Fishing Report 28 September 2020
Weather for the Week.
“It’s raining its pouring the old man
is snoring” and so the rain will continue into the week, however as the fish
are already wet they will still need food so those die hards can fish away.
Lagoon
Some nice reports of fish been caught
over the weekend was great news particularly were reports of Pickhandle
Barracuda and some of them were a pretty decent size, summer fish are defiantly
on the way. Some guys fished for Barbel and Tilapia in the Siyayi River next to
the forest lodge, they got several barbell (one of 6.5kg) and about 30 Tilapia,
and they saw them from the bridge when coming back from the beach and decided
to have a go at them, why not. Some monster Bass were caught at the Goedertrow
Dam outside Eshowe over the weekend, it is nice to see it is still one of the
best Bass fishing dams in the country.
Surf
Here go again late last week another
rare visitor to our waters was caught in the Emboyeni area, a Ribbon tale Ray
of 81kg using the ORI calculation however it looked to be around the 100kg as
confirmed by ORI, what a great catch. During the weekend quite a few size Kob
came out during the day as well as some nice Shad however a lot of anglers had
to be content with nothing or Lessor Sand Sharks and Spinner Sharks. Shaun got
a very nice Catface Rockcod off main beach of 5.5kg, this a big fish from the
side as the Rockcod’s are usually a bit smaller when caught in the surf zone.
The surf at the moment is a bit upside-down as the periods are very close and
it seems as the waves are coming in all directions.
Ski boat
On Saturday I went down to the beach with
a trailer to help bring a boat off the beach what has happened the parks board
have put branches on the beach to trap the sand right as far as where the
bathers sit, now instead of driving up the ramp at an angle behind the bathers
you have to drive amongst the bathers and turn 90deg to go up the ramp ad losing
momentum at the bottom of the ramp means you won’t make it to the top as the
sand is soft and the ramp is steep, I think we will have to sort this out somehow.
On the fishing front it has been slow for the past few days and I believe on
Saturday 2 jet skis went out and Merryman managed a big Yellowbelly Rockcod.
Most of the fish were small and released, on Wednesday I think on Stefan’s boat
between 3 of them they managed about 5 fish however things will turn as we move
towards summer.
