Fishing Report 28 February 2020
Weather for the weekend.
Friday
SE gusting 25 slowing down to 22 by mid-morning. Rain all day with a max
22.Wave height 1.8 -2.9 period 8 barometer 1015-1021.
High Tide 06.10 Low Tide ----.
Saturday
SE gusting 15 dropping
to 9 late morning remaining like that for the rest of the day. Rain forecast
for the morning with a max of 22. Wave height 2.4-1.9 period 8 barometer
1020-1019.
High Tide 06.37
Low 00.23.
Sunday
North gusting
12 first thing the swings early morning to a NE gusting 12 before settling to
an E gusting 19. Partly cloudy with a max of 26. Wave height1.6 period 11
barometer 1015-1009.
High Tide 07.068
Low 00.50.
Lagoon.
One night
during the week the Parks Board did a gill net patrol and pulled 1,669km of
nets out, there were 7 nets in total, there were various species in the nets
and the biggest one was 200mm but most around 100mm kind of sad that these
small fish were taken. It does not appear that the massive shoal of mullet
reported seen in 2 different areas were caught in the nets. Some good smashups
were had by fish biting the line off above the traces unfortunately the fish species
remains a mystery. The river is very full at the high tide indicating the mouth
is nice and deep. There is quite a bit of current in the mouth on the outgoing
tide so be mindful of that if you fishing in a small boat.
Surf.
Nothing big was
landed locally this week although during the week there were 3 big fish lost
due to the line been broken by what we suspect to be other fish, one of the
bust offs happened a hr into the fight and the fish was nowhere near ready to
be beached. Paulo managed a nice Diamond on the main beach however most of the
catches have been small Shad. The sea is wild today so the best times to fish
over the weekend will be from late Saturday afternoon.
Ski Boat
Sarel went out
during the week and got a nice 19kg Tuna and a lot of smaller ones, this was
out deep. I was just chatting to someone who fishes the Richards Bay area and
he was telling me that got some Shad as they left the harbor and thought game
on, they had some nice size bait but it was not to be but it goes like that. Me
thinks this weekend is going to be a trace building one with the sea not
settling for the next few days.
