Fishing Report 23
April 2019
Tuesday
NE gusting 4 before swinging to a SE gusting 6 in the
afternoon, rain is forecast in the afternoon. Partly cloudy with a max of 26.
Wave height 2.1-2.4 period 9 barometer 1016-1017.
High Tide 05.50 Low Tide 11.58.
Wednesday
NW gusting 4 then swings early in the morning to a NE
gusting 19 by the evening. Partly cloudy with a max of 28 with some rain forecast
in the evening. Wave height 2.5-2.4 period 9 barometer 1015-1012.
High Tide 06.20 Low Tide 00.11.
Thursday
NE gusting 8 swing to s SE gusting 13 in the afternoon.
Partly cloudy with a max of 25. Wave height 2.1-1.9 period 9 barometer
1009-1012-1010.
High Tide 06.52 Low Tide 00.45.
Lagoon
We have no reports of fish been caught in the lagoon over
the weekend although a lot of bait was bought so someone must have caught
something. Young Ivan managed a nice Catface Rockcod of 3.5 kg and Martin got a
massive Eel in Richards Bay Harbor. It seems with the bad weather from
Saturday through till yesterday fishing would have been unpleasant.
Surf
I took a group of guys to the banks on Saturday morning and
yes the stories are true I left my rod in the shop…… anyway we set up and
starting fishing while waiting for the tide to drop we could start wading.
There we 2 groups fishing and it was not long before the group next to us
landed a very nice size Shad. The NE was pumping but that did not interfere
with the fishing. We did manage small Kob and some Snapper with the odd small
Shark. Don’t discount fishing the Banks during winter as it also fishes well
for edibles. However Friday was the perfect day to fish weather wise and it did
not disappoint with 2 Anglers landing Diamonds 1 on the main beach (another
lost there as well) and a monster at 215 cm (92 kg ORI) caught by Long Michael on
a Shad just South of the Chalets. Fishing took a dive from lunch time on Saturday
when the SW screamed through however Saturday evening was fish able and with the
rain on Sunday we think most folk packed up and went home. As a consequence we
never really got a handle of who got what over the weekend.
Note the pegs , these are used to measure the fish after it has been released giving the measurement a true size.
Ski boat
One boat ventured out over the weekend that we are aware of
and managed to catch some very nice Slinger but no Kob or game fish, after
trying a few spots they came back in.
