Fishing Report 8 February 2021
Weather for the Week.
This week right through till next
weekend we are forecast to have easterly winds blowing nearly every afternoon making
the morning fishing sections the most important , as we say here “east is least”.
Lagoon
Pickhandles everywhere and seemed quite
a common catch over the weekend most are too small to eat but make a good bait
for deep sea. The River Snapper seem to be off the bite but plenty of small Grunter,
Stumpies, River Bream and Crabs were caught keeping the anglers busy. Some
decent size Grunter were caught on live prawns, this can be caught in the
shallows using a kiddies net and some chum, you got to be patient and quick but
this is the best method to catch them unless you are at the mouth then a cast
net works well again work the shallow water.
Surf
Michael caught a type of Shark that is
not very common to our waters and very little is known about it, it is called
Human Whale Shark or Black Spot Shark, this was named after the guy that
discovered it, they are thought to grow to be about 1m and on the same trip he
caught a baby Zambie. The Banks produced 2 Diamonds yesterday the one Brett got
was about 55kg and no big sharks, the thought was the water is too warm.
Stumpies of variously sizes have been caught over the last few days, we have
not seen these guys here for quite some time in numbers like this. Snapper Kob,
a small GT, Spotted Grunter, Large Spot Pompano, Shad (not very big ones) and
Brown Skates making up catches recently.
Ski boat
Ross and Greg managed some nice Couta
but were also plagued by sharks taxing them, during the trip Ross was using a
spoon and picked up a decent size Sailfish a couple of jumps and it threw the
hook. By the looks of things these 2 will be taking first and second at the
Couta Classic. Shaun on Pops Duck seems to be the hottest boat at Morph Grunter
fishing as he bagged some more over the weekend, Gawie and Stefan got some Kob
and some other bottoms over the weekend most boats complained about been
pestered by big sharks, it seems like the Rock and Surf guys should go with to
keep the sharks busy while the ski boaters fish. Action on Nanook went out deep
and got some Tuna and a Ka Kaap (hope I spelt it right). One boat spent the
whole day out and managed a Rockcod between them and they more than made up for
it in the bar afterwards, so much so they never made it to the launch site to
fish on Sunday. Believer skippered by Fritz went out of Richards Bay and
managed a Dorado and not a bad sized one at that.
