Fishing Report 13 May
2019
Monday
NE gusting 4 swinging late morning to a SW gusting14. Sunny
with a max of 26. Wave Height 1.1-0.9 period 9 barometer 1014-1016-1015.
High Tide 11.32 Low Tide ----.
Tuesday
W gusting 4 till midmorning when it swings to an E gusting
12 by late afternoon. Sunny with a max of 27. Wave height 1.1 period 9
barometer 1018-1015.
High Tide 00.15 Low Tide 06.36.
Wednesday
NE gusting 14 picking up to 18 by the evening. Sunny with a
max of 30. Wave height 1.4 period 10 barometer 1014-1009.
High Tide 01.12 Low Tide 07.29.
Thursday
SSW gusting 12 swinging late morning to a SW gusting 8 then
settles in the afternoon to a SE gusting 19. Partly cloudy with a max of 25
rain is forecast in the evening. Wave height 1.3-1.6 period 10-12 barometer
1013-1016-1012.
High Tide 01.57 Low Tide 08.11.
Lagoon
By the sounds of things the lagoon was giving nothing back
to the anglers, a group of us went to the main car park for an evening session
and had live baits out for nearly 5 hrs and not a sniff, the braai was good fun
though. Moving on through the weekend some juvenile River Bream were caught and
those ever present Thorn fish, it is time for the river to give back to the
anglers. Over the weekend we got given a demonstration on how to catch prawns
without using a net by one of the local fishermen, it is very simple but
basically what you do is walk fast in a circle to muddy the water , the prawns
don’t like the muddy water so they settle on the bottom and you then use a
cupped hand with fingers closed and put your handover them and pick them out of
the water, apparently they go into a group in an indentation on the river bead
and you can get handfuls at a time. This is not good for bait sales hahahahaha
but try this next time you fishing, you need a muddy patch, we are now selling
muddy patch coordinates. I have just heard some Kob were caught in the river
yesterday probably near the mouth, we have no further details.
Surf
The surf zone was not very productive either and on Saturday
the most interesting catch reported was a puffer. On Sunday there were 3
anglers on Doggies Beach and they spent a lot of time cleaning the sea of weed,
we thank you guys for the effort which will allow us a week of no weed fishing.
During the weed clearing operation a small Shark was landed and one angler
managed something for the pot as reported to us by Prof, he could not see from where
he was what type it was. Prof did manage a Lessor Sand Shark amongst his weed cleaning.
We have no news from the Banks and Port Dunford area although anglers left from
the shop to fish there.
Ski boat
Gert and Giel managed some nice bottoms but no Couta however
Janie fishing the Edwards area managed 3 Couta, well done young man. Most of
the bottoms caught were Squaretail Kob, Slinger and some Yellow Belly Rockcod
and Rubber lips. We are not sure about what the boats got out at high point. We
will try find out during the week.
