Fishing Report 27 July 2021
Weather for the Week.
Last week Mtunzini recorded its lowest
temperature in 28 year at 1 degree previously it recorded a low of 1.8deg, so here’s
to 28 more years of good fishing.
Lagoon
Plenty of size river bream are been
caught at various spots together with small grunter and stumpies. We get asked
in the shop so many times, “How can we catch bigger fish”, you have to change
the way you fish totally you need to start using bigger baits and preferably
live bait and lures, fish around structure and deep water, the deeper water is normally
on the outside bend of the river and the channels are not always wide so
casting into the middle will normally put you into shallow water and us you
will catch fish there especially at night when the big fish are hunting for
food, they do go over the banks in the day but not as often. The nearer the
river mouth the better and if you don’t have a boat you can walk from the main
car park at the lagoon, you will find good spots along the way or you can drive
to the old Shangri-La Resort at Port Dunford and walk from there. The Amatikulu
is closed to the sea at the moment.
Surf
With the sea been on its head since
last Tuesday afternoon the guys went down yesterday expecting to see a massive side
wash which turned out not to be however there was a reverse wash i.e. North to
South but very slight, barbels came on the bite and then a Geelbek of 12.06 Kg
was landed by Pine, a very rare visitor to our shores in the area. These fish
are normally caught far out to sea by ski boats in Natal, they make their way
to Natal following the sardines and breed here in the warmers before making
their way back to the Cape.
Ski boat
Nanook went out to High Point on
Sunday and boated some Tuna however the rain chased them off the sea and the
left Frigate out there and reports were
they had not landed a fish by the time Nanook left, which was strange as here
in Zini we had clear skies even looking out to sea although we had a big shore
break the sea conditions were good. There are no reports of smaller boats
fishing inshore over the weekend.
