Fishing Report 21 October 2019
Monday
SW gusting 16 first thing peaking
around 19. Partly cloudy with rain forecast in the evening with a max of 23.
Wave height 1.7 to 1.4 period 7 barometer 1008-1005-1008.
High Tide 07.59 Low Tide 01.36. Neap
Tide.
Tuesday
SE gusting 18 swinging to an E in the
afternoon gusting 8. Cloudy with some rain in the morning and a max of 16. Wave
height 3-3.3 period 10-14 barometer 1017-1010
High Tide 10.17 Low Tide 03.10. Big
jump tide.
Wednesday
NE gusting 33 before swinging to a SW
gusting 36 (Mini Buster). Sunny with a max of 36. Wave height 2.5-2.2period 12
barometer 1002-994.
High Tide 01.28 Low Tide 07.37.
Thursday
SW gusting 6 swinging to a SE gusting
7. Partly cloudy with a max of 24. Wave height 2.2-1.8 period 10barometer
1010-1005.
High Tide ---- Low Tide 05.41.
Lagoon
The lagoon was busy with lots of species
been caught namely River Bream, Spotted Grunter, Javelin Grunter, St Lucia pest
or Tiger, River Gurnard and a nice size Baby Honey Comb Ray. When handling any Ray please do not put your
fingers in its Nostril (Spiracles) they are not handles nor must you turn them
over, pull them out of the water just far enough to handle them then using the line lift its head up
enough so you can get a finger or 2 in its mouth to remove the hook, failing
that just cut the line as close to the
hook as possible and let it go, in the ideal world one should squash the barbs
when river fishing this does not lead to the loss of fish but makes hook
removal so much easier. It is a myth that using barbless hooks causes you to
loose fish, ask the anglers in the UK were barbs have been banned for some
time, they still catch fish.
Surf
Apart from the action in front of
Forest Lodge on Friday night9it was suspected Raggies were getting the better
of the anglers) it was a very quiet fishing weekend with only Rats and Mice been
caught early in the morning. Saturday afternoon was a dead loss so to speak in
the 3 hrs I was on the beach a Spinner came out way to the left of us. Chris
had just put a big bait out about 300m from the main beach when a ski boat
driving on backline passed us and picked up his line after a brief fight the Ski
boat bust off.
Ski boat
On Saturday a lot of boats and Jet
Skis went out and very little fish were caught however Sarel managed to catch
some Tuna and a Dorado. Sunday it was a different story Mathias and Merrimen
went to the wreck first thing and were rewarded with Natal Snoek (Queen Mackerel)
they were around 7kg apparently they were the only 2 vessels there, they were
back in time to watch the rugby. Louis managed to get his first Brown Spotted
Rockcod which is a rare species in our waters, he estimated it at 50cm and put
it back, all of this species under 30cm are female and they grow to about 70cm,
30cm specimen weights about 1.5kg.
Next events.
We are getting in some nice bait this week, Big
30cm plus Mac’s, throw size Mac’s, some 30cm plus Chokka as well as nice Sard.
The Chokka is excellent quality like we have not had for a long time and it was
caught this season plus it is a lot cheaper than our previous stock.
