14 partly cloudy with some rain max 23. Wave height
1.7-1.4 period 11 Barometer 1015-1017-1015.
High Tide 10.38 Low Tide 03.33
Lagoon
Fishing was slow for some and others caught nothing, still
lots of prawns in the lagoon and by sounds of things the slipway seems the hot
spot. Whoever made a fire on the slipway on Saturday night please do the good
thing when you done and clean your mess up, don’t expect the boat owners to do
it for you. We often have reports of people who are spinning their vehicles on
the mud flats, this is very reckless as the mud flats are a very important part
of the estuarine system, it is not cool.
Surf
While fishing was slow over the weekend especially yesterday
there were still catches of big Shad to be had, at Port Dunford (Shangri-La
Beach) Mtunzini main beach and Doggies area, an angler managed a small Giant
Guitar fish of 12 kg which gave him a nice fight, apparently he was targeting
edibles so that came as a nice surprise. Ben reported on his arrival at Port
Dunford a club angler had just landed a Shad of 4kg although fishing was slow
they managed a 4.2kg and a 3.7 kg Shad both caught with Mac’s from the shop on
a bung rig. Yesterday to the right of the main beach we fished in cold water
however the draw back was the water was very clean and the surf was so small we
had no working water all, it was like dam fishing with the only wave break was
on the water’s edge, we were only getting “snail bites”. Barry fishing to the
left of us managed a Brown Sting Ray for the rest of his trip he got nothing.
Ski boat
Nothing to report as we do not know of anyone who went out,
Nigel has just left on his jet ski to fish the wreck area, I look forward to
his report. We have had a lot of organizations contact us ref the shark
incident and Stefan has been contacted by them but the most interesting contact
made was from a group doing research in the USA who want to take DNA samples of
the shark as they are studding sharks that bite boats or have incidents with
humans.
Next events.
We have an 8 sleeper house (can sleep
10 as it has 2 double beds) should a group want to hire it, it is self-catering
with ample bait storage space.
