Fishing Report 15
February 2019
Weather for the weekend.
Friday
NE gusting 11 before swinging to an ENE in the early afternoon gusting
22. Partly cloudy with a max of 31. Wave height 1.1-1.4 period 11-14 barometer
1013-1006.
High Tide ---- Low 05.51
Saturday
NE gusting 5 swinging to an E gusting 11 with some showers forecast in
the afternoon, partly cloudy with a max of 29. Wave height 1.4-1.1 period 12
barometer 1007-1008-1006.
High Tide 01.18 Low 07.24
Sunday
SW gusting 21 for most of the day with some rain forecast in the afternoon,
partly cloudy with a max of 27. Wave height 1.1-1.7 period 13-7 barometer
1010-1012.
High Tide 02.17 Low 08.21
Lagoon.
After the rain earlier in the week the river colour was like dark
coffee, we have been adding milk at a rate of gallons per day and it has gradually
got its colour back, with all the rain the water temperature has dropped and we
expect a busy fishing weekend as the week has been rather quiet with no decent
catches made.
Surf.
Now the water has cooled somewhat we have seen some Diamonds been
beached but very sporadic, it seems as though we had the “smash” starting
earlier than normal ie in October the first ones started and then the momentum really
kicked in during the back of November till the first week of Jan and since then
just drips and drabs almost as though we are fishing for winter Diamonds and
winter fish ie Big Shad and Big Kob. Last night after work 5 of us went for a
throw and the water was the best it has been for over a week, wave action ,
working water and good color, ( this
bodes well for the weekend fishing) early on Gawie got a nice bus Shad and Ivan
got bitten off by something, Martin dropped a big fish in front of his feet,
Susan got stuck into a tiny shark so there was activity but we were struggling
to get the fish to stick, there has been a tax man in the first channel and he
popped up again last night and as in last Sunday night we could not entice him
with a bait, it looks like he is enjoying live fish only. We think that we
might get a good run after the next rains as this will coincide with most of
the Diamonds leaving towards the end of Feb early March. Who Knows? We have quite
a few visitors here for the weekend, the SAP angling club who came to say high
while we were fishing, they fished Dunford yesterday and ended up with a few
big Shad today they going to what we have nicknamed Gawie’s no 2 hole it is
about 200m North of the Old Ramp as well as the “Warner Beach Gang” we bumped
into them leaving the main beach as we arrived, good luck guys.
Ski boat.
Spoon and Anchor sales were busing this week as there were 3 very good
fishing days and the boats went out targeting mainly Natal Snoek with great
success however the sharks also took this window and had a good time taxing the
fish, a very big Tuna was hooked but unfortunately taxed conditions today are
very good for the first part and some guys have launched early this morning
hunting for Snoek (Queen Mackerel) and bottoms. Although the guys are not
sharing the exact spots where the Snoek are we suspect they are been caught on
the shallow reefs so check them out very early in the morning before venturing
out to deeper waters. It is not long and the big Couta will make their
appearance, lets us hope long before the Couta Classic.
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.
