Anyone up in the Kosi area from 21/3 - 31/3..??

[Peter Gordon]

Eish, I hope the guys are ok, the boat and Land Rover can be replaced, they're only material possessions

[MIKE PIKE]

Message from Mike... their trip was delayed somewhat when they came across a massive accident just outside Pongola. A BIG boat being towed by a LandRover on the way down to Sodwana rolled. The driver was caught inside the vehicle and so they waited with him until ambulances arrived.
Boat and Landy completely totalled/written off.... Trailer in the veld, boat upside down nearby... eish... not nice 
Driver sustained some injuries, but should be ok.

Yip not a nice sight , was a Seacat 565 boat name was "Upstream" , looked like the driver swerved for something in the road , but his wife travelling behind in another Landy witnessed it happen and says it looked like the wind lifted the boat and trailer and rolled everything over , felt terrible for the driver/owners sake... , luckily medical assistance was quickly on its way so by the time we left ambulance and medical staff had arrived , hope he is ok , it looked rather uncomfortable in that Landy and u could ear he was in a lot of pain , the boat was pretty much totalled and motors as well , so far not much else arrived here , unpacked sorted out stuff etc , boats on the water and tomorrow 5:30 am the fishing begins , will do mostly lake 2 and the mouth late afternoons , i've left the camera cable behind and the card reader.. but will try make a plan with some pics , Thats the plan Sidd , small liveys at the mouth for the  , will keep you"s posted if something big comes along .... sorry got to go and get another beer out the fridge ........ .[size=78%]  [/size][size=78%]   [/size]

[PH]

Terrible news about the accident, Mike. We sure hope the driver is OK. Glad you arrived safely and looking forward to reports!!

[Rods]

Good luck and many 

[Homie]

Sorry to hear !

any news from Mike ???

[Lichia amia]

Sorry to hear !

any news from Mike ???

Kosi has never been as clean in years . Swept , dusted and organised ......
 
   Mike

[Homie]

 

 

[deezynking]

Eish... Hope the guy is ok and recovering well.
   mike and the gang 

[isivuba]

Mike the  cathing you the  catching you or are you catching any     
 

[MIKE PIKE]

Kosi beach is raked clean from end to end and i patiently sit here and wash my bait ...     ... fishing is very slow , lake 3 is as dead as a doornail , lake 2 has a gazillion thornfish of which me and the missus have more than likely caught 500 000 between the 2 of us... ... havent been thru to lake 1 rumour has it its full of swimming crabs and im not wasting bait on that lot , lets see i've used pinkprawn= thorn fish  / cracker shrimp or sand prawn = thornfish , a host of soft plastics = thornfish , sards in any form or shape u can think of = zilch, nada , niks  , babysquid = zilch nada niks , ...will give lake 2 and 1 a couple of more attempts still ,  ... R/S ... High tide yesterday slid Chokka , Bonnie , and Mackeral  = zilch , baits came back better looking than when they went out... .... beach did look like a bit of a cane forest at one point and some one further down south , close to the mouth got something that resembeled a decent size GT.... .... tomorrow is D-Day for edibles off the beach and 28th is D-Day for in-eds as theres a full spring high late afternoon + a bit of nite fishing as well ...... i never give up .... watch this space for forthcoming attractions........ . .   

[dodger]

Kosi beach is raked clean from end to end and i patiently sit here and wash my bait ...     ... fishing is very slow , lake 3 is as dead as a doornail , lake 2 has a gazillion thornfish of which me and the missus have more than likely caught 500 000 between the 2 of us... ... havent been thru to lake 1 rumour has it its full of swimming crabs and im not wasting bait on that lot , lets see i've used pinkprawn= thorn fish  / cracker shrimp or sand prawn = thornfish , a host of soft plastics = thornfish , sards in any form or shape u can think of = zilch, nada , niks  , babysquid = zilch nada niks , ...will give lake 2 and 1 a couple of more attempts still ,  ... R/S ... High tide yesterday slid Chokka , Bonnie , and Mackeral  = zilch , baits came back better looking than when they went out... .... beach did look like a bit of a cane forest at one point and some one further down south , close to the mouth got something that resembeled a decent size GT.... .... tomorrow is D-Day for edibles off the beach and 28th is D-Day for in-eds as theres a full spring high late afternoon + a bit of nite fishing as well ...... i never give up .... watch this space for forthcoming attractions........ . .

we fished there a few years back and caught zilch on thorn fish baits, we got a local gillie who got us cracker prawn which we got some grunter in lake 1 on, I gave the gillie a small rod and he caught live bait for us, the non thorn fish worked well we caught lots of pikehandle barra's but no kingies. Probably pays to take a cast net with you and give it to a gillie, they don't get into k*k for using one


Spinning in lake 1 is always an option. But be careful in the canal joining lake 1 & 2, we found a croc there of about 1,8m, also a small hippo in lake 1, would have thought it would have been to brackish for him, but I guess he was on his holidays 

[MIKE PIKE]

So did an afternoon session at the mouth again , and opted not to slide big baits but focus on the edibles instead  , water had some good colour , but a monster sidewash running south to north ...   anyway perservered and managed a 63 cm Seapike (pickhandle barracuda ) and 10 mins later a 34 cm wave garrick , was great fun pity i cant post the pics yet will do so as soon as im back at home , caught both fish on whole sardine about 1hr 45 after full high as it was getting dark , would have liked to stay a bit longer , but the parksboard gate closes at 6pm  ... luckily we left when we did as it came bucketing down as we reached the car...   , pretty chuffed with the catches for today ......... roll on the 28th spring high at 16:45......     , will keep you"s in the loop , tomorrow is lake 2 and 1 , but 1st to get some liveys (pouter/glassies ) and was watching a 150yr old local , and he was catching them on earthworms...   , so you can guess what im going fishing with at sparrows tomorrow morning , you guessed right a bucket and a spade ..      

[strandloper]

So did an afternoon session at the mouth again , and opted not to slide big baits but focus on the edibles instead  , water had some good colour , but a monster sidewash running south to north ...   anyway perservered and managed a 63 cm Seapike (pickhandle barracuda ) and 10 mins later a 34 cm wave garrick , was great fun pity i cant post the pics yet will do so as soon as im back at home , caught both fish on whole sardine about 1hr 45 after full high as it was getting dark , would have liked to stay a bit longer , but the parksboard gate closes at 6pm  ... luckily we left when we did as it came bucketing down as we reached the car...   , pretty chuffed with the catches for today ......... roll on the 28th spring high at 16:45......     , will keep you"s in the loop , tomorrow is lake 2 and 1 , but 1st to get some liveys (pouter/glassies ) and was watching a 150yr old local , and he was catching them on earthworms...   , so you can guess what im going fishing with at sparrows tomorrow morning , you guessed right a bucket and a spade ..    

Mike Pike and Spike 

Well don Mike! Holding thumbs for you with spring high!

[WalkersKiller]

Nice one! Good to see you you got a Pike bru 

[MIKE PIKE]

Right , so finally back home again and can finish off the last couple of days events and post the pics as promised , 27th was uneventful as there was some heavy rain on night of 26th and wind picked up on the lakes as well , so had to trailer the boat to drain water out the hull.... .... this is the sign at the gate to the path that runs down to lake 3

[MIKE PIKE]

The path through the dense vegetation , and found this dude on the path with a worried look on his face after he discovered fresh hippo dung and hippo spoor on the path.. 

[MIKE PIKE]

Then the happy face after figuring out it was about 3 hrs old and then the end of path at lakes edge and where boat was moored 

[MIKE PIKE]

Fished on lakes 1 , 2 , and 3 but it was really slow and myself and the missus managed a few thorntails...

[MIKE PIKE]

1st lake , pretty close to where the estuary runs in and even tried some bank angling as well

[MIKE PIKE]

So with a spring high approaching i spent the rest of the time at the mouth and managed to get these , a wave garrick and seapike ,