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General Angling Topics => Rock and Surf Fishing Reports => Topic started by: WillieHF on January 22, 2019, 06:54:37 AM

Title: Garden Route Report
Post by: WillieHF on January 22, 2019, 06:54:37 AM

Spent the December holidays fishing the beautiful Southern Cape coastline from the Breede to Knysna. As sea fishing conditions weren't ideal I spent most of my time targeting grunters, kob and leeries in the rivers & estuaries. Managed to land +- 15 grunters, 3 leeries, 2 kob and 2 small elf in the week spent fishing, with the majority of them coming on surface lures and a few on bait. Any walk the dog style lure seemed to work well as long as the wind wasn't to hectic and the sun was low.


Here's a little video report of all the fish we managed to catch & release on camera. Hope you enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kO81hsKdPM&t=143s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kO81hsKdPM&t=143s)
Fishing the Garden Route (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kO81hsKdPM&t=143s#)

Title: Re: Garden Route Report
Post by: CRANKMAN on January 22, 2019, 08:40:33 AM

Thanks for the report and video.
 :+ cred:

Title: Re: Garden Route Report
Post by: colin on January 22, 2019, 09:24:17 AM

 :cgrts: great reading  :bow: for releasing . :toppie: :toppie:

Title: Re: Garden Route Report
Post by: FishStyx on January 22, 2019, 11:12:53 AM

Lovely stuff... Thanks for sharing. Grunters are such beautiful fish. Haven't caught one in years  :blush:

Title: Re: Garden Route Report
Post by: REEFMAN on January 22, 2019, 12:49:45 PM

Excellent video! Well done and bigups on the releases!
Champion!
 (clap)

Question - why do you guys fish with such light drag?

Title: Re: Garden Route Report
Post by: shu vawda on January 22, 2019, 05:36:42 PM

Well done Bru.excellent catches and nothing better than spending an afternoon on the estuary with that scenery.

Title: Re: Garden Route Report
Post by: SAfish on January 23, 2019, 06:53:19 AM

Great video and thanks for report.  (clap)

Title: Re: Garden Route Report
Post by: WillieHF on January 26, 2019, 04:31:51 AM

Thanks guys! Nothing better than seeing them swim off again.
Hopefully the fishing Gods bless me with a monster soon!