Fishing Report 20 July 2020
Weather for the Week.
The weather for the week going into
the weekend looks great for fishing as the predominant wind is going to be North
with warm days, tomorrow is going to be a good launching day. The Barometer is
still very high but each day it does have some drops or rises.
Lagoon
The water in the lagoon is still very
clean and that is probably why Shad are still been caught every day. Some unusual
sightings/ captures were a Zebra and Blacktail been caught and the large
amounts of Sea Hares seen near the mouth. Species caught and some decent size
ones were River Gurnard, Black tail, Shad, Toby, Zebra, Silago, Brassy Kingfish,
Stumpie and Pickhandle Barracuda. Sardine seems to be the go to bait for the
lagoon at the moment.
Surf
The beaches are still closed as per Government
although people are fishing in other areas the Parks Board still has the beach
closed, I am putting a proposal in today on how it is policed in other areas so
let’s wait and see.
Fishing was slow for some over the
weekend and the spots were not producing as much as we would have licked however
Barry got a Garrick at the mouth and he waited the whole day for it, Rudi and Wolfgang
got a decent size Shad and Long Michael got a nice size Diamond of 68.67kg these
were caught at the mouth yesterday, Wolfgang got his Shad on Saturday in the
Lucky Dip area I have also heard during the night nice size Kob were caught in the
same area. Rudi’s Shad was caught on a Chokka Sard combo and this judging by
bait sales seems to be the most common bait been used. At long last we will
have a friendly surf size to fish this whole week.
Ski boat
Peter De Kok took his son J.D. for his
first deep sea fishing trip and what a trip it turned out to be, after landing
a 5kg YFT it was J.D. up next and as luck would have it his reel screamed and
he was game on and it was a proper fish taking line with him holding the rod
with both hands battling away at getting on top of the fish, the fish came to
the boat twice and great care was had keeping it away from the motors it was
only after he got it to the boat for the third time Boela could gaff it, it was
a 20.5kg YFT well done young man, the fish was caught on a deep diving Rapala
North of Richards Bay. Two other local boats went north one to the 100m mark
passed the Jolly Rabino and managed a small Amberjack, Nanook hung around the Dawson’s
area and also got a Tuna of around 15kg. On Saturday Nanook managed 2 Couta and
a baby Marlin on a Couta trace which
after a tough little fight and a jump or two they got it to the boat and
unhooked it and when it was properly revived they let it go. Closer to home the
fishing was also slow with Shaun on Legal Duck bottoms were very slow ,
although he got some it was not easy, Louis reports he caught big Kob, Big
Rockcod descent size Slinger and a big Soldier.
