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General Angling Topics => Shore Angling => Topic started by: craigb on March 15, 2011, 09:45:03 AM
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32kg couta caught in the surf at La Mercy.WOW.
(http://kznfishing.com/images/fbfiles/images/Cota.jpg)
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Awesome catch and fish. Totally incredible achievement.
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From the beach, that's really an awesome catch!
Well done!
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Yeah,once in a life time catch off the surf.Heard another angler got two smaller ones in the BAY the same day.Must be true what they say,they come on the bite just before the storm comes.Heard of a few pommies also coming out at tongaat the same day.
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What a great catch!!!!
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Hi Guys,
These anglers are mates of mine. Bait was a whole bonnie dropped miles out with a dingle. Strange thing, these guys put out a shad on a couta trace with a float and that wasn't touched. The couta picked up the bonnie on the ground.
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Wow great catches there from the shore thanks for sharing Neil :tkx:
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Hi Guys,
These anglers are mates of mine. Bait was a whole bonnie dropped miles out with a dingle. Strange thing, these guys put out a shad on a couta trace with a float and that wasn't touched. The couta picked up the bonnie on the ground.
Great catch... Makes me wanna head out there right away.
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That is an schweet couta what is the record for rock and surf surely that's a contender?
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WOW! What a fish!
Neil - what on earth is a dingle?
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Hi Guys,
These anglers are mates of mine. Bait was a whole bonnie dropped miles out with a dingle. Strange thing, these guys put out a shad on a couta trace with a float and that wasn't touched. The couta picked up the bonnie on the ground.
Probably because Couta feed in the bottom 3rd of the water column! (clap)
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WOW! What a fish!
Neil - what on earth is a dingle?
Hi Viskop,
It is an Aquacat Dinglehopper. A R/c bait boat designed to punch through the surf taking your bait out with it.
Neil.
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Probably because Couta feed in the bottom 3rd of the water column! (clap)
Hi Benni,
Suspended in the water column I can understand but with a conventional fixed shark trace with a very short sinker snoot, this bait must have been on the ground.
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Neil .. :resp: :resp:
And well done.. :sml:
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Hi Benni,
Suspended in the water column I can understand but with a conventional fixed shark trace with a very short sinker snoot, this bait must have been on the ground.
Yip, most often caught right on the bottom.
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I was fasinated with Neil's use of this dingle hopper.. (Aquacat Dinglehopper. A R/c bait boat firsly and only made in south Africa) so I did some research for the ones who haven't seen how it work's just like myself.. because this is one thing I will def get to target shark's from the beach.
Please have a look at the 6 minute video.. fasinating!! (Thank you Neil) :win:
The Mighty Aqua Cat Dinglehopper! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoCjcIPZl14#)
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I was fasinated with Neil's use of this dingle hopper.. (Aquacat Dinglehopper. A R/c bait boat firsly and only made in south Africa) so I did some research for the ones who haven't seen how it work's just like myself.. because this is one thing I will def get to target shark's from the beach.
Please have a look at the 6 minute video.. fasinating!! (Thank you Neil) :win:
That's bloody awesome! Thanks Glenn!
I can only imagine what this little bugger costs. The fresh water bait boats are already damn expensive so this one is probably twice the price.
Would love to find out though as I am tired of all the kraaineste.
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That's bloody awesome! Thanks Glenn!
I can only imagine what this little bugger costs. The fresh water bait boats are already damn expensive so this one is probably twice the price.
Would love to find out though as I am tired of all the kraaineste.
Hi Viskop,
They are a bit pricey, but you know what they say" they one with most toys wins"
I payed R 7K for mine as it was second hand. Since then they have improved on the model with the turbo version. This little boat is faster and has a better cooling system.Dean purchased his for R12500.00 about 2 years back. He has already caught 3 couta off the beach ( 19kg - Beachwood / 24kg - Tinley high rocks and this one)
Neil.
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R4,000 a couta????? No thanks... Even if they were 40 kg couta...
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Thats not to mention the number of toothys and flatties....
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Eiishhh and I thought offshore tackle was exspensive.
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That is an schweet couta what is the record for rock and surf surely that's a contender?
cant claim for a record as the bait was taken out with the dingle hopper and not casted out and the trace length shorter than 9m (thats from the top of your bimini twist to the end of your trace)
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Hi Benni,
Suspended in the water column I can understand but with a conventional fixed shark trace with a very short sinker snoot, this bait must have been on the ground.
Neil you would actually be surprized but very seldomly does the bait actually sit on the sand or bottom...the bait usually suspends off the bottom making it easy pickings for something swimming by.
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Thanks for the info Mayor Raj. Much appreciated.
To put it into perspective, Dean has caught some awesome in-eds wth the assistance of the Dingle Hopper.
Because of his work committments he cannot fish as much as he likes, the beauty of the bait boat is that he can fish selective times and tides , and put big, big baits into very good water. Dean just does not drop a bait behind backline, he selects the drop off carefully, like an edge of a rip.
By a big bait, i mean really big. To put a bonnie head out 250m that weighs 2.5kgs is good value.