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OFFSHORE ANGLING => General Offshore Angling Discussion => Topic started by: Capt. Hook on July 22, 2010, 08:43:48 AM
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I wanted to get this thread up and running here as a regular update.
This weekend looks like it will be awsome.......
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ISSSHHH Umpa Lumpa 100% correct. It was me who lost a very big Tuna on my anchor line !!! Must have been 25 kg. Saw it right next to me "nearly on the gaff" and then onto anchor line when panic set in. I fish from an aqua quad so only one up. I nearly gave the rod to Umpa but realised that would not be a sporty gesture. Lessons learned. This was this first time in years that I have anchored and not even thinking about a floater to release the anchor. Took all my old bait from the fridge and made a very gig chum line on anchor and was rewarded with a big fish only to lose it. After that I hooked onto another two tunas - only to pull the lines near the boat #@#$ (still sulking) . My shimano drag was never tested like this before. Very frustrating and a big lesson going forward. Will next time "chase" to see if I can land a big tuna. I will be back.
Good to see you on the sea Alfu. I was the skipper with Umpa Lumpa. So close yet so far. Was a nice tuna. Saw it circling under your boat. At least the sharks were not there saturday. Heard at the club they were all at Umhlanga barge. Everyone fishing there got taxed.
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Morning Chris, those traces look good :corrct:. Can I order a few from you and I'll pay you for them.
I need the ones that catch fish please, I'll be down next month to test them. My boat is rusting here in JHB and needs some sea water to sort it out w;k.
Come down and I will come with you w;k w;k
Now that's a mighty fine plan mate, I'll keep you posted as to when I'll get down there.
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Hi Umpa agree - lucky to dodge the tax man. I see some very big tuna were caught off tinley this weekend. The kayak chaps are hiding their secrets. Saw photo of 35kg and a view in the 20kg range. Big cuta and Even queen fish at the moment - and no sharks. Must go down there at some stage. The secret is out !!!!
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Alfu, think we need to meet up for a cold drink some time,
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Alfu, think we need to meet up for a cold drink some time,
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Hi Alfu, cool, agree with Chris, lets meet at the club some time have a cold one put a face to a name.
Unlucky on the Tuna bud, perseverance will get him eventually but you will have to land two to balance your quad out w;k
Where do you launch from DSbC or Umhlanga? Will keep a look out for you on the water and say howdee bud.
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Alfu so you came right when we spotted the dolphins?/
Chris those snoek traces look good bud, you break into Erics garage? LOL
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Alfu so you came right when we spotted the dolphins?/
Chris those snoek traces look good bud, you break into Erics garage? LOL
:hyst: :hyst: I need to outsmart the snoek before he does.
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Thanks Gents - will meet up some time when at the club. Always amazed to see CLS getting lucky with the snoek when others are battling especially on the spoons in the danger zone (good kipper) . I am closely following all tips to get as much info as possible. Still a lot to learn. Got some good pointers from Fritz as well on Saturday. Sad that he is not active on these forums - what a nice chap and always willing to share his knowledge.
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Thanks Gents - will meet up some time when at the club. Always amazed to see CLS getting lucky with the snoek when others are battling especially on the spoons in the danger zone (good kipper) . I am closely following all tips to get as much info as possible. Still a lot to learn. Got some good pointers from Fritz as well on Saturday. Sad that he is not active on these forums - what a nice chap and always willing to share his knowledge.
:corrct: :corrct:
We also still learning, but slowly getting things right.
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Yea boet, like you. Have you been to the sea yet? :dunno:
:rotfl was waiting for that one, well need to get my S number for the boat so hoping to take it down to DSBC for inspection soon :happ:
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Come now, you got to get your A into G.
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Mike long weekend trip this June?? :hnthnt:
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That's the plan buddy, are you going down as well ?
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Come now, you got to get your A into G.
yes sir ok sir w;k
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http://www.news24.com/Green/News/Shark-population-to-be-discussed-in-Durban-20140527 (http://www.news24.com/Green/News/Shark-population-to-be-discussed-in-Durban-20140527) interested to know if the "taxing" issue will come up at this
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Thanks Gents - will meet up some time when at the club. Always amazed to see CLS getting lucky with the snoek when others are battling especially on the spoons in the danger zone (good kipper) . I am closely following all tips to get as much info as possible. Still a lot to learn. Got some good pointers from Fritz as well on Saturday. Sad that he is not active on these forums - what a nice chap and always willing to share his knowledge.
:corrct: :corrct:
We also still learning, but slowly getting things right.
:corrct: we are always learning which makes fishing so interesting, Alfu thanks for the compliment :-)
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Ok, so who fishing when??, I may go Sunday will decide tomorrow afternoon.
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Ok, so who fishing when??, I may go Sunday will decide tomorrow afternoon.
No fishing for me Sunday, my house is on the Comrades route... will be fishing Monday though!!
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Me out Saturday and Sunday, Bachelors party Sat night, trying to convince FFF to do a week day trip either Tue or Wed when few boats around.
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Ok, so who fishing when??, I may go Sunday will decide tomorrow afternoon.
my plan was to fish sunday, but will most likely have to work, so thinking a Sunday afternoon launch! will see what happens with the weather...
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Decided to go Sat for a few hours before the east. :fshn:
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I'm land locked for 2 weeks, i've sent my boat in to have the deck redone and have it recarpeted. Also having a new visor put on and having the heel and toe adjusted.
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CLS - Sunday a much better day for fishing (if windguru is correct!!!!) You may have to go very early to beat the wind. Hope we have a kind safety officer on duty to allow us to launch "at first light". I think that night rating is now a priority. Give us a report on that new snoek traces. I am sure you will go and give them a try.
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Change of plan... Scouse will be out on Sunday :sreel:
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CLS - Sunday a much better day for fishing (if windguru is correct!!!!) You may have to go very early to beat the wind. Hope we have a kind safety officer on duty to allow us to launch "at first light". I think that night rating is now a priority. Give us a report on that new snoek traces. I am sure you will go and give them a try.
Alfu, Sat morning looking good till 11, will let you know how it goes, will try for a snoek then heat out to some secret spots to try for a tunny. :fshn: Shaun glad you can launch on Sun sure it will be worth it.
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CLS - Sunday a much better day for fishing (if windguru is correct!!!!) You may have to go very early to beat the wind. Hope we have a kind safety officer on duty to allow us to launch "at first light". I think that night rating is now a priority. Give us a report on that new snoek traces. I am sure you will go and give them a try.
Alfu, Sat morning looking good till 11, will let you know how it goes, will try for a snoek then heat out to some secret spots to try for a tunny. :fshn: Shaun glad you can launch on Sun sure it will be worth it.
Let me know how those spots are working... :hnthnt:
Tight lines Chris!!
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Locked in Sunday as on comrades route. Have 2 mates from Jhb staying whom are running so will take them to the start and listen to the anthem and shosholoza been sung by all runners. One of most awesome things about comrades, never show it on TV. Need to be in starting line up. I really miss it. Would love to run another.
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Change of plan... Scouse will be out on Sunday :sreel:
Hopefully meet you tomorrow Shaun! I'm not working so will be there for a first light launch!
Tuna time!! Going to try get one on the 12wt tomorrow!
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Was lucky to find the snoek before the East, enjoyable mornings fishing , well done Greg great fish you guys got. (clap)
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Well done Chris, you have those snoek waxed!! Hopefully find a couple tomorrow before heading off to the deep.
See you in the morning Scott...
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Good luck guys
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Well done on the snoek Chris, i believe Greg and Pooie and Corks got some good YFT yesterday, tight lines Shaun and Scott for today.
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How did it go today ????
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Blob for me today! Had a very sick crew, so was back by 9:30.
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Blob for me today! Had a very sick crew, so was back by 9:30.
Pity Scott as it was a perfect day, did you hear of anything caught ??, Saw a lot of boats/crotch rockets and skis trying for snoek of the Durban North beaches ??
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We skunked as well, mid reef was dead!! Lot of boats were back early and didn't see anything in the register.
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We skunked as well, mid reef was dead!! Lot of boats were back early and didn't see anything in the register.
:shk
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what's the forecast for next Saturday?
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what's the forecast for next Saturday?
Couple snoek then a yellow fin or three :rotfl :rotfl
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hows Wednesday looking? plotting a half day session..haven't targetted cuda or yft before. should I just put a cuda trace and drift over the marks?
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hows Wednesday looking? plotting a half day session..haven't targetted cuda or yft before. should I just put a cuda trace and drift over the marks?
If you going for YFT then a single 6/0 straight onto your leader (no wire) pin the mozzie behind the head and drift over the marks. I also down rig one with a 1 oz sinker. If you get an on free spool it so it swims away from the sharks, don't force it as it will be taxed.
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thanks CLS, gonna do that, i'll be hanging around dbn, not too deep cos we gotta get back to work by 12.30. should I put any dusters or skirts before the hook or just straight ?
wont be going specifically for them but I would to fish for them while the other are bottom fishing.
thanks man!
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thanks CLS, gonna do that, i'll be hanging around dbn, not too deep cos we gotta get back to work by 12.30. should I put any dusters or skirts before the hook or just straight ?
wont be going specifically for them but I would to fish for them while the other are bottom fishing.
thanks man!
Straight nylon, no duster.
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i agree with Chris... Except, i use a circle hook.
While you are bottom fishing its great to have a trapstick or 2 out for tuna. The constant bringing up of traces and fish and releasing of fish cause commotion and i beleive attract the yellowfin to the boat and when they see that live mozzie, they cant leave it alone!
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i agree with Chris... Except, i use a circle hook.
While you are bottom fishing its great to have a trapstick or 2 out for tuna. The constant bringing up of traces and fish and releasing of fish cause commotion and i beleive attract the yellowfin to the boat and when they see that live mozzie, they cant leave it alone!
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Looks like the cold weather is on the way, the cold offshore around the river mouth is no fun, means bringing out the warm gear and a flask of hot soup will be in order from now on. Have to love this :fshn:
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Ah shame, you poor guys up there in durbs, what does it get down to, 18 deg????
The best is the beach launch in winter when you have to climb on wet and make the 100m run in the wind whilst freezing.
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Ah shame, you poor guys up there in durbs, what does it get down to, 18 deg????
The best is the beach launch in winter when you have to climb on wet and make the 100m run in the wind whilst freezing.
And we keep going back for more, surf launching in winter is not for sissies w;k
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hi fished this morning, windguru was all wrong, nothing new :cnfzd
sea was lumpy and between 1.6-1.8m , light offshore blowing.
we trawled around no1 but it was quiet, tried for some tuna but also quiet, we did manage a nice amber jack of around 7kgs..
fished bottoms for the rest of the day, only few fish, couple of reds, a nice catface and rubber lips. generally a very quiet day.. fishing showing on the finder but not eating.
water is getting cooler and is like an off green colour atm, lots of mozzies at the bait spots..
anyway was a good day out, back at work by 12.
thanks for the help guys!
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Any of you "Binnerlanders" coming down for the long weekend ???
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Hi Chris, I was planning to come down but I was told yesterday that I am going to Italy to drive the new car we are launching in September. So I'm planning to come down in July for a long weekend and take you snoek fishing, so I can test drive your traces lol. Also the sard's may be close by in July :dunno:
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Hi Chris, I was planning to come down but I was told yesterday that I am going to Italy to drive the new car we are launching in September. So I'm planning to come down in July for a long weekend and take you snoek fishing, so I can test drive your traces lol. Also the sard's may be close by in July :dunno:
:corrct: tested some of my traces last Saturday and they worked w;k
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I saw so, well done mate. (clap)
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Ah shame, you poor guys up there in durbs, what does it get down to, 18 deg????
The best is the beach launch in winter when you have to climb on wet and make the 100m run in the wind whilst freezing.
Finally a guy who understands us Durban boys hardships. Thats why we get our Durban operators certificates and then launch through the harbour mouth. We can't be wet and cold, we have to look pretty for all those beautiful blondes when we beach, then running up to our trailers hair blowing in the wind, bodys shinning from suntan lotion, muscles rippling with our surfboards tucked under our arms.
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Ah shame, you poor guys up there in durbs, what does it get down to, 18 deg????
The best is the beach launch in winter when you have to climb on wet and make the 100m run in the wind whilst freezing.
Finally a guy who understands us Durban boys hardships. Thats why we get our Durban operators certificates and then launch through the harbour mouth. We can't be wet and cold, we have to look pretty for all those beautiful blondes when we beach, then running up to our trailers hair blowing in the wind, bodys shinning from suntan lotion, muscles rippling with our surfboards tucked under our arms.
:hyst: :hyst: :hyst: MK you dreaming again :rotfl
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Anyone going to brave tomorrow ??. I am undecided will make the call later when I get home and I see the sea
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Anyone going to brave tomorrow ??. I am undecided will make the call later when I get home and I see the sea
Also watching the sea, but think it is not going to be nice.
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Sea doesn't look to shabby for now, will have to wait and here from Greg and Corks what they got.
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Any news on the sards??
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Any news on the sards??
Don't know :dunno:
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Any news on the sards??
Don't know :dunno:
still no news on the sards, I didn't fish today but went to the club for a look see, looks like Greg and co are the only ones with some success today.Well done guys.
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Hi Chris, what did the Greg and the rest of the boys catch today :dunno:
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Hi Chris, what did the Greg and the rest of the boys catch today :dunno:
They got a nice Dagga 25kilo
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Thanks Denzil :corrct:
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Bus Dagga SeanH, Greg and Corks
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That's nice, doesn't happen everyday.
Is it now Dagga time Ump's?
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That's nice, doesn't happen everyday.
Is it now Dagga time Ump's?
Don't know Toppie, thinking yes as heard of 3 come out in the last week this one included.
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Toppie they start to come out now as well as the bek. All in pattern with sardine run.
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They are master anglers indeed well done guys. My night rating is in progress, watch its space.
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Some of the Iron Candies that have been working for me lately - (Snoek that is)
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See Eric caught some awesome fish today. Greg and crew getting some great fish as well. Well more his crew. We have lost some good anglers from here. :dunno:
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Believe some nice :yft: from both FFF and Eric today and another Daga 22kilo.
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Correct Denzil, sorry left FFF off that list.
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Correct Denzil, sorry left FFF off that list.
See a Jet Ski also got a YF 30kilo, some serious PT that.
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(clap) :geet our durban boys rock!!!!!! well done mr cotton and fff
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Well done Eric, FFF and Greg :happ: I'll be there next month hopefully to have a few catch up :frid with you DBN boys. HD, Denzel and Chris thank you for the updates :resp:
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Great results there boys awesome stuff.
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Nice fish coming out there guys, well done! Keep it up..... :rck"
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Nicely done chaps!! FFF, you owe us a report and some pics!!! (bat
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Decided to take the day off yesterday and took my father in law(Bob) and another friend fishing.
The NE had been blowing sunday and the sea was a mess. Launched at first light and had a real fight with the sea to get to the bait marks. Bob was sea sick before we even tryed for bait. Had him standing at the front of the boat watching the horizon.
The bait are plentiful and had bait in no time. Put out 2 Mozzies and was not long and :sreel: . Landed a nice bonnie.
Tried a bit further north but nothing so decided to go back to were we got the bonnie. Put the lines out again and :sreel: once again but this time the reel screamed. Had a really good fight with this fish and put big pressure to get it to the boat. A nice YFT.
Put the lines out again and on again. Let my other friend fight this one. Chased and chased it and eventually when saw the number plate. About the same size as my YFT and bang there came the taxman.
All in all had a great time out. Pity about the taxman being around so much. Lost quite a few fish in the last couple of trips to him. swr swr
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(clap) Great catch! At least the taxman left one for you.
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Well done FFF, decent fish that!!
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Nice fish, well done, pity about the :brnz:
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Awesome stuff Anthony, well done bud :win:
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FYI - Received these from the DSBC today, includes the new fishing regs for Isimangaliso.
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Nice one Anthony, those damn sharks are a problem.
We will be down the weekend, probably give it a go Sunday. Maybe I should bring my 20k to teach those johnnies a lesson, it has been a while since I felt the deep burn
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Nice one Anthony, those damn sharks are a problem.
We will be down the weekend, probably give it a go Sunday. Maybe I should bring my 20k to teach those johnnies a lesson, it has been a while since I felt the deep burn
Weekend weather looking good. Come sort these sharks out. So many of them you cant go wrong. Best bait a nice Tuna.
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Nice one Anthony, those damn sharks are a problem.
We will be down the weekend, probably give it a go Sunday. Maybe I should bring my 20k to teach those johnnies a lesson, it has been a while since I felt the deep burn
Now that sounds like a plan, you catch the taxman while I catch the fish :happ:
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Weather looking good for Saturday lets hope it stays that way.
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Major withdrawals happening on this side, how I miss living at the coast.
Those are great fish guys, keep it up and good luck for this weekend. :envy
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(clap) well done FFF nice fish
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Whole weekend really looking good :sreel: will defiantly be launching on Saturday :fshn:
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Me go tomorrow (bat
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Me go tomorrow (bat
Lucky bugger good luck.
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will be launching tomorrow, will be on my boat Shayamanzi, going to try for tuna and hopefully the sharks give us a break. good luck and tight lines to all the guys launching :fshn:
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You guys have got excellent weather all weekend, I'll be at the club house green with envy. My boats in for some cosmetic surgery ( a nip n tuck ) :-)
I only found out today that monday is a public holiday BONUS, gonna take my fishing rod along to the club and if i get pissed enough. :frid I might just catch one of those big grunter in the Ushaka canal.
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Doing a short tuna trip with Mike from Fishing adventures tomorrow.
Mandy first deepsea trip.
Tightlines all of you.
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will be launching tomorrow, will be on my boat Shayamanzi, going to try for tuna and hopefully the sharks give us a break. good luck and tight lines to all the guys launching :fshn:
Will be there, see you in the morning
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You guys have got excellent weather all weekend, I'll be at the club house green with envy. My boats in for some cosmetic surgery ( a nip n tuck ) :-)
I only found out today that monday is a public holiday BONUS, gonna take my fishing rod along to the club and if i get pissed enough. :frid I might just catch one of those big grunter in the Ushaka canal.
Leave my stash alone, :hehe: will be there tomorrow, come say hi
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Not coastal but heading up Sani, and into Lesotho for 3 days. Hopefully get to throw a fly into one of the rivers.
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Not coastal but heading up Sani, and into Lesotho for 3 days. Hopefully get to throw a fly into one of the rivers.
HD don't forget the ob's, we are at the bottom of the hill and have been minus 4 most mornings the last week, id hate to know what they sitting on up there
enjoy :trout:
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will be launching tomorrow, will be on my boat Shayamanzi, going to try for tuna and hopefully the sharks give us a break. good luck and tight lines to all the guys launching :fshn:
Will be there, see you in the morning
fun morning 3 bonnies 1 was nice size 4.5kg.
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will be launching tomorrow, will be on my boat Shayamanzi, going to try for tuna and hopefully the sharks give us a break. good luck and tight lines to all the guys launching :fshn:
Will be there, see you in the morning
fun morning 3 bonnies 1 was nice size 4.5kg.
Submit the Bonnie in the UA Saltwater records... the Record is still vacant.
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will be launching tomorrow, will be on my boat Shayamanzi, going to try for tuna and hopefully the sharks give us a break. good luck and tight lines to all the guys launching :fshn:
Will be there, see you in the morning
fun morning 3 bonnies 1 was nice size 4.5kg.
Submit the Bonnie in the UA Saltwater records... the Record is still vacant.
Missed that... Some decent bonnies have been caught by some of our members in the past year or so
How was the fishing yesterday chaps?
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Some really nice tunny caught yesterday, unfortunately I was not amongst them. Well done to those who found the fish.
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We finally got snoek onto the boat yesterday - got 2 around 3kg each. Also got.a.few small bonnies and a queenfish.
Trolled feathers to Umhloti hoping for a tuna but nothing - swam a few live shad for couta as well in the 30m mark but no takers.
Went down for bottoms and got some nice slinger and rockcod - sea turned nasty and we headed back!
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Congrats Aqua, sounds like an awesome day on the water!! (clap)
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Nice Aqua, eeish i need to fish again soon been a month now.
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Fished Friday and ended up with one snoek and was bitten off by one, fish came on only after 9........none boated early on the spring high.
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Fished on Sunday and got some big macs for bait. Tried for tuna and got 3 nice runs only to get the live baits back without any signs of tooth matks and still alive? Can someone advize if this is common to tuna? Very strange. Managed to get hooked in something big. Followed it for some time only to be cut off near the hook. Think it was a big cuta as it had a very good run. Need also some info for durban. Till when can we try for cuta and tuna? Not sure when they leave our waters. Thanks
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Isn't it nearly Leerie(Garrick)time there in Durbs...?Couldn't that be the reason your livies "took runs"but returned without toothmarks and alive...?
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Fished on Sunday and got some big macs for bait. Tried for tuna and got 3 nice runs only to get the live baits back without any signs of tooth matks and still alive? Can someone advize if this is common to tuna? Very strange. Managed to get hooked in something big. Followed it for some time only to be cut off near the hook. Think it was a big cuta as it had a very good run. Need also some info for durban. Till when can we try for cuta and tuna? Not sure when they leave our waters. Thanks
Hi Alfu, when you fish for the Tuna allow for a very light drag so the fish can run and swallow the bait, sometimes what I have found is that soon as the tunny feels some resistance it will drop the bait. The croc couta well who knows if you don't try you will never know. The Tunny should be around for awhile still.
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Isn't it nearly Leerie(Garrick)time there in Durbs...?Couldn't that be the reason your livies "took runs"but returned without toothmarks and alive...?
Hi Lofty, our garrick (Leerie) season starts around now and we get them right on the back line, we on the boats normally only start getting fish around the end of September - what we call the return shoals.
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Fish on Sunday and had the same problem, had nice big macs on circle hooks, let the tuna run for a long time and then tightened up, had the fish on for a few seconds only to have the macs spat out. Happened 3 times, very frustrating. I thought it may have been the circles twisting up, but I have since heard that a good few boats had the same problem!
Fished on Sunday and got some big macs for bait. Tried for tuna and got 3 nice runs only to get the live baits back without any signs of tooth matks and still alive? Can someone advize if this is common to tuna? Very strange. Managed to get hooked in something big. Followed it for some time only to be cut off near the hook. Think it was a big cuta as it had a very good run. Need also some info for durban. Till when can we try for cuta and tuna? Not sure when they leave our waters. Thanks
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Thanks for the replies. Will definitively go for Garrick this year as I have never caught one. Will see if I can get those tunas!!!
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Fish on Sunday and had the same problem, had nice big macs on circle hooks, let the tuna run for a long time and then tightened up, had the fish on for a few seconds only to have the macs spat out. Happened 3 times, very frustrating. I thought it may have been the circles twisting up, but I have since heard that a good few boats had the same problem!
Fished on Sunday and got some big macs for bait. Tried for tuna and got 3 nice runs only to get the live baits back without any signs of tooth matks and still alive? Can someone advize if this is common to tuna? Very strange. Managed to get hooked in something big. Followed it for some time only to be cut off near the hook. Think it was a big cuta as it had a very good run. Need also some info for durban. Till when can we try for cuta and tuna? Not sure when they leave our waters. Thanks
The fish you were loosing could have been Queenfish :dunno:
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Hi guys
I have a stack(about 150) of fishing mags to give away, The complete fly fisherman, Fly fishing, Ski Boat, ESA and some others, I'm leaving SA for a while and can't take them with me. If anyone wants them please let me know and I will either drop them at the club for you or you can come collect them, they date back to about 2002.
Cheers,
Mike.
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:hehe: thats one of the reasons that I suscribe to all the mags on my iPad :-)
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Drop them off at Durban ski boat club. I'm sure the guys would enjoy reading them down stairs at the couches or upstairs around the bar
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Cool, will drop them off at the club.
Dugongboy, you are 100% right, I have now suscibed online.
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will be launching tomorrow, will be on my boat Shayamanzi, going to try for tuna and hopefully the sharks give us a break. good luck and tight lines to all the guys launching :fshn:
Will be there, see you in the morning
Hannes gets into a stubborn Bonnie Fishing on Light Tackle off Durban (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDtCinPdDWo#)
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Anyone fishing tomorrow?
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Got my sons rugby game tomorrow at 08:00. If possible Sunday, depends,how much I get done tomorrow.
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Sunday is my son Kierans birthday. He turns eight.
For his birthday i am taking him and 3 of his friends deepsea fishing, so should be pretty exciting for his friends as they have never beeen to sea before.
I must say a big thank you to CLS :tkx: as he is taking 2 on his boat and the other 2 with me and Umpa Lumpa.
So lets hope Kieran can get a good :sreel: tomorrow and a pic for the UA junior comp.
We launching at first light tomorrow so if any other members are around please join us afterwards for cake (Should beach about 12:00)
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Tight lines Anthony, what a way to spend your birthday!! Awesome stuff helping out there Chris :+ cred:
Looking forward to the report and pics....
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Unpredictable sea conditions this weekend.
Take care with the tricky DSBC launch this weekend!
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This has to be funny friday, great chirps all over the forum.
Say howzit to young Kieran for me Ant and :tite Bud
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Just arrived back after spending a relaxing week in the berg with my wife (no fishing) sight seeing, walking and having tea and scones in the berg sun. I haven't launched for two weeks and I am really looking forward to taking the two boys out tomorrow and hope we can get some fish, :sreel: :fshn:
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Chris theres lots of mackrel around - give the lighties light rods and they will have a ball trying to see who can catch the most w;k
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Chris theres lots of mackrel around - give the lighties light rods and they will have a ball trying to see who can catch the most w;k
shot thanks, are you launching tomorrow?
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Chris always there to help :+ cred: FFF hope the boys have an awesome time at sea. Oh give Kierans a big :hpybthd: from :ult: .
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havnt put the boat in the water for a month now..
Knee seems to be holding up,so will launch tomorrow afternoon after work..
Wont be running far,cause of the pounding on my knee,but heading to my daga spot around the corner...
Taking our my crews mate, in exchange for a hunting trip in July...
Frothing to get back into the big blue!
Goodluck tomorrow blokes!
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Had a great day on the water today, fishing was hard but accomplished what I set out to do, I am sure FFF will do a report. It was great catching up with all the banterers (Fritz, Gareth, Greg, Richard, HD, Ant, Denzil, Sean H, Quintin, Scott, and all the wives and kids) and enjoying a few cold ones and talking some real BS. Great bunch of guys and girls, till next weekend cheers.
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Very nice day indeed on the water yesterday, only got Shad Dad, but the kids landed them all, it wasn't about size or species, they caught and they chuffed. I echo Chris report, good to see all the nutters at the club. Chris took some brilliant pics of the two wipper snappers on his boat, so lets wait for FFF report.
Have a super Sunday everyone.
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Here some after pics, hijacked from Mrs FFF facebook page. The look on their faces say it all.
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Before anyone asks, yes the Shad all made the grade of 30cm
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Will let FFF post the pic od the B-day boy and his Snoek when he does his report.
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Took Kieran and 3 of his friends deepsea fishing for his birthday.
We headed to DSBC at 05:00 and the kids were really excited. Had to drive with 3 kids in the bakkie, well the talking did not stop from when we left the house till we arrived at the club. Excitment was to much for them.
Met CLS at the club and Kieran and Hanu fished on his boat. Keaten and Evan fished on our boat. Launched early and ran to Blue lagoon to try for snoek.
We caught a lot of shad, but catching fish was the what we set out to achieve and you could see the excitment in the kids ever time they landed a fish.
CLS and the 2 boys were also picking up shad on the snoek traces and evertime we went past each other you had the kids shouting to each other how many they had.
Watching from the boat i saw CLS had put Kieran onto a decent fish and Kieran stood there fighting away. Shame when the fish got close to the boat you could hear Kieran shouting its a snoek. Watched as the boated the fish and then the shouting really started. It was Kierans first snoek so i think the whole of Durban heard him shouting.
We had 2 good pulls but both times the hooks pulled halfway through the fight.
We then decided to try for a tuna and caught a couple of nice mackeral which we swam by the marks but had no takers. Time flys when you having fun and before we new it it was 11:00. Had planned to beach at 12:00 so we headed back. Just before we had left CLS had said it was time to go as the throat was dry. Shame Keaten tells me we got energades give him one. Only to explain CLS needed a beer.
After we beached met up with all the guys. I must say it was good to see all the old faces again. Like a shelter meeting almost as everybody was there.
Weighed Kieran snoek and it was 3.1Kg.
Also like to say a big thankyou to CLS. What a great man. :+ cred: You made the kids day so great. Think Kieran going to jump ships soon. He catches fish on your boat.
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Great report Ant, was a pleasure anytime.
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Well done guys, those youngsters look over the moon. I can just imagine the exciting stories that will be told at school on Monday.
CLS, you're the man. :+ cred:
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Hahaha Mike... those school stories are going to have to wait about 3 weeks or so...kids are on school holidays.. duh :crzy
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Hahaha Mike... those school stories are going to have to wait about 3 weeks or so...kids are on school holidays.. duh :crzy
Hahahahahahaha "MIKES" name is TONY :hehe: :rotfl :hyst:
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Great stuff CLS and FFF! Some happy campers! :+ cred:
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Hahaha Mike... those school stories are going to have to wait about 3 weeks or so...kids are on school holidays.. duh :crzy
Hahahahahahaha "MIKES" name is TONY :hehe: :rotfl :hyst:
whoopydooo :hehe: :rotfl
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Haven't they had enough holidays this year? :hehe:
Not to worry Nikao, I answer to any name, sometimes I forget my own. :hyst:
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:+ cred: To CLS he is great with the kids. Also put my son onto his first yft
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I heard some nice fish were caught today
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I heard some nice fish were caught today
Fritz got two decent :yft:
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There are few words that can describe the feeling of witnessing the elation of kids getting onto the fish - genuinely priceless moments - big ups to you guys for your efforts!
Im sure theses kids will be talking about this experience far beyond school! (clap)
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Fritz's tuna ( I ask him if I could post this) :hnthnt:
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Oh what the heck just one more, I know Fritz uses Racetech Yamaha and Kingfisher so big ups to them. (clap)
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I heard some nice fish were caught today
Fritz got two decent :yft:
the man is a real master
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I heard some nice fish were caught today
Fritz got two decent :yft:
the man is a real master
:corrct: and gentleman
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I heard some nice fish were caught today
Fritz got two decent :yft:
the man is a real master
:corrct: and gentleman
The man is a machine, puts in a lot of effort and getting results.
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So who is fishing on Saturday? I will be out so see you there. :fshn:
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Not me mate (I wish) :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:
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So who is fishing on Saturday? I will be out so see you there. :fshn:
I am being brave and taking the wife out tomorrow. See you there bright and early.
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So who is fishing on Saturday? I will be out so see you there. :fshn:
28 days... Tight lines chaps, hope you smash those beeg :yft: that seem to be around!!!
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Not me mate (I wish) :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:
Mike you need to have a quiet word with your doctor, tell him salt air and water will remedy all the aches and pains, att least twwo wweeks worth.
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I am sacrificing fishing for a late sleep in for a change, watch TripF and Mrs FFF go and land some good fish.
Will be down at the club though when the boys return and see what i missed out on, have a brekkie and a cuppa java whilst i wait.
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:hehe: Thanks Denzil, will you send me a doctors note booking me off, Just check the dates for good weather and then send it mate.
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No problem sorted :corrct:
LOL my initials are in fact D R olivier, couple times i have been to Makro the cashiers have said DR Olivier :hyst: wish i was w;k
Always tell people i am a practising Gynea, not qualified but will take a look :hehe: :hehe:
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You ain't looking at anything I got mate (bat :hyst: :hyst: :hyst: :hyst: :hyst: :hyst: :hyst:
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You ain't looking at anything I got mate (bat :hyst: :hyst: :hyst: :hyst: :hyst: :hyst: :hyst:
Whahahahaha OOPS i should have been more specific eeish, you know what i mean duh
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You worry me bud, have you been potting this morning ? :dunno:
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Nope not yet, but it is Friday and the thought is there, Captains is whispering softly!!!
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I am sacrificing fishing for a late sleep in for a change, watch TripF and Mrs FFF go and land some good fish.
Will be down at the club though when the boys return and see what i missed out on, have a brekkie and a cuppa java whilst i wait.
Big D so kind of you, please swop the java for a Hansa, see there. :fshn: :beer: :beer:
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I am sacrificing fishing for a late sleep in for a change, watch TripF and Mrs FFF go and land some good fish.
Will be down at the club though when the boys return and see what i missed out on, have a brekkie and a cuppa java whilst i wait.
Big D so kind of you, please swop the java for a Hansa, see there. :fshn: :beer: :beer:
Chris no hassle, what time you plan on beaching? Will have some cold ones on hand. :bow: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer:
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Launched at 5h30 this morning - got some bait and then headed first to the snoek grounds - was fortunate to land a nice snoek within 5min of deploying our baits - landed a few small queenfish on the strikepro's before heading to the deep and drifting a few livies for tuna - no takes! Packed up and headed back.
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Launched at 5h30 this morning - got some bait and then headed first to the snoek grounds - was fortunate to land a nice snoek within 5min of deploying our baits - landed a few small queenfish on the strikepro's before heading to the deep and drifting a few livies for tuna - no takes! Packed up and headed back.
Well done Ashan, saw you at Lugs and getting your snoek then you went North. We dropped Two snoek then tried for tunny without luck. Sea was not nice and swell 3m, till next week and we try again.
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Thanks Chris! Yep swell was nasty - till next week!
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Congrats on the snoek Aqua!! Hopefully they're still around in a couple of weeks.
Any news on the elusive sards??
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Well done Aquafan on the snoek.
Also fished on sat morning with the wife. Maybe you saw me as i was also at LUGS next to CLS. Boat is Strike Craft. Not sure which is your boat else would have said hello.
The surf was rolling and had to keep a good eye on it sat. We pulled up and down but had no good pulls. Couple on off and that was it. The paddleski guy next to me got 2 so who knows.
Did not take long before the wife was not feeling to good on that lumpy sea and had to switch to rapala's. Drove over the bait spots and got 2 very small bonnies.
weather looking good for sat so lets hope it holds.
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Thanks FFF - I did see the boat but didnt know it was you - Im on Shoal Stopper - also had my cew go green.
Also hoping Sat is good - owe my boys a day out!
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Thanks FFF - I did see the boat but didnt know it was you - Im on Shoal Stopper - also had my cew go green.
Also hoping Sat is good - owe my boys a day out!
Yes i did see you too. Shall say hello next time i see you.
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Spread this warning to sailors/ski boat fishermen approaching Durban Harbour from the South: A sand spit
has developed off the Southern Breakwater with breaking waves being a regular occurrence even in
moderate swell conditions as seen in this image taken from North Beach.
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Anyone fishing this weekend?
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Boat prepped for tomorrow but I see a west is coming.
I see two wahoo were boated off Durban yesterday!!
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I will be fishing tomorrow
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I will be fishing tomorrow
:tite See you guys on the water one of these days.
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How was the fishing today boy's :dunno:
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How was the fishing today boy's :dunno:
Well sat was the day to fish. Had Kierans R&S comp at winkle so had to fish Sunday.
Umpa Lumpa, Kieran and i Launched at first light and headed to get bait round the corner. The sea was on its head. We had planned to do bottoms south. We managed to pick up some mackerel's so had good bait. Some of the biggest macks i have ever seen. Couple were in the 40cm range.
Change of plan and headed north. Tried a couple of the new spots but nothing.
Kieran was getting bored so decided to head to the bait marks and let him catch some shad. Put out a live bait and Kieran and Umpa Lumpa started getting some nice shad.
Eventually the live bait was picked up and Umpa lumpa had his turn for a Decent fish. We chased it for a long way to try get away from the dreaded taxman. Umpa asking can i start fighting yet me telling no just wait. Eventually i decided we were far enough away and Umpa started his work out. He did very well and managed to get the fish to the boat as quick as he could. I gaffed it and on the boat before the usual taxman arrived. So a big smile as can be seen in the photo.
Well done Umpa Lumpa.
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Well done guys! Nice tunny there Denzil, congrats (clap)
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Thanks for the report FFF and well done Umpa on your :yft: . :envy
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Lekker Umps :rck"
Oompa tells us more on the "crotch rocket" :dunno:
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Congrats Denzil, nice tunny.
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Nice fish.....................BTW I like the sticker on the back of your boat!! :-)
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Nice fish.....................BTW I like the sticker on the back of your boat!! :-)
Thanks chaps, broke the dreaded duck so to speak, now got no bad things to say about my skip LOL
Dugong, talking about the sticker, LOL being a big person, i was bending over putting the tailgate on the trailer etc and that little bugger FFF junior turns to Fritz and sais look Fritz little Denzil pointing out the sticker and big denzil point out my ass, little buugger is lucky he can run faster than me :hyst: :rotfl
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Lekker Umps :rck"
Oompa tells us more on the "crotch rocket" :dunno:
:hyst: :hyst: Well good ol Fritz convinced me to jump on the "crotch rocket" on Sunday to go try for some yellow fin. Was a good morning out but with the SW pumping it is not very accommodating while sitting on that thing and nowhere to hide and getting a wet ass. Unfortunately the fish didn't join our party but fun was had. I must admit the breakfast and beers afterwards were great.(only got home after 14h00)
Oh and by the way "I will not be converting" To Fritz :udman: and we will be trying for Garrick :hehe: :hehe:
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Nice fish.....................BTW I like the sticker on the back of your boat!! :-)
where is a photo of the sticker :dunno:
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Well done there Denzil - lekker fish that!
I fished r&s at Port Edward so didn't launch!
Very sporting of you Chris! Well done!
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Good one there Big D and 3xF. How long are the Tuna going to hang around Durbs?
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Good one there Big D and 3xF. How long are the Tuna going to hang around Durbs?
we get them almost all year round, just not in the numbers like now
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Spoiled buggers hey Chris :hyst: :rotfl
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Spoiled buggers hey Chris :hyst: :rotfl
Tony, you must make a plan and come visit soon, bring your crew from the festival, will be good to have a few cold ones and talk some BS again.
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Soon, bud, soon
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Soon, bud, soon
The boys are longing to see some of the old faces and catch up with some BS in the shelter. Some of the guys have had a really good season of yellow fin so far this season, like wise with me and the snoek. - so pull in guys.
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Launching Thursday. With Dbn hooker as crew and with FFF on his boat. Taking the kids out for a day before back to school. .
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Launching Thursday. With Dbn hooker as crew and with FFF on his boat. Taking the kids out for a day before back to school. .
Good To see you always make the time to take the kids fishing. Think we shall put them on the fish Thursday.
@ Dodger. This is the sticker on the back of our boat.
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Soon, bud, soon
:cgrts: on the new tow Vehicle. Now there is a good excuse to come fishing .
Shall be good to see you guys again. The :yft: are calling you.
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Thursday looks like the best weather wise, possibly taking my daughter and a mates son - hopefully some :cout: and then some :shd:
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Congrats on some nice YFT guys! Making me jealous.
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Thursday looks like the best weather wise, possibly taking my daughter and a mates son - hopefully some :cout: and then some :shd:
Going to be a good day. Shall keep an eye out for you. Tight lines
Shad are plentiful at the moment. Also some big mackerel around. plenty fun on the bait stick.
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Launching Thursday. With Dbn hooker as crew and with FFF on his boat. Taking the kids out for a day before back to school. .
Good To see you always make the time to take the kids fishing. Think we shall put them on the fish Thursday.
@ Dodger. This is the sticker on the back of our boat.
Ah' I thought it was something like that :hehe:
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:yipeeg:
Thursday looks like the best weather wise, possibly taking my daughter and a mates son - hopefully some :cout: and then some :shd:
Going to be a good day. Shall keep an eye out for you. Tight lines
Shad are plentiful at the moment. Also some big mackerel around. plenty fun on the bait stick.
Hopefully you only taking your half of the boat fishing.......HD hold on tight!!!!!
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Good luck guys, please think of us working class while you :fshn:
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Good to see the duck is broken Denzil, going to see plenty of bloodied decks now!! Good report as always Anthony... :udman:
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@dogongbuoy give us a shut at the club on WATR Boyz will have a beer in Thursday. Can have a beer at the club, sorry working class. We have same game plan.
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Will do, beer always sounds good :-), not going to be taking the lightie if its as bumpy as this morning, so it will be my daughter and myself, will check the sea out later today.
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Will do, beer always sounds good :-) , not going to be taking the lightie if its as bumpy as this morning, so it will be my daughter and myself, will check the sea out later today.
Will be a little bit of chop in the morning but will flatten out nicely tomorrow. Going to be a nice day on the sea. Sea you's there. Tight lines.
Tomorrow Kieran wants to have a go with a big Tuna so should be exciting.
Going to take one of the paddleski rod leashes and tie it to him so i dont say goodbye to my rod.
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Some new snoek traces I made up and will be trying (Elastic bands are there for packing only) Have to try different tactics to fool them w;k
Looking really good CLS, sure if the fish are around they wont let those pass
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Will do, beer always sounds good :-) , not going to be taking the lightie if its as bumpy as this morning, so it will be my daughter and myself, will check the sea out later today.
Will be a little bit of chop in the morning but will flatten out nicely tomorrow. Going to be a nice day on the sea. Sea you's there. Tight lines.
Tomorrow Kieran wants to have a go with a big Tuna so should be exciting.
Going to take one of the paddleski rod leashes and tie it to him so i dont say goodbye to my rod.
Lose your rod and my reel you mean?
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Got 2x emergency site meetings for tomorrow :unhap so giving it a miss, pissed off as the boat is locked n loaded :-( next week I plan to take a day or three, hope the weather plays ball :-)
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Yay i get my boat back on saturday morning after sending her in for some cosmetic improvements. Now the old girl wont be so hard on the eye anymore after her nip n tuck. I might launch on sunday weather permiting and if my crew are not playing golf again
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Will do, beer always sounds good :-) , not going to be taking the lightie if its as bumpy as this morning, so it will be my daughter and myself, will check the sea out later today.
Will be a little bit of chop in the morning but will flatten out nicely tomorrow. Going to be a nice day on the sea. Sea you's there. Tight lines.
Tomorrow Kieran wants to have a go with a big Tuna so should be exciting.
Going to take one of the paddleski rod leashes and tie it to him so i dont say goodbye to my rod.
Ants you might want to put a leash on his leg aswell and secure him to your boat, if he hooks into a big boy.
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Yay i get my boat back on saturday morning after sending her in for some cosmetic improvements. Now the old girl wont be so hard on the eye anymore after her nip n tuck. I might launch on sunday weather permiting and if my crew are not playing golf again
Where are the pics?! Love nipped and tucked ladies...
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What you have done??
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I think the poor boat builder got a little peeeved with me checking over his shoulder every 10 minutes. So i have'nt been around there for a whole 2 days. I've had a new deck put on, 3 new consol doors put on, a sticky accelerator control fixed and a new visor with a splash lip put on. Also had small bunding ridges placed at the rear of the deck to prevent any water from wetting the deck whilst drifting. Had the cracked gearbox housing behind the 1 prop, aluminium welded. That cracks if the lock nut is not changed regularly, leason learnt the hard way.
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Gonna be like a new boat :-)
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Nice Mike
Post pics bud, we might see you on Sunday weather and head permitting after club and Sharks rugga.
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So how was the fishing, spoke to a mate and he blanked except for stocking up on mackerel at the sh1t pipe.
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Please tell us whay you caught
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Got 4 silkies pulling for snoek. They were hiding very well today. Went the barge and tried for tuna no joy. Kids had great day on small shad sand soldiers and some mackere . Great day with FFF an Fluffer. Thanks guys.
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Well we launched yesterday morning. Being the end of school holidays i decided to take Kieran and his mate fishing.
The bait were showing of the finder but not biting so struggled to get bait.
Eventually decided to try for snoek after we had only got 3 mozzies.
Pulled up and down at Lugs but the fish had lock jaw. The spoon however did produce a bit of fun with both kids getting small bonnies, a couple of silkies but no Snoek.
Went to the bait marks and let them fish bottoms while i put out a live bait for a YFT. The mozzie was not working. Could see that there were fish around but no takers. Eventually managed to get a mack on a shad trace and swam that.
The kids managed to catch quite a few shad but all were just undersize so was quite frustrating.
When we eventually decided that it was beer time started packing up and the live bait got picked up. Good hook up started chasing and bitten off. The sharks again.
Anyway was good to have the kids out having fun on the sea even if it was only small fish biting.
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who is fishing this weekend? Im planning to launch on Sunday.. Been off the watertoo long! dying to get pressed again!
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3F hardluck on the fish but sure beats being at work!
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Had a good day on the water today, launched with 3xF and his son, pulled pink rapala rattlers around which did the trick, 2 :yft: landed, a 16.2 caught by FFF junior with only slight help from myself and FFF senior and 6 kilo, dropped a third at the boat. Changed to plan B and search for a Bek or Dagga, only thin landed and the biggest was myself, managed to imbed a 6o big gun in my right leg, tossed my bottom trace out, felt my leg jerk forward sinkr broke off look down to see my new piercing.
One two calls to Greg and we met him on the water, they managed 2 nice YFT and a Dagga, so followed them a bit and managed a Ziggy fish, a nice Spotted Grunter 2.3 kilo. Called it quits at 13h30 headed back for a :beer:
Good to See, Greg, Corks and Justin on the water, Fritz on his rocket with ST also Maganything and crew.
Have a brilliant week everyone
Pic 1 FFF Junior with his :yft:
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Corks, Greg and Justin with their :yft: and Dagga.
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What a nice fish for the lighty. Well done lads, must have been super enjoyable. Sorry about the hooked leg D, take care of it.
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Well done Denzil, the duck has been broken properly (going to need crew from next week :hnthnt: )... looks like the new boat has some good mojo!! Cracking fish by Kieran, well done bud!! :win:
Where the pic of the hook in the leg...
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Well done guys great catches. Will defiantly be on the water next weekend - weather permitting
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Well Umpa Lumpa has done the report for us already, Just wanted to say thanks to all that fished yesterday, was a great day on the sea.
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Well done guys! Looks like a great day on the water (clap)
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Well on the great fish boys and Denzil look after that leg boet. :envy
Well done Kieran, that's a great fish. It's almost as big as you :bow:
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Well done Denzil, the duck has been broken properly (going to need crew from next week :hnthnt: )... looks like the new boat has some good mojo!! Cracking fish by Kieran, well done bud!! :win:
Where the pic of the hook in the leg...
Only after all the drama, thought, damn should have taken a pic, but thought never crossed my mind at the time. Lesson learnt, now have proof that the trick to removing hooks works, and a few bite marks into the batton.
Leg is good today, tender around the puncture hole but good, no infection so far.
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Now thats a pic to show your mates at school :rck"
We did a late8 launch on Saturday, lots of guys gave launching a miss thinking the SW was going to pump but when we came back into it it was only 12-15kts - got strings of mackerel (bait stock is up) at the barge and did some drifts :brnz: :brnz: :-(
On the way home got a snoek of about 2.5kgs and dropped one - stoopid mistake with the drag too tight and the hook pulled, not too bad because not too many fish came out. :-)
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Well done guys some nice fish there!
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Anyone fishing this weekend?
I'm hoping to launch on Sun if the weather holds and try for some bek or dagas before it gets bright and then maybe make a turn around the shallows for a snoek or two!
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Anyone fish the weekend ??? Aqua you have any luck?
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Gave it a miss on account of the weather!
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Saturday looked like a Pearler from that link that Toppie posted. Will hopefully will be on the water this weekend, catching fish will be a bonus :rck"
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Hi Guys
Try this link , it was spot on for the last week.
http://www.tide-forecast.com/locations/Durban-South-Africa/forecasts/latest (http://www.tide-forecast.com/locations/Durban-South-Africa/forecasts/latest)
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Anyone fishing this weekend? Hoping to get the boys on the water but weather not looking too great...
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Anyone fishing this weekend? Hoping to get the boys on the water but weather not looking too great...
Hi Shaun.
Unfortunately not, tomorrow out weather wise and Sunday FFF and myself doing our night rating course, good luck if you go.
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I'm going to be land bound as well - weather and soccer match!
Good luck Chris and FFF! Will be good to have some company at night dodging the whales :rotfl
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Did anyone launch this weekend? Shaun...any luck?
Chris / FFF how did the night rating go?
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Haven't fished yet... Hoping to hit the water in the next couple of days. Packed and prepped the boat today...
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Did anyone launch this weekend? Shaun...any luck?
Chris / FFF how did the night rating go?
Went well thanks, bit of a shock to the brain, need to bo my medical and get my logbook signed , wohefully this week,then it will be submitted.
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Headed out yesterday off Shelly to target some garrick. Sea was flat as a pancake and no wind, water temp 20,4deg in the middle of winter! Livebait was scarce we only managed one mackerel, two mozzies and a load of small pinkies. We worked the Sandspit area for an hour and a half with livebait but no pulls on the baits or plugs. The SW pulled in early and was already blowing 10 knots at 10.30am so we upped lines and ran out to a deeper mark where the guys have been getting some nice 'bek and a few yellowtail the past week. On arrival there was only one boat there, they had been fishing for tail and bek with bait all morning with no joy, and it was a bit of a shock for them as we dropped our jigs on our first drift next to them and went straight on with a double up of AJ's! What followed was non stop action with tropical yellowtail and greater ambers slamming our jigs. Within the first hour we had 5 fish between 4-6kg, before I got absolutely slammed on a new drift. The fish pulled hard against my Stella's drag and nearly reefed me a couple of times, these 'tail box hard and eventually we gaffed a lovely yellowtail of around 13kg. Our next drop was a double up and Kurt got smashed into the reef by another big 'tail. I nearly got my fish to the boat when the fight changed gears as a 200kg Zambo picked up my amber and ran off with it. I locked up the Stella's drag and pulled hard back and eventually he let go - the fish came back looking like it had been through a cheese grater! He even swam up to the boat to wait for us to drop the mangled fish overboard! Unfortunately the SW picked up quickly to 20 knots and blew us off the water by 1.30. It was a great morning's jigging, getting arms stretched and feeling the deep burn again!
1) Nice 'tail on the jig
2) Kurt getting reefed
3) The remains of shark lunch
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Nice report Mark!
(clap)
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Fantastic stuff Mark well done
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Nice Yellowtail! (clap)
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Nice Yellowtail! (clap)
With your old 10K if I'm not mistaken w;k
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Nice
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Nice fish well done.
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Nice Yellowtail! (clap)
With your old 10K if I'm not mistaken w;k
Really!? Shew that reel has caught some beasties in it's time! Must have some good juju!
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Lekker report Mark, well done!! :envy
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Thanks guys, it was one of those sessions that don't come along often! Deep burn and stretched arms!
Nice Yellowtail! (clap)
With your old 10K if I'm not mistaken w;k
Really!? Shew that reel has caught some beasties in it's time! Must have some good juju!
Quite correct boys! It's Reefz lucky 10K that's stayed in the UA family :-)
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Well done on the fish gents.. Love the eating quality of the Tail
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Well done on some great catches, :envy sitting in my office.
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Anyone have any luck on the weekend ?? I didn't launch.
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Me neither - and won't be launching this coming weekend either - off to Cape Vidal on Fri for the annual Dads n Lads trip!
See that the price of geelbek has dropped drastically at the shops - I'm assuming they must be plentiful - need to do an evening trip soon!
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Me neither - and won't be launching this coming weekend either - off to Cape Vidal on Fri for the annual Dads n Lads trip!
See that the price of geelbek has dropped drastically at the shops - I'm assuming they must be plentiful - need to do an evening trip soon!
Wont be long then I will be joining you on an evening trip. I hear the commercials are raping the seas again. Really sad indeed.
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Me neither - and won't be launching this coming weekend either - off to Cape Vidal on Fri for the annual Dads n Lads trip!
See that the price of geelbek has dropped drastically at the shops - I'm assuming they must be plentiful - need to do an evening trip soon!
Wont be long then I will be joining you on an evening trip. I hear the commercials are raping the seas again. Really sad indeed.
Yep really sad, saw a pic posted on FB a commercial with at least 60 bek!!!
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Firstly... Buoyweather, Guru, swr <:
Decided to take the lighties out for an afternoon session yesterday for a bit of bottom fishing. By the time we got to tollgate bridge on the N3 could see that the wind was pumping a lot harder than predicted and even more so when we got down to the club.
Launched anyways and went around the corner to get some livies and filled up sharp sharp with mackies. We abandoned our plans to head south and headed off to the barge where the sea wasn't much better. Birds were going wild and dolphins feeling so we de-rigged a bottom trace to make a livebait trace (only bottom gear on the boat) and were soon vas into some small YFT. Tried letting them run but got taxed each time but think by the dolphins as our traces were untouched.
Also ended hooking a bird which we boated and managed to unhook and safely release. Kids weren't too impressed... After losing 4 YFT we switched to bottoms and the kids had good fun with the shad until the runny noses started!!
Good day out with the boys nonetheless... Probably won't fish again until October :-(
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Pity Shaun, eeish yep those weather okes need a kick in the crown jewels.
Did you see the thread, guy from Boksburg selling collector reels you might be interested in.
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At least there was some action Shaun.
Look forward to it Chris!
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Anyone launching tomorrow ?? if so will see you on the water. :fshn:
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Anyone launching tomorrow ?? if so will see you on the water. :fshn:
3 x F and myself will give it a bash tomorrow.
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Sea is beaut this morning!!
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Going to look for a Garrick at one of my secret spots :hnthnt: so hope the water stays flat.
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The one thats 30kms up the coast :crzy :nuts: :hnthnt:
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Tight lines oompa and denzil.
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Tight lines chaps, :envy
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How did you boys go this weekend?
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Met up with FFF and Big D at the club yesterday, I launched (will be the last time I have to wait for first light) with Chris E and Fluffer, got live bait and went for Garrick at Umgeni mouth, sea was flat with an odd big swell coming through , put out live baits and started trolling, I told the guys I would skipper and not fish as need to be awake, I said they must throw spoons into the back line to try attract the Garrick to the baits, as we got into the back line a shoal of snoek came past at least 50 or more so I decided to change tactics and pulled in the baits changed spoons and targeted them, Fluffer lost one at the boat (pulling too hard) then got one out, then they disappeared , we got a few salad fish and wolf herring. we then tried again for Garrick but the tide had turned and the swell picked up so we headed out to the bait spots for a tunny. Had one run but it dropped the bait, called it a day and headed back to the club for a few cold ones with the rest of the lads. Was good to be out on the water after a few weeks.
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We had more less same day out as Chris
Met up at the club with Chris, Chris E, DBN Hooker and Fritz, also loaded live bait, headed to umgeni and tried for Garrick, nothing biting so put out Rattlers and trolled for Tunny, after a hour or three tried for bottoms, day out was tough, managed a nice Englishmen and 1 soldier but nothing else. When we trawled past No.1 looked like a taxi rank with about 16 boats n the area, called it quits at 12h00 headed to bases for a few cold ones.
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Was testing the Amia 7 foot on the boat on Saturday, (can throw those small Iron Candies a mile) very nice action but only managed some small shad and wolf herring.
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Things slow in Durbs?? This thread is very quiet... :dunno:
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Things slow in Durbs?? This thread is very quiet... :dunno:
Think the sea has been on its head Reefz, Scouse only saw water twice when i was home!!
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Sea is on its head, two weeks of SW busting daily, 3.5 to 4.5m swells,, strong currents. Water temp is also down to 17degrees so the one day that was fishable last week guys who ventured out caught nadda, this weekend not looking good either. We have to replace seals and gaskets on our motors as their is an oil leaak needs to be repaired before we overheat and buurn the motor out.
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Its that time of the year. The DSBC is holding its first monthly mug this Saturday which unfortunately looks like it wont happen due to the weather.
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Yip, I've always called this 'prop polishing time' :beer: :beer: :beer: :frid :crzy
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Weather terrible. Also lost a lot of the guys that posted here either banned or resigned.
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Weather terrible. Also lost a lot of the guys that posted here either banned or resigned.
:corrct:
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Weather terrible. Also lost a lot of the guys that posted here either banned or resigned.
Oooooh you need a wheel barrow for that big lip?! :crzy
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No fat lip at all.
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Weather terrible. Also lost a lot of the guys that posted here either banned or resigned.
Really? Why does this keep coming up....It be getting old yo!
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Weather terrible. Also lost a lot of the guys that posted here either banned or resigned.
Really? Why does this keep coming up....It be getting old yo!
Shag its a reply to a question from Reefs, and the fact, is he not allowed to comment ?????. Please don't start this BS again its not required. <:
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no time to fish from my side, and when i am able to launch the sea is Sh1t!
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Weather terrible. Also lost a lot of the guys that posted here either banned or resigned.
Really? Why does this keep coming up....It be getting old yo!
Shag its a reply to a question from Reefs, and the fact, is he not allowed to comment ?????. Please don't start this BS again its not required. <:
:corrct:
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Weather terrible. Also lost a lot of the guys that posted here either banned or resigned.
Really? Why does this keep coming up....It be getting old yo!
is he not allowed to comment ?????
As am I, had jack to do with Reefz question? Non fishing related just came across as a sulky whine.....but your right, let's not go down here, let's keep it fishing, as it had been prior too....
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no time to fish from my side, and when i am able to launch the sea is Sh1t!
Mags being wondering where you been, well you getting buckled in October your fishing is now totally "Ł$%^&*( :crzy
Yeah big pity that the KZN thread has wittled down to a select few when they post something or none at all.
Weather this weekend is poked so more time for maintenance and rugga.
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Things will get busy soon......
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no time to fish from my side, and when i am able to launch the sea is Sh1t!
Mags being wondering where you been, well you getting buckled in October your fishing is now totally "Ł$%^&*( :crzy
Yeah big pity that the KZN thread has wittled down to a select few when they post something or none at all.
Weather this weekend is poked so more time for maintenance and rugga.
If the weather carries on this way we'll be running some seriously well oiled machines!!!
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Now you okes know what it's like to be a landlocked lubber....
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Confirmed - DSBC Monthly Mug cancelled due to weather.
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Confirmed - DSBC Monthly Mug cancelled due to weather.
:-( some really nasty weather rolling in
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Umpa, sorry must have brought it on you. Coming down to Debbin on Friday and back on Monday. When I go to the sea the weather turns miserable. Was hoping to fish with someone over the weekend now just focus to get business done.
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Umpa, sorry must have brought it on you. Coming down to Debbin on Friday and back on Monday. When I go to the sea the weather turns miserable. Was hoping to fish with someone over the weekend now just focus to get business done.
Yes all your fault (bat
LOL :hehe: unfortunately we have no control over Neptune and the weather gods, on plus side, we get to save fuel money w;k
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Tuesday looks like a gap
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Don't you have to work? :crzy :hehe:
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Umkomaas conditions already unpleasant, reported yesterday waves of 8-10ft at the mouth.
Here one of Feral's Dive Ducks (2 x 140 Suzi's) one of only two that felt comfortable to go out, launches through the mouth:
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Umkomaas conditions already unpleasant, reported yesterday waves of 8-10ft at the mouth.
Here one of Feral's Dive Ducks (2 x 140 Suzi's) one of only two that felt comfortable to go out, launches through the mouth:
Thanks for the pics Clive!
Eish... gotta organize some diving... been a few months since my last dive!
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That launch doesnt look too "comfortable" to me.
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it's a commercially viable launch, but the skippers have got to be really top of the class to handle that sort of a sea
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Good morning Gents, I need a bit of expert advice and local knowledge.
I need to fetch my boat down in DBN next weekend and NEED to test the new motors and WET a line.
Different sites forecast different things.
Now the thing is, what do you chaps think the weather will be like ? :dunno:
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Good morning Gents, I need a bit of expert advice and local knowledge.
I need to fetch my boat down in DBN next weekend and NEED to test the new motors and WET a line.
Different sites forecast different things.
Now the thing is, what do you chaps think the weather will be like ? :dunno:
Hammer i'm leaving for Durban on Wed leaving Sun, also going to collect the boat. Staying in Salt Rock, where would be the best place to launch boat?
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Guys is there a slip I can launch from in the harbour (Want to take wife & kids along)? If so please can someone provide details, directions, whats needed besides normal COF, skippers etc.etc also whats the procedure etc for entering and exiting harbour mouth? Planning on launching 2 days, 2nd launch without wife & kids if weather is ok might try go catch something. Where would you guys go fishing and what would you target? Any help will be appreciated.
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Would be nice to meet up Hammer if we can and also perhaps meet some of the Durban guys?
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Hi LH, launch from DSBC, very easy and sheltered launch. The wife and kids can sit on the boat with you when the tractor puts you in. When you get back and beach, you and the wife and kids can have a nice chow at the club. You need to have a harbour disc to launch in the harbour.
It will be cool to get together, go for a fish and pretend we know what we are doing hahaha :hyst:
I am sure a couple of the DBN boys will be around.
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Hi LH, launch from DSBC, very easy and sheltered launch. The wife and kids can sit on the boat with you when the tractor puts you in. When you get back and beach, you and the wife and kids can have a nice chow at the club. You need to have a harbour disc to launch in the harbour.
It will be cool to get together, go for a fish and pretend we know what we are doing hahaha :hyst:
I am sure a couple of the DBN boys will be around.
Ok great sounds good where is DSBC ? LOL quite right :hehe: , don't want to bring down 2 tons of fishing kit so hopefully we can get a heads up in terms of what to target? I suppose the bottoms are always there however must admit with the wife & kids would prefer some trawling as they might go a bit :cnfzd bottom fishing?
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Bit to early to llok at next weeks weather so far looks shite, we normally decide by Friday if the weekend is a go or not. Would agree that different sites have different forecast, confusing if you ask me. Think the oke at Guru is also a fisherman and when he wants to fish he updates the site to really nasty weather and keeps everyone shore bound, then on the day its perfect and has the ocean to himself, therre has been some days turned out a pearler but weather sites showed different.
You need your pink ticket for the harbour, but if SW is blowing, apparently it comes straight up the channel and harbour can also be very bumpy, would agree with Hammer arrange with the club to launch from their as a visitor, think the tractor fees arre R300 for visitors for launching and trailering, and some marks not far if you taking wife and kids. Hopefully with the big cold front coming through this weekend it brings warmer water as water temps are sitting at 17/18 degrees surface and 14/15 on bottom and fish have gone into hiding, been three weeks now shorebound so betters wether must roll in... If weather starts looking good you will find us down there.
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Bit to early to llok at next weeks weather so far looks shite, we normally decide by Friday if the weekend is a go or not. Would agree that different sites have different forecast, confusing if you ask me. Think the oke at Guru is also a fisherman and when he wants to fish he updates the site to really nasty weather and keeps everyone shore bound, then on the day its perfect and has the ocean to himself, therre has been some days turned out a pearler but weather sites showed different.
You need your pink ticket for the harbour, but if SW is blowing, apparently it comes straight up the channel and harbour can also be very bumpy, would agree with Hammer arrange with the club to launch from their as a visitor, think the tractor fees arre R300 for visitors for launching and trailering, and some marks not far if you taking wife and kids. Hopefully with the big cold front coming through this weekend it brings warmer water as water temps are sitting at 17/18 degrees surface and 14/15 on bottom and fish have gone into hiding, been three weeks now shorebound so betters wether must roll in... If weather starts looking good you will find us down there.
Ok hope we get some good weather as i'm gonna be launching either way need to test boat and make sure all is ok , if anyone can share some marks that would be really great. Hope to see you guys down there! :rck"
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Think that sat and sunday should be fair, but as Umpa Lumpa said, the weather report changes every time you look.
L Hooker if you taking your family out, go to the bait marks either the Barge or cassions. There are a lot of shad around and they should have fun.
If you put out a live bait you could pick up a nice Tuna.
Think Umpa Lumpa and myself should be out so keep an eye out for us.
Boat is Strike Craft.
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I fly out to Malawi (business) Sunday and return the following Saturday so will be out for me, good luck to those who get a gap. :cnfzd
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Think that sat and sunday should be fair, but as Umpa Lumpa said, the weather report changes every time you look.
L Hooker if you taking your family out, go to the bait marks either the Barge or cassions. There are a lot of shad around and they should have fun.
If you put out a live bait you could pick up a nice Tuna.
Think Umpa Lumpa and myself should be out so keep an eye out for us.
Boat is Strike Craft.
Excellent thanks bud will do!
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Thanks Umpa and FFF, It would be good to see you boys again. we can all have a juice with LH.
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Thanks Umpa and FFF, It would be good to see you boys again. we can all have a juice with LH.
Think i shall have a :beer: :beer: :beer: . So keep your fingers crossed the weather is good.
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Sorry to say but there will be no fishing tomorrow.................Sunday maybe and thats a big MAYBE................your best bet will be the bay and even there its gonna be shite :-( rather take the family for a chow and a few :beer: :beer: :beer:
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Sorry to say but there will be no fishing tomorrow.................Sunday maybe and thats a big MAYBE................your best bet will be the bay and even there its gonna be shite :-( rather take the family for a chow and a few :beer: :beer: :beer:
Yipe no fishing this weekend. Hammer and L Hooker are coming next weekend.
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aaarrr.........me not read good :hehe:
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aaarrr.........me not read good :hehe:
Already into the frosties bugger :beer: :beer:
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Hi Guys, who is fishing this weekend ? :dunno:
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Water was not looking good this morning. Very choppy. Windguru look promising but with current water conditions I think I am going to sleep late. Let us know how it went if you decide to go. Best option is to make a final call tonight.
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We out, have some small issue on starboard motor to sort, don't want to cause long term costly damage. Agree with Alfu sea looks lumpy and with the poison wind blowing fishing might be tough. Early morings might have a 2hr gap but think it will be bumpy. I have a double birthday celebration mixed with Bok (we gonna get whipped) and Sharks game on the go, i am out.
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Hi Guys, who is fishing this weekend ? :dunno:
As umpa Lumpa said we got to fix the motor first so out this weekend.
If you do launch let me know shall come down to the club and say howzit over a :beer: or 2.
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Was in Durban last weekend and some of the nastiest wind and conditions I've seen.
Had a peek at my own Guru and Waif Finder and see the white horses in the bay have not died down completely yet. Maybe a small window very early in the morning.
Waif finder and Zulu guru: http://www.bluewatershotel.co.za/live-beach-cam.html (http://www.bluewatershotel.co.za/live-beach-cam.html)
Presently doesn't look good, don't hold your breath.
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I'm collecting my boat tomorrow morning and may put her in for a spin, I have to test the new motors. Sunday is looking good.
I'll give you a heads up FFF, L Hooker will also be there tomorrow.
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3 days of solid 20kt+ NE has left the sea horrid!! Sunday should be ok, at least if the SW pumps you can stay in the bay all the way up to Snake Park.
I'm polishing props!!
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Anyone launch the weekend???, I been away in Malawi and only got back yesterday evening. Mike how the boat test go???
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A couple of boats launched off Shelly yesterday, sea was flat but the wind came through strong around mid day. A few small yellowtail came out at Sheppie Brick as well as two nice GT's one of 15kg and a beauty of 20kg both on jig. Some tuna around Protea Banks in the 10-15kg range. Going to watch the weather for the coming weekend and try get me one of thise Geets!
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Lets see how Guru jumps around this week, weekend weather looking promising for now!!!
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went out on sunday AM, hit lugs early and was on within 5 min to a nice snoek of 4 odd kgs...saw a couple bends and then it got very quite...
Went to barge, very dead and then back to lugs for garrick...almost got taken by one of those blue lagoon freak waves so called it a day at like 10...
great to have a fish braai again..been too long....
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A couple of boats launched off Shelly yesterday, sea was flat but the wind came through strong around mid day. A few small yellowtail came out at Sheppie Brick as well as two nice GT's one of 15kg and a beauty of 20kg both on jig. Some tuna around Protea Banks in the 10-15kg range. Going to watch the weather for the coming weekend and try get me one of thise Geets!
Good to hear Mark, looking forward to the report bud!!
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Hammer did you wet the new motors ?
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went out on sunday AM, hit lugs early and was on within 5 min to a nice snoek of 4 odd kgs...saw a couple bends and then it got very quite...
Went to barge, very dead and then back to lugs for garrick...almost got taken by one of those blue lagoon freak waves so called it a day at like 10...
great to have a fish braai again..been too long....
Well done on the snoek am glad to hear they around, got myself some new snoek slayers I need to try w;k. I know those Lugs freak waves they bad news.
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Hi guys and Chris and Ed, I did wet the engines but there were problems with the wiring, which will be sorted out this week. I left the boat in Durbs, in other words it was not a good weekend. :-(
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Hi guys and Chris and Ed, I did wet the engines but there were problems with the wiring, which will be sorted out this week. I left the boat in Durbs, in other words it was not a good weekend. :-(
that's not good, will you be back this weekend?
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Not sure I can make it this weekend, to much on the go. Maybe next weekend, I'll keep you posted.
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Not sure I can make it this weekend, to much on the go. Maybe next weekend, I'll keep you posted.
Unlucky there Mike, hope it gets sorted.
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Thanks buddy, did you chat to FFF :hyst: :hyst: :hyst: :hyst:
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He mentioned you had motor issues, and one two other issues, but you guys got it sorted. :-)
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Hi guys and Chris and Ed, I did wet the engines but there were problems with the wiring, which will be sorted out this week. I left the boat in Durbs, in other words it was not a good weekend. :-(
Went through a road block yesterday in Maydon Wharf and saw your boat. They had been pulled over. So was wondering.
Anyway hope they get the problems sorted out for you.
Now you have an excuse to come fishing again, hopefully the weather will be better.
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:hehe: :hehe:Morning Ant, they told me. They got a fine because there was no number plate on the trailer.
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It was good to meet you on the beach Mike (and put a face to the name)..........lekka setup you got there, hope you get the motors sorted - summers coming!! :-)
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Anyone launching Sunday ?? I will make the call tomorrow. :fshn:
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CLS - will do the same and make a call Sat evening. I do not trust guru lately. Will be great to go out. Not very positive for good fishing but going out is all that matters.
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Anyone launching Sunday ?? I will make the call tomorrow. :fshn:
Going to try and do a bit of whale watching on Sunday............and a bit of fishing of course :hnthnt: need to get out for a while......been battling with this swr flu for about 3 weeks now!!
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Know how you feel had it for the last week. Been man down for three days now. Might take my boat to Inanda just to run the motors tomorrow . Will do them some good to get fress water through them, instead of running then on a hose pipe. If any issues get sorted by time warm water gets here. Not normally anything wrong with Yamaha 40's.
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Tight lines for those fishing or watching whales :envy
Just 4 more weekends!!
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Tight lines for those fishing or watching whales :envy
Just 4 more weekends!!
:hnthnt: Me too... working as expat has it's draw backs.....
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At the club now and there is a whale playing around Limestone
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Got some snoek of St lucia today I blanked but the laaities got some on flick stick
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Nicely done Cyclone, some proper Snoek that. (clap)
How did the Durban boys go this weekend?
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Nice fish well done, I didn't launch and did some much need gardening , waiting to hear if the crotch rockets caught :dunno:
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Lekker George, Divan showing you up there Boet
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Nice snoek! Lets hope they start to come down towards Durban as well!
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Solid snoek there, well done. We launched at 10 and took a mates 9year old son for a ride, pulled raps from the turning bouy to the caissons where we stopped and had great fun with the shad - there are millions about at the moment - the lightie also got a very nice soldier for the pan.
Pulled small raps along the backline back to Suncoast but just :shd: :shd: :shd: :shd: :shd: Great day on the water - roll on summer :-)
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Sunday was an absolute weather gift! Flat seas and no wind so we made the most of it. Our search for livebait drew a blank and we opted to rather get to the reefs early and avoid the taxi rank. We got to Sheppy and sounded around till we found a fair showing near the bottom. Sean's first down with bait yielded a massive red (not sure species) and my first down on jig was an on-off. We reset the drift and Sean managed a lekker Captain Fine (+/-3kg) and I got a small amber on jig. In short time 3 other boats puled in and messed the drift up and split the shoal so we moved to another spot. Some more nice bottoms for the guys fishing bait and two tuna for Clint and I on jig (released - a bit on the small side). Our next move was to a deep ledge in 65m of water where we had an absolute cracker of a session. We got 5 ambers in just over an hour - one on bait and the rest on jig. Was great to see Piet get railed on the bait rod with his first amber ever - a respectable fish around the 8kg mark. I got 4 beauties with the biggest going 10kg. We also got reefed twice by big yellowtail - couldn't stop the charge even on full drag. The afternoon session was capped off with a free swimming striped marlin buzzing the boat for around 4 minutes while chaos erupted on deck as we threw everything we had at it! A few chases of the lures and stick bait but no hookup (just as well - we only had grinders with 50lb braid it would've been interesting to say the least!). A great day on the water with good mates.
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Congrats on some great fish, Amber is still on my bucket list of species i'd like to catch.
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Looks like a great day out - some very nice fish Bwana :rck"
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Have to go back to Durban this week, planning to launch and test on Sat at DSBC hope to meet some of you guys there!
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Looking at the weather could be interesting test conditions. Will definitely put her through her paces.
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awesome fish there bwana.
Dying for the christmas break so i can head back down the south coast and spend a week or two fishing there!
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Well done Mark! :udman:
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I've got pieter on facebook, he posted that he caught this 31kg GT and 17 kg Muscle cracker off Durban whilst bottom fishing last weekend. GT safely released
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Wow, some awesome fish there!! Brilliant stuff!
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GT safely released
Eish... poor GT! :shk
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(clap) some great catches
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GT safely released
Eish... poor GT! :shk
:corrct: :shk
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Good fishing Bwana (clap)
Nice Geet and cracker
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I've got pieter on facebook, he posted that he caught this 31kg GT and 17 kg Muscle cracker off Durban whilst bottom fishing last weekend. GT safely released
Was that cracker not caught yesterday, I saw a similar sized one at the club yesterday??
I also heard that a 50kg YFT was boated very deep(50kms) off Durban yesterday??
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Yes it was caught yesterday, its the same chap that won the DSBC comp this year. He belongs to fynnlands angling club and has many trophy fish under his belt. Checking his facebook page makes me super jealous
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Perseverance and time on the water and you get results, some guys get lots of time to fish.......not me :-( :-)
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Fantastic catches Gents (clap) well done.
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@George - nice snoek there bud, nice to see them making an appearance up north, good to catch them on the light stuff
GT safely released
Eish... poor GT! :shk
Awesome GT a real bus! That is a trophy fish anywhere you go. Pity about the hands in the gills though hope it was ok.
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Letter report Mark, some nice fish there.
Bus G T and nice cracker too!!!
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@George - nice snoek there bud, nice to see them making an appearance up north, good to catch them on the light stuff
GT safely released
Eish... poor GT! :shk Thanks Mark, jip we are lucky, but seriously im green with envy over that amber....lol
Awesome GT a real bus! That is a trophy fish anywhere you go. Pity about the hands in the gills though hope it was ok.
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Sorry chaps made a :blush: anyways we where lucky with a few nice size snoek Mark, but in green with envy over that Amber
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Some awesome fish came out on Sunday.... was nice to see so many boats on the water again! Hoping for a bumper summer season!
That GT and Poensie are remarkable catches.. saw them when they weighed them at Fynnlands yesterday.
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That GT and Poensie are remarkable catches.. saw them when they weighed them at Fynnlands yesterday.
So the GT was safely released into the hatch? :hyst:
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Geez Mark, nicely done bud!! Reckon you need to plug in a couple days leave late next month so we can have a crack at the jigging again...
All in all looks like a good weekend off the KZN coast, good to see...
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That GT and Poensie are remarkable catches.. saw them when they weighed them at Fynnlands yesterday.
So the GT was safely released into the hatch? :hyst:
His facebook posting indicated that he had released it
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Ah ok...
FYI, I don't have man periods... I say it, as I see it.
It was a simple tongue-in-cheek observation.
Glad you edited your post.
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Geez Mark, nicely done bud!! Reckon you need to plug in a couple days leave late next month so we can have a crack at the jigging again...
All in all looks like a good weekend off the KZN coast, good to see...
It's the right time of year for it now. We went again yesterday to find some bigger ones but the current was screaming (2+ knots) so it was difficult to get down with the jigs eventually we needed 300g and 400g jigs to have a shot at reaching the bottom. We got 3 big bonnies and then eventually found the right showing and got 2 big hits, Kurt held on to his second one and managed this beauty around the 15kg mark:
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Nice fish!! What structure are you fishing for them Mark??
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We generally look for them on bumps and ledges in water depths from 50-90m, generally areas where guys fish for bek and cracker and yellowtail. They move around a lot and don't like strong current so on a day when the current is slack it's worth a shot....
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So its basically the same at the tropicals we get in Inhambane, just a lot shallower - 20-30m, sometimes they are so thick it looks like bait on the sounder and they take whipped spoons 5-10m from the boat.
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So its basically the same at the tropicals we get in Inhambane, just a lot shallower - 20-30m, sometimes they are so thick it looks like bait on the sounder and they take whipped spoons 5-10m from the boat.
Exactly the same, we got those same smaller model tropicals here on protea banks, they are wild and great fun on light tackle!
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Awesome catch Mark, recon you need to change your name to "Amber" :-) .
Guys quick one im coming down to Dbn to get a few things sorted on my boat at Dave. Plan to launch from DSBC on Sat morning. My question is what are you guys targeting at the moment and what would be a good plan of action to try get some fish in the hatch?? Go to containers and get some livebait, then out to Umhlanga Barge and drift some livebait, troll a few lures between points? What would you guys recommend?
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Forgot to mention hope to meet some of the Durban guys at the club on Sat?
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Geelbek and Garrick is about all it worth going for this time of the year, snoek are pretty much all year round but have been dismal this year.
Geelbek on the deep wrecks and backline at Lugs for Garrick if conditions permit - it can be quite dangerous and the skipper should not fish.
No need to go to the containers for bait - there is more bait on the Barge. Maybe see you down there for a beer. :-)
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Geelbek and Garrick is about all it worth going for this time of the year, snoek are pretty much all year round but have been dismal this year.
Geelbek on the deep wrecks and backline at Lugs for Garrick if conditions permit - it can be quite dangerous and the skipper should not fish.
No need to go to the containers for bait - there is more bait on the Barge. Maybe see you down there for a beer. :-)
:corrct: Weather not looking too good for Saturday
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Windguru has the wind pumping from tomorrow till well into next week. You may want to consider launching your boat in the harbour and settling for a grunter. Launch at the public slipway next to royal natal yacht club. Just log your trip in and out with the SAP stationed next to the slipway.
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Windguru has the wind pumping from tomorrow till well into next week. You may want to consider launching your boat in the harbour and settling for a grunter. Launch at the public slipway next to royal natal yacht club. Just log your trip in and out with the SAP stationed next to the slipway.
I dunno, Windfinder and Magicseaweed look ok, Saturday should be ok but it depends how messed up the sea gets on Thursday/Friday. I think I am going to give it a go, will make a call early Saturday..
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Not much hope for Saturday. Typical Durban weather - perfect in the week and terrible during weekend. Best to make a call on Friday afternoon and again in the morning. Saw some boats on the flat seas this week. Lucky chaps - any fish this week? Saw some boats trying for snoek as well
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Weather not looking good for the next week!!!
FFF, GregF and myself had night trip last night, no success but big learning curve for me, totally different to day time fishing, but sure we will have better success in future, reports from other boats that fishing was hard, plenty showings but no action. Also a heart stopper when a whale breaches next to the boat you cant see it and blow holes twice....clean underwear please duh
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:hyst: :hyst: Denzel I wish you had a GOPRO on board, I would have paid good money to see it. :rotfl
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Thanks for the replies guys hopefully sat is ok to launch ! Dugong hope to catch you at the club .
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Will look out for you at sea, I think there is a chance that it will be very fishable this weekend, I think the guys have been checking out the Cape Town forecasts by mistake :nuts:
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:hyst: :hyst: Denzel I wish you had a GOPRO on board, I would have paid good money to see it. :rotfl
LOL it strange you sit on the boat face land and can see the light from civilisation face the deep and it is pitch dark cant see jack, sitting waiting for that pull and (LOL) wish i could make the pffffffff sound here, the whale breaches, headlamps on spot light etc but cant see nadda, but he is the there....
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Windguru playing mind games, was looking good now looking rocky!!!
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Could be ok methinks :dunno:
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Could be ok methinks :dunno:
I would launch with those stats. :corrct: :corrct:
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Windguru is changing by the hour :dunno:
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That's one of the reasons I only use Windfinder and Magic Seaweed, guru confuses things, I don't understand why because as far as I know they all use the GFS model?
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Looking at launching Sunday at 03h00, try for a bek then a snoek when it gets light, need to be back on the beach at 8. Hope the weather plays game.
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CLS - that night rating and moneys spent is now rewarding you well !!! Is there a tractor at the club to assist at that time of the morning?
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CLS - that night rating and moneys spent is now rewarding you well !!! Is there a tractor at the club to assist at that time of the morning?
Alfu, this is the main reason I got my night rating and yes there is the tractor, you just pay the driver something for his assistance. I have a 4 x 4 so I can launch myself is need be. hopefully :fshn: :fshn:
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Thanks for the update CLS Good luck with the night fishing.
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Those boys at windguru have probably been smoking some wacky weed this week. The wind predictions have been super erratic. They now predict almost dead calm conditions on Sunday. So i will be pulling out the old girl, dusting her off and getting her deck wet this weekend. As for putting some blood on the deck thats a whole different story. I think i may have caught the happy dog fever and forgotten how to fish. :fshn:
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CLS - that night rating and moneys spent is now rewarding you well !!! Is there a tractor at the club to assist at that time of the morning?
Alfu, this is the main reason I got my night rating and yes there is the tractor, you just pay the driver something for his assistance. I have a 4 x 4 so I can launch myself is need be. hopefully :fshn: :fshn:
just give me a shout if you need the Amarok to help the :yota: off the beach :hyst:
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Scott I will let me know when I need an anchor for my FAD :rotfl
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How did it go this weekend chaps?
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Launched early from Durban and headed North. Lots of bait fish and shad around. Blanked after a long day and dodging all the whales. A lot of other boats also blanked today. Just good to be out again. Summer must come so that we can also cach some fish off Durban. Inspectors were out today and glad to see that they are inspecting permits.
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Launched early and was at Lugs as the sun came up. tried really hard for a snoek but nothing I had to be back early as had other commitments so headed out to the bait spots and had fun catching mackerel and shad, even caught one on a live mackerel :-). The boats that ventured deep were rewarded with their quota of bek and bottoms. Was great to be on the water again after 4 weeks being land bound. Till the next trip.
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Launched sat morning for a boat test, caught a few shad and mackerel pulled some lures however no luck with lures beached early around 12 and met up with Dugongboy good to finally meet you!
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Always good to put a name to a face - Little Hooker looking good!! :rck"
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Well also decided to do a launch yesterday. Umpa Lumpa decided not to go yesterday so i took to ballies and Kieran out.
Was at the club 04:30 and did an early launch. Having night rating does help.
Went south and tryed a bit of bottom fishing. Caught quite a few smaller fish but struggled to get better fish. The sea barbel were also around and had us thinking we had a few good fish only to be disappointed. Kieran did manage a couple of good fish though. I am very proud of his effort yesterday, fishing 50m deep with a KP. The englishman even made him have to do a couple of back winds so he is learning how its done.
We also saw a couple of big flying fish on our way back so a sign that summer time is coming and game fishing will be back.
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Nice meeting you Lindsey and thanks for the beer bud!
FFF well done Sunday looked like a pearler of a day, would have liked to launch however needed to get back to Pta :-( . Congrats to Kieran (clap)
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Well done lads, for those who did or did not get rewarded with fish, any day on the blue is a good day.
That kid Kieran is going to feature predominantly in fishing circles as he ages, brilliant young lad.
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Well done lads, for those who did or did not get rewarded with fish, any day on the blue is a good day.
That kid Kieran is going to feature predominantly in fishing circles as he ages, brilliant young lad.
:corrct: Couldn't of said it better myself, would kill to be on the water more.
As for Kieran, definately going to be a top angler one day and all credit to his ballie for getting him on the water!!
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Was there no fishing off KZN this weekend lads?
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Was there no fishing off KZN this weekend lads?
No reports our side, heavy winds and swells bad seas keeping most people shore bound.
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Was the DSBC monthly mug today, not sure if anyone launched :dunno:
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Was the DSBC monthly mug today, not sure if anyone launched :dunno:
Mug was cancelled due to weather.
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Thanks big D, I must admit I had a long over due sleep in.
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Thanks big D, I must admit I had a long over due sleep in.
It is needed every now and then. :rck"
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The weather has to change for the better soon guys. I'm looking forward to your feedback when it does. :fshn:
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Sorry guys but what exactly are jubjubs?
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Small Bonnie'sBonnie's
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Weather was miserable on the coast and I was in the berg but managed to fish. Did some fly fishing. Got three trout. Kept two as was enough for 8 of us to taste and released the third.
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Small Bonnie'sBonnie's
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Any sign of the :dor: yet? Still a little early but you never know...
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Any sign of the :dor: yet? Still a little early but you never know...
Am sure when the weather allows the big boys will try, cannot wait :fshn:= :dor:
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Thanks for reply happy dog!
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Weather was miserable on the coast and I was in the berg but managed to fish. Did some fly fishing. Got three trout. Kept two as was enough for 8 of us to taste and released the third.
Well done HD, at least someone is fishing ...and catching.
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Weather was miserable on the coast and I was in the berg but managed to fish. Did some fly fishing. Got three trout. Kept two as was enough for 8 of us to taste and released the third.
Well done HD, at least someone is fishing ...and catching.
Howdee George, long time bud, you still around? have not seen you down at the club for a while..
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:the sHPLA
Weather was miserable on the coast and I was in the berg but managed to fish. Did some fly fishing. Got three trout. Kept two as was enough for 8 of us to taste and released the third.
Well done HD, at least someone is fishing ...and catching.
Howdee George, long time bud, you still around? have not seen you down at the club for a while..
Yes, where you been hiding.?
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Weather looking promising for a Friday night launch, hope the swell drops a bit, and the weather holds.
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:the sHPLAWeather was miserable on the coast and I was in the berg but managed to fish. Did some fly fishing. Got three trout. Kept two as was enough for 8 of us to taste and released the third.
Well done HD, at least someone is fishing ...and catching.
Howdee George, long time bud, you still around? have not seen you down at the club for a while..
Yes, where you been hiding.?
Howzit guys, ja I've been a bit scarce at the club lately, a small op, work and bad weather have prevented me from fishing offshore since about mid May.
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You Durban knape around over December? Will be around from about 20 to 27 Dec. Think we need to arrange a get together at the club, what say you?
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You Durban knape around over December? Will be around from about 20 to 27 Dec. Think we need to arrange a get together at the club, what say you?
Why don't you add a few days to the end of that and come join us down the south coast... :fshn: :bnaboy:
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You Durban knape around over December? Will be around from about 20 to 27 Dec. Think we need to arrange a get together at the club, what say you?
Sounds like a bloody great idea, I will be around :beer:
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You Durban knape around over December? Will be around from about 20 to 27 Dec. Think we need to arrange a get together at the club, what say you?
Why don't you add a few days to the end of that and come join us down the south coast... :fshn: :bnaboy:
What dates you have in mind? Will be staying in Shelly
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You Durban knape around over December? Will be around from about 20 to 27 Dec. Think we need to arrange a get together at the club, what say you?
Why don't you add a few days to the end of that and come join us down the south coast... :fshn: :bnaboy:
What dates you have in mind? Will be staying in Shelly
Will PM you shortly...
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You Durban knape around over December? Will be around from about 20 to 27 Dec. Think we need to arrange a get together at the club, what say you?
Sounds like a bloody great idea, I will be around :beer:
:corrct: Will be in touch closer to the time then we can decide on date. Scooters vs ballies on boats
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You Durban knape around over December? Will be around from about 20 to 27 Dec. Think we need to arrange a get together at the club, what say you?
Sounds like a bloody great idea, I will be around :beer:
:corrct: Will be in touch closer to the time then we can decide on date. Scooters vs ballies on boats
:corrct: :beer: :corrct:
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Sounds like a plan boys, I'm in. :frid
I'll be down from the 20th to the 5th of Jan.
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Looks like another weekend off the water <: this wind is out of control swr
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Looks like another weekend off the water <: this wind is out of control swr
I think sat night is going to be a good call. Save a fortune not drinking.
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CLS Perhaps good opportunity to arrange a fishing clinic? I have been battling (and many others if I look at the empty catch register at the club) lately and will be good to gain more knowledge on how to catch the summer fish that is around the corner. Not sure how we can get the Freespool Angling chaps or the good fishermen on this forum to set something up for us. I am sure there will be a lot of takers for this opportunity.
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CLS Perhaps good opportunity to arrange a fishing clinic? I have been battling (and many others if I look at the empty catch register at the club) lately and will be good to gain more knowledge on how to catch the summer fish that is around the corner. Not sure how we can get the Freespool Angling chaps or the good fishermen on this forum to set something up for us. I am sure there will be a lot of takers for this opportunity.
They used to run clinics at the Freespool shop in Gateway (went to 2) hadn't heard of any for awhile but will ask Shaun, as you say I am sure there will be a few guys keen to attend.
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Looks like another weekend off the water <: this wind is out of control swr
As I said before - polishing props time!! :-)
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Looks like another weekend off the water <: this wind is out of control swr
As I said before - polishing props time!! :-)
I feel like a Vaalie, looking at the boat and not using it :hyst: :hyst:
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Looks like another weekend off the water <: this wind is out of control swr
As I said before - polishing props time!! :-)
I feel like a Vaalie, looking at the boat and not using it :hyst: :hyst:
Not lekker hey? Give it another week and you will be sitting on the boat in the garage making :sreel: :sreel: noises. Not that I would ever do that :blush:
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Looks like another weekend off the water <: this wind is out of control swr
As I said before - polishing props time!! :-)
I feel like a Vaalie, looking at the boat and not using it :hyst: :hyst:
(bat thats why our boats look better we end up polishing them every weekend :crzy
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Looks like another weekend off the water <: this wind is out of control swr
As I said before - polishing props time!! :-)
I feel like a Vaalie, looking at the boat and not using it :hyst: :hyst:
(bat thats why our boats look better we end up polishing them every weekend :crzy
We normally Polish our boats with fish blood and scales :hyst: :hyst:
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"kry vir jou" Chris now you know how we feel. :crzy :hyst: and my boat is shinning like a new one. :blush:
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my Yeld is getting polished tomorrow :corrct:
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Scott all the best on your wedding today. :cgrts: .
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Anyone fishing this weekend? This afternoon and tomorrow looking good...
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May la7nch at 3am tomorrow qnd fish the bay until 5am - then will look for snoek or two
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Lots of Garrick in the bay at the moment!!
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Anyone fish this weekend :dunno:
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I was out on Sunday.. Water was green and ranged fro 22 to 23 Deg.. fishing was terrible not much came out from Durbs.. I worked about 8 or 9 of the Wrecks from Coopers to Glenashly but only had a couple of good pulls.. seamed to be harassed by Sand Soldiers! We did spot a Nice Hammer head on the surface off the bluff and pitched a sardine at it for a bit of fun on a travella 6 ft Medium with a 4000 reel and 30 lb braid.. was good fun for about 30 min.. when we landed it we found it had a hook through the skin that covers the eye..WAS NOT OUR HOOK.. so we managed to get it on the boat removed our Circle hook and managed to flatted the Barb of the hook in the Eye and Remove it safely.. had a couple of Pic and released her to to fight another day.. she was not to bothered by being handled as she hung around the boat for a bit and we threw a few Sandies in the water which she ate so it all ended well for her!
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Well done Rich on the hammer. I missed this weekend and the weather is not looking to great for the next week. 1 of the jetski guys got a 21kg YFT yesterday but that was all i heard of.
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pic off Hammer
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pic off Hammer
a shark caught by a shark supporter :corrct:
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Really hope the weather forecast improves for this weekend, looks like there might be a gap on Sunday only.
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Really hope the weather forecast improves for this weekend, looks like there might be a gap on Sunday only.
The way the weather has been for the last month think the best bet is to wait till the day before to make a call.
Was thinking about doing a night session tonight but i see the current is flying again.
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Shot Ant, how's the bek action been?
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Shot Ant, how's the bek action been?
The weather has been so terrible for the last month we have only been out twice. Starting to put the pieces of the puzzle together. Took Kieran out for his first night trip on Friday. He had a great time other than the fishing was hard with the current flying.
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Is it still a reverse current FFF??
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Is it still a reverse current FFF??
Current on Fri was just S to N but flying. Wasting sinkers we were moving so fast.
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Yip still reverse.......will be even worse after yesterdays 30kt south and we still got some more of those coming. :nuts:
Guys must be very careful being caught out deep and north in that current if the NE comes up(wind over tide) - one of the most dangerous conditions off our coast, no matter what size boat you are in!!
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Yip still reverse.......will be even worse after yesterdays 30kt south and we still got some more of those coming. :nuts:
Guys must be very careful being caught out deep and north in that current if the NE comes up(wind over tide) - one of the most dangerous conditions off our coast, no matter what size boat you are in!!
:corrct: :+ cred: . been watching weather also and only go if its going to be nice. Dont have to fish, so only fish when things look good. Thats why we been out so little in the last month.
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I am going to launch on Sunday!! think the conditions will change between now and then.. for the better..alright
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Hopefully the weather will be good for Sunday as I need to get out, been far too long.
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Hopefully the weather will be good for Sunday as I need to get out, been far too long.
Big swells but the wave gap is fine. Think we should do a very early launch and go get a bek. Then have a breakfast and early beer.
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Hopefully the weather will be good for Sunday as I need to get out, been far too long.
Big swells but the wave gap is fine. Think we should do a very early launch and go get a bek. Then have a breakfast and early beer.
Sunday?? that sounds good to me.
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Small world, I go to Malawi on business, walk into the pub and meet Alfu, we had seen each other on the water but never formally met, well a few Greens were had and fishing discussed. :-)
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CLS - Nice meeting you. The greens became a plenty during our furthers hops around our operations in Africa !!!! Must also get on the water soon. Will monitor the weather closely and make a final call in the morning and again before launching. This weather has been very unpredictable but will never say no to this rain. Thanks for the tips on targeting snoek. I am in the process to make my own clark spoons and will post some when done. Have not used these spoons in a while. I see these are highly effective overseas if connected to a small deep dive planer. Have not seen these planers in SA. but will have a look or try to make myself. Can connect straight to your trolling rod.
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That looks interesting, by the way Clark spoons work well for snoek
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Anybody else going to brave the big sea's on Sunday. Think it should be interesting.
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Anybody else going to brave the big sea's on Sunday. Think it should be interesting.
Eish 3,6 - 3,7m swell is not lekker in a 3,9m boat,.....hey but if the fish are biting Im in!
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:ult: FFF
Anybody else going to brave the big sea's on Sunday. Think it should be interesting.
Eish 3,6 - 3,7m swell is not lekker in a 3,9m boat,.....hey but if the fish are biting Im in!
Big wave gap so think it should be fine. I see a few fish have come out this week for the brave.
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Brave or Stupid!!!!
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i am plotting my return on Sunday... Wave gap looks alright for it to be fairly comfortable!
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I am going Sunday will see you hooligans there!
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Please some reports back from today's adventures ???? The sea was huge this morning at lease 5m swells and breaking beyond the shark nets, damaged been done to the waterfronts, nets washed out. Hopefully when this settles the fish will be hungry.
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Chris from where I sit and can monitor don't think many/any will have ventured out. Sea was ugly today again.
Out of interest, do you Dbn guys think that they will ever dredge the harbour mouth again. Do they still dredge at all?
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Chris from where I sit and can monitor don't think many/any will have ventured out. Sea was ugly today again.
Out of interest, do you Dbn guys think that they will ever dredge the harbour mouth again. Do they still dredge at all?
Toppie I am sure they still dredge the mouth as it's been widened and they need the the depth for the bigger ships with the extra draft.
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Cancelled my trip this morning.. arrived at DSBC..sea was huge and swell was breaking out towards the turning boy.. some of the swells where breaking in the harbour channel. Was a 5m swell running off the south pier. Will be out on Tuesday after it all settles down..
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Cancelled my trip this morning.. arrived at DSBC..sea was huge and swell was breaking out towards the turning boy.. some of the swells where breaking in the harbour channel. Was a 5m swell running off the south pier. Will be out on Tuesday after it all settles down..
A sensible decision,windguru reckons Tuesday should be ok
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Well i decided on saturday morning looking at the sea that sunday morning should be fine just big swells so packed the boat and was ready.
I had decided to launch in the early hours and try for a bek before it got light.
Was at the club 03:30 with Kieran got the boat ready and the other 2 crew arrived. Both other crew are ballies so lets say no more.
Had a look at the sea and watched the short dumpers for a while and decided lets do this thing. Still pitch black but should be fine.
Tractor threw us in at 03:50 and did i have sports with the short dumpers. Turned the boat got ready and took 2 waves in a row over the front before we even started. This was getting interesting sopping wet and a bit fresh.
I got out into the bay and started getting everything ready to head out to the deep. It was overcast and could see very little. By the time i reached the end of north pier i was watching in the direction of blue lagoon and started thinking best i sit and have a better look. The waves were rolling and they were massive. Every wave seemed to have a massive spray coming off it, thats when i realised they breaking out in the deep. Turned to look at south pier and the breakers were breaking for about 600m left of the pier. Time for a U turn. It was like looking for a gap to head out to the deep.
Turned to the crew and informed them its time to beach, We can have another look when its light. Needless to say that was the end of our days fishing.
Attached it a pic of the waves breaking out at sea when it got light, lucky i made the right call and did not try proceed any further. This pic does not even give half the picture it was. Waves were going over south Pier.
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You made the right call!
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Well i decided on saturday morning looking at the sea that sunday morning should be fine just big swells so packed the boat and was ready.
I had decided to launch in the early hours and try for a bek before it got light.
Was at the club 03:30 with Kieran got the boat ready and the other 2 crew arrived. Both other crew are ballies so lets say no more.
Had a look at the sea and watched the short dumpers for a while and decided lets do this thing. Still pitch black but should be fine.
Tractor threw us in at 03:50 and did i have sports with the short dumpers. Turned the boat got ready and took 2 waves in a row over the front before we even started. This was getting interesting sopping wet and a bit fresh.
I got out into the bay and started getting everything ready to head out to the deep. It was overcast and could see very little. By the time i reached the end of north pier i was watching in the direction of blue lagoon and started thinking best i sit and have a better look. The waves were rolling and they were massive. Every wave seemed to have a massive spray coming off it, thats when i realised they breaking out in the deep. Turned to look at south pier and the breakers were breaking for about 600m left of the pier. Time for a U turn. It was like looking for a gap to head out to the deep.
Turned to the crew and informed them its time to beach, We can have another look when its light. Needless to say that was the end of our days fishing.
Attached it a pic of the waves breaking out at sea when it got light, lucky i made the right call and did not try proceed any further. This pic does not even give half the picture it was. Waves were going over south Pier.
:shk :shk ..thats a BEEG sea!!! :diving:
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You made the right call!
100%
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Well i decided on saturday morning looking at the sea that sunday morning should be fine just big swells so packed the boat and was ready.
I had decided to launch in the early hours and try for a bek before it got light.
Was at the club 03:30 with Kieran got the boat ready and the other 2 crew arrived. Both other crew are ballies so lets say no more.
Had a look at the sea and watched the short dumpers for a while and decided lets do this thing. Still pitch black but should be fine.
Tractor threw us in at 03:50 and did i have sports with the short dumpers. Turned the boat got ready and took 2 waves in a row over the front before we even started. This was getting interesting sopping wet and a bit fresh.
I got out into the bay and started getting everything ready to head out to the deep. It was overcast and could see very little. By the time i reached the end of north pier i was watching in the direction of blue lagoon and started thinking best i sit and have a better look. The waves were rolling and they were massive. Every wave seemed to have a massive spray coming off it, thats when i realised they breaking out in the deep. Turned to look at south pier and the breakers were breaking for about 600m left of the pier. Time for a U turn. It was like looking for a gap to head out to the deep.
Turned to the crew and informed them its time to beach, We can have another look when its light. Needless to say that was the end of our days fishing.
Attached it a pic of the waves breaking out at sea when it got light, lucky i made the right call and did not try proceed any further. This pic does not even give half the picture it was. Waves were going over south Pier.
:shk :shk ..thats a BEEG sea!!! :diving:
Not nice at all!! I waited until I could see that was going on the web cams from home. I noticed BIG white water even on the poor vis of the wed cams and gave it a miss - luckily.
Oh well there is always next weekend :fshn:
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Chris from where I sit and can monitor don't think many/any will have ventured out. Sea was ugly today again.
Out of interest, do you Dbn guys think that they will ever dredge the harbour mouth again. Do they still dredge at all?
They still have to dredge it Toppie, it used to be 12m but its now 18m in the entrance channel and 16-17m in the harbour main channels.
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Scott what happened to yor launch, see you we're planning to go? w;k
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Scott what happened to yor launch, see you we're planning to go? w;k
Thanks for bringing that up HD..... way to many :frid the night before!!was feeling very :cnfzd
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Wrong. Some people are a bad influence. And some are a great reader of the weather. Must be an age thing. :hnthnt: :rck" .
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Wrong. Some people are a bad influence. And some are a great reader of the weather. Must be an age thing. :hnthnt: :rck" .
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We assessed the situation after the brekkie session Saturday morning and decided nope!!
Well news is first Dorrie for the season is out today, well done Nikao.
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Lekker news on the :dor: Denzil, looking forward to the report Richard!! :cgrts:
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:happ: Bring on the :dor: :dor: :dor: !!!
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Wrong. Some people are a bad influence. And some are a great reader of the weather. Must be an age thing. :hnthnt: :rck" .
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We assessed the situation after the brekkie session Saturday morning and decided nope!!
Well news is first Dorrie for the season is out today, well done Nikao.
Some of us were wise and made the right decision and slept in.
Great news on the :dor:
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Angie at DSBC reckons quite a few boats launched today. The conditions look good
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Angie at DSBC reckons quite a few boats launched today. The conditions look good
Should've fished :unhap
Might give it a bash tomorrow, just hope the wind dies down a bit.
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Angie at DSBC reckons quite a few boats launched today. The conditions look good
Should've fished :unhap
Might give it a bash tomorrow, just hope the wind dies down a bit.
You made the right call to skip Shelly bud, NE pumping here and sea is dirty and lumpy
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Shaun 17 didn't know you were back, have you had a chance to fish yet ??
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The Umhlanga Rocks vs Durban Garrick comp is on this Sat, anyone fishing it ?? I will be there :hnthnt:
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heard you got HD on your boat..... Shame! :hyst:
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Shaun 17 didn't know you were back, have you had a chance to fish yet ??
Just tested the ski this morning but didn't fish. This weekend is looking decent but as luck would have it I've booked a long weekend at Chelmsford!!
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With some signs of some stable weather today we launched at Durban Ski boat club.. water conditions in close where far from favorable with green brackish water in close.. after trying for some bait decided to head out to the 100m line straight out going over a couple of marks i have.. it was not long before we had 3 lines running.. the one line had hooked into a small rainbow runner which i quickly got to the boat, sadly though it was only about a foot long and jumped off right next to the boat.. then Jaco and his wife the opportunity to get stuck in.. was not long before we managed to land 2 Dorado.. the first on board for the season.. they weighed in at 5kg and 7Kg.. not huge but a good sign for things to come..
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Richard well done on the :dor: (clap)
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:dor: :dor: are here, well done Richard :happ:
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Well Done Rich. First of the season. (clap)
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The Umhlanga Rocks vs Durban Garrick comp is on this Sat, anyone fishing it ?? I will be there :hnthnt:
I see its a Garrick and Snoek comp, I may fish but not in the comp.
Well done on the dollies Nikao, what was the water temp at the 100??
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Rich :udman:
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The Umhlanga Rocks vs Durban Garrick comp is on this Sat, anyone fishing it ?? I will be there :hnthnt:
I see its a Garrick and Snoek comp, I may fish but not in the comp.
Well done on the dollies Nikao, what was the water temp at the 100??
Water was up to 24deg
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The Umhlanga Rocks vs Durban Garrick comp is on this Sat, anyone fishing it ?? I will be there :hnthnt:
I see its a Garrick and Snoek comp, I may fish but not in the comp.
Well done on the dollies Nikao, what was the water temp at the 100??
Dugongboy, see you on the water. :-)
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We'll done on the :dor: Nikao
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Hope the water cleans up for Saturday :-)
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Weather looking good for Fri and Sat, like Oompa sais, hope waters cleans up, i will be a spectator this weekend, my skip busy!!!
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Junior at least we fishing. Since you got married not been allowed to fish :hehe: . Richard nice dorries, good to see.
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Junior at least we fishing. Since you got married not been allowed to fish :hehe: . Richard nice dorries, good to see.
HD we will get fish on Saturday. :fshn:
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For sure oompa. If not at least we on the water.
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Shag and Lebaka have just gone 2-2-2 on Stripeys on board Jam Packed at Sodwana :billf: :billf:
(clap) (clap) (clap)
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Yes please!! Well done gents.... :billf: :billf:
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Sweet!!
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Awesome (clap)
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Nice lebaka and shag :happ:
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Shot boys. We got another today. Report to follow
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Congratulations Shag and Lebaka.
Where does that leave you on points/position?
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Congratulations Shag and Lebaka.
Where does that leave you on points/position?
Hey Toppie
Thanks
We are just fishing socially leaving today.
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Well done boys, good to hear of some decent action (clap)
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Sorry Greg, thought it was a compo.
Anyway, doesn't take away from the achievement!
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Launched at 04h00 and headed to LUGs to try for a snoek at firstlight, then for Garrick later in the morning, I had HD on the boat as he hasn't caught a garrick so we were amped, as we got there my motors hit something and the boat stopped, luckily we were going slowly, when I looked it was the shark nets, they had shifted north with the rough seas last week, there was also one in a ball with all the buoys and net mixed totogether, I radioed to control to warn the other anglers heading that way. We started spinning at the mouth when the sets started coming through at least 3 m so we couldn't get too close. The water was perfect for snoek with some good rips and that clean green colour. HD had two knocks on spoon then I had a chase and smash but didn't hook up, HD was pulling his spoon behind mine when bang on, he was fishing ultralight and got the snoek about 3kg next to the boat as I was going to gaff it , it turned and the nylon got to its teeth and was bitten off what a disappointment, we headed to the boat spots and the mackerel were wild, filled up and tried for a yellowfin but nothing, headed deeper to #1 and tried there with live bait but only a shark, tried rapalas for awhile but failed. Headed back to base to meet up with the rest of the hooligans and ex hooligans and future hooligans and have far too many teas and some great banter. Was a great day on the water although no fish on our boat. Till next time.
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Lekker report Chris (clap)
Myself and Fx3 also launched, game plan was target YFT after driving endlessly we decided to call it quits and go for an early coffee, heading back to base :sreel: and a 5kilo Bonnie, so we decided spend a little more time, set rods again followed same pattern and 10min later was rewarded with a 7kilo YFT. After been caught in the rain and soaked we called it. Hit the beach and waited for the rest of you hooligans to arrive and the :beer: and banter flowed, hahaha Fluffer took hard knocks, few fish landed but good laughs and a lekker day none the less.
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Shot boys. We got another today. Report to follow
(clap) on the billies.
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:+ cred: To Chris for a great day out and a lot of fun and my first snoek on a spoon. Great to see the banter boys and have a few cold ones
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Well back to work so can post again. I went out of Friday afternoon with 2 guys from Pretoria. When we got to the club spoke to a couple of guys and everyone had blanked, no game fish around i was told.
Decided to pull a few rapalas around as the crew had not fished before.
I went to a close mark and began working the area, this way that way and could see fish and eventually got the direction right, i had 3 rods out and all 3 went away. Well 3 rods and 2 guys with no idea it was interesting. Got the rods out and we were all on. Then 1 off the first crew not enough pressure so off. Still had 2 on and i managed to crank mine to the boat. About a 6kg YFT. Now to help with the other one. He managed to get it right to the boat and off pulled the hooks. You cannot pull to hard when they by the boat and still green.
Anyway set the rods out again and up and down again but nothing more. Decided to pull to the ships and see if anything else could be had. At the ships i pulled the rapala's right accross the front of the 1 ship and bang 2 rods away. i cleared the 3rd rod and had the 2 of them fighting. Well was not long and the first fish was by the boat, and once again too much pressure and hooks pulled. The other guy i keep instructing him what to do and show a bit of patience and eventually he got his first fish to the boat was a 7kg YFT.
Should have had 4 YFT but was glad we got 2 out at least so they get to take fresh fish home with them.
Was supposed to have them fish with me and Umpa Lumpa on the Sat morning but they never made it in time and by the time they did call us back we were out. At least Umpa got a nice Bonnie and YFT so had happy crew 2 days in a row.
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Thanks for the reports chaps :envy Good to see some fish coming out, hoping for a gap in the weather this week after my papgooi session this weekend.
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Well done Anthony (clap)
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Well done on the fish guys and especially JamPacked for the :billf: :billf: :billf:
I did some more prop polishing :nuts:
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Well done on the fish Ant and Denzil (clap)
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Well done to all the guys that got into fish this weekend. I see some nice Garrick came out at the Umhlanga - DSBC comp a beauty of 16.4k was boated.
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Scouse is on the water tomorrow :rck"
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Good luck Shaun, give it horns bud.
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good luck Shaun hope you get stretched, takes some pics for us landlubbers :rck"
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Seas gonna be wog untill that west comes but it looks good for the rest of the day, hopefully these strong easts have sorted out the reverse current :dunno:
Good luck.......I have heard of a few :wahoo: and :dor: over the 300m mark.
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TL for tomorrow Shaun, I hope you get stretched mate. :fshn:
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You go get them Shaun and I'm all :envy bud.
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:tite :sreel: :dor: :yft:
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Sea is a bit busy and wind will increase as the morning progresses.
Its already about to be November, when will the sea and wind settle?
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Yip had a look earlier - still crud, generally from December it starts getting better but you still get those 25kt easts for two days at a time :nuts:
I see the west is later than predicted, only hit Port Shepstone an hour ago so should be here around 9:30 - 10?? Wonder if Shaun launched??
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Yep weather is #%&* at the moment, Sunday looks like and afternoon evening shot. 17 launched.
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who else is plotting a launch on Sunday?
Im looking at it, but looking a bit wet...?
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We're fishing Sunday with the kids... hopefully weather plays ball!
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We're fishing Sunday with the kids... hopefully weather plays ball!
Where is todays report ?? w;k
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Got down to the club at 4:15 and met up with FFF to a strong NE and an unpleasant looking sea. After prepping the boat we were in the water by 4:45 and taking on some decent size swells as we left the bay.
After Anthonys' recent successes and my lack of fishing the past 4-5 months we decided to head off straight to his stomping grounds and give it a bash. We had some good mid-water and top water showings and wasn't long before we had a triple of on some Sarda Sarda... can imagine how the Tiagras were straining!! :hehe:
We reset the spread and despite finding numerous shoals of fish we just couldn't interest them. The sea began to settle a bit and after some consultation with ground control aka Umpa Lumpa, we decided to move off to the ships in search of a dorrie or two. Found some bait balls (sprats??) probably over 200m long and pulled along them but no luck. We puzzled around a couple of ships until we found the one that Umpa had directed us to and as we approached, the fun and games started...
(http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/MGalleryItem.php?id=2328)
The Tigara and Tyrnos screamed off... double up!!! I quickly set a heading on the auto-pilot so that we could both box the fish and as I did so, Anthony quickly updated me that all 4 rods were now running... GAME ON!! With auto-pilot set, I grabbed the Tyrnos (schoolboy error) while Anthony made quick work boxing the others with the Tiagras and handlining them onto the deck. Anthony had landed all 3 YFT while I still had a very green YFT which took several runs but was eventually gaffed and boated!! We were quite chuffed to land all 4 YFT with 2 guys on the boat and not lose any to the taxman...
Continued pulling along before the West picked up and spanked us all the way home!! At one point we were taking swells from 3 directions... bumpy but good fun nonetheless.
Awesome to be on the water again and always good to fish with Tun Aslayer.
(http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/MGalleryItem.php?id=2329)
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Great stuff Shaun and FFF! (clap)
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Got down to the club at 4:15 and met up with FFF to a strong NE and an unpleasant looking sea. After prepping the boat we were in the water by 4:45 and taking on some decent size swells as we left the bay.
After Anthonys' recent successes and my lack of fishing the past 4-5 months we decided to head off straight to his stomping grounds and give it a bash. We had some good mid-water and top water showings and wasn't long before we had a triple of on some Sarda Sarda... can imagine how the Tiagras were straining!! :hehe:
We reset the spread and despite finding numerous shoals of fish we just couldn't interest them. The sea began to settle a bit and after some consultation with ground control aka Umpa Lumpa, we decided to move off to the ships in search of a dorrie or two. Found some bait balls (sprats??) probably over 200m long and pulled along them but no luck. We puzzled around a couple of ships until we found the one that Umpa had directed us to and as we approached, the fun and games started...
(http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/MGalleryItem.php?id=2328)
The Tigara and Tyrnos screamed off... double up!!! I quickly set a heading on the auto-pilot so that we could both box the fish and as I did so, Anthony quickly updated me that all 4 rods were now running... GAME ON!! With auto-pilot set, I grabbed the Tyrnos (schoolboy error) while Anthony made quick work boxing the others with the Tiagras and handlining them onto the deck. Anthony had landed all 3 YFT while I still had a very green YFT which took several runs but was eventually gaffed and boated!! We were quite chuffed to land all 4 YFT with 2 guys on the boat and not lose any to the taxman...
Continued pulling along before the West picked up and spanked us all the way home!! At one point we were taking swells from 3 directions... bumpy but good fun nonetheless.
Awesome to be on the water again and always good to fish with Tun Aslayer.
(http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/MGalleryItem.php?id=2329)
Nice one !!
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Well done guys!!
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Thanks Shaun for a trip on the sea. Was good to get a couple of fish. Off Durban there is no garantee of even getting a pull some days so to get a 4up and land all 4 was an achievement on its own. Thanks
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Congrats well done!!
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Nice, I hope you guys released some of them :pot:
:crzy
:hehe: Good job guys
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Well done boys (clap)
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Nice, I hope you guys released some of them :pot:
:crzy
:hehe: Good job guys
Ja.... released every one of them into my freezer for the bunny huggers to admire. w;k
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Shaun, they're so small, still schooling juveniles. Looks like those that mass under boats that have been anchored for a long time.
Makes delicious smoked Kippers.
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Good job Shaun and Ant! (clap)
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We'll done guys.
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Anyone fish today or fishing tomorrow? We'll be out tomorrow but launching slightly later than normal, last fishing for 8 weeks.
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Myself and 3xF and his lighty will be out tomorrow. Hopefully fish play ball.
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Myself, FFF and junior ventured out today, flat launch, struggled for bait then decided to head to the ships as original game plan, halfway to ships the NE decided to enter the party and spoil things, sea was a washing machine, changed plan, come shallower around some reefs, but after wasting fuel we decided to beach for an early brekkie and coffee. Good to Catch up with Eric Cotton nice chatting with you sir also to meet up with Shaun 17, Donovan and Maganything.
Only for the sea to flatten by midday and turn out pearler, but reports are, boats south and north also struggled, hope this %^&* disappears shortly.
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We launched at about 6:30 with the NE pumping and the sea nice and bumpy... pulled around for a YFT and had one on/off. Also got to run my new Iland daisy chains from Shag which will get tested properly in December.
Dylan got nice and green after about an hour so headed in close and found a shoal of sarda sarda which the boys were hitting throw for throw on yozuris.
Got to see a few humpback, a hammerhead and what I think was a manta ray putting on an aerial display for us.
k*K fishing but good to be on the water with the boys. Was good catching up with all the UA chaps afterwards at the club.
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Good to see the boys out fishing Shaun. Pity about the weather reports for the weekend. We were halfway to the ships when the NE started blowing and just got stronger. Decided to turn around and call it a day as the NE does not stop usually. How wrong again. Wish this weather would come right.
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:Like: !!
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like all the guys have said, we got punished by the NE yesterday.
Launched early, got bait and started working our way to the ships. The NE hit us half way, but we continued our quest to find the tuna/dorado.
Water temp was cold at about 20.3 Deg on the 60m mark. I found fish sitting at about 40m on the front of one ship, but couldnt get them up for the life of me.
We tried rapala's, konas and live bait but nothing.
Good to see the blokes again, been off the water for 3 months.
Until next time!
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Us too!!
Weekend weather looks glum, so we going to tackle Albert Falls and hopefully get some lunker bass, also dust of the old PGA equipment and gooi :mili: and kick feet up with some tall cold refreshments.
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Yup, let's keep it cool guys, we're all mates in some way or another even if it's just through our love of fishing. Please take the disagreement to PM's, shake hands and keep this great thread for what it is supposed to be.......fishing in KZN
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Spoil sport :-( was just getting exciting w;k plus there were a lot of viewers (bat
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Spoil sport :-( was just getting exciting w;k plus there were a lot of viewers (bat
Move it to the banter threadd :hyst:
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:crzy Denzel :hyst: :hyst:
Ok, now who is going to represent you KZN guys at Inhaca in March?
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Spoil sport :-( was just getting exciting w;k plus there were a lot of viewers (bat
Move it to the banter threadd :hyst:
Gotta justify the salary SUPER ADMIN is paying me! :-)
Here's (http://sealine.co.za/) a nice place for unsupervised :hbag
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Spoil sport :-( was just getting exciting w;k plus there were a lot of viewers (bat
Move it to the banter threadd :hyst:
Gotta justify the salary SUPER ADMIN is paying me! :-)
Here's (http://sealine.co.za/) a nice place for unsupervised :hbag
:rotfl :hyst: :hyst: :hyst: :hyst: I did not SEA that one coming :Like:
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JohnF thanks for the link. :geet
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JohnF thanks for the link. :geet
Sealine rocks....oops sorry keyboard stuck, UA rocks :geet :rotfl
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Wow, last post 5th November! That's how crappy the weather has been. We've been hammered by non-stop NE / SW busters down here the past 5 weeks but finally got a gap to get on the water yesterday. The swell was flat, light variable winds and for a change sluggish current. We filled up quickly with livebait at Shakas Rock near the uMzimkulu River mouth and made the call to go chase some of the yellowtail that have made an appearance the past month or so. We arrived at the first spot where we've had success before and while the guys prepped their bottom traces and live bait rigs I dropped my jig to test the waters. I went on instantly with what can only have been a nice yellowtail or AJ, the fish boxed hard and about half way up the hook pulled! I was bleak, but once I reeled it back I noticed the assist hooks point had snapped off... a clean break below the barb and on a 10/0 Mustad Hoodlum that is the last thing I would have ever expected! Not to worry, I replaced the hookset and two downs later I went on with another fish and my mate Clint who also dropped a jig went on as well.... DOUBLE UP! we were rewarded with two nice AJ's in the 7-8kg range. Things went quiet after that, with two solid hookups on bait - clearly yellowtail that reefed the guys within seconds and then nothing for a few hours. We finished up with a nice 'Bek for Clint's lightie who managed to bait up, hook and land the 'Bek all on his own! A great day on the water and fun as always.
AJ Double to start the day:
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Well done great catches Bwana (clap) .
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great catches Mark...
If i may ask, what jigs do you guys use?
Are you using squid type, bucktail, pencil??? im keen to give the jigging thing a serious go when im down that side over Dec...
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awesome mark, any big ones around?cant wait to come dobba in December!check you okes soon :fshn:
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@Kegan - not really any buses around at the moment but they'll start moving in around Dec/Jan
@Mags - we usually have best results on slim jigs in the 200-300g range, white or pink. Try bumps and ledges in the 50-80m depth range and around isolated showings. Don't go too light on your gear though you may tie into a proper one and you need some strong gear to win that tussle!
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Thanks for the info..
Iv got a twin power 8000 with 80lb braid on a 6ft jigging stick, so hopefully it can handle.
Will definately give it a crack over dec!
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Lauched early at St lucia this morning got 1 hoo and 2 skipjacks was my son's first hoo
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Eish, just caught up on this thread after a while!!
Nice to see KZN south coast picking up again, some good catches there bud well done :envy Can't wait for December!!
Lekker :wahoo: there Cyclone, bet your son was chuffed!!
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Nice 'hoo there George!
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Congrats to your son Cyclone nice hoo (clap)
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lekka catches mark and george :happ:
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Check what came out at Vidal - 35kg's caught by Nick from Natal Powerboats fishing with my mate Clint on "Poach 'n Sea"...... BUS COUTA!!
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Yuslike!!! BUS!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Wow awesome catch (clap)
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Bwana that couta was caught on Off Season
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Hey Kev, sorry my mistake was just passing on what I was told. Thanks for confirming.
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That is a proper Croc.... :envy
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That is a proper Croc.... :envy
:corrct:
There goes the theory that the big boys are only around March to June :cnfzd
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Just spoken to Clint Nortje, the angler who caught that bus couta - it was indeed on the boat "Off Season" during a comp at Vidal, caught on a drift sard with a duster! Clint says he was fishing 10kg IGFA which is an amazing meritorius fish!
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Fantastic fish.
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Kieran and myself were invited to fish sat with a friend of his from school. They have a boat at DSBC so was easier than towing our boat through.
We launched about 04:30 and went to the bait spots to collect bait. Was a bit of a struggle getting bait as there were a lot of big shad being a pest. Both Kids got some really good sized shad but season was still closed so threw them all back.
After a bit of a discussion what to do we decided to take the kids out to the ships and try for a Dorrie. First drift past the ship both rods away Kierans came off and his friend Kayden lost his. Leader broke off. I lined them up again and the 2nd drift both rods went away again. After a good fight were at one stage i thought that maybe they had the same fish as the lines stayed together for the whole fight. Up came 2 bonnies. 7.8kg and 8kg.
Kierans friend was not feeling so good so we called it a day.
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Lekker stuff Ant, good to see the young men getting some decent fish!!! :cgrts:
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Nice Thanks for sharing sure the boys had a blast (clap)
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Some nice size Bonnies. Always a problem with the kids getting sick (and a lot of adults including me). Try Adco Cyclizine 50mg tablets. This stuff works as I get very sick and only tablets that works and no after effects. Drink in morning 1-2 hours before launch. Keep packet on boat as well.
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That's awesome for the little oaks Ant :resp:
You say you were drifting, where you using live bait around the ships :dunno:
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Some nice size Bonnies. Always a problem with the kids getting sick (and a lot of adults including me). Try Adco Cyclizine 50mg tablets. This stuff works as I get very sick and only tablets that works and no after effects. Drink in morning 1-2 hours before launch. Keep packet on boat as well.
Thanks Alfu. I also tell people to take those too. Very good sea sick tablets.
Kieran and i take nothing now days and seem to be fine. It was his friend who got sick. I think it was also the fact that it was his first time fishing by the ships and being so close to the ships can be something all on its own.
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Good to see you FFF and a couple of the guys at the club on Saturday, very lekker bonnies for the boys, not an easy fight that (clap)
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We launched early Sundaymorning. got bait and headed for the ships.
The sea was so flat and the water was blue but the temp was only around 22deg.
At the first ship we fished i had a shoal of about 20 dorries hangging around the boat, not big around the 3-4kg mark, but for the life of us we ouldnt get them to eat! fresh redeye, live baits plugs spoons the works! Nothing.
We then headed out pulling knoas past umdloti towards the fads, found one fad but was empty. worked our way back to the flats, drifted with livies but nothing!
East started pumping at about 10, so we called it a day!
Met up with a couple of the old banters, who did super well on the big tunny again!
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Thanks for the update Maganything. I wanted to cry when I saw the flat seas. Was hooked up to go but canceled when I woke up at 3:30. Weather predictions I use got it all wrong #@#@. I must say that I feel a bit better now for not launching. Not a lot of fish caught on such a beautiful day. It his however better to catch nothing than sitting at home sulking!!!
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Lekker FFF see i was not with again and zzzzzzzzzzzzz buggers LOL
Lekker Mags, dynamite next time and land all those dorries :nuts:
Yep Alfu, think the weatherman is a binnnelander and messing us coastal folk aound swr
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Hi Umpa lumpa, the binnelanders will gladly take all the bad weather all year long , just as long as the weather is good down at your coastal folk , especially when we come down there to fish , please send that weather up here
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fished the wreck off port Edward on Saturday morning, launched at first light and wasn't long before there were 10 boats all on the wreck. everyone all worked up about the yellowtail that were running wild the week before. Not that day sadly. moved off to a few other marks and got some nice bottoms, totalled 15 species I think. kept a few soldiers and Englishman for the pan. as the morning went on the sea flattened out beautifully. beached at around 1, some of the boats got a bunch of :yft: just before beaching. heard of some good poensies that were caught aswell
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Looks like the early season couta are making an appearance off durban now. Nick mound caught a 26.6kg couta off his jetski off the Bluffs fenceline today. I will load the photos angie from DSBC sent out on facebook shortly
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who is launching this weekend?
we going on Sat.... running North for dorries and tuna!!
Great Couta that!!!
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I'm still sitting in the UK 4deg max, :rain: but nice :beer: and pubs........good to see the fish are making an appearance, can't wait to get out :rck"
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Lekker :cout: that!!!
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who is launching this weekend?
we going on Sat.... running North for dorries and tuna!!
Great Couta that!!!
See you on the water :fshn: :fshn:
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Anyone fish this weekend?
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Anyone fish this weekend?
We launched sat.
Ran to tongaat on the 80m - 100m line, no luck pulling lures, drifting and working the ships..
Never saw too many fish come out, but saw FFF got a nice tunny!
Also saw someone got a sailie today!
We haven't had much luck of late, kinda bumming me out a little! Haha
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Boat was sorted and hitched then the dhit hit the fan at work so didn't fish, not many fish came out, but I would rather have been on the water than sorting out SHEQ files
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Myself and FFF were out got nice 19 kilo Tuna and 8 kilo Bonnie, will let 3xF do full report with a pic.
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Launched on Saturday, went sraight to Lugs. The shad and some nice size sada were wild, but no snoek.
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Well Umpa Lumpa and myself decided to do a quick trip sat morning. Umpa Lumpa had another function he had to be at by 12 so i convinced him to do a quick trip.
We launched at 03:45 (Having night rating does help) and had the plan to head to the ships. We struggled to get bait by the piers so we headed to the barge. Umpa got us a few baits quite quickly so while he was busy i stuck out a live bait. Was not in the water 5 minutes and we got a :sreel: . Umpa got the rod and started fighting. The fish had given quite a good first run so knew it was something decent. He landed a decent about 8kg bonnie. While fighting it other boats started arriving and almost rode his line off twice. Yes i did swear them.
With all these other boats arriving we went out to the ships.
First ship we tried we got nothing. Headed to the next ship hoping to get our first Dorrie of the season. Pitched a live bait out on the small stick with a 5000 coffee gringer. I watched as the line started heading off to the right and bang we were on. I then realised that this was no Dorrie. It took off. Umpa Lumpa cleared his line and moved us away from the ship. After a really good fight were the arms started talking to me a bit we spotted the number plate a good YFT. Still had quite a bit to do with the small stick to get it to the boat but eventually we did. What a nice fish on the small stick.
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Well done guys , nice YFT! (clap)
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Umps, see boet... you're not bad luck after all!! Nice work chaps!! #Tunaslayer
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Nice YFT makes me wanna pack my gear and go fishing
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Well done Umps and Ant, very nice fish there. (clap)
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Great fish there Ant and Umps, well done guys!
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Beaut of a :yft: that FFF - well done especially on such a light outfit!
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Great fish on a light stick that :rck"
I need to get on the water!!
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Nice :yft: FFF, and size Bonnie Umps (clap)
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Well Umpa Lumpa and myself decided to do a quick trip sat morning. Umpa Lumpa had another function he had to be at by 12 so i convinced him to do a quick trip.
We launched at 03:45 (Having night rating does help) and had the plan to head to the ships. We struggled to get bait by the piers so we headed to the barge. Umpa got us a few baits quite quickly so while he was busy i stuck out a live bait. Was not in the water 5 minutes and we got a :sreel: . Umpa got the rod and started fighting. The fish had given quite a good first run so knew it was something decent. He landed a decent about 8kg bonnie. While fighting it other boats started arriving and almost rode his line off twice. Yes i did swear them.
With all these other boats arriving we went out to the ships.
First ship we tried we got nothing. Headed to the next ship hoping to get our first Dorrie of the season. Pitched a live bait out on the small stick with a 5000 coffee gringer. I watched as the line started heading off to the right and bang we were on. I then realised that this was no Dorrie. It took off. Umpa Lumpa cleared his line and moved us away from the ship. After a really good fight were the arms started talking to me a bit we spotted the number plate a good YFT. Still had quite a bit to do with the small stick to get it to the boat but eventually we did. What a nice fish on the small stick.
Well done Ant and big D,
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Well done boys, lekker tuna that
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I am on duty this Sunday the 14th so pop in for a chat.
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Let me launch in the dark hey Oom w;k
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The sea has looked like lake Malawi the past 2 days, not even a swell. I drove past Virginia airport and the wind sock was flat against the pole. Hope it stays flat for the weekend.
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The sea has looked like lake Malawi the past 2 days, not even a swell. I drove past Virginia airport and the wind sock was flat against the pole. Hope it stays flat for the weekend.
....Ok scratch that, the pridicted SW has just arrived...
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The sea has looked like lake Malawi the past 2 days, not even a swell. I drove past Virginia airport and the wind sock was flat against the pole. Hope it stays flat for the weekend.
....Ok scratch that, the pridicted SW has just arrived...
:hyst: :hyst: :hyst:
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LOL
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you need a bit of a tjop to get the fishes active
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Here is a little report from last Week
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10152492663647944&id=177957067943 (https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10152492663647944&id=177957067943)
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I was on duty yesterday, by 04h30 the NE was blowing 20knots, one boat launched and was back on the beach within an hour. So for me it was an easy one, I had a good breakfast and was home by 09h15.
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I was on duty yesterday, by 04h30 the NE was blowing 20knots, one boat launched and was back on the beach within an hour. So for me it was an easy one, I had a good breakfast and was home by 09h15.
Some people get lucky. If there was good weather you would have been very busy.
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Launched on Sunday.Hooked into a decent Yellowfin Tuna only to be taxed after giving a beautiful aerial display.
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Launched on Sat after having the motors checked following a bit of heating - trolled a few feathers during a test run and got a yft of around 8kg on our way back.
Lqunched yeatsrday with a few friends from Jhb - trolled to Ballito without a single inquiry. Went down for bottoms and got some nice soldiers, slingers and a fat rockcod. Started with a sizeable SE swell which dropped by the time we were on our way back.
Water still a bit cold averaging 21.2 degrees.
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Launched out of Richardsbay yesterday, ran 40km to high points. water was good color at 26 degrees, but the area was devoid of life.
Decided to move closer to some reefs in front in Mtunzini and this is where an epic day really really started.
The bird were all around, chasing jub jub, and the fringes of the jub jub schools had yellowfin tuna, couta and dorado.
we chased after the birds with rapalas and flick sticks and was rewarded with around 25 YFT (kept 1) , 3 Dorado, 3 couta.
Down to my last tank of fuel and still 25km away from my beaching site at Mtunzini main beach, I decided to drop anchor and we got rewarded with some size slinger, 7 Rockcods (3 - 5 kg) as well as a black musselcracker. Whilst on anchor a dorrie came to visit and I managed to hook it on a flick stick.
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Wow! Definitely dont get too many days like that! Well done!
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Nicely done bud, smashed it!! Going to have to fish Zini with you one day...
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Eish Jaen what a day bud! Congrats! Nice species variety (clap)
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Top day out Jaen.
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Guess what Santa brought us for Christmas........
Woke up a bit late got to the club at about 6am, but missed the the morning traffic though. Sea was quite flat, went to look for bait, got nothing at Limestone or the the containers. Gave up on the bait and headed for the ships. Pulled Halcos, kona's and feathers, eventually put on 2x Halcos and got lucky near one of the ships with this bull Dorado. I got one other pull later but was a small fish and came unbuttoned. The wind picked up from the south so called it quits at 9:30. Lekker morning out.
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Lekker well donne George, awesome stuff, hopefully the fish are around tomorrow.
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Lekker well donne George, awesome stuff, hopefully the fish are around tomorrow.
Thanks boet, hope you guys get some tomorrow, also heard of some couta coming out around the corner.
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We will be on the water tomorrow!
Hoping for a couple dorado!
3 blanks last 3 trips!
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Another great day yesterday.
We launched at RB and ran down to Zini. We got around 450kg of fish.
Released most of it since we got plenty fish the previous outing and kept some of pan sized cob for dinner as well as a couple of lantern fish.
I battled what I thought was a 50kg dagga salmon for 40minutes on my trap stick 10kg line, and then suddenly felt a huge bump. the picture was the result.
The guys RB slaughtered the fish, and I could count at least 12 dead marlin tails in the bins :-(
Dont know why I stil bother to release fish, feel like whatever the rest release is just taking out by out people in any case.
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Another great day, well done mate. It is so disheartening to hear of the billfish slaughter that is going on and like Toppie also says, we're fooling ourselves to think we, as sport anglers are going to save the oceans. The point is that a start has to be made somewhere and although it will be a long, frustratingly slow road, we can't ever expect to get any messages anywhere if we ourselves abuse the privledge. It is not unlawful to keep a billy, but is it necessary.
The young people that you are spending time with will one day be ambassadors for our billfish and all because of the examples you guys have set.
Well done bud, I salute you :bow:
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Thanks Mike, In do what I can to teach people that fish with me that its 100% ok to take fish for the pan. But its equally rewarding to enjoy the catching part of our sport with the accompanying releasing part. Releasing a billfish must be one of the most satisfying experiences ever.
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I had to get my seaworthy done and take the boat for a spin on Friday so we launched late at about 6, the SW was still at at about 10kts so we tried around the corner for couta, the water was 21.5deg but very clean, after about an hour I had a pull on my downrigged mackerel - a small pick handle.
I then shot out to the 50 and pulled lures out to the 250 and back to no1 but nothing.
One positive is that the warm water has finally arrived offshore, at the 150 it was 24.2deg!!!
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Well done guys some great fish. Nice dorrie George especially after telling the day before it was your nemesis fish.
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Chris thanks for the call yesterday morning advising me to hold back on the trip as water and weather not great. :+ cred: .
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Thanks Mike, In do what I can to teach people that fish with me that its 100% ok to take fish for the pan. But its equally rewarding to enjoy the catching part of our sport with the accompanying releasing part. Releasing a billfish must be one of the most satisfying experiences ever.
Hey Jaen, Mike's name is Tony :hehe: :rotfl :hyst: :crzy
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Thanks Mike, In do what I can to teach people that fish with me that its 100% ok to take fish for the pan. But its equally rewarding to enjoy the catching part of our sport with the accompanying releasing part. Releasing a billfish must be one of the most satisfying experiences ever.
Hey Jaen, Mike's name is Tony :hehe: :rotfl :hyst: :crzy
LOL, slip of hand :-) My apologies Tony :-)
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No worries mate, on this forum Mike or Tony has a good chance of being correct :rotfl
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Well done Jaen you getting some good results. So sickening to hear of the rampant billfish slaughter going on. I had the misfortune of witnessing the first casualty if the Shelly billfish season today - a boat brought back a smallish black to hang up in front of the tourists at Shelly this afternoon. :-(
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went out yesterday and while there where plenty of good size tuna around but no takers. Managed to get Balito Andre on a few good fish though.
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Myself and 3xF launched yesterday, 2nd boat on the water 03h55 got nto barge and loaded the bait quick plus two Sardas, headed to Umhloti to try for a Couta on route FFF pointed out a slick on the water very strange, then noticed the live well all bait upside down, so what ever it was fuel spill from the ships only possible answer swr obvious the water had pumped into the well killing all the bait, so fished them out, 8 still had life so manged to keep them. Got to Umhloti set baits for a couta but nadda, water was full of (as Fritz aptly named it) Gorilla snot thick clumps of black jelly like crap all over the lines bait hooks so nthis spoiled our chances of getting a bite. Headed to the ships hoping for a Dorrie or Tuna but no luck, almost every ship had a boat working it and seeing 75 boats launched not surprising but heard plenty boats blobbed, so we don't feel that bad. A nice bull dorrie was weighed at the club 16.5kilo,, i was more interested in the lady angler than the fish :clwn w;k, eeish DSBC is a good place to hangout on a summers day after fishing, just have a good pair of Sunnies on hand.
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:clwn w;k, eeish DSBC is a good place to hangout on a summers day after fishing, just have a good pair of Sunnies on hand.
:hyst: w;k w;k :corrct:
Sorry to hear about the bad fishing though.
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Launched yesterday with my mate Shaun on "Mershore" the forecast predicted 7-10knt SW but by the time we were on the water it was already pushing 10knt with a huge groundswell. Our plan was to target dorado at the Sheppie colour line but the large swell and persistent SW nearly changed our minds. On arrival at the Sheppie mouth we found clean water and hardly any colour line. We were only two-up on the boat so started off with a simple 4 rod spread (3 rods with small softy konas with strips and one halco in the wash) with one teaser line. We putted around until we found the colour line way inside (18-25m depth) and started working it. The current was a strong 2knt N-S current which was ripping against the dirty water line, lots of life around including flying fish, turtles and dolphins. No takers in the first hour and a half but on the turn of the tide we had a hook up on a decent bull dorado which fell off after 3 minutes. We reset the lines and within two minutes hooked up on the cow that was in the same area, it was boated easily and we continued. After another half an hour we had chaos on deck, triple hookup! With a bit of teamwork and lots of bobbing and weaving we got all three dorado on deck. We decided to persist for one more pass as the sea was huge out deep and inshore was still manageable. This paid off as we managed one more good dorrie on the shotgun lure. A quick trip to Protea was an eye opener - 2.5m swell with huge holes not very safe at all. Our goal was a quick yellowfin, we did one drift with the chum and had a double hookup, I managed to get my tuna in and Shaun got a nice skipjack. What a lekker day and good to see the dorado here in good numbers.
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Nice fish, well done.
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Lekker report Bwana and some nice fish :rck"
Can I ask what do you use as strips for the Konas?
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Lekker report Bwana and some nice fish :rck"
Can I ask what do you use as strips for the Konas?
Thanks. It's very easy to catch them using this method:
Use small sized softy kona's like the Williamson saifish catcher (4inch) or Pulsator Strip teaser (4inch) rigged with nylon coated steel wire attached to a single 7/0 hook and albright onto 100lb mono (steel just for under the skirt). Now cut strips of chokka into 15cmx2cmx5mm pieces and attach to your wire bite trace with Ghost Cotton. The strip sits up against the back of the kona's head and protudes out the back of the skirt around 50mm. This is a hard wearing strip you can pull for hours and has a great action in the water. Sometimes it can last for more than one fish. w;k
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Well done mate, good fishing
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Lekker report Bwana and some nice fish :rck"
Can I ask what do you use as strips for the Konas?
Thanks. It's very easy to catch them using this method:
Use small sized softy kona's like the Williamson saifish catcher (4inch) or Pulsator Strip teaser (4inch) rigged with nylon coated steel wire attached to a single 7/0 hook and albright onto 100lb mono (steel just for under the skirt). Now cut strips of chokka into 15cmx2cmx5mm pieces and attach to your wire bite trace with Ghost Cotton. The strip sits up against the back of the kona's head and protudes out the back of the skirt around 50mm. This is a hard wearing strip you can pull for hours and has a great action in the water. Sometimes it can last for more than one fish. w;k
Thanks for sharing :+ cred:
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Lekker report Bwana and some nice fish :rck"
Can I ask what do you use as strips for the Konas?
Thanks. It's very easy to catch them using this method:
Use small sized softy kona's like the Williamson saifish catcher (4inch) or Pulsator Strip teaser (4inch) rigged with nylon coated steel wire attached to a single 7/0 hook and albright onto 100lb mono (steel just for under the skirt). Now cut strips of chokka into 15cmx2cmx5mm pieces and attach to your wire bite trace with Ghost Cotton. The strip sits up against the back of the kona's head and protudes out the back of the skirt around 50mm. This is a hard wearing strip you can pull for hours and has a great action in the water. Sometimes it can last for more than one fish. w;k
Thanks for sharing :+ cred:
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No prob guys hope it helps you get some fish w;k
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Thanks for sharing Bwana.
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The DSBC Couta Festival is on 25th & 26th of April. We'll probably haul the boat down leaving Nelspruit early on the morning of Thursday 23rd and camping at the club again.
Who is entering the comp and flying the UA banner?
- iNdlovu
- Hammer
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Just home after a late launch today as i had some trailer problems.. but we did manage a nice black :billf: estimated 3m length from mouth to tail.. Will post a full report soon
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Just home after a late launch today as i had some trailer problems.. but we did manage a nice black :billf: estimated 3m length from mouth to tail.. Will post a full report soon
Well done Richard, hope you have more success today, :fshn:
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Just home after a late launch today as i had some trailer problems.. but we did manage a nice black :billf: estimated 3m length from mouth to tail.. Will post a full report soon
Well done Richard, hope you have more success today, :fshn:
Well done Richard have more :sreel: and :billf: today
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Well done on the :billf: Rich, good fish coming out.
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We launched port edward today.
Managed 1 yellow fin and 1 dorado.. Both of 7kg...
We dropped another 2 dorado and 2 yellowfin, 1 yellow fin of which I estimate was over 18kg's.
Predicted NE for the next couple days, so won't be fishing I don't think.
Quite a few bek and cracker being caught down this side.
Water temp of around 26deg, so things looking good!
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Great result Scott. Good to see some fish coming out. Sucks to be at work. Oh well I will be off from 08-12 January. So will hopefully get on the water.
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Great result Scott. Good to see some fish coming out. Sucks to be at work. Oh well I will be off from 08-12 January. So will hopefully get on the water.
:corrct: Ditto HD, ... but sadly not many reports of fish off Durban....just dying to read Nikoas :billf: report.
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Got my first :billf: ever and it was off my boat on the 29th at number 1 on the way in from the deep.
It picked me up on my 7" shotgun kona. I was fishing for dorries and tuna so the set up was light.
TLD 25 with 15 kg line and a 16 kg fluoro leader. I had a inexperienced guy with me who had to take control of the boat whilst I boxed with the fish. Well after 1h30 I remembered that I had a stand up harness on board and swopped my bucket for it, my arms were buggered. The 25's drag got cooked so I had to hold the spool and line with my fingers, then the handle started to get hard to turn. Any way after following and fighting it for 17km and a total of 2h55 I got it to the boat, the leader was on the rod when the line popped. The first of many I hope, what a day.
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nice :billf: Richard also caught on a TLD25 and light set up
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Yip, I know. I was talking to Rich and his customer who caught the Marlin. :corrct:
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Yus mike!! That's epic! Well done!!
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:cgrts: dem bones , dem bones , dem tired and aching bones. but :envy . Colin. :toppie:
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Got my first :billf: ever and it was off my boat on the 29th at number 1 on the way in from the deep.
It picked me up on my 7" shotgun kona. I was fishing for dorries and tuna so the set up was light.
TLD 25 with 15 kg line and a 16 kg fluoro leader. I had a inexperienced guy with me who had to take control of the boat whilst I boxed with the fish. Well after 1h30 I remembered that I had a stand up harness on board and swopped my bucket for it, my arms were buggered. The 25's drag got cooked so I had to hold the spool and line with my fingers, then the handle started to get hard to turn. Any way after following and fighting it for 17km and a total of 2h55 I got it to the boat, the leader was on the rod when the line popped. The first of many I hope, what a day.
Well done Hammer :fshn: :happ:
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Got my first :billf: ever and it was off my boat on the 29th at number 1 on the way in from the deep
It picked me up on my 7" shotgun kona. I was fishing for dorries and tuna so the set up was light.
TLD 25 with 15 kg line and a 16 kg fluoro leader. I had a inexperienced guy with me who had to take control of the boat whilst I boxed with the fish. Well after 1h30 I remembered that I had a stand up harness on board and swopped my bucket for it, my arms were buggered. The 25's drag got cooked so I had to hold the spool and line with my fingers, then the handle started to get hard to turn. Any way after following and fighting it for 17km and a total of 2h55 I got it to the boat, the leader was on the rod when the line popped. The first of many I hope, what a day.
well done great fish indeed
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Thank you gentleman, launched today and got a dorrie and tomorrow again.
Going home on Sunday, bugger bugger.
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Why no pics? Without pics it didn't happen. w;k
Good luck for tomorrow boet and be very careful driving home on Sunday, the roads will be madness.
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Sorry for taking so long with this report but have been fishing none stop since my return from JHB after spending the holidays with the family.. any way fishing has been tough.. we have had to work hard for some trips.. i can however say we have had a couple of really good trips.. first has to be the trip on the 29th of Decembet that officially opened out 2015 marlin season on board Fishing Adventure.. it was a late start as on route to DSBC i saw some sparks coming off the rhs wheel on the trailer on the high way.. so i pulled off to check and felt the hub was very hot ..as i was not to far from home i decided to head back only to make it half way where i pulled into a fueling station and parked safly.. gave the mrs a call to come pick me up and take me home to try get some bearings.. lucky for me i have one second had set from a couple of months prior. .Any way long story short.. i managed to change them.. thanks to Eric Cotton for the help he happened to be in the area.. After all we launched about 11:00 tried for some live bait but could not find. .. we then dropped lines and trolled over no1 looking for some tuna and bonnies.. working our way out the the ships.. when the rigger snapped and the reel screamed to life.. only to come to and abrupt stop.. i knew then we had something with a pointy face playing.. so i turned and worked the area... i i passed our first point of pic up.. the long corner went screaming away... I could not see any jumping so thought it was a nice size tuna.. only to be proven wrong not 30 seconds later when she lept from the water...we whede clearly under gunned as the line peeled from the reel a tld25 spooled with 30lb line to a.120lb leader to a 200lb trace. . So i cleared the remaining lines and gave chase... 2 hours and 5m8n later we had her on the leader.. a nice +- 180kg black marlin.. we managed a couple of quick snapshots before she busted through the 200lb trace. . We where almost 25km or umdloti when we landed her and had a 45km run back to dcbc.. was an epic catch and the first for both thr client and the season...
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Epic fish off Durban, well done :rck"
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Sorry for taking so long with this report but have been fishing none stop since my return from JHB after spending the holidays with the family.. any way fishing has been tough.. we have had to work hard for some trips.. i can however say we have had a couple of really good trips.. first has to be the trip on the 29th of Decembet that officially opened out 2015 marlin season on board Fishing Adventure.. it was a late start as on route to DSBC i saw some sparks coming off the rhs wheel on the trailer on the high way.. so i pulled off to check and felt the hub was very hot ..as i was not to far from home i decided to head back only to make it half way where i pulled into a fueling station and parked safly.. gave the mrs a call to come pick me up and take me home to try get some bearings.. lucky for me i have one second had set from a couple of months prior. .Any way long story short.. i managed to change them.. thanks to Eric Cotton for the help he happened to be in the area.. After all we launched about 11:00 tried for some live bait but could not find. .. we then dropped lines and trolled over no1 looking for some tuna and bonnies.. working our way out the the ships.. when the rigger snapped and the reel screamed to life.. only to come to and abrupt stop.. i knew then we had something with a pointy face playing.. so i turned and worked the area... i i passed our first point of pic up.. the long corner went screaming away... I could not see any jumping so thought it was a nice size tuna.. only to be proven wrong not 30 seconds later when she lept from the water...we whede clearly under gunned as the line peeled from the reel a tld25 spooled with 30lb line to a.120lb leader to a 200lb trace. . So i cleared the remaining lines and gave chase... 2 hours and 5m8n later we had her on the leader.. a nice +- 180kg black marlin.. we managed a couple of quick snapshots before she busted through the 200lb trace. . We where almost 25km or umdloti when we landed her and had a 45km run back to dcbc.. was an epic catch and the first for both thr client and the season...
that's an absolute beauty on a TLD25 and a Penn Seabuoy 6' rod which is the 601215 blank, it just shows what they are capable of
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(clap) :rck" :happ:
Nice reports guys, Hammer and Rich, Bwana and Mags, now we also need a report from Isi on his Dorrie.
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Awesome stuff nikao...pm sent
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Ok back in the land of computers. Went out on the 31st with about 119 boats launching from DSBC. We went to my old spot to try for some Tuna but not takers. I did manage to get this little beauty though, out of 119 boat only 20 fish where caught :hnthnt: .
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Good one Mike, well done. Pitty about the shortage of fish in that neck of the woods. How was the fishing on the other days?
Glad you're back home safely mate
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Nice Mike, 119 boats 20 fish, thats from the honest okes, nobody tells of their catches anymore. But being good fish coming out.
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Launched yesterday off Shelly Beach, forecast of a light NE with a moderate SW later in the day. Sketchy launch with a few standups on the sand bank in the middle of the bay but everyone got out safely. Our plan to start looking for dorado on the colour line off Sheppy looked to be the right game plan as we arrived there to find a beautiful brown colour line with lots of action - birds and bait working. 3 hours later without a pull it was evident something was wrong - next thing the SW arrived out of nowhere pushing up to 18knots and turned the sea into a washing machine. By 10am we were going to throw in the towel but chose to head out to Protea to see what conditions were like. It proved to be the right choice as the sea was bearable on the reef and the west slowly dropped down to around 8-10 knots. We went on the drift and immediately started getting yellowfin between 8-15kg. We ended up with 6 keepers and released 4 juniors to grow bigger (see you when you're 21............kg). The highlight for me was dropping my jig into a beaut showing on the back drop of southern pinnacle and getting a solid hookup on a bus that had me railed against the gunnel on full lock on my Stella, a bit of back and forth and I finally got the fish away from the bricks and on its way up to the boat when it got taxed by a monster Zambo about 10m from the boat. We called big GT but weren't surprised when I brought in the head of what would have been a bus yellowtail around 15kg. What a waste of a good fish and not the end to the fight that I wanted. A worthy adversary wasted. A few good yellowfin came out later in the day with Hooker landing a beauty of 27kg.
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I launched port Edward yesterday with a mate on his boat "windguru"
took a couple on the nose in the launch and got nice a wet.
We got bait easily and worked our way south with a very quick current.
The plan, was to look for some decent bottoms, but with the current it was going to be tough.
We found some good showing on a pinical and went down, I went on with a slinger and a bek, lost the bek on the way up, and dave went double up on bek, also lost one on the way up. His bek was 9kg so a real nice one..
We thought we were in for a good day, but for the life of us could not get back onto the mark and get the drift right. When we did get down , we kept getting snagged and with 24 ounce sinkers, get lost on every drop it was turning out to be expensive!!
We then headed out to look for dorado, found nice water at 26 degree's, but was lifeless....
Eventually got a pull on the shotgun, and fish almost spooled us on its first run, then popped the leader.
So not a very productive day!
Got back to durbs today, and have spent the day looking and testing boats!
Still on the hunt for a 17ft..
Cheers,
Mag
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There is a Demo Blast on the notice board at the club.........300k I think??
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:cgrts: Well done Mike and the crew of Hammered on your first :billf:... Hopefully the first of many for the boat
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Launched this morning we got lucky my son's biggest dorrie so far, also broke his light dropshot rig
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Launched this morning we got lucky my son's biggest dorrie so far, also broke his light dropshot rig
Nice fish well done, looks like a new rod on the way. :hnthnt:
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Launched this morning we got lucky my son's biggest dorrie so far, also broke his light dropshot rig
Well done, Savour it knowing we are at our desks.
As regards to the rod, well done, now please proceed to the Combating TA thread and post there.
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Well done on all the fish, especially the bills, I'm :envy....... been away too long and need to get stuck in to some decent fish :rck" I see a 17+ couta was caught around the corner with a few smaller ones, we really need a good couta run off Durban!! Is this the year??
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Geez, what a time to hit the south coast when the north coast and Durbz is jumping!!!
:cgrts: To Richard for putting your client onto a :billf: and to Mike for landing your first :billf: on the boat, awesome stuff chaps!!!
Will post a full report in a few days but had weather restrict us to 3.5 trips out in the 2 weeks but had some good fun nonetheless. Good to catch up with Bwana again and sorry that the weather stopped us from fishing with Isivuba and Zetti.
Will be out on the ski in Durbz next week...
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Eish Shaun what a pity the weather hasn't played along down here while you've been here, the dorries have been hit and miss, one or two sailies taken, some nice tuna on the southern pinnacle but generally k*k conditions. I believe you need to proceed to the TA thread to make a confession....... :hnthnt: You can always blame it on the weather :hehe:
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Bwana :+ cred: for your advice on a strip bait of squid on a kona, it paid off with a 12kg tuna yesterday. Launched with family later than expected and went out pulling konas, got a pull on a purple and black kona in 85 mtr . Thought was a big fish fought way November weight category and it was the tuna. Very happy to open the log for the year. Put lures out again saw a bow wave moving into my lures from the side. One kona ratchet went then stopped then shotgun went and stopped. Think was saily playing in the spread circled round twice and no joy. Then headed home after 30 min trolling. Launched at 07:00 back at 09:30. Great day
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:corrct: Well done HD, we got a couple of small tuna for our efforts, the sea seemed to be full of life yesterday, what a lekker morning out at sea.
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Very nice HD :rck" its always lekka when a plan comes together!! We finally got a good day on the water on Saturday, ended up with two dollies of 8 and 10, about 16kms off Umhlanga. Not too bad as about 36 were caught out of 128 boats that launched and a few boats that travelled to the FAD's came back with 5 or 6 fish each!! For me it was basically bird hunting - I chased birds for both fish, the one was a huge shoal of small YFT feeding and I got the dollie on the edge.
Mate of mine also got a Black near John Ross yesterday.
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Wanted to fish Saturday but Umpa Lumpa had work so decided to go sunday. Only to find out sat he has to work sunday also. Gave Gareth a call sat afternoon and organised for sunday.
Gareth Kieran and myself decided to do a bottom trip down to Toti and Launched 03:45. Once around the corner the NE was blowing hard not what was predicted. Thought all the way to Toti and fight back in the NE was not a good idea so change of plan headed north.
We headed to the barge and got bait pretty quickly. I then headed for the ships. Had a particular ship in mind and new all the boats were going to be heading that way. The sea had a nasty chop now with the NE blowing and we had a wet trip to get there.
On arrival at the ship i saw another boat had beaten us there and a jetski, they were both trying with lures so i headed for the front and threw out 2 live baits. They were barely in the water and both screemed off. Gareths fish got off and back to the small faithfully coffee grinder and the small stick it was on. I gave the rod to Kieran and he started to fight. The Dorrie did a great display of jumps and ran all over the place. Kieran fought very well but this fish knew what it was doing. It turned itself side on every time and used the waves to take line. Cause more boats were starting to arrive i helped him further so as to get the fish to the boat as quick as possible.
Back to the front again and 2 more live baits. Again both away but both headed for the deep. Gareth and i had a bit of fun trying to keep from getting tangled and managed to boat 2 nice bonnies. Another Drift and another Bonnie.
By this time more boats were arriving and the fish went off the bite. We pulled lures back to the club but had no more pulls.
What a great day off Durban 1 x 8Kg Dorado 2 x 9Kg bonnies and 1 x 7.5Kg bonnie.
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Well done HD, and 3xF and Dugon. Yeah i wasted my whole weekend at work but hey it pays the bills. Seems everyone got good fish the weekend, CLS also got Dorries, GregF got some tuna, score for everyone all around.
Hopefully weather plays ball soon for me to have a go out on the blue.
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nice fish guys!
Well done!
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Well done guys, great to see some good fish coming out all along the coast! (clap)
We had a very successful day yesterday on Protea with Shaun on "Mershore." Nice to fish here when all the holidaymakers have left - the base was empty, the sea flat and the launch as easy as it gets.
Failed to find fish at Sheppy Brick where a few yellowtail have been around the past few days, despite clean blue water and good current. We moved to Protea and found non-stop action on the southern pinnacle. We finished with 15 tuna (released 9), a bigeye kingie, bonnies on spoon and jig as well as two absolute BUS kakaap. Shaun's went on to weigh 8.8kg and mine tipped the scale at 9.3kg - a new PB for me on 10kg line and a beautiful specimen. Not a bad chow either. Very good to see the tuna stocks on Protea so healthy - loads of small to medium fish around and a few screamers in between!
Pics -
Shaun's 14kg tuna
Shaun's kakaap
My PB green jobfish of 9.3kg
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Finally things are looking a bit better, well done guys and it seems the couta have finally made their appearance
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Got down to Umzumbe on the 27th and had to abort our plans to fish with Zetti, Bwana and Isivuba on the 28th as the sea had been rather large and the Shelly launch closed for a few days.
Got a gap on the 29th and after a late launch due to our tractor having some issues we managed a few YFT on the rappies before heading back after 2.5 hours on the water.
We then had a late afternoon launch on the 2nd and had some reports that some decent fish had been taken on the northern pinnacle. After a few turns we managed a YFT of about 12kg on the Psycho Charteuse rappie which proved to be a winner over the next 2 trips. Then chummed for a couple hours and managed another YFT of 16kg and dropped another one when the 2 crossed lines and one got burnt off.
The 5th proved to be a pearler of a day and finally gave us the gap to go chase some dorries. We decided to hit the southern pinnacle first and did well both on the rappies and the chum. That gold scad rappie (JohnF's favourite) together with that new pink UV rappie got absolutely klapped. A lot of small fish around but good fun nonetheless, managed to release 6-7, lost another 5 to sharks and boated 9 fish between 5-13kg's. (http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/MGalleryItem.php?id=2427)
Highlight of the day was Don get absolutely smoked on Bwana's sosatie stick bait... Unfortunately it was a shark, and after about 30 min I got handed the rod. Put the Black Magic on and made good progress and had him at the boat about another 30 min later. Not sure of the species, but was stoked that we boked him on 30lb gear. Shark was easily 2.2m+... (http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/MGalleryItem.php?id=2424) (http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/MGalleryItem.php?id=2425) (http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/MGalleryItem.php?id=2426)
After that we headed off to chase dorries, found perfect colour lines, water temps, birds, but nada.... not a touch!!!
Did one last trip out on the 6th and dropped a decent wahoo which had picked up a rappie. Sea quickly turned on its head but decided to try chumming and managed 5 YFT all between 8-12kg's.
Not much in the way of species and didn't get to fish as much as we were hoping but always good to be on the water. Good to catch up with Bwana as always, owe much of our success at Shelly to him!!! :udman:
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:cgrts: Also to Lindsay, Mark and Anthony... Some awesome fish chaps!!! Hoping to get out a few times off Durbs before next Tuesday.
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Lekker Shaun, nice report and Pics :rck"
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Sad I missed the trip Shaun :cry: but awesome report.
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Well finally got onto the water on Saturday after long few weeks of being hectic at work. Launched at 03h45 (night rating does have its perks) and headed for bait, got mozzies quickly and was at the deep ship off Umdloti at 05h00, pinned a mozzie and threw, 5 seconds and on, got a small Dorrie and thought this is the day of all days. Tried again but nothing, threw plugs between the baits to try get the fish excited but nothing, by this time the boats started to arrive so I moved to another ship but again other boats were there so decided to pull Konas to Umdloti and try for a couta, managed another Dorrie in he bush and had a massive tunny smash the shotgun kona twice (the one Fritz made and gave me) but it missed the hooks on both occasions. Got to Umgloty put out live shad and had one Couta pull but missed both trebles then a shark found us and swam under the boat and wouldn't leave. We up lines set the spread and headed to the 50m mark and headed home. Lot of effort for two fish but it was worth it. To all the other guys who got fish well done. Was great to have fresh fish for dinner again.
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Plan was to fish on the ski this morning, but sea was a bit too bumpy for my liking. Will be launching first thing tomorrow to try get my first fish on the ski...
:dor:
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Plan was to fish on the ski this morning, but sea was a bit too bumpy for my liking. Will be launching first thing tomorrow to try get my first fish on the ski...
:dor:
Good move, the SW hit Port Shepstone at 4:30 this morning so its very close!!
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Damn weatherman swr
Well done on your Dorries Chris.
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It was predicted Umpa................Thursday should be a pearler! :-) pity I got work :-(
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It was predicted Umpa................Thursday should be a pearler! :-) pity I got work :-(
Also watching Thursday now. Lets hope it remains like this.
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Also at work Dugong, but the weather man in general is a big Box, days that are predicted perfect is completely opposite. Lets see what weekend brings.
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Anyone fishing tomorrow?
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Anyone fishing tomorrow?
Wanted to fish today but weather changed my mind. Never too sure with the NE forcast for tomorrow. Think i shall wait till sunday.
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Might head down to Shelly tomorrow with the ski and take the boat out on Sunday. Would've been keen to fish Aliwal but haven't launched there in over 12 years....
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@Shaun - the launch was good this morning here in Shelly and the sea flat. My mates got 5 nice tuna and got buzzed by a decent black marlin on Protea. Just be careful of the launch tomorrow - nasty East swell at short period firing into the bay....
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Anyone fishing tomorrow?
Wanted to fish today but weather changed my mind. Never too sure with the NE forcast for tomorrow. Think i shall wait till sunday.
Boats ready for tomorrow and I can get leave but I think that NE may start early...........starting to suck Fridays SW in!!
Sunday's going to be busy.........looks like another self launch or go later after 6.
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@Shaun - the launch was good this morning here in Shelly and the sea flat. My mates got 5 nice tuna and got buzzed by a decent black marlin on Protea. Just be careful of the launch tomorrow - nasty East swell at short period firing into the bay....
Shot bud, keeping an eye on the forecast at the moment. Worst case I'll fish Durban and go chase a dorrie...
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I'm considering getting a pair of Tyrnos 30's for the just in case :billf: or bigger :yft: that you come across while fishing for dollies and sails, I know that Prego and Bwana have them, the question is - what rod to match them with, I prefer 7' or maybe 6'6" - must be reasonably priced :dunno:
Better still - anyone selling a matching pair of #30 outfits??
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I've got them as well, paired them with 6ft Jarvis Walker glass rods I got from Shag... awesome combos!!
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Penn legion they about R800
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Thanks guys, also looking at the TLD 30 2spd, a mate may have some for sale??
What size is the Penn Legion Prego??
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I don't recall but is short I don't like anything over 6.6ft
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Thanks guys, also looking at the TLD 30 2spd, a mate may have some for sale??
What size is the Penn Legion Prego??
The Penn Legion standup is the replacement of the original (and excellent) Penn Tuna Stick. The right size to match to the 30 size reels is the 15-24kg standup they go for around R800 each as Prego mentioned. Great tuna rods, certainly put the brakes on a yellowfin but they are around 5'6" if you want something slightly longer then I agree with Shaun those JW 601215 rods from Shag are the bomb as allrounders. Match the reel to some strong 30lb line (I use Maxima Ultragreen for tuna fishing) and you're all set up
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The Jw 601215 rods look like the bomb as mentioned, but their eyes look really crap. the price of the rod is good, but is it worth it witht he crap eyes. if i replace the eyes then suddenly its not such a bargain.
need a new 10kg stick to take to kenya in 4 weeks for sails with tld 25. probably buy a few for the trip as last time ended up fishing sails on 30/50 rods as thats what they had, no fun at all. '
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tkei have a look at the Shimano TLD 25 rod, I have 2 of them and they are nice rods.
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I saw thiose, look nice, but at 800 odd bucks, they twice the price of the JW.
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The Jw 601215 rods look like the bomb as mentioned, but their eyes look really crap. the price of the rod is good, but is it worth it witht he crap eyes. if i replace the eyes then suddenly its not such a bargain.
need a new 10kg stick to take to kenya in 4 weeks for sails with tld 25. probably buy a few for the trip as last time ended up fishing sails on 30/50 rods as thats what they had, no fun at all. '
Good point, been burnt before and its at least R300 to replace with a set of decent eyes, going to look later at whats what, can get a TLD 30 2 spd at a good price from a mate but only one................anyone got one to sell??
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thosde tld 30's are great, a real step up from the 25's.
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Fished off the ski for the first time today, managed 1 dorrie and dropped 3 <: Had 2 double ups which caused chaos, different story fishing off a ski, lots to learn... :blush:
(http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/MGalleryItem.php?id=2429)
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Nice Shaun, you get the hook ups pulling plastics?
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Nice Shaun, you get the hook ups pulling plastics?
All on livies... good bait around today for a change!!
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Great going Shaun, that is a fishing machine bud!
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Great stuff Shaun, not bad for your first outing! How did you enjoy the :ScooT: ?
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Great stuff Shaun, not bad for your first outing! How did you enjoy the :ScooT: ?
Good fun but need to change a few things... tackle storage, need a horizontal rod holder out the back, etc...
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Awesome Shaun......man that ski looks huge or have you lost some weight. :creep:
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Nice to see Shaun!
(clap)
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awesome shaun!
well done!
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Great stuff Shaun, it must be a very different thing to fish off a ski, congrats on your first outing and many more
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Fished off the ski for the first time today, managed 1 dorrie and dropped 3 <: Had 2 double ups which caused chaos, different story fishing off a ski, lots to learn... :blush:
(http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/MGalleryItem.php?id=2429)
:cgrts: Shaun! At least you are getting the pulls, hard to learn when you don't get any bites :blush:
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Hey Nice mate. I'm sure it's a big challenge dealing with those doubles on a ski.
Well done.
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PS please send the fillets
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:cgrts: on the dorrie. Good call you made yesterday the weather was perfect.
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Congrats Shaun , very lekker looking ski (clap)
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:cgrts: on the dorrie. Good call you made yesterday the weather was perfect.
+1, Shaun, were the dollies at the ships or in the bush??
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:cgrts: on the dorrie. Good call you made yesterday the weather was perfect.
+1, Shaun, were the dollies at the ships or in the bush??
Found them at the ships but chatted to 2 boats who got 1 dorrie each in the bush...
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35kt SW hit Sheppie at 3pm - should hit us around 5 :shk - lets hope it blows itself out by Sunday!! :nuts:
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Scouse is fishing tomorrow for last time until June... who else is fishing?
Will be a UA affair with FFF, Umpa and Don on the boat, looking forward to it :ult:
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We will be fishing tomorrow...
Last time out on Attila ....
Hoping to send her off with a bang!
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Scouse is fishing tomorrow for last time until June... who else is fishing?
Will be a UA affair with FFF, Umpa and Don on the boat, looking forward to it :ult:
will see you in the morning :fshn:
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We will be fishing tomorrow...
Last time out on Attila ....
Hoping to send her off with a bang!
See you there 04h00
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Scouse is fishing tomorrow for last time until June... who else is fishing?
Will be a UA affair with FFF, Umpa and Don on the boat, looking forward to it :ult:
:-( I had to skip this trip, been battling for a while now with gout in left hand and wrist, so did not want to be in the way on the deck if not 100%, but sure the lads gonna smash the fish and i will missing out on a lekker trip on the Scouse. Sure there will be a next time.
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We didn't go this morning...
Had a couple to many :frid last night and also woke up with the flu...
Hope you boys cleaned up!!
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a mate of mine launched off Richards bay yesterday.
They got 1 blue of 187kg's on 50lb standup.
Unfortunately it was badly hooked and tore the whole gill plate on one side, so they had to boat it.
Deon, is not one to keep these fish, so he was really bleak it had to be boated, but unfortunately thats how it is sometimes..
Will post a pic later.
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Last day of school holidays so took Kieran out fishing this morning. My Father in law Bob also came and we launched at 5:00 this morning. Managed to get bait pretty quickly and got a nice Sarda sarda same time on the barge. Kieran lost a nice one right by the boat.
There was a big swell running and it started raining. Heavy mist also made it seem like a bad day to have gone fishing. We managed to find the closest ship in the mist but was not easy. Tried couple time around the ship and not even a touch.
Decided we were not far from cassions would try there for a tuna. Put out baits and waited. Boat next to us got a bonnie and then got taxed so said new plan needed. We headed out to No1 area and i trawled live baits slowly around.
Managed to get a good pull and Bob landed his first ever Dorado so a big smile.
I set another live bait out and got picked up again. Lost a nice YFT under the boat hook pulled. Anyway my Cell phone battery was now flat so had to call it a day.
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nice fish Ant.. Well done!
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:happ: Lekker Anthony
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We had a 3am launch on Sunday to try beat the mad rush... launch didn't go quite as planned and ended up with the trailer and boat both going in. Not to worry, the Skipper stayed bone dry and warm as Don and FFF quickly got it sorted... straf dops for Don although he swears he hooked it up properly.
Anyway, eventually got out to the barge and started fishing for bait which was a struggle until first light. We then headed off to our marks and FFF quickly got his first pull which spat the livie. Next drift and we both got pulls with FFF getting a proper hookup and passing the rod to Don. My fish put on a quick aerial display before spitting the bait. Don then landed his first dorrie on Scouse. We had a few more pulls after that but no solid hookups and decided to test out some new marks with not much luck.
Good day on the water with some top blokes, definately taking a rain cheque on Umpa joining us though...
(http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/MGalleryItem.php?id=2449)
(http://[url=http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/MGalleryItem.php?id=2449]http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/MGalleryItem.php?id=2449[/url])
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Lekker dorrie Ant, nicely done!! No more photos until June please....
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definately taking a rain cheque on Umpa joining us though...
:corrct: :corrct: :corrct:
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Well done Shaun, Don and Ant good to see the :dor: around. As for your launch Shaun - :hyst: that must have been something to behold. Big time straf dops there. Luckily it was in Durbs, would not have been so funny at Shelly!
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Well done Ant, Shaun , LOL not supposed to launch the trailer :hehe:
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HEADSUP!! Midas Durban are revamping their fishing section to cover all major brands - Daiwa/Shimano and are having a 30% discount on everything.
The ELBE Couta Pro(great couta rod) was R320 and is now R220 - The Powercurve(great snoek rod) was R300 now R200 - a set of the Fuji guides that is on these rods costs over R100!! w;k
The Elbe Yellowtail 6' looks pretty good with decent Strong eyes is R195.
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Thanks for the heads up - is it at one particular store or all of them?
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we must hurry - Shaun 17 is going to clear the store from down under !!!!!.
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Are all these beautiful :dor: coming from the FADS? I have heard these FADS are bad things and are responsible for a serious decline in inshore catch of :dor: as well as serious damage to ships props ?
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You should read the posts more carefully before making a post like that.
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Are all these beautiful :dor: coming from the FADS? I have heard these FADS are bad things and are responsible for a serious decline in inshore catch of :dor: as well as serious damage to ships props ?
You must not believe everything you hear. :nuts:
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Greeting All, after some time away I am back on UA
http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/index.php?topic=19300.0 (http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/index.php?topic=19300.0)
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Welcome.back Sir
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Are all these beautiful :dor: coming from the FADS? I have heard these FADS are bad things and are responsible for a serious decline in inshore catch of :dor: as well as serious damage to ships props ?
can someone please tell me what the actual legal situation is re FADS. are they legal ?
I ask because I was reading the reports in the paper about the fish tracker device that was found down south.
there was a comment made in that report that these units are attached to a fad and then it transmits data to the ships.
so...are fads legal in SA waters ?
and if so what are the regs if any for deploying them ?
if not what are the penalties for deploying them ?
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As far as I know fads are not legal, but I'm sure there are other members that know the details.....welcome to UA btw Savant, tell us a bit more about yourself.
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Anyone fish the weekend?
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Anyone fish the weekend?
To windy to fish this weekend. Today was the day but had to work today.
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Fads are illegal, not as far as fishing on them goes, but more as far as they are a hazzard to shipping. The fads we talk about are anchored fads offering shade, and are of a temporary nature.
The fads that were found are drifting fads, with GPS monitoring, incl sonar to check how many fish are in the area, before the big purse seine nets are deployed to wipe out the whole little ecosystem.
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This weekend fishing only sucks, looks like another weekend off the water due to bad weather <: swr and its meant to be the ladies comp on Sunday :cry:
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I am out for 12hrs on Friday to look for :billf: looks like it will be a hard day.
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Tomorrow looks like it is going to be a great day. Do i take the day off.
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This weekend fishing only sucks, looks like another weekend off the water due to bad weather <: swr and its meant to be the ladies comp on Sunday :cry:
Ja Chris, usual story but Saturday may be fishable - nice conditions for a bigger sportfisher looking for :sailf: or :billf:
I think I might give Friday a go??
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Anyone who doesn't believe that extended north easterlies cool the inshore water......look at this!!
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Anyone who doesn't believe that extended north easterlies cool the inshore water......look at this!!
For sure they do, looking at that SST Chart the best place to fish :billf: is going to be on those temperature lines from about 150-400m
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Which website do you use to get those temperature charts from, they look most useful!
Thanks..
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Which website do you use to get those temperature charts from, they look most useful!
Thanks..
http://www.fishtrack.com/fishing-charts/ (http://www.fishtrack.com/fishing-charts/)
Just remember that the data can be up to 3 days old.
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thank you very much, Alistair
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Hi Guys I recently downloaded the FishWeather app onto my iphone, quite a cool application. Go check it out it does not give SST info however wave height, temp, wind etc. Have not checked its accuracy however worth a look. Highjack over and out :-)
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Some mates of mine fish Vidal on Saturday.
They did really well.
2 dorado, 2 yellow fin and a smal Black :billf: which weighed approx 70kg and was released.
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well done robin (clap)
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who is fishing and where this weekend?
im fishing dbn on Sat on the new boat and then heading to R-Bay to fish for :billf: on my mates boat on Sunday!
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Launched from Vidal got some fish , released the jobfish cause we can't keep it
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Eeish, with that bounty you would scoop prizes 1 to 10 at the festival.
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Well done George, good day on the water (clap)
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Launched at 5am yesterday and headed north. Had both my sons on board who wanted to fish bottoms so put out a few feathers and trolled fast to Umhloti.
Had no takers on the feathers.
Went down for bottoms and landed a few spotted rockcod, a blue and yellow rockcod and a few nice soldiers.
Enjoyed watching the lities battling their fish at 50m.
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We were down for the weekend and launched at 10am both Friday and Saturday.
Both days we headed out to the deep to try find some nice water :billf: :dor: , only to be robbed by a whole 30 seconds by another boat who got to our one mark first and quickly pulled 2 quick dorries, we eventually came back to it later and got rewarded with a nice 13kg bull for my mate Travis' first dorado ever. Saturday we had no luck but did have an amazing sunfish sighting.
Well done again Scott for a great first outing, not even a chance to test your fuel usage :hehe:
PS. Jaen I no longer miss on the gaff :crzy
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thats a great dorado pregs!!
wall done!!!
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Cyclone well done some nice Couta there!!
Paulo lekker dorrie nice one bud, congrats to Travis!
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Some nice fish being coming out of late, some good Tuna over the 30 mark, Sailies, Dorries, Snoek and Couta, eeish i am missing out big time, been off the water a month now.
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Leka dorrie there Paulo, well done!
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Thanks George, keen to have a couta session like you and Divan had the weekend :envy and :cgrts:
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What's been happening down there off Durbs boys?
Time for you to get back on the water Umps :fshn:
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What's been happening down there off Durbs boys?
Time for you to get back on the water Umps :fshn:
k*K weather this weekend! No chance for us to fish!
Probably good for me, can keep the mrs happy and get another pink slip! Hahaha
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sea was looking k*K for this weekend..
but looks like there may be a possible gap on Saturday morning...
What you okes reckon? i think i might go....
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Aiming for Saturday, let's see......must be a few :dor: and hopefully a :sailf: about.
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Aiming for Saturday, let's see......must be a few :dor: and hopefully a :sailf: about.
What do they say... Best before west ! Let's hope we can get a couple!
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Hi Guys, I'll be down this weekend. I'm going out on Saturday just for bait (Mac;s), for our Inhaca trip in March. So if any of you get any extra Mac's please send them my way.
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Hopefully we can get a gap Saturday. :fshn: :fshn:
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Bunked work on Tuesday on the excuse that we were "testing" Clint's new Gamefish 625 after some motor adjustments. Launched off Shelly into a very lumpy sea with a persistent 8-10 SW making the conditions a bit nasty. Went out to the diepgat area where some solid YFT have come out the past week, put out a spread of rappies and halcos and a purple and black bullet (for the odd lost wahoo). Trolled for an hour and managed a double of 10kg class tuna on the lipped lures. No further pulls so we went jigging but were put off by the 2-3 knot current and lack of decent showings. We moved inshore onto a drift on Protea and were rewarded with non-stop action on the chum - another 5 yellowfin between 6-12kg as well as two decent skipjack and a lone dorrie which slowly ate his way up the chum line only to be trapped as I pitched him a whole sard. There were isolated patches of jub jub bonnies which kept us busy with the flickstick in between. At one stage I was hooked up on a bonnie on the flickstick when Brad went on with a bonnie on his chum bait, he dragged it in rapidly on his 30lb standup rig and about 5m from the boat a fully lit up marlin raced past the transom and smoked his bonnie on the surface right in front of us! :shk Mad scrambling for a pitch bait ensued and by the time we pitched a dead bonnie on the circle hook he was gone. What an amazing sight - such pure power. All in all a great day at sea! Jono on Black Caviar managed a nice 18kg wahoo on a black and orange Rattler with no wire! Sometimes they just stick.
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Lekker Report bud, well bunked :hehe:
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Very lekker (clap)
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Good stuff Mark, pity about missing the pointy one....but lekker day on the water.
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Report Tuesday 17 February Aliwal shoal Trip[/size]So Tuesday morning I met my crew for the day with 5 very excited anglers looking forward to there first deep sea trip. So after a bit of exercise first thing from pushing the boat in, we headed South from Warners towards Umkomaas. Was not long before we had our first take on the short rigger.. sadly though the line parted even before we could get to the rod, but it was a nice Bull Dorado of about 15kg or so I would guess, as we saw him jumping just behind the boat. On close inspection we realized that the eye insert had chipped and was slicing through the line so we removed the insert as a temp solution and carried on fishing. We stayed in the area for a while and had a good hook up with a Bonnie of about 5kg which gave us a good run for our money. Shortly after landing the Bonnie we had a nice little inspection on the short rigger again this time from a small sailfish which i had spotted following us earlier, and after a couple of attempts at the lures she decided to rather head off and leave us alone. Just as we got close to the Aliwal shoal we had a nice double up on Dorado, guys had some great fun as this was the first time they had caught anything in saltwater and after a couple of great acrobatic displays they both landed a Queen Dorado of around 8kg each. A short while after that we hooked into a nice small Wahoo of around 10kg followed by a triple up on Dorado shortly thereafter with 2 Queens and one Bull. After all the excitement we decided to head out to some reefs of Warners to try our hand at some bottom fishing. Which landed us a couple of pan sized Slinger and Soldiers, we also lost one decent sized fish during the fight which was a bit of a bummer but hey you cant win them all!![/color]
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Good fishing Bwana and Rich :cgrts:
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Nice :dor: Bwana & Richard :cgrts:
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Nice boys :appr:
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Well done guys
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Some good results there chaps, thanks for the reports!!! :envy What were you picking the dorries up on Rich?
Unlucky on the billie there Mark, history dictates that the okes on the Scouse deck would've screamed like girls and fallen over!!
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Dorries were all on konas.. wahoo was also a kona.. have a special one that has been working on the hoo's :hnthnt:
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Lekker stuff bud, :cgrts: again!!
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Dorries were all on konas.. wahoo was also a kona.. have a special one that has been working on the hoo's :hnthnt:
a '' special one'' eh, not call Mourinho is it :hehe:
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:happ: Well done chaps.
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Lekka to see three rods bending at once!! :rck"
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Good one squire :the sHPLAT
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Big one on the way to the scales
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Big one... and a nice looking :billf:
When was that Greg? Mass?
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wow! indeed a big one , where was this Greg
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Big one on the way to the scales
duh I hate to see these fish on the deck but I suppose they do sometimes die during the fight. :cry:
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Absolutely awesome fish that (clap) let's not guess a weight here :rck"
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:win:
that is a Nice Bill
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That ou looks broken and the moer in that the skipper left the chair behind (bat I hope for his sake he got it on the 130.................ceriaas slab of fish that....that's going to go close to 1000 methinks :dunno:
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Nice report chaps (clap)
Eeish that is a menneer Marlin.
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That ou looks broken and the moer in that the skipper left the chair behind (bat I hope for his sake he got it on the 130.................ceriaas slab of fish that....that's going to go close to 1000 methinks :dunno:
probably moved the chair to manhandle the '' ceriaas'' fish onboard. :toppie:
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That ou looks broken and the moer in that the skipper left the chair behind (bat I hope for his sake he got it on the 130.................ceriaas slab of fish that....that's going to go close to 1000 methinks :dunno:
Ha, looks like "the exhausted man and the sea", what a fish well done.
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We went down to launch this morning. As we were about to a boat came back saying sea was terrible out and they called it.
Could see the massive cloud bank coming, still calm here but big west coming! Just a matter of time until it hits!
Quite a nasty shorey at DSBC aswel this morning!
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That ou looks broken and the moer in that the skipper left the chair behind (bat I hope for his sake he got it on the 130.................ceriaas slab of fish that....that's going to go close to 1000 methinks :dunno:
She was 396.6kg. From what i hear she died after the fight. But still an epic fish..
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That ou looks broken and the moer in that the skipper left the chair behind (bat I hope for his sake he got it on the 130.................ceriaas slab of fish that....that's going to go close to 1000 methinks :dunno:
She was 396.6kg. From what i hear she died after the fight. But still an epic fish..
an epic fish indeed, shame she died, :-( must have been one hell of a battle
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We went down to launch this morning. As we were about to a boat came back saying sea was terrible out and they called it.
Could see the massive cloud bank coming, still calm here but big west coming! Just a matter of time until it hits!
Quite a nasty shorey at DSBC aswel this morning!
Had the boat hitched and ready to go, but gave it miss after seeing the NE had blown all night at 20kts................iPad saved me a trip and gave me a well needed snooze!! :hnthnt: :win:
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How much would you lose to dehydration on a fish that size and a fair run back to the scales?
Just pulling that fish on board must've been a mission on it's own!!! :win:
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How much would you lose to dehydration on a fish that size and a fair run back to the scales?
Just pulling that fish on board must've been a mission on it's own!!! :win:
Not sure on the exact science but it can be quite a bit of weight loss. You can see at the tail section it is already drying out. But it may have went over 900. We have a few towels on board which we keep wet and cover the fish with.
Those boere seuns are sterk China, loading that fish would have been PT, in the past we tie the fish of with a bill rope or have the small flying gaff into the bottom jaw, and we start loading between the motors, keep the boat headed down sea and have the crew holding the rope or bill as close to the fish as possible. Accelerate the boat slightly and then when the swell starts pushing you cut the throttles in to neutral and with wave and momentum you can pull it up in sections. Hard work after a fight, and I'm a lazy bastard so we release these days :hehe:
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Smart way to lift it on board
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Anyone fish this weekend?
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Pulled a late launch yesterday - sea was too good and flat, 24.5 and very clean, saw a saily jump in front of me on the 50 line but nothing after cruising the area for a while, pulled out past the 100 but the sea seemed void of all life :dunno:
We then moved in a bit came across a huge shoal of skippies feeding and at least got to heat up the carbontex on some in the 5-6 kg range - a bit of mayhem at one stage with 3 on and just the wife and dog on board - great fun!
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So stoked for my buddy Jason who had an absolute ripper of a trip on Saturday, clean seas with a light west he went north looking for livebait. They found a full-up selection of livebait and pulled for couta and managed one couta of around 17kg and then hooked up on an absolute BUS on a live bonnie. Well done Jason on your new PB couta of 32.8kg!!!
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I saw some nice 20kg Tuna come out this weekend, heard of a 26kg from Ballito. Weather was great on Sunday, we decided to go south from DSBC and besides catching a nice tan, we got a fat goose egg after pulling Halcos and some Mackerel for many many miles.
Bus couta Bwana :resp:
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Bus fish :rck" where Bwana??
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Wow awesome catch congrats (clap)
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Nice fish, can i buy it, there is a comp coming up soon :hnthnt:
Serious note nice fish, some mates fished out of Rocky bay yesterday got some Tuna, ther boats also got some tuna.
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Bus fish :rck" where Bwana??
Just north of Port Shepstone
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Cracking fish that Mark!!! :envy
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Nice Cuda.
Well done on the PB
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thats a proper South Coast couta!!
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WOW proper catch and well done to your buddy
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......... then hooked up on an absolute BUS on a live bonnie. Well done Jason on your new PB couta of 32.8kg!!!
A BUS you say, I beg to differ, isn't that the truck the busses come on? Great catch, respect.
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Cracking fish that!!! :envy
Shaun, they got this fish about 100m from where we were fishing in the Quattro comp - it's the strike zone for crocs for sure w;k
Jason is an old hand at catching these buggers.
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That's a proper croc, I would of been over the moon with the 17kg one :blush:
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Cracking fish that!!! :envy
Shaun, they got this fish about 100m from where we were fishing in the Quattro comp - it's the strike zone for crocs for sure w;k
Jason is an old hand at catching these buggers.
Same spot where Piet picked up the winning fish??
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Cracking fish that!!! :envy
Shaun, they got this fish about 100m from where we were fishing in the Quattro comp - it's the strike zone for crocs for sure w;k
Jason is an old hand at catching these buggers.
Same spot where Piet picked up the winning fish??
Yebo!
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(clap) :rck"
Nice fish
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Lovely cuda that awesome... well done.
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Launched off Durban an ran to the 50m line off Umdloti. Was smoked by a very big wahoo on a a cona only to be bittten off near the boat after a very hard fight.@#$ I really battled to lift him from under the boat and placed too much pressure with the line on the side of mouth. My first Wahoo hook-up and I could not believe how much line was running off my reel whilst bringing in the other two lines. I will have to convert my conas to steel wire especially when pulling them around that waters. What a fantastic day to be on the water.
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Awesome :cout: (clap)
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Launched off Durban an ran to the 50m line off Umdloti. Was smoked by a very big wahoo on a a cona only to be bittten off near the boat after a very hard fight.@#$ I really battled to lift him from under the boat and placed too much pressure with the line on the side of mouth. My first Wahoo hook-up and I could not believe how much line was running off my reel whilst bringing in the other two lines. I will have to convert my conas to steel wire especially when pulling them around that waters. What a fantastic day to be on the water.
You only need steel wire on your hook-set inside your Kona for Wahoo
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Thanks capt hook. Will search for your tutorial to make up this trance. (If only I did it last week for Sunday !!!! would have landed a really big fish. still sulking - will be prepared next time.
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Thanks capt hook. Will search for your tutorial to make up this trance. (If only I did it last week for Sunday !!!! would have landed a really big fish. still sulking - will be prepared next time.
Don't sulk, every lost fish is a learning experience and makes you a better angler
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Very nice cuta :envy
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Nice couta that well done, unfortunately I left yesterday for Nelspruit, Witbank then Polokwane on business for the week, back on Friday so hopefully Saturday will be fishable.
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Launched yesterday and after battling to get some live bait we headed off to the ships to look for some dorries. Luck was on our side and we managed to get 3 :dor: .Was nice to get some fish after a very long time.
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Launched off Durban an ran to the 50m line off Umdloti. Was smoked by a very big wahoo on a a cona only to be bittten off near the boat after a very hard fight.@#$ I really battled to lift him from under the boat and placed too much pressure with the line on the side of mouth. My first Wahoo hook-up and I could not believe how much line was running off my reel whilst bringing in the other two lines. I will have to convert my conas to steel wire especially when pulling them around that waters. What a fantastic day to be on the water.
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Alfu, I take it you had stopped the boat when fighting the wahoo? If you leave your boat idling "just" in gear, it helps to keep the fish near to the surface. Biggest dropped cuda (that still haunts me) I was on the rod and the tempory skipper who my mom and dad were responsible for, thought it funny to not listen to me and keep the motors idling. Five long runs deep and as I got just within gaffing reach, the wire snapped due to the cuda circling under the boat. Think of the guys fighting marlin, the boat doesn't get stopped as you can imagine raising 500kg from deep while bobbing in one spot.
Good luck next time!
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Launched off Durban an ran to the 50m line off Umdloti. Was smoked by a very big wahoo on a a cona only to be bittten off near the boat after a very hard fight.@#$ I really battled to lift him from under the boat and placed too much pressure with the line on the side of mouth. My first Wahoo hook-up and I could not believe how much line was running off my reel whilst bringing in the other two lines. I will have to convert my conas to steel wire especially when pulling them around that waters. What a fantastic day to be on the water.
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Alfu, I take it you had stopped the boat when fighting the wahoo? If you leave your boat idling "just" in gear, it helps to keep the fish near to the surface. Biggest dropped cuda (that still haunts me) I was on the rod and the tempory skipper who my mom and dad were responsible for, thought it funny to not listen to me and keep the motors idling. Five long runs deep and as I got just within gaffing reach, the wire snapped due to the cuda circling under the boat. Think of the guys fighting marlin, the boat doesn't get stopped as you can imagine raising 500kg from deep while bobbing in one spot.
Good luck next time!
I never stop the boat, that's a sure way to lose a fish
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Thanks Timothy. You are 100% correct. After following the fish for a while to gain line i did go into neutral when the fish was nearing the boat. This must be why I battled to bring him up. Should have moved forward past the fish perhaps and thus removing the line drag on the side of the mouth knowing I do not have a wire trace. Thanks for the advice. Am am sure this is a good learning for other members ws well.
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who is fishing this weekend??
Im looking at sunday, getting my wisdom teeth taken out tomorrow,so hoping i wont be too bad cause i really need to fish!!!
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Fishing the Umkomaas interclub this weekend, looking forward to it. The forecast has been a bit up and down so hoping we get 2 days on the water. Will keep you posted....
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Launching on Sunday with my boys and Greg f as crew. Looking forward to it
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Hopefully launch Sunday, been a hectic week got a long drive home tomorrow from Polokwani,
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Awesome guys!
Will be lekker to see you all again..
We are a definate for Sunday!
Taking my ballie and a family friend out!
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Awesome guys!
Will be lekker to see you all again..
We are a definate for Sunday!
Taking my ballie and a family friend out!
So :dunno: :-) OR :-(..........................must have got a few :yft:
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I got sweet EFF all this weekend...
Drifted and trolled for tuna but nada... not even a pull.
HD got some fish, which im sure he will post about later!
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That's fishing Scott (otherwise they would call it catching) w;k
Saw the boat yesterday - looking shweet!! :rck"
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It was a hard weekend all round. We fished the Umkomaas Interclub and also had a tough time on Aliwal. We got some livebait, pulled lures, drifted and tried every trick in the book. Managed 2 YFT on Saturday between 11-13kg and got 3 more on Sunday which was enough to get us 2nd Place overall from a field of 11 boats. One of the boats had a great weekend with a team from Gonubie Ski Boat Club they got a sailie on a halco, a wahoo and a bunch of tuna. That got them 1st place, well done to them!
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Was a great day out yesterday. Got a couple of bottom fish with the boys. Was great so see them bringing up the fish in 50 meters. The highlight was my youngest Troy (8)years old get his first YFT of 13.5 kgs. It gave him gears. He refused to hand over the rod enev when he said he is flat
In the end he bought it in will post pics they on my phone. Big up to Greg F who was a great teacher and help on the boat yesterday.
Really happy to see the kids getting great fish.
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Good to hear HD, great for the kids :happ:
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Hardluck Scott :-(
Well HD boys and Greg. :rck" (clap)
Well done Mark placing 2nd at Umko club comp :rck" (clap) [size=78%] [/size]
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Was a great day out yesterday. Got a couple of bottom fish with the boys. Was great so see them bringing up the fish in 50 meters. The highlight was my youngest Troy (8)years old get his first YFT of 13.5 kgs. It gave him gears. He refused to hand over the rod enev when he said he is flat
In the end he bought it in will post pics they on my phone. Big up to Greg F who was a great teacher and help on the boat yesterday.
Really happy to see the kids getting great fish.
Nice HD, good fish for an 8 year old :-) :happ:
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Some pics
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2/3
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Here is the one of Troy and his tuna.
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And yes we did weigh it at the club to confirm the weight
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Nice HD...
Hopefully i have a son on day that is keen on fishing!
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And yes we did weigh it at the club to confirm the weight
No way is that fish bigger than 13.4kgs LOL
Well done. cant wait till my kids can get stretched by a YFT or 2.
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Good catch there Troy.
Always lekker sharing it with the kids.
Well done HD
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A mate Alan (not in pic) took his novice buddies out on Monday for some snoek, off Vaginia Beach.
**side note** you know your life is sad when you are forced to start posting your mates fishing pics to feel part of the fun :cry:
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OK so who is launching tomorrow ?? if work doesn't get in the way I will be out :fshn: :fshn:
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OK so who is launching tomorrow ?? if work doesn't get in the way I will be out :fshn: :fshn:
work is in the way for me... No fishing for me and sunday looks k*K!!!
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Launched at 5h30 yesterday morning - trolled to Umhloti and got 5 yft in the 5 - 7kg range - also got a few good slingers at Umhloti on the 50m mark.
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Had a great day on the water Saturday, found the snoek in one of my secret spots and had fun on light tackle, ranged between 2 and 4.8kg
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Fished the Glenashley/LaLucia stretch for couta on Saturday, lost a bus YFT that almost spooled me and kinked the #4 wire :-( had one other pull where the hooks missed, also had my only mackerel chowed within seconds by this guy :unhap
Shad bait thick just inside the barge.......even stretched a few for a nice fish braai :hnthnt: All and all a great day on the water with fantastic water all the way up to Peace Cottage - just no couta!! :-)
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Well done guys!!
Glad there some fish around!
Hoping to get out this weekend!
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Blanched Saturday and blanked but nice day out with the family. Yet still came home with a fresh snoek compliment of oompa.mthanks Chris it was awesome on the Braai. :+ cred: for your generosity
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Who is launching this weekend?
We will be there on Sunday! Plan to target bottoms North of DBN...
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I'll be there this weekend - fishing the DSBC interclub as team Shelly Beach. Going to bring two junior anglers with for some hands-on training. Looking forward to it! Have seen the weather has been pretty crappy this week so hoping the forecast lines up for the weekend. My mate Anton is fishing the Rosebowl there at the moment and he got a 20kg couta on 6kg line yesterday!
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Sh1T that is impressive on 6KG line...
Weather looked better yesterday for the weekend, i see this am it has changed slightly...
Still looks like sunday will be fishable!
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rosebowl update out of dsbc nomads realeases 2 sails this morning
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Good stuff
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It looks like the sprats have arrived, I saw a good few pockets between Umdloti and Virginia today, this is a very good sign that things could pick up in the coming weeks, especially for couta and of course snoek, (as anyone who has caught snoek amongst the sprats will tell you - spoon mayhem!! :nuts:)
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It looks like the sprats have arrived, I saw a good few pockets between Umdloti and Virginia today, this is a very good sign that things could pick up in the coming weeks, especially for couta and of course snoek, (as anyone who has caught snoek amongst the sprats will tell you - spoon mayhem!! :nuts:)
:fshn: :fshn:
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We also saw plenty bait fish yesterday.
Lots of tuna breaking the surface aswell!
We couldn't hook and tuna if our lives depended on it! Fished for bottoms and managed one small slinger.
Had a k*K day on the water interms of catching fish, but great to be out..
Saw some lovely fish weighed at the dsbc interclub!
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We also saw plenty bait fish yesterday.
Lots of tuna breaking the surface aswell!
We couldn't hook and tuna if our lives depended on it! Fished for bottoms and managed one small slinger.
Had a k*K day on the water interms of catching fish, but great to be out..
Saw some lovely fish weighed at the dsbc interclub!
:hnthnt: :hnthnt: think I need an invite to show you a few tricks w;k
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We also saw plenty bait fish yesterday.
Lots of tuna breaking the surface aswell!
We couldn't hook and tuna if our lives depended on it! Fished for bottoms and managed one small slinger.
Had a k*K day on the water interms of catching fish, but great to be out..
Saw some lovely fish weighed at the dsbc interclub!
:hnthnt: :hnthnt: think I need an invite to show you a few tricks w;k
its a date!!
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We fished the DSBC Interclub as Team Shelly Beach, I had two juniors with me as a development team. Saturday was a tough day with very sloppy NE conditions and cold green water. We had good livebait, couldn't find a yellowfin but found good water off umdloti and looked for a couta - no pulls but managed an amberjack on a live shad. Sunday was a lot better, smooth seas and a light SW throughout the day. We got a full livewell of shad and mackerel and found a nice yellowfin off Umhlanga on a live mackerel. We then ran shallow at Umdloti to look for snoek and found them in clean green water in the rips off the river mouth. We managed two very quickly and then went looking for a couta. They were eating the sard fillet baits flat out and if we had stayed we could have got a lot more. we went for couta later and couldn't find any pulls. Some very nice fish came out through the fleet with some guys running up to Zinkwazi each day and coming back with shoal sized couta and a big YFT (28,6kg). Some 30+kg tuna came out on the last day on the dolphins. Late on the Sunday a lot of wahoo and dorries came out at the ships especially the drilling rig anchored off Umdloti. All in all a great comp and I'm glad the lighties got to experience compo fishing.
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Nice!! :rck" I think things are going to pick up in the coming weeks, did you see any sprats?
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Nice!! :rck" I think things are going to pick up in the coming weeks, did you see any sprats?
Yes, plenty but the fish didn't want the spoon for some reason
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Always cool to see youngsters catching
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Pulled another 7:30 launch on Sunday, strangely found no bait at the one spot where there had been tons of shad mozzies last week but got a big soldier for the pan on a bait jig :-)
Went to the 50m past Umhlanga and found the best water I have seen in a long time - deep blue and 25.7deg - pulled for close to 20kms and nothing, saw Scott (magnything) at Yarningdale where I saw a sicklefin....... :billf: or :sailf: ?? - pulled the area for a few loops but nada :-(
Nice day on the water capped by a superb baked red for dinner that cost about R400 :-) :-(
Also met FFF on the beach - they did pretty well with the bottoms :rck"
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we launched on Monday 06h00 at DSBC and much the same sort of day, lots of sand soldiers and 2 mozies at the barge and then nada, fished the 50m past the ships and some hits on the bottom but nothing hooked, the SW came up along with rain and shiny jaggy stuff so back in for 11h00, a nice day on the water though with my son
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Myself, FFF and Fluffer ventured South on Sunday, managed to get bait (mozzie and plenty pinkie) head to our target area and hopefully get a Couta, but game fish side we blanked, then targeted bottoms and managed a 20kilo mix bag, 3.5kilo rubberlip, 2kilo Soldier, 2 kilo German Bream, 2 Kilo Butchers ...ck, 2 kilo tomato rockod and more of the same but smaller plus slinger so had fresh fish for the pan, plus mates are chuffed they score fresh fish.
Water was beautiful blue colour, best seen in a loooong time.
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Good one Denzyl, couple of nice ones there, I wouldn't mind a few when we get down there.
What is happening to the couta, not good news for the comp :-(
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I have it from a good source Couta are extinct in durban
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Nice to meet you DB.
Tony there are couta around but we just had no luck. I see the paddleski boys seem to be getting a few good fish lately.
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Lekker guys well done, some nice fresh chow there (clap)
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Tony, think we have to fish for Couta very shallow like fishing for snoek, Skis are getting them close in.
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Umpa - you are 100% correct. The kayakers are nailing the fish up north. (Keeping the catches secret !!!!!) :wahoo: :dor: :yft:
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That's a good sized Rubber Lips.
The Cuda are doing their annual migration away from the DBSC comp.
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Launched at about 6 this morning from DSBC, headed north for some snoek but got nothing. Changed tactics and went out deeper and managed a decent sarda and a small 5 kg yft after about 30 km of trolling. The sea got quite choppy as the front moved in early so called it quits at about 10h30.
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After trolling the paint off the plastic we missed a double strike 5km before the Deep Sea Metro 1, the deep sea drill that has been lying on anchor since december. We then got lucky right next to the ship and loaded 3 out of 4 WITHOUT wire traces. Thanks to Francois, our skipper, for an amazing day.
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Launched at about 6 this morning from DSBC, headed north for some snoek but got nothing. Changed tactics and went out deeper and managed a decent sarda and a small 5 kg yft after about 30 km of trolling. The sea got quite choppy as the front moved in early so called it quits at about 10h30.
Lekker Chigger
Good catching up again.
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After trolling the paint off the plastic we missed a double strike 5km before the Deep Sea Metro 1, the deep sea drill that has been lying on anchor since december. We then got lucky right next to the ship and loaded 3 out of 4 WITHOUT wire traces. Thanks to Francois, our skipper, for an amazing day.
(clap) seem to be more Whoo around then Couta these days.
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We ventured South again, no game fish, but managed some more bottom fish for the pan.
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A friend of mine picked up a 34kg cuta off tinley last week, 30m of water
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We came down for a weeks fishing laast weekend. We launch on Sunday through the harbour and trolled around up to umshlanga no action after a long while we got a small bonnie and put it out for live bait, not 5min and the reel screamed. We lost a croc of around 25kg next to the boat . That was it for the day.
Monday we went to the ships, around 25km of durban. We trolled around the ships, we got a YFT and a big skipjack. We went a little deaper and got a nice dorado of 9kg.
Tuesday started really bad with loosing the boat keys and haveing to go back home to get the spares set.eishhh. I desides to troll around No1 and with only me amd my brother we got n triple strike on YFT landed 2. We then desided to stick around and got another triple strike landinv one. So it wnet on and we landed 7 YFT around 4,5kg in 2 ours. We then deside toe go look for bigger fish around the ship, no luck only a slightly bigger YFT.
Wednesday the sea was not so nic. We had a short session with 3 triple strike and landing 7 YFT agian. All in under 2 hours. Wat a day.
Tuesday we had a really nice day on the water, really flat. Got another 3 YFt and desided to go look for ather species, went closer to shore only to hook the taxman. Nothing els
Friday the sea turned upside down, got one more YFT but had a triple strike. Also got bitte of by a wahoo close to the boat( didnt use wire)
All in all was a very good trip, no big fish but we had loads of fun. We landed 21 fish and had more than 30 strikes. No for the road back to GP
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Wahoo :wahoo: :wahoo: :wahoo: :wahoo: :wahoo: :wahoo: were thick yesterday and again to day, we got 6 yesterday and dropped about another 6, and today was exactly the same got 6 and dropped about 6 and we also got 2 YFT :yft: today.
Am not happy as we also lost 6 X-Raps over the 2 days and now I have to go buy more and can't see me coming home with only 6 and I have to revenge buy at least 2 for each one lost. Top lure which got most the wahoo was X-Rap 30 in Ghost until it got bitten off :-(
The fish wanted it fast and the faster we trolled the more hits we got and were trolling 8-10knts
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Fished Friday and managed 2 snoek, one of 5kg and one of 2kg, dropped a few more for some unknown reason, tried for Tunny with live bait had 4 runs but no luck., one tackle failure and three they dropped the mozzies <: <: <:, was a great day out.
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Fished Friday and managed 2 snoek, one of 5kg and one of 2kg, dropped a few more for some unknown reason, tried for Tunny with live bait had 4 runs but no luck., one tackle failure and three they dropped the mozzies <: <: <:, was a great day out.
Ja Chris, they were very frustrating when you can see them and they are not totally committed to the bite, I pulled all the way down past Glenashley and never had a pull, spent another three hours trying for that couta in great conditions - light SW 24.5deg clean and nada except for another 50kgish hammer to warm the drag!!
Pulled back at about 11:30(sometimes the tide change gets them to come on) and was rewarded with a double up off Virginia.....only a 3kg one stuck but I suppose its better than nothing :rck"
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we managed one dorado of about 7kg's on friday of umdloti, we then lost what we presumed was a couta at the containers...
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No photos these days??
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No photos these days??
Of course :crzy
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Anyone fishing this weekend?
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I am fishing Saturday and Monday
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Anyone fishing this weekend?
Planning for Sunday, but weather dependant!
When you back??
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I'm back, also planning for Sunday if the weather plays ball...
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I'm back, also planning for Sunday if the weather plays ball...
Good luck Shaun.......just go straight and troll for Dorado :dor:
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Shaun how was towing in that traffic yesterday? Passed you and saw scouse African in tow.
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Shaun how was towing in that traffic yesterday? Passed you and saw scouse African in tow.
Always happy with a boat on tow w;k
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Welcome back Shaun and tight lines for the weekend. See you at the DSBC comp.
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Welcome home Shaun, tight lines for Sunday!
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Shot chaps!!! See you boys at the club in the morning...
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We launched Durban yesterday.
Sea was lovely and got better as the morning went on.
We really battled to get bait on the usual bait spots, tried them all with not much success. Eventually managed a few scads and decided to head out and drift.
We drifted on a few of our usual spots but the water was green. I then decided that we may as well trawl to the drilling rig. We found beautiful blue water and it was 25degree's. We put the first live bait in the water and just as i was ready to flick out the second one i saw a swirl exactly where the first on landed. I let the circle hook do its thing and then tighted up and imidiately a :sailf: came out. As she jumped she managed to spit the hook but exciting never the less. Funny thing was that there were atleast another 2 sailies with this one as they were still cirling where the first bait had landed. I quickly threw out the second bait but no luck.
We stuck it out and about and hour later we were rewarded with a nice tuna of 17kgs
We then saw the NE starting and headed back home. A lovely morning out with my Dad and Father-in-law.
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Nice one Scott. Well done on the decent Tuna
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Lekker Tuna (clap)
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Lekker stuff Scott, nice tuna there especially considering most okes blanked yesterday. Hard luck on the Sailie too, we had a small Marlin put on a huge display off the stern as though it was hooked... Not sure if it was being chased :dunno:
We started the day by leaving our rigged rappies in the lounge duh . :+ cred: To FFF for bailing me out and lending me a handful. We tried for a :wahoo: but blanked so went for some bottoms and did really well. Released all but one Rockcod and 2 nice sized Englishman.
Good to see some of the UA boys again, hoping to get out a few times this week on the ski.
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Went for a family ride yesterday, launched at 10:30 pulled raps and some strips out to John Ross - found blue 25deg on the 50m.......nada, saw a beaut of a sunfish though!! :-) Thought it was a huge shark!!
Well done on the YFT Scott.
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Good to see couple of the guys yesterday.
Also launched yesterday and tried for couta again. Managed to hook a really nice queenfish and brought it to the boat. only to have my crew misgaff 3 times and eventually gaffed the hook out. Also got 2 hammers to the boat and released them.
Turned out to be a very nice day on the sea, had good showings the area I was fishing but struggled to get the bite.
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Mmmm........so which area was that buddy??????????????????? :dunno:
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Mmmm........so which area was that buddy??????????????????? :dunno:
Mmmmm now that all depends how good the beer tastes on Friday evening :frid
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It's going to taste fantastic, I'll even throw in a shot of Tipo Tinto or 2 :the sHPLAT
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(clap) Well done on the good sized Tuna and sorry to hear about the Saily.
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Niice reports Chaps
Nice Tuna Scott, seems your mojo for sailies on the new boat is good.
For the record, i would like to state "I was not FFF crew who misgaffed" i was home nursing a hangover thanks to mates who are here vsiting from UK.
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The missed gaff on the queen fish is a good thing in my opinion just saying :crzy
Nice YFT Scott, was it torpedo scads you were using as bait?
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The missed gaff on the queen fish is a good thing in my opinion just saying :crzy
Nice YFT Scott, was it torpedo scads you were using as bait?
i dont know what they were, just looked like a scad, but they were fantasic bait... the swam along the surface and where shinny shinny shinny! it was only a matter of time until something picked them up...
Pity we only had 4 baits. 1, died, 1 saily ppick up, 1 missed pick up and 1 yellowfin....
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Well I am sure if I made the right call to have a lie in ?? w;k w;k
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The missed gaff on the queen fish is a good thing in my opinion just saying :crzy
Nice YFT Scott, was it torpedo scads you were using as bait?
i dont know what they were, just looked like a scad, but they were fantasic bait... the swam along the surface and where shinny shinny shinny! it was only a matter of time until something picked them up...
Pity we only had 4 baits. 1, died, 1 saily ppick up, 1 missed pick up and 1 yellowfin....
We got some razor bellies yesterday, maybe not those?
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Niice reports Chaps
Nice Tuna Scott, seems your mojo for sailies on the new boat is good
:corrct: :corrct: Some good mojo on that boat, well done guys
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Some nice fish there gents, well done (clap)
@Scott - good to hear the sailies like your boat
We sent two of our up and coming Shelly Beach juniors to fish the Rod and Reel Interclub and they did very well, coming out on top after two days! Bevan got a sailie on a live mack as well as a 13kg wahoo on halco. Megan did very well and bagged a 31,7kg Yellowfin, rmember all these fish caught on 10kg mono! Very lekker to see the lighties doing well.
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Missed that post Mark, some cracking catches by the Juniors!!
Anyone fishing tomorrow, we'll be out tomorrow, Monday and maybe Tuesday if the weather plays ball.
Scott, will have that package for you... w;k
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we fished Durbs yesterday.
Was a beaut of a day with a fairly decent swell running, but the sea was flat...
Headed out to target tuna and found bait very easily!!
Our first pull of the morning resulted in us getting bitten off, the speed that the reel was screaming meant one thing... :wahoo: . We changed to steel traces and went away about 30mins later with another wahoo. The speed of this fish was insane. i havent witnessed a fish move like that!!! this fish also ended up breaking us off...
We then set the baits again and about an hour later had another pick up... This time is was on the one mono trace we were fishing, and this was a tuna... Fish went deep and spat the hook!!!
we ended the day with 3 lost fish!! not good , but thats fishing!!
We always fish circle hooks and have not missed a fish with them before. We have recently changed from using a gama's circle to the mustad and have been missing fish. Do you think this could be and issue? Has anyone else experienced this???
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Thanks for the update Mag, three misses must be quite frustrating,...but still better than a complete blank.
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we fished Durbs yesterday.
Was a beaut of a day with a fairly decent swell running, but the sea was flat...
Headed out to target tuna and found bait very easily!!
Our first pull of the morning resulted in us getting bitten off, the speed that the reel was screaming meant one thing... :wahoo: . We changed to steel traces and went away about 30mins later with another wahoo. The speed of this fish was insane. i havent witnessed a fish move like that!!! this fish also ended up breaking us off...
We then set the baits again and about an hour later had another pick up... This time is was on the one mono trace we were fishing, and this was a tuna... Fish went deep and spat the hook!!!
we ended the day with 3 lost fish!! not good , but thats fishing!!
We always fish circle hooks and have not missed a fish with them before. We have recently changed from using a gama's circle to the mustad and have been missing fish. Do you think this could be and issue? Has anyone else experienced this???
Unlucky Scott, as you said - thats fishing!!
If you are targeting couta or wahoo specifically then there is little benefit in using circles IMO, rather use normal J hooks.
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Nice report Scott, pity about the lost fish - hard luck :-(
I fish circles exclusively and have been through many different brands. In my opinion your best bet with best hookup ratio on tuna are 1) VMC Sport Circle 6/0 (offset heavy gauge) and 2) Eagle Claw 7/0 Tournament (inline circle) very sharp and excellent hookup. Ironically my worst results on tuna have been on the Gama 6/0 and Mustad Demon Circle 8/0's. If you want a no fail solution I would recommend the VMC sport circle 6/0.
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Unlucky there Scott.
Well our motors seem to finally be sorted, put boat on water at about 10h00 to test run them, purred properly, so well out there got some bait, headed shallow to try for a Couta but nadda, heard plenty guys battled for fish yesterday. Sea was to perfect yesterday.
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Shot Mark,
Will try the VMC's moving forward!!
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We fished yesterday with the intent of trying for a couta but had the boys nagging us to join us and with flat seas and almost no wind predicted it was impossible to say no so we changed plans and decided to try for a dorrie or wahoo instead...
Saw Scott up North (boat is looking smart bud) and heard he'd dropped a couple so knew the fish were there and just avoiding us <: We found some walla walla and decided to boat a couple for the comp next week which ended up being good fun for the kids. After no luck and seeing another boat land a good size wahoo we headed further North and let the boys fish bottoms where they got some nice kings, rockcod & reds which were all released.
On the way back we put out a few rappies and managed a tuna of 17kg.
(http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/MGalleryItem.php?id=2510)
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Launched as well yesterday to scatter my dads ashes and give the boat a run before comp. was nice day on the water and scattered ashes sea was very clean. Then did a slow tip home pulling konas and then switched to halos. No joy but was not really a fishing trip. Was awesome day on the water none the less.
Winching the boat up the cable snapped caught my brother on the cheek, lucky he had turned slightly and it left a small scratch on his cheek. Very lucky.
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Winching the boat up the cable snapped caught my brother on the cheek, lucky he had turned slightly and it left a small scratch on his cheek. Very lucky.
Eish, I'm always scared of that happening. Your brother is a lucky man, could've been a lot worse
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thanks Shaun!!
good job on the tuna! Pity we couldnt bag ourselves a wahoo!
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Hey Tony, where's your report from today?? The lighties are waiting... :hehe:
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Was out today and went up past Umdloti staying shallow, then took a trip around Mid Reef, went back to Umdloti and came back shallow. We got a few Yellowfin at Mid Reef area other wise no action at all.
Water is cold just over 22degC in the shallows and under 23degC deeper out. Very green and dirty inshore till at least 50m depth where its starts clearing and at 70m it looks good and clean
In the 15-20m area from Umdloti till La-Lucia I saw a lot of big fish showings, all were hugging the bottom.
S-N current was screaming, SW was pumping up to 28knts, swells big deeper out but not so bad in the shallows.
Sure hope conditions improve for the comp this weekend.
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Hey Tony, where's your report from today?? The lighties are waiting... :hehe:
Is Tony hiding something from us? (bat (bat
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Hello all. Been a while.
See allot of you this weekend I hope.
https://www.facebook.com/events/797501953664073/ (https://www.facebook.com/events/797501953664073/)
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Hello boys. Nothing to hide, we launched at about 08:00 with the SW pushing a little bit, and ran out to the platform where we ran with Fat Girl for a while. (Tried to get you on the radio Mike, but no response)
Anyway we then headed back to Umhlanga, circling a few ships and back to the club, beached at about 12:30.
A few beers and a cheeseburger was enjoyed for lunch followed by a decent power nap to round out the day.
Strikes=0
Hookups=0
Boated=0
The above result dispite one of the crew leaving a reasonable chum line :cnfzd a night of Cane & coke doesn't help :hehe:
But great to be on the water again
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We decided to get away from the crowds and headed South to port edward this weekend. Also wanted to get in a bit of practice surf launching the new boat and targeting a few species that would be in the comp this coming weekend.
We launched Sunday and as we got past the shark nets got hit by a buster and with the current running North South and a big SW blowing the sea turned ugly, so we turned around and were back on the beach within 30mins.
We launched yesterday as the guru had predicted a nice calmish day, but seems they got it wrong! We decided to stick it out and headed out to the wreck for some jigging! The sea was nasty out there and after three drifts we called it and came back inside.
We fished the 16Fa line off TO strand and were rewarded with a few fish! Got a tuna of about 17kg's, a nice bonnie of 7Kg's (which was released) and a catface rockod. all the usual bottoms baring the scavvies were very scarce and we battled! called it a day at about 11, and was nice to take the SeaCat 520 through the surf a couple times!!
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Lekker Scott. Good luck for the comp the weekend.
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Well done young man :fshn:
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Fished today, awesome sea and weather, ended up with 5 snoek including a nice 7kg slab!! :rck" and a small YFT. Snoek are here in numbers w;k
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Fished today, awesome sea and weather, ended up with 5 snoek including a nice 7kg slab!! :rck" and a small YFT. Snoek are here in numbers w;k
Well done DB. You picked the right day to go fishing. That is a great snoek you got. Think I shall have to take a weekday off and chase them too.
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See you on the water tomorrow :fshn:
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See you on the water tomorrow :fshn:
Tight lines Chris and enjoy!!!
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See you on the water tomorrow :fshn:
How did you go yesterday Chris??
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Better late than never.... need to do one of these trips again chaps!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLXdr5c0Fd0# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLXdr5c0Fd0#)
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Great vid Shaun!
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Awesome Viedeo Shaun one of the best days of my life so far........should try make more of them. :hnthnt:
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Awesome Viedeo Shaun one of the best days of my life so far........should try make more of them. :hnthnt:
Sure you can handle more of 5:02??? :hyst:
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Lekker Vid Shaun.
We had a trip out yesterday, game plan was mainly bottoms, did not get tons but the ones we did get were quality, nice fresh fish for the pan and mates. Water was warm 24.5 even at 65m the sinker comes up warm. Whilst out had a bus of a yellowtail swim past under the boat, eeish and we weren't prepared, FFF managed to get a popper in the zone it followed it a short bit then turned and gone, live learn hey.
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Lekker Vid Shaun.
We had a trip out yesterday, game plan was mainly bottoms, did not get tons but the ones we did get were quality, nice fresh fish for the pan and mates. Water was warm 24.5 even at 65m the sinker comes up warm. Whilst out had a bus of a yellowtail swim past under the boat, eeish and we weren't prepared, FFF managed to get a popper in the zone it followed it a short bit then turned and gone, live learn hey.
We'll done guys :rck"
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Awesome Viedeo Shaun one of the best days of my life so far........should try make more of them. :hnthnt:
Sure you can handle more of 5:02??? :hyst:
Now that I stopped smoking you can bring it on bud.....That little tuna really gave me a good rev. :rck"
Denzil lekker fish boet and bet you Ant made you catch most of them like usual hey?.....
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Great video Shaun, you guys can do it again by joining us at Sodwana in October.
Nice D and Ant
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Nice bottoms there Denzel and Ant.
Shaun, as Tony said "See you in October to make another cool movie".
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And Trip F and Big D need to join us there as well. C'mon boys, you know you want to.
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Lekker fish there Denzil, FFF and Kieran (clap)
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Typical DSBC Costa comp over and some nice fish coming out and water is perfect.
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Launched Saturday and did my usual snoek hunt, managed to get a few them moved to the bait spots, put out live baits and within minutes went away only to be eaten after 10 min, went back to the spot put another live bait same thing after about 15min eaten again so I packed up and went home. Good to meet up with Fritz, Chris E, Ant and big D. As well as Dugongboy who I hope you came right today. Was a great day out, till next week end cheers.
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Watched the fight so only launched at 7:30, water was too clean so guys battled for snoek and lots blanked, found a slightly dirtier rip up past the airport and ended up getting one of around 2kg and dropped another about the same size, in these conditions the fluro trace(no steel above the skirt) is a must!! :hnthnt:
Spent another 3hrs trying for couta - great conditions, right spot, great baits......nada!! :-( that's plenty hours put in areas that normally produce this time of year and not even a pull :dunno: That said I suppose that only 22 caught by 350+ boats in the comp tells a story!!
Saw a bus :brnz: under the boat a few times, ignoring the live shad......waiting for something bigger no doubt (bat
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Nice bottoms there Denzel and Ant.
Shaun, as Tony said "See you in October to make another cool movie".
:shk :shk :shk :shk :cnfzd :cnfzd :cnfzd
Not sure I want a part in this.....
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Come on Boet, be a sport. We are going to put a Go Pro in the bar just for you. :frid swr :yipee: :frid
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Well done on all the fish guys (clap)
@Shaun that video clip is excellent, brings back some great memories.
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Well done on all the fish guys (clap)
@Shaun that video clip is excellent, brings back some great memories.
I believe you have an outstanding report Mr Brewitt.....
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Just got back from Natal Champs held at Pennington over the weekend. There were seven teams comprising the main zones on the Natal Coast, with a great weather forecast for the 3 days. For once the Pennington launch was pretty tame and all boats launched safely on all three days.
Day 1 - we puzzled a bit for live bait and instead of running up to Aliwal decided to work south at the Mzimayi pinnacles to try for a tuna or wahoo. A lot of the boats ran north. We set a spread of lures and had three bonnies very quickly. At around 9am I had an enquiry on my tuna feather (running shotgun) the fish gave a few short runs and came to the boat fairly easily, we thought it was a small tuna or a bonnie and got a great suprise when a 10kg wahoo eventually came to the gaff! The rest of the day was quiet, two boats got some nice dorado, and there were two couta weighed - one of 13kg and one of 19kg.
Day 2 - I swapped teams for the day and we changed our gameplan a bit, we founf good livebait off Park Rynie and headed up to Scottburgh to try for a couta. We had great baits out but no takers. We ran up to Aliwal Shoal and set a spread of lures to find a tuna or wahoo. ON the way we passed a jetski fighting a sailie - was nice to watch the fish jumping and the angler doing his best to stay on his ski. We got a few small bonnies and then ran to the 19fa line at Hospital Road to drift. We set up a drift but conditions were way too still - no wind and no current (the baits just went straight down). We got harassed by bottomfish eating our livies and soon decided to call it quits as a big SW was forecast and we were quite far north. I made the call to put out the lures and move south to Mzimayi. After 5 minutes of trolling my feather went away again on the shotgun and a sailie came out the water, he pulled around 300m of string on his first run and gave a great account of himself. After 15 minutes we had the fish at the boat, pulled him up for a brief pic before successfully releasing him! My first sailie on 10kg line - very stoked! We reset the spread and 20 minutes later we got a 15kg tuna. The day was already made, but more was in store. After resetting the spread, my close deep diving lure got knocked but didn't hook up and 10 seconds later Doug's rod screamed off, another sailie! This time it came in quite easily and we got it to the boat in just over 10 minutes, Shane took the leader and brought it up next to the boat, unfortunately as he reached for the hooks the knot on the Rapala popped, but the fish swam away safely and the Rapala was hooked on the outside of the mouth so all should be ok. What a great day, the SW came and we headed to the beach for a few :beer: :beer: !!
Day 3 - The toughest day of the comp - near perfect conditions with flat seas and no wind. Unfortunately the fishing was terrible with only one tuna, a kingie and a 22kg wahoo coming out between all the boats. We blanked for the day, only caught 3 small sarda-sarda that were below minimum weight.
Once again it was a great comp with good anglers and great humour. Will definitely be back next year.
Some pics of our fish:
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Right Mark... so Mike and I have decided we'll have some of that in Round 2. No pressure....
Well done bud, cracking results. Looks like KZN was cooking this weekend... :envy
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Lekker Mark, well done. (clap)
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Well done Mark!!
20lb is the way forward for those Billies...great fun!!
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Right Mark... so Mike and I have decided we'll have some of that in Round 2. No pressure....
Well done bud, cracking results. Looks like KZN was cooking this weekend... :envy
:rck"
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Well done to all the guys some lekker fish being caught, congrats on the dbl Saily Mark :corrct: (clap)
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Well done on the sailies :win: :envy
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Well done guys some nice fish caught.
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Well done guys looks like the weekend produced all round. :fshn: :fshn:have to love this sport. w;k
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Nice, well done
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Nobody fish in 2 weeks?? :dunno:
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Did some jigging off Shelly last week, two days of jigging for only 5 Ambers but got smoked by some real monsters that couldn't be stopped. The guys using heavy gear and live bonnies have been getting some nice AJ's up to 35kg. Three came out yesterday 15kg, 23,6kg and 25kg. Here's some pics:
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That 35 is a beast :resp:
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The big one in the pics is only 25! Imagine the 35 :shk
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The big one in the pics is only 25! Imagine the 35 :shk
:shk :shk :shk
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Wow well done on those Ambers really nice sizes there!
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Nice AJs there eeish add to bucket list.
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those are the boys from bliksem hey?? wouldnt expect much less....
Awesome fish there!!
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those are the boys from bliksem hey?? wouldnt expect much less....
Awesome fish there!!
Yebo!
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:tkx: beautiful photos . :toppie:
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Maibabo, nice fish
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Busses! :resp:
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35 and 39,5
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(clap) Beauts
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Are they tasty?
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Geez those are buses well done to the anglers (clap)
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Now those are real widowmakers!! :rck" :rck"
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Fantastic fish well done guys (clap) (clap)
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OMS :shk :envy
Some serious skills and tackle to bring those bad boys up
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If only I hadnt given my left ball away already!! :shk :shk
Those are beast fish, well done guys!!
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:the sHPLAT wow... awesome fish!!!
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:fshn: Almost time to wake up, pack the boat and go hunt some Ambers
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Arrived at the Shelly ski boat club at 6am.
Made our way to Protea banks to get some bonnies,but they didn't play the same game.
So we carried on trolling with some halcos and feathers, 4 rods away and only two anglers on the boat with some quick knitting we boated 3 fish one getting taxed.
Saw a good showing on the southern Pinnacle so we stopped pulled the lures in and did some jigging.
While jigging I saw a guy next to us go vas so I quicky came up and worked a small unda unda ,Vas! Had a lakka fight on the light tackle then taxed! Carried on throwing spoon and unda's having fun with the small tuna (5-6kg)
We managed to boat 5 fish! Sharks were hungry! Then went and hunted some ambers!
Went to a brick found the showing,jigged my arms broken then put down a a big fillet....nothing , we worked the area for a while then called it quits and went back to the reef to find some tuna.
Started chumming got a pull almost instantly and worked this fish!
15min into the fight ,the fish was under the boat.
Then heard a horrible noise POP... My 10kg line broke!
Then headed for home..
Was a lakka day out had some great fun on tbe light setups Bonus!
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Hi Adrian thanks for the report, well done! Oh yes :welc:
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Lekker Adrian, sharks wild all over.
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Hi Adrian thanks for the report, well done! Oh yes :welc:
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Fished up at Maphelane over the weekend as part of the Maphelane Trophy competition. As usual great hospitality, amazing food and atmosphere and a great group of people. We had a slow day on Saturday, fairly calm conditions in the morning and then a buster 25 knot NE pushed us around a bit. We got a few pulls early on but the fish were very skelm and none of them stuck. I managed a small dorado on a dead redeye and that was our only weigher for the first day. Three of the teams did well on day 1 with a few nice couta and one big yellowfin weighed. Day 2 was much better and we had a different gameplan. After getting lots of live mozzies we raced down to the Lighthouse pinnacle only to find 6 other boats with the same plan already there. We slow putted our baits around the area for half an hour without a pull, but the current and wind were making it hard to make ground. Some of the boats upped lines and went deep. We chose to stick it out and changed tactics to drift. In the next hour Chris got a nice couta of around 8kg and I got one of 10.8kg on a live mozzie. We dropped one fish and then things went quiet. We finished off at home reef just as the wind turned to SW and the couta turned on - we got another one of 7kg and another dart before lines up. All in all a fun day on the water. Well done to the Richards Bay, Albatross and St Lucia guys who placed top three (well done Rory Mundy on your guys placing).
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So that's what a couta looks like duh............................. well done on the fish!!
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So that's what a couta looks like duh............................. well done on the fish!!
:hyst: :hyst: :hyst: :hyst: :hyst: thought I was seeing things
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fished the maphelane trophy this weekend got a nice tuna with a couple of rats then 2 dorados on the saturday. The Sunday we caught a boat load of small yellows sadly non that would make the minuminm weight so they were bombed back but managed to finish second(team albatross) in the comp but seriously need to work on my couta skills
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Lekker stuff Mark, shot for the report!!! See you fishing with Merv Hughes there w;k (he's actually got a fishing show here in Aus)
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:thmsup"
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Good going Mark!
Nice fish :wahoo: :dor: !
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See you fishing with Merv Hughes there w;k
:rotfl :hehe:
Lekker report Mark, well done. Tough conditions but some fish landed.
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Nice Mark lekker to see some fish coming. Sarel had a bad encounter with a trebble hook of aRappie in his arm but is Ok. Tight lines!
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Well done guys! Mark, did you stay at Maphelane? Anyone stay in the cabins? Would like to know what the conditions are like, have they sorted the water problem out?
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Reefs we all stayed at the ski boat club's tented camp which is nice, The roads in were horrible as usual and i dont think to much has changed at the parks board camp and chalets they still ruff
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Reefs we all stayed at the ski boat club's tented camp which is nice, The roads in were horrible as usual and i dont think to much has changed at the parks board camp and chalets they still ruff
Absolutely, the club camp is awesome but the last stretch of road is a screamer, definitely 4x4 or SUV with high ground clearance only. There were some issues with water pressure so I assume the same for the Parks Board Camp.
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I went down to the Block in sheppie (River mouth) at lunch time and saw an old chap fighting a fish.
The chap managed to land it and to my surprise it was a garrick weighing in at about 8 - 10kgs.
So it looks like the garrick have come through early this year, i'll be out at Lugs trying for them his weekend
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They always start getting on the lower south coast around now and by July they will be up at Winkle - generally the windy months they appear at Lugs.
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I went down to the Block in sheppie (River mouth) at lunch time and saw an old chap fighting a fish.
The chap managed to land it and to my surprise it was a garrick weighing in at about 8 - 10kgs.
So it looks like the garrick have come through early this year, i'll be out at Lugs trying for them his weekend
So just a question regarding offshore game fishing in general in KZN... can anyone summarise the best times of the year to target the respective species (appreciate it differs from the south to north coast).
Call it the Dummies Calender to KZN Offshore FIshing if you will... w;k
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I went down to the Block in sheppie (River mouth) at lunch time and saw an old chap fighting a fish.
The chap managed to land it and to my surprise it was a garrick weighing in at about 8 - 10kgs.
So it looks like the garrick have come through early this year, i'll be out at Lugs trying for them his weekend
So just a question regarding offshore game fishing in general in KZN... can anyone summarise the best times of the year to target the respective species (appreciate it differs from the south to north coast).
Call it the Dummies Calender to KZN Offshore FIshing if you will... w;k
General for Durban from my experience
Dorado - Dec - March
Wahoo - Jan - April
YFT - All Year
Couta - Jan - April
Sailfish - Jan - June
Snoek - All Year
Garrick - June - Sept
King Fish - Oct - April
Queen Fish - Oct - April
Black Marlin - Dec - April
Blue Marlin - Jan - April
Striped Marlin - Oct - Jan
Tropical Yellowtail - Oct - Dec
Prodigal Son - No Clue never caught one
For sure you will catch all these species outside of these dates as this is just a general guide, and as always if you don't have a line in the water you wont catch fish
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They always start getting on the lower south coast around now and by July they will be up at Winkle - generally the windy months they appear at Lugs.
According to my little black book - end September :fshn: :fshn:
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Decided to do a bottoms trip with Umpa Lumpa yesterday.
Sea was flat but the fish were not biting. Had to work hard for our fish but got a couple nice Englishman.
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I went down to the Block in sheppie (River mouth) at lunch time and saw an old chap fighting a fish.
The chap managed to land it and to my surprise it was a garrick weighing in at about 8 - 10kgs.
So it looks like the garrick have come through early this year, i'll be out at Lugs trying for them his weekend
So just a question regarding offshore game fishing in general in KZN... can anyone summarise the best times of the year to target the respective species (appreciate it differs from the south to north coast).
Call it the Dummies Calender to KZN Offshore FIshing if you will... w;k
General for Durban from my experience
Dorado - Dec - March
Wahoo - Jan - April
YFT - All Year
Couta - Jan - April
Sailfish - Jan - June
Snoek - All Year
Garrick - June - Sept
King Fish - Oct - April
Queen Fish - Oct - April
Black Marlin - Dec - April
Blue Marlin - Jan - April
Striped Marlin - Oct - Jan
Tropical Yellowtail - Oct - Dec
Prodigal Son - No Clue never caught one
For sure you will catch all these species outside of these dates as this is just a general guide, and as always if you don't have a line in the water you wont catch fish
Thanks Mike :+ cred:
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To add my 5c to Mikes list - for Durban. :-)
Dorado - Dec - March personally March has by far been the most productive month
Wahoo - Jan - April
YFT - All Year but go back 10-15 years and there were nothing like the numbers we have been getting in recent years - big shift in YFT :rck"
Couta - Jan - April Start in December if you include Umdloti and stretch to May - the best numbers for me have been December (Umdloti ) and the biggest fish in May (Hyper-LaLucia stretch and Cutting)
Sailfish - Jan - June
Snoek - All Year year round but as a rule as soon as the offshore starts blowing so mid March to August, June/July best but personally July has by far been the most productive month
Garrick - June - Sept as a rule windy months so September - December
King Fish - Oct - April
Queen Fish - Oct - April sometimes large numbers on any shallow wreck/reef January-March and even till May if the warm water stays
Black Marlin - Dec - April
Blue Marlin - Jan - April
Striped Marlin - Oct - Jan
Tropical Yellowtail - Oct - Dec
Prodigal Son - No Clue never caught one generally a summer fish, all mine have been caught whilst fishing for couta (as with most guys hence the name )
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Whoever is fishing tomorrow - see you on the water :fshn: :fshn:
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Whoever is fishing tomorrow - see you on the water :fshn: :fshn:
Tight lines makree, i must work :-( :cry:
Weather looks pearler tomorrow, tight lines to those hitting the water tomorrow.
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Fished Saturday, only managed a couple snoek early then tried for a tunny nothing, then for a couta but nothing. Had a few waters with Rich and STD and caught up on all the latest news. Till next week cheers.
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Also launched on sat as Kieran has rugby on Sundays. Went for bottom fish but the current was flying down south. On the deeper marks we were doing 3.7km/h on the drift. Shallower was still 1.9km/h so struggled. Gareth got a nice catface rockcod that weighed 5.3kg.
After beaching loaded the boat and found it was not straight. While we were pushing it straight on the trailer Gareth got his finger caught between the boat and trailer and cut the end of his middle finger off. From the nail to tip. So ended out being a really k*K day. Believe he was in surgery yesterday. They going to amputate from the first Knuckle.
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Eeina, not good. Recover quickly Gareth.
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Also launched on sat as Kieran has rugby on Sundays. Went for bottom fish but the current was flying down south. On the deeper marks we were doing 3.7km/h on the drift. Shallower was still 1.9km/h so struggled. Gareth got a nice catface rockcod that weighed 5.3kg.
After beaching loaded the boat and found it was not straight. While we were pushing it straight on the trailer Gareth got his finger caught between the boat and trailer and cut the end of his middle finger off. From the nail to tip. So ended out being a really k*K day. Believe he was in surgery yesterday. They going to amputate from the first Knuckle.
Damn, that's not great at all! Please send our regards to Gareth, wish him a speedy recovery.
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Absolutely amazing how quickly a life changing accident can happen :shk
Hope he has a quick recovery
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Sorry to hear Ant, not good at all bud!!
Wishing you a speedy recovery Gareth!!!
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Eish sorry about the finger :shk, hope it heels soon, a mate of mine had the same thing when trying to separate dogs fighting, also lost from the top knuckle.
I took a mates two lighties for snoek and we ended up with three of 2-3kgs, they were so stoked to catch something bigger than small shad and bass :-)
until the one went :cnfzd so we changed plans and pulled some raps back from the deep and a 'fresher' speed w;k
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Unlucky Fluffer sry but hey could have been worse, nice reports chaps.
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Eina, I wish you speedy recovery, Gareth.
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Unlucky Fluffer sry but hey could have been worse, nice reports chaps.
Sorry about the finger Gareth, not a lekker way to end the days fishing for everyone on board.
These sort of accidents happen so quickly, just one second of distraction. They normally happen to me though, so I have learnt to add bomb bandages in the cars first aid kit, everything else can be fixed with a band aid, disprin or imodium.
Congrats on the fish boys.
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Unlucky Fluffer sry but hey could have been worse, nice reports chaps.
Sorry about the finger Gareth, not a lekker way to end the days fishing for everyone on board.
These sort of accidents happen so quickly, just one second of distraction. They normally happen to me though, so I have learnt to add bomb bandages in the cars first aid kit, everything else can be fixed with a band aid, disprin or imodium.
Congrats on the fish boys.
Yeah one moment of distraction can be costly. Lucky Richard (Nikao) was at club, he bandaged him up nicely, i shot through to the club and took him him home so his wife could take him to hospital. I missed a lovely day on the ocean had to work.
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sry that is bad news bud.....hope it heals up good and quick, and does not hamper your fishing!!! :shk
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sorry to hear about gareth...
i know the feeling, i got mine stuck in the sprocket and chain of my motor bike while loading it after a ride...
Luckily the doc managed to stitch it back together and you cant even see a thing!
fingers always seem to end in places they not meant to be!!
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Hell, thats lousy news. I hope they can save the finger and don't have to amputate.
I shot out to No 1 on saturday, but with the current screaming the way it was, returned to try the center bank for the early season garrick, but nothing.
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Anyone else see the action in the basin on Saturday ??I Went back to the club on Saturday afternoon for a swim and a sundowner on the beach and witnessed an unbelievable sight - a huge shoal of sand mackerel and some smaller shoals of mullet moved right in to the basin, the water was crystal clear and you could see them in the waves, the next thing some big snoek and I think garrick moved in and started smashing them..........20 meters off the beach!! :shk this went on for about 5 mins with a few snoek getting airborne :rck"
Also saw a guy come very close to turning his brand new boat over when his motor died.......very lucky!! :nuts:
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Good thing the seine netters werent around!
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Good thing the seine netters werent around!
:-)
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:shk sorry about the finger!
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Well I fetched Gareth from the hospital yesterday. They amputated the finger at the first Knuckle and stitched the end.
He looks like it is a bit sore. He asked me to thank you all for the kind words.
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To make light of the situation, i guess we should call him stompie from now on.
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Sorry to hear about Gareths finger, eish!
Fished Saturday, went jigging and got two nice yellowtail and an amber.
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well done mark you okes at the shark pit seem to be doing the business :cgrts:
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Unlucky Fluffer sry but hey could have been worse, nice reports chaps.
Sorry about the finger Gareth, not a lekker way to end the days fishing for everyone on board.
These sort of accidents happen so quickly, just one second of distraction. They normally happen to me though, so I have learnt to add bomb bandages in the cars first aid kit, everything else can be fixed with a band aid, disprin or imodium.
Congrats on the fish boys.
Yeah one moment of distraction can be costly. Lucky Richard (Nikao) was at club, he bandaged him up nicely, i shot through to the club and took him him home so his wife could take him to hospital. I missed a lovely day on the ocean had to work.
thats not good news about Gareth aka fluffer, and well done Richard
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Well done Mark, hope you've cleared the calendar for June... some Dbn boys heading your way!!
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Sorry to hear about Gareth finger not lekker.
Mark congrats some lekker catches there!!
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Man you Shelly boys are getting some nice fish well done (clap) (clap)
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Nice fish there Mark eeish jealous is not the word.
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To make light of the situation, i guess we should call him stompie from now on.
LOL he can only throw half a zap now.
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Anyone fishing Friday or Saturday ?? :crzy
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Anyone fishing Friday or Saturday ?? :crzy
Was thinking of doing a Garrick trip :hnthnt: :hnthnt: :hnthnt:
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lucky it wasn't the whole finger :creep:
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Got a mail from the club earlier -
DSBC Launch site is closed til further notice due to the big swells!
Boats and jetskis will be turned away at the boom gate. Please
co-operate as it is for your own safety!
then they go on to say
This weekend we are sending two teams to the Shelly Beach Interclub.
go figure :nuts:
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Got a mail from the club earlier -
DSBC Launch site is closed til further notice due to the big swells!
Boats and jetskis will be turned away at the boom gate. Please
co-operate as it is for your own safety!
then they go on to say
This weekend we are sending two teams to the Shelly Beach Interclub.
go figure :nuts:
LOL so its not just me who pickked that up :hyst:
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Eish guys what can I say, we are hosting our interclub this weekend and the swell is HUGE! It will slack off over the weekend but so far it may be a late launch tomorrow (or a call-off) and fishing Sunday. Luckily we have a very experienced weather committee and will always make the call SAFETY FIRST.
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Eish guys what can I say, we are hosting our interclub this weekend and the swell is HUGE! It will slack off over the weekend but so far it may be a late launch tomorrow (or a call-off) and fishing Sunday. Luckily we have a very experienced weather committee and will always make the call SAFETY FIRST.
I cancelled launching on Sunday due to possible unfavourable conditions, from the (non) reports it looks like the right call?
Will be interesting to hear if the interclub went ahead what with the sards around and all.
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Our interclub went ahead yesterday, moderate swells and a fairly tricky launch all 13 boats launched safely. We gave an extra hour to lines up so the guys managed to fish from 7.30am to 15.00. The sards were around inshore but none of the boats caught gamefish off the shoals. The boats that did well stayed in the Protea area and Diepgat areas. 4 teams caught 3 species and 1 team caught 4 species with most of the teams getting yellowfin, big bonnies and sarda. In the end the guys had a great day and the finish was very close:
1st Shelly Beach A
2nd Umkomaas
3rd Nomads
4th Durban
5th Shelly Beach Juniors
Biggest fish was a 17,7kg Yellowfin.
It was a great comp with some good fellowship and humour. More than 70 fish were weighed on the day so a good result despite the taxman trying his best.
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Well done Bwana, thanks for the reply. :Like:
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Planning on hitting Shelly tomorrow... no crew so going to have to fumble my way around on the ski.
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Sorry Shaun I'm so jammed at work would have loved to have joined you on Scouse :-( Will make a gap in the next two weeks so we can go stretch your arms on some big AJ's and Yellowtail on the jig :hnthnt:
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Shot Mark, looking forward to it...
Headed down to Shelly early yesterday morning with the ski. Weather Gods were on my side and in no time i'd opened my account with a YFT double up. On every troll i then picked up a fish on the new UV Sailfish rappie with the occasional double up and had 8 or 9 fish in no time at all, with 5 boated. All fish caught were between 5-7kg and not a single one lost to the taxman (Marks' heads up the day before had me packing the Tiagras :hnthnt: )
Decided to then do a bit of chumming which isn't as easy on the ski, got revved by some much bigger fish but lost all 5 to sharks and decided to call it a day as i'd got my fill.
Whilst packing up, the North/South drift was screaming and the next thing the water starts boiling around me. Picked up the Terez which has been on several trips and not been tested... first throw with the Maxrap and BANG i'm on!! Awesome fun on the ski and what an incredible combo with the Stella. Another YFT of about 7kg was boated as it was badly hooked. After that, 2 more casts yielded 2 more fish which were both released.
I then had a bird (gannet?) dive-bomb the irresistible Maxrap and ended up hooking it through the foot and wing... took me a while to get it unhooked but after a while he was safely released to annoy me another day. I saw the bird peck at the line but didn't think to check it and my first cast after that got absolutely smashed with the Stella screaming and the Terez bouncing in my hand for a few minutes before the line parted. Rookie mistake, cost me a decent fish.
Changed to a pink Maxrap and had no luck so changed to a Black Magic popper and picked up another 2 fish before calling it a day.
Cracking day on the water, thinking twice about selling the ski now duh
(http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/MGalleryItem.php?id=2540)
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Oh... no sign of the sardines. the sardine boats were at the club and came back empty.
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Well done Shaun (clap)
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Great stuff Shaun!! (clap)
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nicely done shaun!!
wish I could be fishing!!
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Sounds like 1x hectic day at Shelly :rck"
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Nice going Shaun, hope you thought of us poor buggers sitting at work :-) :-)
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Nice going Shaun, hope you thought of us poor buggers sitting at work :-) :-)
The entire time... (evil laugh)
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Well done Shaun. Always a great day at Shelley.
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Fcuk.............that's a good session :envy
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Sorry no pics of fish, means no fish LOL
Well done Shaun, lekker report and looked like an awesome day, gotta love KZN weather.
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Well done Shaun sounds like a lekker day out (clap)
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While I'm sitting here in the big smoke in long johns and jean pant you were out on the big blue on a water scooter probably in kort broek nogal???!!!!
ADMIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! swr <: (bat
:hehe: Lekker day out Shaun well done
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Well done Shaun that's a great day on the water bud! :rck"
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Awesome stuff welldone!! :yft: :yft:
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So here is a report from the interclub I fished this past weekend w;k .
Arrived at the Shelly Beach Ski Boat Club at 2:30pm to chat to my team mates.
Had a good briefing with some good laughs and lots of smiling faces which is always a great start!
Day 1.
Arrived at the Club, had a lekka breakfast that the ladies in he kitchen prepared for everyone!
All the skippers checked the surf out and it was called off due to unsafe surf conditions.
Was a well spend day with the team and some other juniors,going over tackle,throwing spoon in the bay,soccer on the beach just all round fun!
Day 2.
Same procedure in the morning packed the boat and all boat met on the backline as soon as all boat made it to the backline we got the go ahead to head to our fishing destinations.
Our game plane for day one was to run for the hole and pull lures for a Skipjack!
We had an awesome run to the hole with very awesome ride on Clint Barclays boat Devocean!
Arrived at the hole set up spread and wasn't even Two minutes and we had a full house strike!
All tuna were too small to weigh in so were safely released.
We had 3 more full house pull with more small tuna and headed to the Reef to find some Tuna and other species.
Arrived on the reef and started the usual... Chumming.
Cameron Palmers rod screamed away and he was into an awesome fish!
In 15min Clint put the gaff into a lovely 14kg yellow fin :yft: :yft: ! Big smiles all round the boat now we had some weight in the hatch!
They day went on with a few pull but just small bonnies not the size we were looking for.
Liam Taljaard spotted some awesome chases behind the boat and put a popper into the middle of it and got smashed 3 times but to no hookups, so I put my popper into the mix and got a hookup instantly! The fight didn't even last a minute as the fish swam straight to the boat getting chased by one of those grey things :yft: .
As soon as we put the fish in the hatch my other stick screamed away!
Got the fish turned saw the fish at the boat and he headed straight down and taxed! Good fish chowed!
We chummed for abit more with no luck then pulled some lures again.
Again 2 sticks away I boated my fish a nice 9kg fish and Cameron with a more grumpy fish which took a lot more line, eventually I line parted (leader frayed)
I got another pull and boated a good size bonnie!
Now I had 2 species just needed the 3rd!
Liams stick screamed away but the hooks pulled:(
I gave the call to head back onto the drift and try get another species I managed to boat a small sarda that just made size now we had something to stand on 3 species.
By then it was lines up and we headed back with smiles all around!
At the scales we noticed we had done extremely well for an all junior team!
Big thanks to Mark Brewitt For all the lessons and time put in on helping us.
And Clint Barclay for having us on his awesome boat!
Results were:
1st Shelly Beach Men – 524 pts
2nd Umkomaas – 462 pts
3rd Nomads – 431 pts
4th Durban Blue – 401 pts
5th Shelly Beach Juniors – 240 pts
Anglers:
1st – John Watkins – Umkomaas – 359 pts
2nd – Shane Dennis – Durban Blue – 283 pts
3rd – Ivor Mathee – Nomads – 235 pts
4th – Kurt Rutter – Shelly Beach – 203 pts
5th – Adrian dela Hunt – Shelly Beach Juniors – 115 pts
I also managed to get Top Junior of The Comp.
Received a phone call and was notified that I will Be Representing Natal U19 Team as Captain in July At Shelly Beach.
And Megan Du Plessis also a Shelly beach Junior angler will Captain the U16 side and nationals!
Also a big Congratulations to Bevan Taljaard (shelly beach junior angler) on also making the Natal U19 team
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Great report Adrian, well done.
Also congrats on Making Natal U19 and noggal captain. :+ cred: congrats to the other Shelley juniors also going to fly Natal colours. Wishing you guys all best for future.
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Well done Adrian and congrats on being selected for the natal side. Sure you will do well.
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:cgrts: great report. :tkx: :toppie:
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Congrats on the selection very well done, and thanks for sharing the report
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Great report there Adrian, well done on the junior team's result at the interclub. I am very stoked for you, Megan and Bevan making the Natal sides for Junior Nationals, you will do well. :+ cred:
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Anyone fishing tomorrow, we're hopefully heading down to Shelly tomorrow...
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Great report Adrian and :hpybthd: by the way!!
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Stuck here in the office, thinking about what could have been. Aaargh awesome weather in KZN at moment.
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Thanks guys!!
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Well done Adrian.
I noticed over the last few reports that the fish only bite on week days in Durban, so took the day off to hunt the snoek :hnthnt:
Well what a jewel of a day hardly a breeze and perfect conditions. Headed straight for Luggs and started pulling redeye baits. The snoek we're being real sneaky and we managed to eventually hook up with a nice 4 Kg number after many passes up and down, and a shad for breakfast.
I saw one or two other boats pick up a few single fish as well.
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Well done Adrian.
I noticed over the last few reports that the fish only bite on week days in Durban, so took the day off to hunt the snoek :hnthnt:
Well what a jewel of a day hardly a breeze and perfect conditions. Headed straight for Luggs and started pulling redeye baits. The snoek we're being real sneaky and we managed to eventually hook up with a nice 4 Kg number after many passes up and down, and a shad for breakfast.
I saw one or two other boats pick up a few single fish as well.
Lekker Chigger, see some nice snoek are being caught, well done on your one.
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Launched before first light and headed straight to Lugs, managed 4 snoek and dropped 4more, they were eating very shy and taking the fill it off without envelope pulling the drag,well till next weekend we try again, good to see Hammer on the water again.
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Its good to see the snoek have arrived in large numbers, Saturday was the best action I have seen in years and if you didn't get a fish then rather take up stamp collecting w;k....................sadly some guys are just plain stupid with the amount of fish they take, I know of a boat with 3 anglers that took 30 :-(
- simple GREED!! (even if a guy wanted to cover his petrol one or two fish at R40/kg would cover it) - believe me these guys are not poor and are not giving the fish to the poor. :cnfzd
Anyway we ended up with 5 and released 1 taking 4 (I fed 22 people with 3 of them!!) all within an hour!! We then tried AGAIN for couta - NADA :-( from what I hear they are thick up at Richards Bay at the moment.......for some reason they failed to come this side (bat but we can't complain........another Durban winters day :rck"
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Well done to all the guys getting some snoek, good to hear they are around in numbers again.
Shaun, good to see you down our side of town yesterday and glad you picked up some :yft:
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Its good to see the snoek have arrived in large numbers, Saturday was the best action I have seen in years and if you didn't get a fish then rather take up stamp collecting. w;k ...................sadly some guys are just plain stupid with the amount of fish they take, I know of a boat with 3 anglers that took 30 :-(
- simple GREED!! (even if a guy wanted to cover his petrol one or two fish at R40/kg would cover it) - believe me these guys are not poor and are not giving the fish to the poor. :cnfzd
Anyway we ended up with 5 and released 1 taking 4 (I fed 22 people with 3 of them!!) all within an hour!! We then tried AGAIN for couta - NADA :-( from what I hear they are thick up at Richards Bay at the moment.......for some reason they failed to come this side (bat but we can't complain........another Durban winters day :rck"
Guess i better sell my boat and take up stamp collecting!!
We tried for snoek, not for very long as it is one fish that im not too good at catching!
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Its good to see the snoek have arrived in large numbers, Saturday was the best action I have seen in years and if you didn't get a fish then rather take up stamp collecting. w;k ...................sadly some guys are just plain stupid with the amount of fish they take, I know of a boat with 3 anglers that took 30 :-(
- simple GREED!! (even if a guy wanted to cover his petrol one or two fish at R40/kg would cover it) - believe me these guys are not poor and are not giving the fish to the poor. :cnfzd
Anyway we ended up with 5 and released 1 taking 4 (I fed 22 people with 3 of them!!) all within an hour!! We then tried AGAIN for couta - NADA :-( from what I hear they are thick up at Richards Bay at the moment.......for some reason they failed to come this side (bat but we can't complain........another Durban winters day :rck"
Guess i better sell my boat and take up stamp collecting!!
We tried for snoek, not for very long as it is one fish that im not too good at catching!
Was that on Saturday Scott??
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Its good to see the snoek have arrived in large numbers, Saturday was the best action I have seen in years and if you didn't get a fish then rather take up stamp collecting. w;k ...................sadly some guys are just plain stupid with the amount of fish they take, I know of a boat with 3 anglers that took 30 :-(
- simple GREED!! (even if a guy wanted to cover his petrol one or two fish at R40/kg would cover it) - believe me these guys are not poor and are not giving the fish to the poor. :cnfzd
Anyway we ended up with 5 and released 1 taking 4 (I fed 22 people with 3 of them!!) all within an hour!! We then tried AGAIN for couta - NADA :-( from what I hear they are thick up at Richards Bay at the moment.......for some reason they failed to come this side (bat but we can't complain........another Durban winters day :rck"
Guess i better sell my boat and take up stamp collecting!!
We tried for snoek, not for very long as it is one fish that im not too good at catching!
Was that on Saturday Scott??
Sorry, blonde moment.... Sunday duh this public holiday has screwed up my days in my head...
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Thought so Scott. You just need to get a fillet to swim straight around some rips and you will come right bud :hnthnt:
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Very nice chaps.
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Am new to fishing for Natal Snoek. Big thanks to Dugongboy...have followed your snoek trace to a T...and caught well on both Saturday and Monday mornings. Really appreciate you sharing your knowledge. You have enabled my 14 year old son to become passionate about off-shore fishing.
I am told that the snoek are only here for another month or so...then keen to see if the garrick arrive.
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Dennis and his boet from DSBC got a 23kg cuta and 2 nice size yellow tails yesterday.
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Am new to fishing for Natal Snoek. Big thanks to Dugongboy...have followed your snoek trace to a T...and caught well on both Saturday and Monday mornings. Really appreciate you sharing your knowledge. You have enabled my 14 year old son to become passionate about off-shore fishing.
I am told that the snoek are only here for another month or so...then keen to see if the garrick arrive.
Great, I have a few mates that have converted to it with good success and zero bite offs(I do have a little mod that I will post soon), you will see the real benefit when fishing in gin clear water when its light ........also when fishing is fast and there are lots of boats :hnthnt:.
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Thinking of giving these snoek a bash tomorrow... never had much success though.
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Thinking of giving these snoek a bash tomorrow... never had much success though.
Good luck Shaun, you should get as there will not be many boats.
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Thinking of giving these snoek a bash tomorrow... never had much success though.
Good luck Shaun, you should get as there will not be many boats.
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Anyone fishing tomorrow, see you on the water :fshn: :fshn: :fshn:
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Goodluck.Chris wnd.anyone else launching - should be some nice rips on the outgoing tide.
I may launch on Sunday if my crew are up to it.
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Well done on the snoek! :corrct:
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We managed 4 snoek on Saturday and dropped at least 5, they are clever buggers.
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Well done Chris, we blanked Friday with some big sets rolling in the morning.
Got another mini UA social on Wednesday. Mark has promised us couta, amberjack, yellowtail and tuna. Hey Mark? :hnthnt:
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Well done Chris, we blanked Friday with some big sets rolling in the morning.
Got another mini UA social on Wednesday. Mark has promised us couta, amberjack, yellowtail and tuna. Hey Mark? :hnthnt:
Good luck Shaun
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Well done Chris, we blanked Friday with some big sets rolling in the morning.
Got another mini UA social on Wednesday. Mark has promised us couta, amberjack, yellowtail and tuna. Hey Mark? :hnthnt:
Hope you in the gym working those arms for tomorrow, tight lines.
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Well done Chris, we blanked Friday with some big sets rolling in the morning.
Got another mini UA social on Wednesday. Mark has promised us couta, amberjack, yellowtail and tuna. Hey Mark? :hnthnt:
Eish no pressure bud :shk would you like to order sizes while we're at it?? :hehe: Going to be great to fish with you boys again let's hope the fish play along.....
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Well done Chris, we blanked Friday with some big sets rolling in the morning.
Got another mini UA social on Wednesday. Mark has promised us couta, amberjack, yellowtail and tuna. Hey Mark? :hnthnt:
Eish no pressure bud :shk would you like to order sizes while we're at it?? :hehe: Going to be great to fish with you boys again let's hope the fish play along.....
Report on the Amberjack, Tail and Tuna lads... (bat
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Well done Chris, we blanked Friday with some big sets rolling in the morning.
Got another mini UA social on Wednesday. Mark has promised us couta, amberjack, yellowtail and tuna. Hey Mark? :hnthnt:
Eish no pressure bud :shk would you like to order sizes while we're at it?? :hehe: Going to be great to fish with you boys again let's hope the fish play along.....
Report on the Amberjack, Tail and Tuna lads... (bat
Just hit the beach, report to follow...
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With Mark putting work before fishing, we finally got a gap to fish yesterday which was a bonus as Adolf was in town so another mini UA social was on the cards. Both KZN boys rocked up at the club in jackets and tracksuit pants only to find Adolf waiting there in shorts and shirt.... :nuts:
(http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/MGalleryItem.php?id=2586)
There weren't many boats launching which was surprising considering the conditions so we were on the water at first light and before the sun was up.
Plan was to target couta first so we headed off and got some livebait. We pulled for about an hour with no pulls or showings on the finder. We decided to move off to the jigging and when we pulled the baits in, found that one of the mozzies had the top of its head bitten off.
We got to the jigging marks and it wasn't long before we went tight. I hooked into an amberjack, my first and i quickly learned how strong they were. With a few "encouraging" words from Mark i managed to get him off the bottom and had him on the boat. After a few pics it was safely released to fight another day. Super chuffed with that fish!
(http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/MGalleryItem.php?id=2587)
We carried on jigging and landed a few bonnies (released) and 2 tuna. This jigging story is hard work but well worth the rewards. The showings on the marks we were fishing were incredible (will post some screenshots later) and it's definitely something i'll be working on... just need to work on the fitness (hey Adolf??) hahaha
We then started chumming for tuna and after a slow start the fish started coming on the bite. While we were chumming, i was throwing a maxrap into our drift and picked up a tuna which was boated. As i got the fish to the boat, the chum rods went away with the tuna skelm biting our hook baits. After a while, the bite came on properly and we hooked into some decent fish and despite our best efforts, we got taxed each and every time. We lost 5 decent tuna on chum and another decent size on the maxrap before calling it a day when we ran out of bait.
(http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/MGalleryItem.php?id=2589)
(http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/MGalleryItem.php?id=2588)
While we were chumming and moving back up onto our drift we got to see a couta breach the water at least as high as the t-top after he'd smashed a bonnie :shk
Another cracking day on the water with some top blokes, definitely need to do it again :uarocks
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tooo jealous of you blokes Shaun!!!
Well done on some nice fish!!
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Well done guys. Nice to see a good day on the sea. Suppose you got sore arms today. (clap) (clap)
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Some nice fish there - well done :rck"
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Very lekker congrats on the Amber, still a fish id like to catch (clap)
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Nicely done chaps , (clap) .
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Nicely done on the Amber Shaun and well done Mark for putting the guys onto the fish again (clap)
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Lekker report there Shaun, was a great day with you blokes and we must set up a rematch for Adolf so he can get his big tuna. We hooked some real buses, pity about the :brnz: :brnz: :brnz: swr
I'm stoked you got the amber, you've got the hang of the jigging thing now we must upgrade you to a proper donkey AJ or 'Tail :hnthnt:
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Well done guys I am :envy
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Well done lads, nice report and pics, well done on the Amber pity about the Tunas.
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Awesome guys! Congrats on that amber Shaun :envy .
Drives me mad when those couta do that! Pity about the taxman.
Welldone Mark on putting the lads onto some fish - yet again!
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Well done chaps! (clap)
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Lekker to hear about such great fishing :rck" .... and :+ cred: on all the releases.
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Well went fishing yesterday for Kieran's birthday. We went with his friend Kayden and his dad Geoff.
Launched at 6:20 and went through to blue lagoon for a snoek but had no luck. There were quite a few boats but saw nobody catching.
We decided to get bait at the barge and things were very slow. Only thing we got were a couple of shad.
Next plan we decided to do a bit of bottom fishing so headed to one of my marks and set for the drift. Both boys went tight and landed a couple of nice slinger. Was great to see Kayden got 3 at once on a bass stick and did that rod bend. Fished quite hard and the boys got a few nice bottom fish.
Kieran landed up with the biggest fish of the day a 4Kg Englishman on a small stick. You should of heard him, Drag screamed a few times so he had a blast. Really nice day out with the boys.
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Well went fishing yesterday for Kieran's birthday. We went with his friend Kayden and his dad Geoff.
Launched at 6:20 and went through to blue lagoon for a snoek but had no luck. There were quite a few boats but saw nobody catching.
We decided to get bait at the barge and things were very slow. Only thing we got were a couple of shad.
Next plan we decided to do a bit of bottom fishing so headed to one of my marks and set for the drift. Both boys went tight and landed a couple of nice slinger. Was great to see Kayden got 3 at once on a bass stick and did that rod bend. Fished quite hard and the boys got a few nice bottom fish.
Kieran landed up with the biggest fish of the day a 4Kg Englishman on a small stick. You should of heard him, Drag screamed a few times so he had a blast. Really nice day out with the boys.
:corrct: :corrct: :corrct: (clap) (clap) (clap)
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Nice FFF, that's a lekker way to spend a birthday congrats on the catches :corrct: (clap)
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Lekker FFF, we were also toiling for snoek yesterday, must of missed each other, I must admit I do prefer to keep an eye on the back line.
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Very nice, well done FFF :cgrts:
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Was going through my GoPro footage and found this from the 14th June...
(http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/MGalleryItem.php?id=2591)
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What's that breaching back right?
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Looks like a humpback whale.... cool!
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Cool pic
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Lekker pic Shaun. We also had one just behind the boat sunday.
Also had a big turtle next to the boat sunday.
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Also got some cool footage of whales from the Gopro on the front but haven't gone through it yet.
Lekker shot of the turtle Anthony, they normally duck before you get a chance to take a decent pic :clfoto:
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It awesome to see nature at its best when out on the water. I love it
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Went out yesterday and tried for bottoms. Had a late launch, only launched at 8. Guru got it wrong again and the SE picked up early. got blown off the water. Got a nice Englishman again. When we did find the fish the blacktips showed up and cleaned us up. There were about 7 of them swimming around the boat.
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yummy congrats lekker catch
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So you took a day off work to beat Kieran's 3kg fish.... Ant, that's a BUS bud :win:
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Still one or two snoek around this morning...north of Umgeni mouth.
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Nice, did you shoot it :nuts: w;k
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Nope...just poor work with the gaff
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Nice well done on the snoek :happ:
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Nice snoek well done
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Well with my boat out of action, having the motor repaired, did a bottoms trip with Greg F yesterday had a good day.
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lovely fish boys!!!
well done!!
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Some quality fish there Ant, well done bud!!!
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Nice fish there boys, well done. :corrct:
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Well done chaps some lekker chow there (clap)
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Again well done. Thanks for my fillet, supper sorted today and tomorrow.
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Went out yesterday with Gareth and Kieran. School holidays are almost finished, my boat is still being repaired, and was very kind of Gareth offering to take Kieran and myself out. We did a bit of bottom fishing and got a couple of nice fish
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Sneaky little midweek session :rck", well done guys.
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Nicely done chaps!! :envy
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Very nice FFF and Gareth.
What sort of depth you guys fishing?
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Been a while since i have been on the water, forgot what a fishing rod looks like. :-(
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Very nice FFF and Gareth.
What sort of depth you guys fishing?
Fished quite a few marks. Most fish were caught shallow 30m. Fishing was hard yesterday the deeper marks produced very few fish.
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Very lekker wish I could sneak a quick session in
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A lekker sneaky sneaky midweek session boys, well done. Nice fish (clap)
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Thanks FFF nice to know you can still get some nice fish that shallow.
We tried our hand at bottoms 2 weeks back and had a ball catching over 20-30 fish although only 6 size fish landed, slinger a red stump nose and a bronze bream and lost 3 good fish but I guess its to be expected when messing around with 30lb spinning out fits. :hehe:
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Thanks FFF nice to know you can still get some nice fish that shallow.
We tried our hand at bottoms 2 weeks back and had a ball catching over 20-30 fish although only 6 size fish landed, slinger a red stump nose and a bronze bream and lost 3 good fish but I guess its to be expected when messing around with 30lb spinning out fits. :hehe:
Yes there are still good fish shallow but have to fish through the peckers.
Kieran enjoys the bottom fishing and uses a light stick.
A trick with the light stick is to use the grapnel sinkers from rock and surf and cut the wires off. they very streamline and go to the bottom very quickly.
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Went out on Saturday with my kayak for the first time. launched at vetchies and fished the backline, caught lots of mozzies, sand soldiers and mackerals. One small rock cod about 25cm was released and a cape stumpie of 22cm was released.. was too skrik to go deeper without a buddy so i just fished with the group stocking up on bait fish. was a lovely day out, cant wait to hit the water again
EDIT: Sorry posted in the wrong section, only seen http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/index.php?topic=8251.280 (http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/index.php?topic=8251.280) now.. will post there in future
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Got back from my cape road trip on Friday evening looked at the weather and did a launch on Sunday morning in perfect conditions, tried for snoek but the sea was too flat and no rips so went deep, managed one Daga and a few small reds which we returned, was great to be back on the water again and get the cobwebs off the bottom sticks.
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Got back from my cape road trip on Friday evening looked at the weather and did a launch on Sunday morning in perfect conditions, tried for snoek but the sea was too flat and no rips so went deep, managed one Daga and a few small reds which we returned, was great to be back on the water again and get the cobwebs off the bottom sticks.
Well done on the dagga. See you on the water as soon as our motor is repaired.
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So nationals is over and my team and I managed 2nd...report to follow..
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So nationals is over and my team and I managed 2nd...report to follow..
Well done Adrian was following on FB.......should post a few pics for the guys to see some of the :yft: :rck" .
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Fantastic stuff Adrian, :cgrts:
Looking forward to the report!
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Fantastic stuff Adrian, :cgrts:
Looking forward to the report!
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So the comp began with lakka chow at the briefing and boat draw.
Day 1: Zollie skipperd by John Boswarva
Day 2: Mercury Raptor skipperd by my dad Wayne Dela Hunt.
Day 3: Man Size skipperd by Weasel Coetzee.
Day 4: Aquaholic skipperd by Jono Hunt.
Day 5: Sea Mhadi Skipperd by Simon Heaver.
Day one dawned with a quick run to the hole to look for a skipjack.
We spent an hour trying for a skipjack with no luck.
Headed to the reef to look for tuna .we got lots of pulls but sharks killed us.
We ended day 1 lying 4th.
Ndsaa 77.891
Sadsaa 64.525
Gauteng 56.605
Ndsaa black 13.520
Day two started with going first with my dad.
We went straight to southerns and got pulls.
I got a jobfish Bevan got a 16kg yft and Cameron a big bonnie.
Now ever fish we caught our points double.
We lost some good fish due to sharks.
Lines up was called at 12pm because of bad weather.
At 11:55pm mine and Cameron's rods spun off ...good fish..
We had both fish turned .
12pm had passed and both of us were told to cut lines...bummer...
We ended the day in 1st place.
Ndsaa black 222,306
Wp 158.480
Ep 98.438
Border 86.057
Day 3.
We arrived at the hole and I managed a fish of 18.5 and 15kgs
Cameron 18kg yft and 5kg skipjack
Bevan 18kg yft
Together we caught 17 skipjack
Points doubled again with 3 species
Sadsaa 1378.629
Ndsaa black 851.302
Mpumalanga 430.112
S Gauteng 201.414
Day 4
Blow out
Day 5
Lots of pulls sharks nailed us.
Bevan 7.7kg yft.
Final scores.
SADSAA 1470.310
NDSAA black 1106.101
Border 470.976
Mpumalanga 439.792
At the end we came 2nd.
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Junior nationals
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Junior nationals
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Junior nationals
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NDSAA
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Teams
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Well done Adrian. :happ: :happ:
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Congrats Adrian, great performance all round from you and your team. Well captained. Thanks for posting a report :+ cred:
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Well done :rck"
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Thanks for the report and pics young man and well done to your team on your placing (clap)
:+ cred:
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Congrats on the placing Adrian well done (clap)
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Good Stuff Adrian
Great report (clap)
Well done on your placing :-)
:+ cred:
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Well done to the juniors and a great report.
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Nicely done
(clap)
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Lots of Geelbek around at the moment and even a handful caught off Snake Park pier this morning :hnthnt: must be chasing the small pockets of sards scattered around with all the other baitfish. :dunno:
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Thats good to hear Dugongboy. Have you caught out on the boat and if so, where have you found them? Also, are you fishing at night...or early dawn?
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Lots of Geelbek around at the moment and even a handful caught off Snake Park pier this morning :hnthnt: must be chasing the small pockets of sards scattered around with all the other baitfish. :dunno:
I'm keen for a bek session...
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Thats good to hear Dugongboy. Have you caught out on the boat and if so, where have you found them? Also, are you fishing at night...or early dawn?
Haven't fished for nearly a month, but believe me there are a LOT of bek around at the moment!! w;k
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More caught off the pier this afternoon!!
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Well done to Adrian and all the other juniors, great to see you all in action. Beck are a strange fish, I think related to women, sometimes you can get them easily, and then they are on, and yet other times you have no chance no matter what bait you put out w;k
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So what is this weekend like.
The reports are very scarce lately.
I will be on the south coast soon.
What is fishing like at Shelly beach lately?
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There has been good action lately - some big tuna around, geelbek, ambers, yellowtail and of course garrick.
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There has been good action lately - some big tuna around, geelbek, ambers, yellowtail and of course garrick.
Start rescheduling Mark... get the boat and Jeep back on Tuesday w;k
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We had the most unbelievable day on the big blue today!
With the forecast looking so good today down the south coast, I made the decision to pack the boat and head down to munster to fish today!
We left Durban on Friday night after work at 8:30pm and made the two hour trip down south!
We launch glenmore with relatively flat swells but the sea had a slight chop! The beach was freezing this morning with the bakkie temp saying 10degrees!
We managed to get bait fairly easily, and with some lovely mackies in the live bait well, I made the call to try for couta! We set course for sikombe and after a 30min run we had lines in the water just before 8. We pulled for couta until 10 with no luck!
We headed out to try for some bottoms! Now bottoms has been something I have been trying to learn properly for a long time. On our first down, brad and I both went tight and got 2 very nice slinger. We set the drift and I got one more slinger and brad got a nice yellow belly of 5kg's. After these fish, the spot went dead so I set course for another mark which was about 12km away.
We got here and on my first down I went down with a live mozzie, I got a nice press but missed the fish. Brad managed a bronze bream on a small piece of chokka he left on the top hook and this was released!
We then went back up to the mark and I put another livie down and so did brad. We both went tight almost instantaneously and I was into a proper fish!
It's not often I have had to back wind on the KP and this fish was giving me a tussle! My first thoughts were a big daga, but the longer the fight went on I was thinking a hammer as there were some big head shakes. After about 10mins I finally got the fish up and it turned out to be my first ever cracker!
I have been after one of these for ages and I couldn't believe my luck!
Unfortunately the fish had popped badly so I didn't want to release it and risk it dying! So we decided to boat it! Believe me, it's not something I wanted to do!
After we landed the cracker we called it a day as we had more than enough fish!
We ended the day with 2 x yellow belly's, 5 slinger and 1 cracker!
Ps. I must give a big shout out to gregf (even though he ain't with us anymore) he has helped me learn to bottom fish and given me plenty advice over the last year or so! Thanks boet!
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Well done! Awesome fish! What did it weigh and how deep were you fishing?
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Magic fish Scott, well done bud!!!
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Thanks guys!
The cracker weighed in at 15kgs and was caught at 26fa.
We fished 18 and 26fa yesterday.
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Nice Cracker Scott! (clap)
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That sounds like a real special day out.
Well done on adjusting tactics to conditions.
Very nice.
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Well done Scott, you biscuit. Nice fish
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:rck" Nice cracker Scott well done, also lekker report.
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Well done Scott. Great fish that. :happ: :happ:
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Yesterday there was action from 2 Black Marlin :billf: :billf:
Inkosi got one and landed it off Umhlanga
A guy on a Paddle Ski hooked one up on Yozuri's but did not land it
That's awesome for August and cold water
Just shows you that they are around most of the time just that we don't fish for them all year.
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Awesome fish Scott! Congrats (clap)
Nice to hear the :billf: are still around, there have been one or two around Protea as well lately, a few sightings but no hookups.
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Nice Scott :rck"
We went for the big snoek that were caught last week at the La Lucia to Umhlanga stretch, not a pull but for thousands of shad making for a frustrating morning(lift the ban please!!) I think that everybody blanked including me except for a nice fat shad for the pan, a seapike and a small blacktip kingie.
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Hearing reports that sards are being netted off Ifafa
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Great fishing Scott :cgrts:
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Great results Scott. That cracker is lovely, man and those rockies.....nom nom nom
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Well done Scott great fish, I was bed ridden the whole weekend with the dreaded man flu swr swr
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Nice Scott :rck"
We went for the big snoek that were caught last week at the La Lucia to Umhlanga stretch, not a pull but for thousands of shad making for a frustrating morning(lift the ban please!!) I think that everybody blanked including me except for a nice fat shad for the pan, a seapike and a small blacktip kingie.
I heard the shad were out of control on Saturday even taking the snoek trace without the fillet :-)
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Ok this thread has got so quiet that I am hoping to contribute tomorrow.
I am going on a charter at Shelley beach and that will be the first time this year that I manage to wet a line. So I am over excited.
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Tight lines Hannes, hopefully i'll be on the water on Monday...
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Good luck tomorrow!
Hope the weather is good!
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Such a great day at sea!!!
Weather was fantastic,. Fishing was absolute fun.
Good times with my son.
I caught three yellow fin Tuna and Jared 2.
I guess they were all in the 5 to 7 kg range.
Some small bottom fish slinger etc.
Paid tax on many bigger fish.
All and all lots of fun.
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Very nice, glad the weather and fish played ball for you :corrct:
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Lekker Mal H
Pics do make it betters w;k
Any day on the blue is good when there is fishies in the hatch. :rck" :rck" :-)
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awesome stuff Mal...
Glad you got the arms stretched!!
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Well done Mal glad you got some fish.
Looks like a blow out this weekend. :cry:
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Polishing prop time Chris - serviced my motors last week, just got the gearbox oil to do tomorrow(battled to find SAE 90) and they are done for the year, next week will do a wheel bearing check and replace some bolts on the trailer with ss ones.
I think I am going to look for a gap in the week - those BIG snoek are there - its a mission now!! :hnthnt: (bat
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Well done. :happ:. Congrats on a good day out on the sea.
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Eish, missed the fish, well done Hannes, mmmmmm seared tuna followed by a whole small slinger in hot oil :rck"
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Eish, missed the fish, well done Hannes, mmmmmm seared tuna followed by a whole small slinger in hot oil :rck"
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Tuna is on the fire!!
Lemon garlic butter and a quick sear on each side.
It has been two days and my biceps and shoulders are still crying.
Those few bottom fish was hard work and of course trying to catch the taxman on a KP reel leaves you paining for a few days.
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Finally getting on the water tomorrow, taking the ski down to Shelly
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Tight lines Shaun :envy
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Enjoy Shaun.
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Nice Shaun!
Hopefully you come right!
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Tight lines Shaun
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Sards are thick today!! Plenty netted!! :hnthnt:
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I went jetskiing today and took my rods along for company...
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I went jetskiing today and took my rods along for company...
And what did you and your rods catch on the jetski?
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I caught a tan...
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LOL, Sea to perfect today.
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Fishing was hard today, only managed a few bottoms.
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Adrian where die you fish and did you get any nice sized.
Shun did you try for bottoms or only game fish?
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Fishing was hard today, only managed a few bottoms.
Well at least you were on the water. Saw your pic of the flat sea. Find when the sea is so flat very hard fishing.
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Hoping to be out on Saturday with the lighties to fish some bottoms, need to get a few fish as its our first and last session for a while.
Few pics from the other day at Shelly, sorry about the quality (taken with my phone).
Dolphins backline at the launch...
(http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/MGalleryItem.php?id=2624)
Whales
(http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/MGalleryItem.php?id=2625)
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the whales are full up down there at the moment hey...
I must have seen over 30 last weekend when we fished!
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Had one come out the water right next to the boat!
Almost had hart failure!
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Thanks Shaun but where the pics of the fish ????
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Thanks Shaun but where the pics of the fish ????
I blanked horribly Oom... :blush:
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Thanks Shaun but where the pics of the fish ????
I blanked horribly Oom... :blush:
Eish
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Lots of small pockets of sards still around - netted today all along the beachfront.
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Launched on Saturday with Greg to do some bottom fishing but unfortunately the SW came through harder than expected and sent us home early, yesterday was perfect, did anyone launch ??
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Took Friday off and tried for snoek............... :shd: :shd: :shd: :shd: :shd: :shd: :shd: :unhap all the way from Virginia to Umhlanga!!
Went to a few reefs off Umhlanga/Glenashley for bottoms, got a few undersized dageraad, slinger and soldiers - basically blanked but for the first time ever was amongst the sards on the boat(if only I had a cast net!!) there were lots of pockets off Durban and plenty whales out deep - roll on summer!!
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The snoek are wild off St Lucia
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The snoek are wild off St Lucia
I hear so, even all the way to Balito.............just not Durban :-(
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Launched on Sunday from DSBC at about 6am went north for some snoek, only managed to get a few baits mauled by small shad.
Headed for the Barge which looked like something was happening but only produced bait. On the way to the barge we passed a couple of schools of sards which looked like they were being chassed, cast plugs and spoons and pulled lures around and through them but NADA :dunno:
I see there is a gang of self appointed boat washers at DSBC that have tried to lay claim to the taps. They sit on the bench outside the club house and harass every boat that pulls up to the taps. Even after telling the one quite clearly that I am quite capable of washing my own boat, the minute I turned my back he put his bucket and hose right at the tap were I was working....a real irritation after a relaxing day out at sea.
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Unlucky Oompa and Chigger, really "Ł$%% weather predicted for next two weeks.
Chigger th self appointed booat washers, you should introduce them to your right hand...BAM, don't know wy the club permits it, maybe bring it up and send them a complaint.
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Launched on Sunday from DSBC at about 6am went north for some snoek, only managed to get a few baits mauled by small shad.
Headed for the Barge which looked like something was happening but only produced bait. On the way to the barge we passed a couple of schools of sards which looked like they were being chassed, cast plugs and spoons and pulled lures around and through them but NADA :dunno:
I see there is a gang of self appointed boat washers at DSBC that have tried to lay claim at of the taps. They sit on the bench outside the club house and harass every boat that pulls up to the taps. Even after telling the one quite clearly that I am quite capable of washing my own boat, the minute I turned my back he put his bucket and hose right at the tap were I was working....a real irritation after a relaxing day out at sea.
Hi Chigger sorry about the bad days on the water, regarding the boat washers they are a pest, Hilton threw his toys out the cot on Saturday morning because the "car guards" were washing the boats, he threatened to fire them there and then. There has been a problem lately with theft at the club so the car guards are being watched very closely. I asked him about the boat washers and I was informed there are none.
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The guys who are too lazy to wash their own boats will be the same ones having valuables or gear stolen. Once the rot sets in its difficult to stop.
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The guys who are too lazy to wash their own boats will be the same ones having valuables or gear stolen. Once the rot sets in its difficult to stop.
I agree, I wash my own boat and gear then I know its done properly and all there.
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Coming down on the 23 to 27 see you guys at the club. :fshn:
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Coming down on the 23 to 27 see you guys at the club. :fshn:
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Good stuff Mike, lets hope weather plays ball, windy season is here.
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Anyone launching Sunday ??
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Anyone launching Sunday ??
We eventually got spares for our motor so putting it back together this weekend, then back on the water again.
Been off the water for ages.
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no fishing for me this weekend im afraid!
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no fishing for me this weekend im afraid!
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no fishing for me this weekend im afraid!
:dunno:
I have to work tomorrow and have league tennis on Sunday!
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Anyone launching Sunday ??
Hoping to be on the snoek grounds - all depends if I have crew!
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Any reports?
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Didnt launch - sea looked awesome from the shore!
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Managed to put the motor back together sat so the boat is back on the water.
We did a late launch yesterday to make sure the motors were running properly.
Did a bit of bottom fishing and did manage to catch a couple.
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So very nice!!!
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Lekker FFF glad to hear you are up and running again
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Glad you sorted FFF, lekker panfry that
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We managed a few snoek very early then went deep and tried for some bottom fish but nothing much, the water was cold deep down. We had a pair of whales surface and blow about 15 - 20m from us, well I think I blew a hole in my jocks :hyst: :hyst:
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Fished saturday, just for bottoms, got a few bottoms but current was pulling hard,
And water super cold, managed a cracker of around 5-6kgs that I released..
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Good luck to the chaps fishing Inter-provincials this week.
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Great catches all be they few and far between, anyone catching shad still in the deep? heard they getting a bit patchy
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Hey Roban, rayban boet LOL
We caught a bus Shad off cuttings and released it into the hatch, later in the day ran short of bait so Fx3 did some surgical work on Mr Elf and we converted him into a nice English, False English, Tomato and nice size Halfmoon, fair swap i would say.
Weather looking %$^^%%&%& for next week or so.
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Hey Roban, rayban boet LOL
We caught a bus Shad off cuttings and released it into the hatch, later in the day ran short of bait so Fx3 did some surgical work on Mr Elf and we converted him into a nice English, False English, Tomato and nice size Halfmoon, fair swap i would say.
Weather looking %$^^%%&%& for next week or so.
(clap) (clap)
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Some pics
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So the windy season is here. Anybody launching this weekend. :sreel:
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Lekker Adrian. .........Ant looks good to launch. :fshn: :Like:
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Eeish thos thread has been dug out the archives, SW Wind and rain is howling here in KZN and is chuckin fillows, CFOO shows the current is flying along too, think it will settle down during course of tomorrow then we will give it a go Sunday.
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Umps check wind finder for tommorrow ....... looking really good with a slight swell though.
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Coming down on the 23 to 27 see you guys at the club. :fshn:
Hiya Mike.
Would that be September 23 to 27?
We will be down from 22 to 28, somewhere about those dates, staying in Ballito.
Would you be able to hook me up for a fish ????
My little girl (18 now) has demanded I give her the same opportunity as her brother and wants to go offshore - "just other side of the waves dad"
She has proven herself in freshwater with several 8kg + and she is a competent shore angler with an 8.9kg Namibia Steenbras under her belt.
She kicks my butt, no question.
If anybody has space for two during that time, please let me know: info - at - africangas.co.za
Will pay my dues, no question, no problem.
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Anyone launching tomorrow ??
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Anyone launching tomorrow ??
you reckon it will be worth it??
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Anyone launching tomorrow ??
you reckon it will be worth it??
Scott will do a quick snoek challenge then if conditions are favorable then I will try for a Garrick, got a window period till 08h30 and out going tide.
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Anyone launching tomorrow ??
you reckon it will be worth it??
Scott will do a quick snoek challenge then if conditions are favorable then I will try for a Garrick, got a window period till 08h30 and out going tide.
im debating what to do... I need to work, but deciding wether its work sneaking the morning off or not....
Need to get bait before sodwana and running out of weekends!!
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Anyone launching tomorrow ??
you reckon it will be worth it??
Scott will do a quick snoek challenge then if conditions are favorable then I will try for a Garrick, got a window period till 08h30 and out going tide.
im debating what to do... I need to work, but deciding wether its work sneaking the morning off or not....
Need to get bait before sodwana and running out of weekends!!
I am going with Ant to see if we can get his lighty a snoek or two :fshn:
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Chris shot for invite tomorrow - Cred
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Anyone launching tomorrow ??
you reckon it will be worth it??
Scott will do a quick snoek challenge then if conditions are favorable then I will try for a Garrick, got a window period till 08h30 and out going tide.
im debating what to do... I need to work, but deciding wether its work sneaking the morning off or not....
Need to get bait before sodwana and running out of weekends!!
I am going with Ant to see if we can get his lighty a snoek or two :fshn:
Chris do you allow cigarettes on your boat? Like a chimney that oke.
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See you guys bright and early. :fshn:
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Will be doing my 1st trip with the new ponies on Saturday :clwn
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Launching from the club tommorrow, see you boys out there.
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We launched at shelly beach today, had a rather interesting launch :blush: got out onto the banks and proceeded to get bliksemed by the johnnies.
8 strikes all in all with only one small yft boated although I did miss a 2nd on the gaff 3 times for him only to be taxed in front of us. Lost 3 rappies and fought 2 of the taxing buggers to the boat to get my prized konas back.
Got smoked once by something monstrous on the surface, it pulled 250m of 50lb on 8kg drag in less than 20seconds only to be bitten off :shk
Might make a late launch at dbsc
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Tough luck buddy, try again tomorrow :hnthnt: :hnthnt:
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We launched at shelly beach today, had a rather interesting launch :blush: got out onto the banks and proceeded to get bliksemed by the johnnies.
8 strikes all in all with only one small yft boated although I did miss a 2nd on the gaff 3 times for him only to be taxed in front of us. Lost 3 rappies and fought 2 of the taxing buggers to the boat to get my prized konas back.
Got smoked once by something monstrous on the surface, it pulled 250m of 50lb on 8kg drag in less than 20seconds only to be bitten off :shk
Might make a late launch at dbsc
What made it interesting Paulo??? haha
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We launched at shelly beach today, had a rather interesting launch :blush: got out onto the banks and proceeded to get bliksemed by the johnnies.
8 strikes all in all with only one small yft boated although I did miss a 2nd on the gaff 3 times for him only to be taxed in front of us. Lost 3 rappies and fought 2 of the taxing buggers to the boat to get my prized konas back.
Got smoked once by something monstrous on the surface, it pulled 250m of 50lb on 8kg drag in less than 20seconds only to be bitten off :shk
Might make a late launch at dbsc
Sounds like a frustrating day but what a blessing to be out there.
Tell us more of the launch.
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Will be doing my 1st trip with the new ponies on Saturday :clwn
Please report back can't wait to hear about the fast fat girl.
Congratulations on the upgrade.
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Will be doing my 1st trip with the new ponies on Saturday :clwn
Please report back can't wait to hear about the fast fat girl.
Congratulations on the upgrade.
Did not go, got as sick as a dog, probably from all the stress the past 2 months
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some mates where getting some geelbek this weekend at port Edward and on the way back to start another drift they saw a marlin cruising, they pitched a livie at it and went on, they got it near the boat after an hour an a half, estimated at 150kg
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Had a submarine come past when out for bait today...
(http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/MGalleryItem.php?id=2646)
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Wow that must of been a site to behold :shk
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Should have put a hook in him!!
Navy is having exercises with the french navy around RBay at the moment
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how was the bait shaun??
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imagine seeing that on the sounder :hyst: :hyst:
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Anyone launching tomorrow ??
you reckon it will be worth it??
Scott will do a quick snoek challenge then if conditions are favorable then I will try for a Garrick, got a window period till 08h30 and out going tide.
im debating what to do... I need to work, but deciding wether its work sneaking the morning off or not....
Need to get bait before sodwana and running out of weekends!!
I am going with Ant to see if we can get his lighty a snoek or two :fshn:
Chris do you allow cigarettes on your boat? Like a chimney that oke.
Big D I fished with ant and Kieren on his boat so he can smoke as much as he likes, we managed one snoek for the morning, Was good to see you Mike been a long time.
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Anyone fishing this weekend? Hoping to get out on Sunday...
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Good luck Shaun, now repeat after me BAIT BAIT BAIT BAIT :hyst: :hyst: :hyst:
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Mozzies for the binnelanders and mackerel for the coastal boys... copy that!!
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Oh! Is it (bat (bat (bat :hyst:
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Just a small sneak preview of our current conditions off the DSBC, hope the binnerlanders enjoy the school holidays if they are coming down to launch.
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Anyone fish the weekend ?? I decided to save my fuel for another day.
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Anyone fish the weekend ?? I decided to save my fuel for another day.
Out of curiosity how much fuel do you use on average, Chris? Reckon your 60s are pretty economical?!
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I launched on sat morning. Ran to the barge and got some nice mackerel for bait. Tried off the barge and cassons but the shad were a problem and stealing our baits. Ran out to the deep off umhlanga and tried for a few bottoms. Were quite a few small fish around. Moved into the shallower marks and got a triple up only to have 2 of the fish eaten by the boat, paying tax again. My crew member, a friend of Kierans dad, was very green as the sea was very lumpy with the NE. Put out the rapalas and pulled them back to the club with no enquiries. Interesting is the water on the 70m is 22.9 and at No1 is only 22.1. We used 40 litres of petrol. I have 2 x 50hp Yamahas. We normally use just under 2 tanks per trip. I would say we did about 40km.
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Mozzies for the binnelanders and mackerel for the coastal boys... copy that!!
Classic chirp :hyst:
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I launched on sat morning. Ran to the barge and got some nice mackerel for bait. Tried off the barge and cassons but the shad were a problem and stealing our baits. Ran out to the deep off umhlanga and tried for a few bottoms. Were quite a few small fish around. Moved into the shallower marks and got a triple up only to have 2 of the fish eaten by the boat, paying tax again. My crew member, a friend of Kierans dad, was very green as the sea was very lumpy with the NE. Put out the rapalas and pulled them back to the club with no enquiries. Interesting is the water on the 70m is 22.9 and at No1 is only 22.1. We used 40 litres of petrol. I have 2 x 50hp Yamahas. We normally use just under 2 tanks per trip. I would say we did about 40km.
:corrct: :corrct: :rck" :rck" :fshn: :fshn: Soon Soon
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Anyone fish the weekend ?? I decided to save my fuel for another day.
Out of curiosity how much fuel do you use on average, Chris? Reckon your 60s are pretty economical?!
Not too sure but try for snoek, then bait and steam to Umdloti and back as well as trolling around for couta for couple hours and use total of 50 - 60litres depending on conditions.
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I launched on sat morning. Ran to the barge and got some nice mackerel for bait. Tried off the barge and cassons but the shad were a problem and stealing our baits. Ran out to the deep off umhlanga and tried for a few bottoms. Were quite a few small fish around. Moved into the shallower marks and got a triple up only to have 2 of the fish eaten by the boat, paying tax again. My crew member, a friend of Kierans dad, was very green as the sea was very lumpy with the NE. Put out the rapalas and pulled them back to the club with no enquiries. Interesting is the water on the 70m is 22.9 and at No1 is only 22.1. We used 40 litres of petrol. I have 2 x 50hp Yamahas. We normally use just under 2 tanks per trip. I would say we did about 40km.
:corrct: :corrct: :rck" :rck" :fshn: :fshn: Soon Soon
Big D next time you fish you will get sea sick as its been so long.
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I launched on sat morning. Ran to the barge and got some nice mackerel for bait. Tried off the barge and cassons but the shad were a problem and stealing our baits. Ran out to the deep off umhlanga and tried for a few bottoms. Were quite a few small fish around. Moved into the shallower marks and got a triple up only to have 2 of the fish eaten by the boat, paying tax again. My crew member, a friend of Kierans dad, was very green as the sea was very lumpy with the NE. Put out the rapalas and pulled them back to the club with no enquiries. Interesting is the water on the 70m is 22.9 and at No1 is only 22.1. We used 40 litres of petrol. I have 2 x 50hp Yamahas. We normally use just under 2 tanks per trip. I would say we did about 40km.
:corrct: :corrct: :rck" :rck" :fshn: :fshn: Soon Soon
Big D next time you fish you will get sea sick as its been so long.
LOL true eeish cabin fever.
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Launched Saturday with Greg at 04h30 for a short trip before the predicted early wind and went straight to Lugs for a snoek, the shad were there so moved North and worked my hot spots but nothing, tried for a tunny on the bait spots but dead, we then decided to have some fun catching bait, got plenty mackerel and redeye. headed back to the base for a cold one at 10h00. Was good to be back on the water after awhile, thanks Greg for taking over my boat and being skipper, was a blast with all the banter. :nuts: :nuts:
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All I did was run my motors for 2 mins and install the VHF :blush: soon soon though :rck"
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Well the weather does not seem to be playing fair for a while now and does not look much better soon.
There was a gap yesterday afternoon and did a quick fish.
Got couple live baits and swam them. Managed a small yellowtail. The friend I was fishing with lost 2 at the boat.
The water was 23.4 yesterday so think as soon as we get a decent gap there should be fish around.
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Well the weather does not seem to be playing fair for a while now and does not look much better soon.
There was a gap yesterday afternoon and did a quick fish.
Got couple live baits and swam them. Managed a small yellowtail. The friend I was fishing with lost 2 at the boat.
The water was 23.4 yesterday so think as soon as we get a decent gap there should be fish around.
The Dorado should be close as they getting the odd one off Richards Bay :fshn: :fshn: :dor: :dor:
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Now that i'm not with DSBC anymore, its a long run to the harbour mouth. So a quick 1 hour trip out is not worth my while anymore. As a result i havent been out for ages, with this lousy weather we have been having. I pray the wind dies down soon. I'll be on leave from 11 December to 15 January. Plan on fishing as much as possible
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Now that i'm not with DSBC anymore, its a long run to the harbour mouth. So a quick 1 hour trip out is not worth my while anymore. As a result i havent been out for ages, with this lousy weather we have been having. I pray the wind dies down soon. I'll be on leave from 11 December to 15 January. Plan on fishing as much as possible
Mike you have 4 strokes now, fuel won't be an issue :dunno: hope you didn't upgrade to play in the harbour?
Tow to club and launch, just pay tractor fees :-)
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Dorado came out off Durbs on Friday
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Dorado came out off Durbs on Friday
I thought so, that's good news, time to sharpen the hooks :rck"
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anyone fishing tomorrow??
Do you reckon there will be a gap in the morning???
I'm considering it...
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For sure, but rather go Monday w;k :nuts:
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So anyone fish today, sea was perfect, Ant fished, i could not join as i had other commitments, they got their first :dor: :dor: of the season. Sure he will post a report (clap) :yipee: :yipee: :sreel:
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So anyone fish today, sea was perfect, Ant fished, i could not join as i had other commitments, they got their first :dor: :dor: of the season. Sure he will post a report (clap) :yipee: :yipee: :sreel:
True to FFF style, he kills me with his MMS messages when i'm away... nicely done chaps!! Lekker :dor: Kieran :udman:
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Well with the weather not looking so good lately sunday looked like we would have a small gap.
Kierans friend Kaydens dad was down from JHB so the 4 of us did a launch yesterday.
Managed to get some nice bait early and our plan was to try for a dorado.
The sea turned out to be one of the best days I have had in a long time.
We let the kids have the fun yesterday and both of them caught 2 big bonnies each and a dorado.
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Nice Ant!! :rck"
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Shot Ant, nice to see the youngsters catchin. At least the offshore guys are getting out there between weather spots. :creep:
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That's awesome Ant, well done for putting the kids on the fish mate.
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Well done Ant!!
I made the call on Saturday not to go and my oh my it was a bad call!! Spent the whole of yesterday kicking myself!!!
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Howzit Scott, don't become a fair weather fisherman please mate. :hehe:
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Well done Ant!!
I made the call on Saturday not to go and my oh my it was a bad call!! Spent the whole of yesterday kicking myself!!!
:corrct: X2 :cnfzd
We'll done FFF :happ:
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Nice fish Ant well done, I decided to tie the dog loose Saturday night :beer: :beer: :beer:
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Watch out that dog can bite :nuts: (bat where you been Chris??
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Ant congrats lekker chow there glas to see the Dorries making an appearance.
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I hope the couta make an appearance this season, last season was one of the worst I can remember :-(
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Launched yesterday at 6am, through a small gap in the wind, headed for the ships on a very lumpy sea. Managed 1x small :dor: . Sea was a bit flatter on the 20km home run.
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Good to see the :dor: around.
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How was the fishing today boy's ?
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Nice George on the :dor:
We Launched yesterday, puzzled ships, water was on green side, average temp was 23, but blanked, also having minor issues with left motor made the day miserable.
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Every time I brought my fish up yesterday something gave it a blue eye.??
Last week I got a nice 17.6kg Daga at around the 70m mark, yesterday the showings on the finder was still great but could not get them to feed.
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Nice George on the :dor:
We Launched yesterday, puzzled ships, water was on green side, average temp was 23, but blanked, also having minor issues with left motor made the day miserable.
Thanks Umpa, sorry to hear that motor is still puzzling you guys. What was the swell like yesterday?
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Thanks for the up date Denzel, I hope the wind stays away in December and the Dorries are thick.
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I launched on Sunday and mainly targetted bottoms. Caught our quota fairly quickly fishing off the 80m mark.
Do you guys use the bridle rigg system for live baits at all?
I tried it for the first time and at times took to long to rig up, affecting the livie or stuffed up by piercing the eye.
Do you guys have any tips to make rigging a bridle easier?????
Also besides using the bridle for dagga, gelbek and queenies, is its in anyway affective with couta
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Launched yesterday at 10 to give the motors a run - went south to the 200m and back pulling some lures, never saw warmer than 22.7 and got no pulls, nice day topped off with a few ice cold :beer: :beer: on the way back. :-)
@ MK, I have only used the bridal with bonnies for marlin(and only ever had one pick up) rather pin the bait through the top lip or nostrils or behind the head, for queenfish I sometimes fish drift and pin it in the anal fin so it swims down, you have to hold the rod constantlyand give line slowly.
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Launched yesterday in the dark and headed for live bait and my port motor alarm went off - overheating, water pumping but not strong, when going at speed she runs cool but did not want to take a chance going too deep, played around # 1 only to attract the sharks so tested my knots and the Finnor drag :fshn: :fshn:. Will take it in tomorrow and have both impellers changed it was great to be on the water again after a good few weeks.
Nice fish George.
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Mike Where the pics? (bat (bat
George swell was flat, hardly no drift at all, drifting past ships we were hardly moving, but SE started to puff from about 9 but not to strong, plenty other boats came back with empty hatches.
Mike :nail: , yes this crappy weather and heavy winds needs to disappear now, think it will be a bumper season for game fish, already reports of big Tuna coming out.
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who is fishing this weekend??
We will be out on Sunday morning....
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:envy
who is fishing this weekend??
We will be out on Sunday morning....
u going to try for some :dor: :dor:
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who is fishing this weekend??
We will be out on Sunday morning....
1 more week... :rck"
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who is fishing this weekend??
We will be out on Sunday morning....
1 more week... :rck"
:happ:
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Had both impellers changed, the one was missing 1 .5 blades so all ready to go, I may fish Sunday it all depends on the party Saturday night. :creep: :creep:
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who is fishing this weekend??
We will be out on Sunday morning....
It's looking a bit wet
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Mark was a good AGM last night complete with a fireworks display and cold beer :crzy :crzy
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DUC spent a little money on a beautiful display then some guys arrived with some cheapies and almost blew themselves up, lol. I got a little roasted for asking for a boat wash bay.
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I don't think it will be too wet!
Havnt fishing in ages, so I need to get out there!
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Anyone launch ??
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We launched... was a very tough day out for us.
We target dorado and tuna in the deep and around the ships to no avail.
I then decided to come inside and fish a bit shallower for tuna.. We had one pull all day and it was the story of the big one that got away. My live mozzie got picked up and it felt like a hammer, as i put some pressure to set the circle hook, the fish took off and the back of the fish breached. (biggest yellow fin iv ever hooked and up there with the fish between 28-30kg i reckon. It realised it was hooked and took off at a rate of knots..... then slack!!!
Line parted :cry:
We tried some of the bait spots on the way back but nothing, hit the beach at 12 and that was it...
Some more badluck for scott-no-fish!
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Sorry to hear that Mags very frustrating.
I was lucky enough to be invited to launch on a friends boat and we hit a luck at about 7am when we trolled past a school of bait fish on the surface and had a hit and miss on one Halco, and a 6,5kg female :dor: on the other. We did many k's after that without a hit.
Ended up bottom fishing and got a few but only kept one rockcod, but the bottoms were also scarce.
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Unlucky Scott and George
SE poison wind blowing, makes for a poor day fishing.
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Unlucky Scott and George
SE poison wind blowing, makes for a poor day fishing.
That SE is definately poison.
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We need the water temp to get over 23 deg..........24-25 would be nice and maybe with the local rains we will get some more defined current lines :-)
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DSBC jetski comp this weekend. Weather does not look great but there is a small gap tomorrow. Anybody going down to the club or fishing.
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DSBC jetski comp this weekend. Weather does not look great but there is a small gap tomorrow. Anybody going down to the club or fishing.
we heading down south coast for a couple :frid so no fishing for us this weekend!
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Had a lekker day on the water fishing with FFF and Umpa on Strike Craft. Really weird rocking up at the club with 2 rods and nothing else and feeling like a spare wheel while they prepped everything.
On the water we puzzled a bit for the right size livies and eventually found the ship with the 4 cranes holding fish. Our livies were a little big but we managed to pick up some yellowtail and saw a lot of small dorries about.
No fireworks but good to be on the water again and good to fish with some top blokes!!
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eventually found the ship with the 4 cranes holding fish. :hyst: :hyst: :hyst: The red one.
Thanks for day Shaun, nice day on water weather wise but fish didn't play ball, I will still get my trip aboard Scouse :-) Think another 3 weeks or so and Dorries and game fish will be in full swing.
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Nice one guys, what was the water temps out there?
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Water temp averaging 23.
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Thanks Umpa, seems the season keeps coming later and later in Durban where in the Cape its earlier each year and fishing off the chart there :blush:
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Who is fishing tomorrow?? We are going to give it a crack!!
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Who is fishing tomorrow?? We are going to give it a crack!!
I'm looking, will make a call later........going to be very busy at the club with boat inspections.
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I'll be shooting out at 4am to be back before lunchtime, plan on heading deep south
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Down at the coast for the weekend, made a late launch at DBSC and managed 2 dorries.
Lekker to be out on the water again. Water was beautiful even shallow at umdloti was a beautiful blue.
CLS had beached by the time I launched they also got a few :cgrts:
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Well done guys. Good news the first summer dorries came out off Shelly yesterday :happ:
Prego, just for interests sake were your dorries around the ships or the "floating reefs"?
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Got one on the "floating reef" :blush: and one lost on the 60m off no1 and both had no friends with them :cnfzd
Think the guys that got out early got theirs off the ships, always a race in the morning
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Fishing been good at Vidal also
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We launched on Saturday in the hunt of dorado and tuna. We need to break the bad luck streak we have been having and open our summer season!
We did just that with 2 dorado and 2 tuna.
We were fishing live bait and drifting as opposed to working the ships.
@ dorado around the 6-7Kg mark and 2 tuna between 9-12Kg's..
We released the bigger of the 2 tuna and kept 3 fish for the pot!
A great day out on the ocean!!!
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Lekker stuff Scott, some nice fish there there bud!!
:envy
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Well done Scott
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Nice Paulo, Scott, glad to see the fishing getting a bit better
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Saturday at Vidal ...second dorrie took 2 circles....hungry bugger
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Nice Cyclone (clap)
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Good stuff George, were your fish hatches so full that you had to leave the rest on the deck (clap) :hyst: :hyst: :hyst:
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Well done to all that got fish (clap) I had to bail on Saturday :-(
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Well done guys on the fish (clap)
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Proper fishing that George and we'll done on breaking a bad streak Scott.
The youngsters convinced to twist my rubber arm and I stayed on a extra day.Got some bait (not enough) :blush: and headed to the ships and the kids had some good sports landing 2 dorries a big bonnie and dropped another 4 fish on the bait. The youngsters a little over eager on pushing up the drag.
Back to the grind stone till we back chasing the dorries in 20 days or so
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Great stuff Paulo (clap) :dor:
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Well done to all. Some nice fish coming out. :happ: :happ:
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Nic fish there guys.......leave some for us poor ones for December.......
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Anyone know what happened to Terrence Tubb, I got a mail saying that he is banned from the club/SADSAA and has had all his SAMSA credentials revoked :dunno:
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Anyone keen to fish Shelly tomorrow, my crew today turned a funny shade of green before the spread was even set today and have bailed for tomorrow...
Scouse is fueled, tackled up and ready to go...
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Ah Jeepers, if only.... :-(
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eish... that sucks Shaun!
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And its not me this time.haha! !I see you tomorrow. :yft: :dor:
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Tight lines Shaun, hope you get better results today, sorry I couldn't join today but work's got me by the nuts at the moment :unhap
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I also got dropped by crew at the last minute, literally, decided to go in the pissing rain, pulled for snoek off Glenashley ended up dropping one but the shad were in destroy mode and made short work of my fillets :unhap
Pulled some small konas from deep off Umhlanga back to base, ended up with a 8 kg :dor: on the 50m outside of No1, took a purple/flash Williamson 5m from the boat,water is beaut but only 23deg.
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Nice Dorrie Dugongboy :rck" :dor:
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Launched on Saturday off Durban with my mate Shaun on "Mershore". A bit of drizzle here and there and a lumpy sea to start, our game plan was to get a dorado for my 6 year old son as it was his first ever trip on the boat. We got some decent livebait and headed for the ships, working the deeper ships off Umhlanga with small konas, feathers and Halco's. No takers on the lures, so we headed in to the shallower ships off umhlanga, eventually settled for a lone black ship sitting in 40m of water. There were no other boats near so we put out two livies and slow trolled around the ship. On our third circle we got a pull on the downrigged bait and a nice dorrie came cartwheeling out the water only to spit the hook. I reeled in the trace and quickly rigged another mozzie, flicked it back in and the dorrie smashed it straight behind the motors. We landed this one of around 6.5kg. Two more routes around the ship produced two more strikes but again the fish both spat the hooks on the first jump - one was a nice bull close to the 10kg mark. Later we got another pull from a small peanut dorrie which we gave to Ryan to fight and after around 5min we loaded his first ever dorado and first ever fish off the boat - a perfect little 2kg model. He handled like a champ and turned out to be our lucky livebait charm, catching a few strings of mackerel right under the ship. We headed back to club around 12.30 for lunch. Thanks to FFF and Shaun17 for some helpful background info pre-trip which helped us find the right areas to fish. :+ cred: chaps!
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We fished for bottoms on friday and it was the first time id used my scarbourogh spooled with 80lb braid. Thats the first and last time i ever use that bloody reel. i hooked into a 100kg plus johnny and trust me its no joke fighting a fish with that much power without any drag. Fishing was generally crappy with not much biting and the wind making it pretty uncomfortable. Windguru got it horribly wrong.
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Well done Bwana! Beatifull colors!
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We fished for bottoms on friday and it was the first time id used my scarbourogh spooled with 80lb braid. Thats the first and last time i ever use that bloody reel. i hooked into a 100kg plus johnny and trust me its no joke fighting a fish with that much power without any drag. :hyst: :hyst:
Come on man up, it is good fun "NOT" LOL i know the feeling, but fishing with a KP and braid is the best. I use a 9inch with 100lb braid.
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Nice report Mark and beauty Dorries, good fum for the lighties. (clap)
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After staring at an awesome flat sea all Friday, my trusty sidekick arrived down in Shelly and we launched early Saturday morning. Plan was to troll for a couple of hours then head off to do some jigging and then a bit of chumming thereafter weather permitting...
Got out to our marks and quickly went tight with a nice double up. Don made easy work of a nice specimen of around 5-6kg while i boxed a slightly bigger one on the shotgun. As Don gaffed my fish it decided to take the gaff for a swim and then shake it off but we retrieved it later. Thereafter almost each turn we pulled fish ranging from about 5-9kg. We also had 2 quadruple ups which was good sport with just the 2 of us, and both times all 4 fish landed.
On another turn, luck was on our side when we had a fish close to the boat and it ran through the props. I was cursing as we'd lost our most productive lure when Don saw he was still attached to the prop. Kept it in gear to stop him pulling loose then Don gaffed the line, landed the fish and got my killer lure back. Happy days.
We dropped a decent fish in the prop wash which bent both trebles on the Xrap 30 wide open and also dropped another good fish on the shotgun which swam at the boat faster than i could reel.
After that, we decided to head straight for chumming as the weather was picking up but had no luck there. Decided to head home and was back on the beach before 9am with 9 fish in the hatch, 4 released and another 3 dropped. Good to get a few fish for a change.
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Lekker stuff Mark, glad you came right bud!! Really chuffed you got Ryan on a fish... :cgrts:
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Eish Shaun, this is a family site! Too graphic man! Tarantino style :hehe:
Well done on some awesome fishing! (clap)
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Well done Shaun nice to see Shelly producing for the Scouse again, you've got that place taped with good mojo. Sorry I couldn't join you but definitely in January when you are back. By the way I'd fire your deckie - leaves the place in a shocking mess (bat
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Nice fish guys!! :rck"
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Well done Shaun nice to see Shelly producing for the Scouse again, you've got that place taped with good mojo. Sorry I couldn't join you but definitely in January when you are back. By the way I'd fire your deckie - leaves the place in a shocking mess (bat
I was deckie... :blush: Deck is always clean, important to have a clean deck.
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Nice fish, well done guys, that lighties face says it all think he is hooked for life.
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Nice stuff Shaun, murder aboard the Scouse :craz: Bet you won't have a hassle looking for crew next time you go out.
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nice day out shawn like the way you have packaged your fish
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Nice Shaun to see a bit of blood on the deck
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Had a lekka day out today..
Launched out of shelly and filled up with spaaan of mackerel and small bonnies and headed up to sheppi river mouth to target some Dorries.
Pinned a live mackerel on a light spinning setup with 30lb to have some good fun if I got into some dorries,
Slow trawled for about half and hour and heard a huge splash Behind the boat and my rod screamed away.. But no jumps?
Fought the fish for around 10-12min and boated a lekka yellowfin of 18,7kilo. Stoked!
Setup spread again this time I added a sardine to the mix just behind the motors and about and hour and half later it screamed away and it was jumping!
Kept it in the water next to the boat just playing with it to see if it had a friend with it but nothing so put the gaff in and boated it.. 7kilo dorrie ..
Carried trying for another for a while but nothing went to sheppie brick and got smashed up on the light tackle and that was that for the day..
While weighing my tuna I weighed a guys cuda that he got off tweni on straight nylon fishing for dorries.. He got two pulls and only boated the one.. 21kilos..
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Nice fish well done (clap) (clap)
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Lekker stuff Adrian, well done... exactly what I need to see on Day 1 of 28 at work.... :cry:
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As long as you are getting $$$ Shaun w;k
Nice fish Adrian :rck"
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Well done Adrian, sounds like a great day out. That tuna is a beauty on the grinder :+ cred:
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Very nice :-) well done on that tunny
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(clap) Adrian
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Anyone heard of any wahoo action on Aliwal recently? Keen to give this a bash next month but haven't fished/launched there in 12 or so years.
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Shaun I know the area well so if you are looking for crew :hnthnt: , but yes the summer months do deliver sailies wahoo and lots of dorries. The best months for Wahoo are usually April / May but being a summer gamefish they are there already. Either hi-speed trolling with weighted wahoo lures or my personal favourite slow trolling two live bonnies. My preference is to launch from Rocky Bay. Pennington and Umko can be pretty sketchy...
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Shaun I know the area well so if you are looking for crew :hnthnt: , but yes the summer months do deliver sailies wahoo and lots of dorries. The best months for Wahoo are usually April / May but being a summer gamefish they are there already. Either hi-speed trolling with weighted wahoo lures or my personal favourite slow trolling two live bonnies. My preference is to launch from Rocky Bay. Pennington and Umko can be pretty sketchy...
Roger that... January when all the vaalies head back we go klap it!! And then March again....
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Game on :corrct:
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My skipper got a little 7kg of a floating reef the other day.
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Myself, FFF and FFFjunior launched yesterday, we managed 3 :dor: all in 7-8 kilo range, two landed in the bush and 3rd at the ships. Like a highway yesterday with all boats steaming out, going to be a busy summer.
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Myself, FFF and FFFjunior launched yesterday, we managed 3 :dor: all in 7-8 kilo range, two landed in the bush and 3rd at the ships. Like a highway yesterday with all boats steaming out, going to be a busy summer.
Well done....bastids :envy
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Myself, FFF and FFFjunior launched yesterday, we managed 3 :dor: all in 7-8 kilo range, two landed in the bush and 3rd at the ships. Like a highway yesterday with all boats steaming out, going to be a busy summer.
Well done boys :happ:
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Nice fish.
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:dor: :dor: :dor: :nail: :nobs: :cgrts:
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Well done on the :dor: :dor: :dor: boys. See you soon for some :fshn: and :frid
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Launching tomorrow for the club. See you guys there :fshn:
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:tite Isi! :fshn:
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Launched the skis at Westbrook yesterday morning. Sea was very quiet and lots of dirty water.
Managed to pick up one lone dorry. Fish braai thoroughly enjoyed by the whole family!
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Well done on the Dorrie. Tight lines to all fishing.
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Doing it for the boys :dor:
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Well done Mike!
You need a new cap mate! :hehe:
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Try taking my cap (bat :crzy
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Eish... sorry... let me re phrase... you need a new :ult: cap! :hehe:
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Eish... sorry... let me re phrase... you need a new :ult: cap! :hehe:
:rotfl it's takes many hours on the water to get a cap to look like that
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Doing it for the boys :dor:
Nicely done bud!! Same cap from your profile pic??
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Good job Mike! Nice to see some dorado action, summer is heating up big time (clap)
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Spectacular day fishing with good mates off Shelly Beach. Started with some great dorado action getting 4 nice dorado on lures and live bait and dropping 4 more. Then a few tuna on Protea Reef before heading back to Shelly Beach Ski Boat Club only to wait an hour in the queue on back line waiting to beach. While waiting we found a sneaky young sailfish working baitfish on the back line, I hooked him up quickly on a small pink Onda lure on the flickstick with a Sustain 5000 and 20lb braid and had a top class 10 minute fight before releasing the young sailie to grow a bit bigger!
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Spectacular day fishing with good mates off Shelly Beach. Started with some great dorado action getting 4 nice dorado on lures and live bait and dropping 4 more. Then a few tuna on Protea Reef before heading back to Shelly Beach Ski Boat Club only to wait an hour in the queue on back line waiting to beach. While waiting we found a sneaky young sailfish working baitfish on the back line, I hooked him up quickly on a small pink Onda lure on the flickstick with a Sustain 5000 and 20lb braid and had a top class 10 minute fight before releasing the young sailie to grow a bit bigger!
Speechless :shk
Nicely done bud... best save some of that good juju for 3 weeks time!!
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Great skills Bwana! (clap)
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Yasses! That's pro stuff there! Fantastic Mark!
:+ cred:
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Great catch, Bwana! (clap) :resp:
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:rck" Bwana :rck"
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:clfoto: too!
Check that rainbow!!! (clap)
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Hi guys.
Got back from Zanzibar last night and hit the ocean today.
We launched early as there was a window before the predicted west.
We got 2 pulls early on live bait and I landed on tuna of about 12kgs... At one point in the fight it almost jumped into the boat! Nearly took my cap off when it launched itself..
Things went quite after we lost another decent fish after the line parted.
We then went deep and found a very strong current on the 50m mark. And put two baits out. Went double up on Dori's but the both shook the hooks on their first jump..
We then changed to a small single trebble hook to get a better hook up and the first fish to pick up our bait .... A sailie! After feeding it for what felt like ages, I failed to get the hook up! We headed back to the beach and called it a day..
Hopefully launching tomorrow and test a seacat 636... So watch this space!
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Very nice Scott . Nice boat that :Like:
I may just pop down and put my boat in the water tomorrow, for a bit of fun.
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Come okes! What's happening down there?
Hammer did you launch?
Heard Isivuba lost a BIG tuna 2 days ago due to skipper malfunction... he was a bit bleak I hear... :-(
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The weather is not playing it's part, looking like a complete blow-out for the next week??.
The current has been screaming the last few days but the guys are getting the odd Dorrie around the ships.
Some one got a pair of 6kg yellowtails at the ships.
I've seen a few Whoos around.
Plenty people launching when the sea was flat, long queues waiting for the tractors.
We found some nice blue water on Saturday and nailed the Dories on about the 120m mark.
On a good note, looks like the tuna have arrived again and lots of lovely bikinis on our grass, in fact I've never seen so many.
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My sons first bonnie
Weathers on its head at the moument.
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(clap) Great catch, well done young man. :resp:
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Well done Mike that's a SIZE bonnie!
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Hi the South Coast skippers. I was offered a berth on a boat out of Shelly Beach early am tomorrow 24th , must be a big boat as there are to be 9 of us . With the wind I see at Southbroom today :the sHPLAT, and what I can glean from the weather reports . I feel the boats wont launch :dunno:. Any comment will be appreciated as I seldom go deep sea. I realise it will be bumpy but will dose myself with Sturgeron :blush: :blush: :toppie:
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Colin seas on its head bud not even the weather guys can even come close to predict it.
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:tk Isivuba much appreciated :toppie:
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Took a gap this morning and managed to christen my Christmas gift to myself :hnthnt: . Launched at first light saw FFF collecting bait and headed straight out to Number 1. The weather wasn't great, and it looked like there was no life out there. I eventually saw a school of garfish jumping which game me some hope. I mainly pulled Halcos in different combos, but then changed to a small kona and Halco combo and in the middle of nowhere the dorry took the Halco. The rain came down and I decided to call it quits and go for breakfast.
The :dor: was released.
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Nice Chigger
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Nice fish Chigger! Congrats on the release! :shk
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My sons second dorado of the year
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Nice HD.
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Nice one HD :happ:
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And it was yum
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And it was yum
we need a drooling emiticon, it looks great
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We'll done HD, (clap) Where have you been?
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Took a break for a while
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Well done to your youngster on the Dorado HD, good to see you back bud (clap)
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Lekker HD :dor:
Well done Mike, putting the lightie on to a nice Bonnie.
Nice Chigger, i would have also tagged and released the Dorrie, put price tag and release into the hatch :rck"
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Nice Chigger, i would have also tagged and released the Dorrie, put price tag and release into the hatch :rck"
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:hyst: Thanks boet, it was tempting but all the fridges and freezers were full from Christmas.
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Nice Chigger, i would have also tagged and released the Dorrie, put price tag and release into the hatch :rck"
:hyst: Thanks boet, it was tempting but all the fridges and freezers were full from Christmas.
LOL just yanking your chain bud :clwn
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Managed to get a crew together after a long time and launched yesterday.
Managed 4 dorries - 2 bulls around 10kg and 2 females around 5kg between the ships off Umhlanga.
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Hi Guys,
Lots of sailfish and whoooos around of Durbs.
We had a triple Whoo take, luckily I had steel on my cona rigs.
The nice blue water has come in quite close, plenty dories around.
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Nice news that. Leave starts today till 18th.
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Howzit Reefs, I launched with Don and we got a Dorries of 7 kg's.
We did a binneland and coastal thing on one boat :hyst:
Launching tomorrow, I am sure it will be a ZOO at DSBC.
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Howzit Reefs, I launched with Don and we got a Dorries of 7 kg's.
We did a binneland and coastal thing on one boat :hyst:
Launching tomorrow, I am sure it will be a ZOO at DSBC.
Please tell me coastal won for a change!!
Tight lines for tomorrow bud...
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Hello Gents and Ladies.
Happy New year!!
I think we were the first to launch yesterday at 04H30 in some lovely rough seas and were rewarded with a full fish hatch of Dorado.
No babalas paid of quite handsomely, great start to the new year.
I believe over a 100 boats have launched this morning.
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Hello Gents and Ladies.
Happy New year!!
I think we were the first to launch yesterday at 04H30 in some lovely rough seas and were rewarded with a full fish hatch of Dorado.
No babalas paid of quite handsomely, great start to the new year.
I believe over a 100 boats have launched this morning.
Well done Mark, looks like you boys are having a cracking festive season!!! Keen to hunt down a few dorries and hoos when I'm back in a week!!
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Fish are wild off Durbs
even the muppets are are catching :win:
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135 boats launched today, so you can imagine every ship had at least 5 boats each fighting for position. We went our own way, dropped to Dorries, one a decent bull, jumped about 10 times and hook pulled about 4m from boat.
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Tough one on the Dorries mate, all those boats must have made it look like the cuta classic
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Tough one on the Dorries mate, all those boats must have made it look like the cuta classic
Apparently it was 170 boats, lucky for night rating we were about the 5th boat in so avoided the mad rush. But even with night rated guys now queues are forming.
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Tough one on the Dorries mate, all those boats must have made it look like the cuta classic
Apparently it was 170 boats, lucky for night rating we were about the 5th boat in so avoided the mad rush. But even with night rated guys now queues are forming.
We were next out after FFF and first on the ships, ended on 5 for the day.
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Nicely done Chris... roll on Sunday :dor:
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We fished off port edward yesterday.
Was the first boat to launch at Glenmore and were at backline at 4:30 am.
We got bait easily off TO strand and head straight out for warm water. I found 26deg purple water on the 80m mark and we started our drift. Current was screaming in a southerly direction at 7km/h. We had no luck in the deep so i started a slow troll with live bait back in toward the 50m. At about 55m we went tight with a nice dorrie, and after a quick fight she was in the hatch. It then went dead.
I moved even shallower to a spot that consistantly produces fish for me, and even though the water was 22 degrees on the inside, we went double up with dorries within 3mins on our first drift. We lost one and as the other was nearing the boat, i pitched a bait at its mate and went tight. Handed the rod to my Dads cousin and the fish shook the hooks. We ended up boating 3 fish and long line releasing a good few. Was awesome to have my ballie and his cousin on the boat and get them some fish!!
Lower South Coast is still my favourite place to fish!! Will be going to target marlin there soon, with 26-27deg water and big drop offs, they must be around!!
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We fished off port edward yesterday.
Was the first boat to launch at Glenmore and were at backline at 4:30 am.
We got bait easily off TO strand and head straight out for warm water. I found 26deg purple water on the 80m mark and we started our drift. Current was screaming in a southerly direction at 7km/h. We had no luck in the deep so i started a slow troll with live bait back in toward the 50m. At about 55m we went tight with a nice dorrie, and after a quick fight she was in the hatch. It then went dead.
I moved even shallower to a spot that consistantly produces fish for me, and even though the water was 22 degrees on the inside, we went double up with dorries within 3mins on our first drift. We lost one and as the other was nearing the boat, i pitched a bait at its mate and went tight. Handed the rod to my Dads cousin and the fish shook the hooks. We ended up boating 3 fish and long line releasing a good few. Was awesome to have my ballie and his cousin on the boat and get them some fish!!
Lower South Coast is still my favourite place to fish!! Will be going to target marlin there soon, with 26-27deg water and big drop offs, they must be around!!
If you're going to chase billies in the next 3-4 weeks let me know know... try get down there with Don and Bwana
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Well done on the fish guys, Chris I will give you a call about Mauritius fishing sometime soon (I need to find the contact details) we had some good fun on LT with plenty skipjacks(ski boat) some dollies but no marlin on our half day charter.
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Well done on the fish guys, Chris I will give you a call about Mauritius fishing sometime soon (I need to find the contact details) we had some good fun on LT with plenty skipjacks(ski boat) some dollies but no marlin on our half day charter.
Shot thanks
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Anyone fishing today? We're going to give it a bash...
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It should be good
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Fished on Saturday, visited about 10 FADS and ended up with three dollies :dor:, lost three, including a slab of a fish that wrapped the rope. Also lost what looked like a very big blue marlin :billf: on a live shad dollie bait (knife to a gunfight) and lost a sailfish :sailf: due to operator error :blush: (it won't happen again!!) Nice day on the sea with a nice swim 30kms off Balito with the dolphins :rck" Surprised that there were so few other boats out??
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Well done, what a awesome day out mate (clap)
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Launched today and my oldest son Wade got a 9.5 kg yft. Thanks fff for your help today really great help. :+ cred: :+ cred: to you
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Launched today and my oldest son Wade got a 9.5 kg yft. Thanks fff for your help today really great help. :+ cred: :+ cred: to you
Well done chaps, awesome stuff getting the lighties on fish!!
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Fished on Saturday, visited about 10 FADS and ended up with three dollies :dor:, lost three, including a slab of a fish that wrapped the rope. Also lost what looked like a very big blue marlin :billf: on a live shad dollie bait (knife to a gunfight) and lost a sailfish :sailf: due to operator error :blush: (it won't happen again!!) Nice day on the sea with a nice swim 30kms off Balito with the dolphins :rck" Surprised that there were so few other boats out??
Hard luck on the dropped fish, did you hook those bills on the fads??
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Shag the marlin was 300m from the first fad we went to, we thought it was down(found it afterwards) so did a few drifts in the area......big marlin.......... and TLD 25 :nuts: Sail was in the bush on the way back on the 50m.
Ryan got three blues on Saturday off Tinley, they went all the way up too Tugela!!
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Greg, don't you have a conference in Durbs or something this week....
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Greg, don't you have a conference in Durbs or something this week....
I wish bud.......hmmmm what's the weather like?
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Shag the marlin was 300m from the first fad we went to, we thought it was down(found it afterwards) so did a few drifts in the area......big marlin.......... and TLD 25 :nuts: Sail was in the bush on the way back on the 50m.
Ryan got three blues on Saturday off Tinley, they went all the way up too Tugela!!
I believe so, the tugela banks are lovely bits of structure!!
Did they go up in a sports fisher?
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Shag the marlin was 300m from the first fad we went to, we thought it was down(found it afterwards) so did a few drifts in the area......big marlin.......... and TLD 25 :nuts: Sail was in the bush on the way back on the 50m.
Ryan got three blues on Saturday off Tinley, they went all the way up too Tugela!!
I believe so, the tugela banks are lovely bits of structure!!
Did they go up in a sports fisher?
Yes a Citation.
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Greg, don't you have a conference in Durbs or something this week....
I wish bud.......hmmmm what's the weather like?
Thursday is a cracking day for a conference
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Fished on Saturday, visited about 10 FADS and ended up with three dollies :dor:, lost three, including a slab of a fish that wrapped the rope. Also lost what looked like a very big blue marlin :billf: on a live shad dollie bait (knife to a gunfight) and lost a sailfish :sailf: due to operator error :blush: (it won't happen again!!) Nice day on the sea with a nice swim 30kms off Balito with the dolphins :rck" Surprised that there were so few other boats out??
great day out pity about the marlin and sailie, windguru got it all wrong that's why I didn't launch on Saturday. swr swr
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Well done guys, pity about the bills (clap)
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Will be fishing thursday
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Will be fishing thursday
We'll be out as well, weather looking good :fshn:
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Greg, don't you have a conference in Durbs or something this week....
I wish bud.......hmmmm what's the weather like?
Thursday is a cracking day for a conference
We need a mate with a plane!!
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Got 3 dorado today. Off durban
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Well done, in the bush, trolling lures, livebait, ships???
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Tomorrow looks like a go :fshn: :fshn:
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So after good reports of catches down south i headed down to Shelly to meet up with Mark for a long overdue fish. Plan was to target a bit of everything... dorries, yellowtail, YFT and even maybe a sailie if the fishing Gods allowed.
Had to wait a while to be thrown in, and while waiting got reports that the okes were struggling for bait so we changed game plan and decided to put the plastics out when we got out to our spot. We didn't have any luck so decided to target the bait balls we'd seen moving around... Mark made light work and soon had some quality bait on board (mackies, red eye & small mozzies - really strange for Shelly) and we put out a spread for the dorries.
Had an enquiry on the TLD25/Vengeance combo so Mark brought the line in and change baits. As he was flicked the bait out, he must have tossed it on the fishes head because the next thing he's passing me a rod telling me he's on. The fish quickly strips the reel so we chase him down and start getting line back. With the slow long pulls, we're both fearing the brown suit but decide to give it a go anyway. Every now and then a head knock gives me a little hope that it isn't a shark.
With that 8ft stick and TLD25, i eventually had to pass the rod to Mark cos i was stuffed. He then returned the favour and passed it back to me a short while later - old age and being unfit is a biatch!! Start boxing this oke and put a little more pressure on him which got him off the bottom. I briefly saw a bit of colour and when Mark sees his licence plate, panic sets in... it's a decent YFT, not a Johnny. I must've had this one in a circle pattern under the boat for another 10 minutes but couldn't get that leader through the top eye... that 8ft stick killed me. Mark took over again and fought hard for probably anther 10 min before we got him within gaffing range. High 5's all around... a good YFT, but an epic battle!!!
We tried a bit of jigging thereafter and had a few bumps but no hookups. We then went onto the chum on the southern pinnacle with 2 livies on the surface but the sharks pulled in and cleaned us up. Mark did hook one bonnie with the Tiagra and winched that one onto deck so quickly i don't think the fish knew it was hooked
Lekker day out, got back to the club to see that nobody else had caught so was quite chuffed to have got something. Fished weighed in at 25kg.
P.S. There are photos of Mark holding it too... i just don't have them... but i think i look better holding it anyway!!
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Lekker Shaun congrats a very nice YFT
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Nice Shaun well done, you fishing Durban tomorrow. ??
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Nice Shaun well done, you fishing Durban tomorrow. ??
Would love to but no crew so going to service tackle and Polish the boat...
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Lekker report Shaun and thanks for a lekker day on the water. That tunny was on steroids - epic battle! Can't believe it didn't get taxed, but team Scouse came out on tops!
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Nice slab of fish that, well done guys. :rck"
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Well done guys :yft:
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It's nice to get a rev from a big gas bottle, the TLD25 can take a lot of sh1t and depending on line normally handles a lot of stuff
Richard boated a 27kg off of Rocky Bay many years ago with Daiwa LD50H, loaded with 10kg line and it took 35 mins to get it to the boat and it nearly pulled me in with the gaff :toppie: :hehe: , but Richard was finished when we got the gas bottle on board, they really are tough competitors.
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Hi guys,
I will be fishing this sunday from durbs hoping to try around the ships... never done this before so any tips would be great. have there been any fish around the ships lately? thanks
tight lines
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Hi guys,
I will be fishing this sunday from durbs hoping to try around the ships... never done this before so any tips would be great. have there been any fish around the ships lately? thanks
tight lines
There is usually Dorado and Wahoo around the ships, depends on the current, if its screaming there will be no fish around the ships as a rule. Take care when close to a ship especially when the swell is up as you don't want a swell to push you into it.
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We'll be launching out of Port Edward tomorrow together with the boys on Scott-no-fish to try entice one of our pointy nosed friends...
First time for me launching there...
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Good luck bud :billf:
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check out my vid i made.
https://youtu.be/irXHXZLZrSc (https://youtu.be/irXHXZLZrSc)
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check out my vid i made.
https://youtu.be/irXHXZLZrSc (https://youtu.be/irXHXZLZrSc)
Lekker video Adrian, keep giving those South Coast fish horns bud!! Those sharks were quiet for a while but seem to have come back with a vengeance!!
I need to take more underwater footage...
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So for several weeks now, Scott and I have been hatching a plan to target a marlin off what appeared to be some awesome structure down the South Coast. With Scott being familiar to these waters, we tucked in behind and just tagged along. Several messages back and forth during the week confirming weather forecasts which only seemed to improve as the week progressed had us chomping at the bit... it also had me frequenting tackle shops and having tackle sent on overnight delivery... thanks again Sheldon.
(http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/MGalleryItem.php?id=2806)
After reading the thread on tag lines, i decided to add tag lines to my riggers and also fitted hal-locks. Spread patterns were played with and tweaked, hooks sharpened and rods prepped. I had Shag on speed dial overtime i had a question or concern and at one stage he even let a work meeting interfere with these discussions.
So at 1:45am yesterday morning we left Hillcrest with the Scouse on tow and made our way down to Glenmore. We took a slow cruise and met up with Scott, Brad and Leon at the club at about 4:20. Final preps were done and we launched without too much fuss.
Early on we had a few Gremlins in the Raymarine system so had to stick close to Scott-no-fish to make sure we were fishing the right areas... what a blessing in disguise this proved to be!! After getting to the drop-offs, we began pulling lures about 800m behind Scott and just off to the starboard.
Spread
Short Corner - Sweet 16 (large)
Long Corner - Bobby Brown
Short Rigger - Pakula Sprocket
Long Rigger - Iland Express
Shotgun - Sweet 16
(http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/MGalleryItem.php?id=2810)
Water was a beautiful blue purple and around 26.8 degrees. Just after 7am Scott called over the VHF to say that they'd had a marlin in their spread which didn't stick. Not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, we asked if we tuck in on his line and see if we could entice a strike. As we came up on that patch, i watch the Tiagra rod bend and shouted to Don he was about to go just as the elastic on the Shagstix tagline popped and the Tiagra 50 screamed to life. Don grabbed the rod while i worked to clear all the lines with Don's brother Allan (new to game fishing) at the helm (we'd chatted beforehand about who was to do what in the event of a strike which eliminated a lot of chaos). The fish pulled about 250-300m of string but never once breached which had us believing he was into a decent YFT.
(http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/MGalleryItem.php?id=2807)
15 minutes into the fight, Don went soft cock on us and started complaining of cramp... we laughed and "motivated" him to carry on pressing the fish. There was also a bit of motivation over the VHF from the boys on Scott-no-fish hahahaha. Some of the suffering was due to Don not sizing up the Black Magic beforehand as suggested by the extremely knowledgeable Skipper #justsaying
Anyway, i digress... so a short while later Don starts making progress and we get the fish below the boat before it moves away and begins surfacing and shows a longer, more slender body than a YFT. Without a single breach, we're still in doubt as to it being a billie and i still have gaff in hand until Allan sees that distinctive sickle come out the water. A little screaming like girls, a little panic and a lot more attention has us all focussed on what we need to do to get Don his first marlin and the first marlin on Scouse African.
(http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/MGalleryItem.php?id=2808)
I start leadering the fish when it decides it wants to gives us one more go, breaching and klapping the Shagstix on the way. It peels a little line and we start again, remembering Shags advise to let the fish go if it's still green. When we leader the fish this time, it gives a few head shakes (Shag's instructions - stiff arms, don't let go). Eventually it calms down, we remove the hook and get a few k*K photos. The fish swims away strongly with High 5's and hugs all around...
(http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/MGalleryItem.php?id=2809)
ILAND EXPRESS BABY!!!
Been fishing with Don for over 25 years so was really magic to share this experience with him.
We then carried on pulling plastics until about 1:30 in the hope that we could get another billie. The signs were encouraging with interest shown in both the short and long corners as well as a marlin breaching just in front of us, but unfortunately there were to be no more.
Whilst trolling we came across what i ID'd this morning as a Giant Oceanic Manta Ray. First sight i called a whale... it was that big, easily the size of my boat. What an incredible creature!!
We met Scott backline before beaching who so kindly lent us his flags (we're not used to this... yet). With flags flying, we proudly hit the beach.
(http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/MGalleryItem.php?id=2811)
(http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/MGalleryItem.php?id=2813)
(http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/MGalleryItem.php?id=2812)
Big thanks again to Scott, Shag, Sheldon... what a magic day!! Looking forward to heading down south again soon and doing it again.
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Well done Shaun, Don, Scott and the rest of the boys. Great report and a great result! :rck"
Don congrats on your first marlin :billf: [size=78%] [/size]
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:cgrts: :udman: :toppie:
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Thanks Mark. Was awesome to catch.many more for scouse to come. :billf:
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Well done Gentleman, that's awesome. (clap)
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Well done guys. :happ: :happ: :happ:
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Well done on the :billf: you have worked hard for that
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Congrats on the billy and respect for the release! Nice report and photos.
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Congrats Shaun and Don! Well done!
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Nothing better than getting what you target!! :rck" :rck" :rck"
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Well done on the Marlin!
Well worth the effort after waking up at that ungodly hour!
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Congrats Shaun and Don :billf:
Nice video Adrian some great fishing down south :udman:
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Awesome congrats guys (clap)
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Very well done!!!
A :billf: :billf: :billf:
Nicely done and even better written.
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Well done guys. Awesome :billf:
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Well done guys awesome
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well done guys a fantastic :billf:
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Nice one Shaun and team Scouse.
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Launched today with Francoir a French pilot working for Emarits Airlines.. he called me yesterday morning to book a trip for today. we launched at 6:45 and made our waybout to the North to work the ships for a few hours as he has to be back by 12:30 to head back to the airport to fly back to Dubi.. in any case water temps where good butni found loads of rubbish close to Durbs but once we made it out to the ships the water was much better. we worked around two or 3 ships with nothing.. then on the 4th ship we saw the dorries so we made a quick turn and as we ran up the port side our first rod was away.. followed by the second rod both screaming away with so fantastic acrobastic.. Francoir strapped on a bucked and got to work on the first fish... which turned out to be the female about 7kg but she gave him a good rev.. after baoting her and a quick pic we started on thr second line. and Francior made short work of the bull about 10kg.. after a couple of hi 5s Francoir was ready to head back. so we reset the spread and made out way back workingnomea couple of reefs and ledges on the way.. about 10min later we had the one rigger clip go.. i looked back only to see a small pointy face casing the lure.. but was not commited so i dropped back the lure and tried to entice a solid strick.. when all hell broke loose.. a second Bill showed its self and smashed the short corner making the reel scream to life. .. however the first of the 2 was still messing around with the lure.. so after i strapped François in and let him start on the first one . i went back to sort out the second who by this time had decided to snack the lure properly and also screamed away...so 2 hook ups and two on the boat. .. while Francoir was fighting the first i was just keeping the second on the line so he could have a proper back to back work out... but is was not to be as i leadered the first sailfish.. the second made a solid run and jumped and snapped/Burnt us off... was a pitty. in any case we got some video and pics of the first while trying to revive it... i spent the better part of 30min trying to get some sign on life but saidly it was not to be so i had to make the difficult call to boat the fish and bring her home was a bitter sweet moment. after that we packed up and headed back.. Sailie weighed inat 15.kg.. not a bad morning on the water. will be posting the other vids and pics later
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Nice one Richard, sad about the demise of the Saily, but these things do happen
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Well done Rich, awesome day out mate.
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Well done :rck" looks bigger than 15kg's though :dunno:
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So good to see a few billfish come out.
Well done Richard.
Sounds like a great morning.
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Well done :rck" looks bigger than 15kg's though :dunno:
I originally thought so to based on lenght but was very lean. but actually weighed in at 15.55kg on the scales at the club
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Well done!!
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Congrats Rich.
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Hopefully the weather allows a launch this weekend. :fshn: :fshn:
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so far it looks pretty good, hopefully get a couple :dor: and :yft:
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I launched before light on Saturday only to be met with monster waved crashing over South Pier, tried south for snoek but the sea was too big, I then tried for a couta but sea 22deg and green, ended up fighting a monster grey for 45min, got it next to the boat all 3m plus, held vas and broke it off, that was my morning.
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Hey Chris, at least you got out there :rck"
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Sounds like a tough day at the office Chris.
Not much better down here the sea has been HUGE this past week and to make matters worse it's reverse current so the gamefish are missing. Seen one or two nice bottom fish coming out including a 20kg cracker over the past weekend for the guys who braved the massive swell.
Will be fishing Umkomaas Interclub next weekend so praying for the sea to settle and warm up for a few :wahoo: :cout: :dor: :yft: :sailf:
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Will be fishing Umkomaas Interclub next weekend so praying for the sea to settle and warm up for a few :wahoo: :cout: :dor: :yft: :sailf:
All the best for the Interclub bud... :fshn:
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I launched Friday morning in the dark got some bait then tried for snoek, managed one then tried for a couta without luck, was testing the new CID shiver stick on my 7' Amia heavy and stradic 5000 when a 14.5kg tunny decided to latch on, great fight almost got stripped twice but managed to get it on board. great day out.
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I launched Friday morning in the dark got some bait then tried for snoek, managed one then tried for a couta without luck, was testing the new CID shiver stick on my 7' Amia heavy and stradic 5000 when a 14.5kg tunny decided to latch on, great fight almost got stripped twice but managed to get it on board. great day out.
(clap) Awesome Chris that must have been a jol on the light gear!
Down south we have been experiencing the most unbelievable couta run that I've seen in many years. The average size fish over the past 3 week period has been between 16-20kg and I reckon that over 30 have been caught over the easter weekend alone! It is a sign that the large bait balls that have been around here for the past 6 months have pulled in these fish and kept them fat and happy. We fished on Friday and got one of 20.8kg and my mates fished the weekend and ended up with one of 19.5kg and 28kg respectively! Here are some pics from the various boats on the weekend:
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I launched Friday morning in the dark got some bait then tried for snoek, managed one then tried for a couta without luck, was testing the new CID shiver stick on my 7' Amia heavy and stradic 5000 when a 14.5kg tunny decided to latch on, great fight almost got stripped twice but managed to get it on board. great day out.
Well done!!!! Great catch on that setup!
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Nice crocs Mark!
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What comp did they have at Hibberedene ski boat club last weekend.
When i drove past there this morning i saw the remnants of the prize giving (advertising flags, chairs and plenty beer cans lol)
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They held a small gamefish competition with a few cash prizes
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i entered the DSBC comp last week thursday and was given Yamaha 136.
I cant believe that there are so few entrys this year, in previous years they went up to 500 boats.
This year the number of boats has been reduced to 400 though.
Are you boys fishing the comp this year?
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Well done guys!! :rck"
:envy :-( :-( :-( :-( :-(
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Some nice fish there well done, you lucky the sharks are not around, wish they would swim North for some exercise
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Hi all , been a long time since i been on the water. Looks like the fishing is god down there. Was in Rbay last week and wind is howling
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Howzit Gords, yeah weather been up and down, Guru messing everyone around, but their are gaps this weekend.
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Launched yesterday for some snoek and bottom fish. Troy caught an awesome Troy fish!!!! He hooked himself withna clarke spoon on the rod in the holder. Very unlucky accident. Hevis ok as dr removed the hook.
And yes it was released.
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Eish not nice, hope he is ok :shk Good to see you yesterday, I was trying to tell you to come over, there was a bait ball getting whacked by shad and bonnies - great fun for the lighties with a spinning rod and a sprat spoon, I thought you were gapping it because of the wind.
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Thank you for trying to call, would have loved to have joined in. As you can see was heading back for casualty.
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Anyone fish the weekend ??
I managed to launch Sunday and found a few snoek lurking on the backline :craz: w;k
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We managed Sunday, lost a bus, wire bitten off.
Jakala$ got a couta of 22kg on Saturday and a 15 on Sunday drifting a mac.
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Good to hear, fishing where?
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Umhloti area
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All the couta coming out are all over 10kg
I think even Bluff is producing?
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Howzit , we down from 1st to 5th. Hope we have some decent weather.
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Well, after being off the water for 4 months, FFF got the boat running again and Saturday with weather looking absolute pearler, FFF, FFF jnr and myself could not resist the tempation of being on the big blue. We were at the club at 05h30 and by 05h50 all ready to go, looked around the parking lot and it was like the festival except all boats were in the parking lot.
We struggled for bait around the corner, managed 2 mozzies and a pike, then decided we will get bait on our journey South near shark nets, on route we spotted Dolphins, i pitched a bait and not long game was on, after + - 10min tackle failure and we lost a beeg Tuna (thats how the game goes). Anyways we puzzled most the day caught a handful of reef dwellers so fresh fish for the pan. FFF Jnr spotted Tuna surfacing and FFF Snr put a mozzie out and not long after zzzz game was on again, after a nice decent little fight FFF had a nice 20 kilo tuna on deck, not long after called it quits and time for a few cold ones and were back on beach by 14h00.
Great to be on the water again, was a awesome day, conditions were too good, water temp was 21/22, crystal clear water.
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Well done gents sounds like a great day on the water (clap)
The south coast keeps on trucking with some serious couta this season. Some local old salts came right off Port Edward with 8 croc couta and a bus kingie! Biggest couta went 35kg. PJ Botha also found the bus ambers off Shelly, he got 5 over the weekend all on bonnies:
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Nice report Umpa and Bwana! :+ cred:
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Lekker Mark, eeish those ambers must have been arm stretching to the limits. Also very decent Couta. (clap)
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Nice fish guys, eish I wish those couta would make an appearance around here, tried again for 3 hrs!! What a pearler of a day Saturday, not even enough wind to push a drift!!
Also found the biggest pod of dolphins I have seen in a long time, the wife was out with the camera.........I had other ideas :hnthnt:
After pitching a mozzie I got her onto her PB and first YFT (now she has caught everything except billfish)!! After plenty moaning and bitching(as women do w;k) and wanting to give me the rod we landed this 20kg slab!!
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managed this yellowfin off Richards bay on the 1000m yesterday. A PB for me...
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Nice one Scott, some details mate
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Awesome stuff there peoples (clap) Very nice fish that Scott :rck"
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Nice Scott, what a cow!! What was it 70??
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Great that you guys are back on the water Ant and Denzil.
Nice to some decent Tuna coming out of DBN, Nice big monster there Scott.
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Fished off Pennington on Saturday and had some good times and some horrible ones.
Got through the shorie got some bait and headed to the grounds to fish. On the way there we had the one motor seize on us so while seeing what we could do i put out a trapstick with a mozzie and noticed some bonnies surfacing and put a spoon amongst them and went vas!
Pinned him and sent him looking for a wahoo or a cuda to snack on him. While letting it out the rod with a mozzie went away and straight after the rod in my had took off.
The one one the spinning stick dropped the bait, and mine carried on peeling line.
After a grueling 30-45min fight on 12kg line we boated a tuna of 32kgs! Excellent start to the day!
So we put lines in and pulled plastics to the fishing grounds and went vas with a screamer! Hannah proceeded to boat a wahoo of 19kgs! It soon died off after that . We got two screams on the live bonnie witch we think could of been more wahoo but they just missed the hooks slicing the tail off. We then climbed onto a mates boat and all had a safe beaching.
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Brilliant Adrian! (clap)
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Nice Scott, what a cow!! What was it 70??
79.5kg bled , when we boated it I thought 65kg maybe, so was stoked when it nearly hit 80!
caught on the 1000m off Richards bay on and ilander
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good going Adrian! some very nice fishing! well done!
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Well done Scott that is an absolute ripper of a yellowfin :rck"
Congrats Adrian those are some quality fish there, thanks for the report :+ cred:
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Been a bit busy lately but we fished the DSBC junior comp. The sea was very lumpy early so we fished close. Sea started to settle so decided to run down to Toti. Fishing was hard but caught a couple of nice bottoms. Kieran caught his first Yellowbelly but it came up 5cm short just 55cm, Was a very nice fish. I fished on a friends boat as our boat is off the water again. He had hopes that I would put his son on a proper fish. Anyway things turned out like he hoped and his son Josh caught his first YFT, That is the reason I fish, Josh was so happy and the smile so big.
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Awesome result Ant! Thats a decent YFT for a lightie :rck"
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Well Kieran got selected to fish for DSBC juniors at the Mapalane Junior interclub this last weekend.
I Drove him up on the Friday evening and met up with his 2 team mates Luke and Chad.
At the briefing they said it was one of the best supported they had with 16 Teams fishing.
DSBC were fishing on Hilton the Commodores boat and it was Kierans first surf launch and could see he was nervous, Anyway they had a great launch and off they went. Left me sitting on the beach waiting for the 14:00 lines up and beaching. They were the last boat to beach and when I spotted them could see the flags flying showing they had caught a sail fish.Kieran could not contain himself and jumped off the boat telling me he had caught a Sailfish. They estimated the fish at 35kg and took the little man an hour and five minutes to land. A great achievement for a 10 year old. Shame he was so Happy. Chad had also caught a kingfish so they were in the running for first place.
Day 2 lines up was 13:00 and when they beached I new they had done well, Luke had caught 2 Couta and a YFT and Chad A YFT so they had done well on both days and ended up coming first overall. They each received a really nice trophy. Kieran went to sleep with it lol.
The camera with the pic of Kierans Sailie had water on and the lens and are not the best and I am waiting to get them from Hilton and shall post them when I receive them.
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well done,congrats to your son... :cgrts:
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:happ: (clap) :cgrts: :win: Kieran my main man.
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Fantastic!! Congrats to your boys FFF! :cgrts: Well done, you must be very proud!
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Excellent! :cgrts: (clap) (clap) (clap)
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Brilliant!!!! :rck" :rck" :rck" (clap) :cgrts:
Well done Kieran, and to dad for making it happen!! :+ cred:
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Fantastic Anthony, you must be a very proud father.
Credit must also be given to Hilton for his good skippering and putting the young men on their fish. (clap) :win:
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Congrats Ant and Kieran what a fantastic result! It is truly a special place to fish nice to see them doing well there (clap)
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Well done Ant. Guess you going tk have to listen to Kieran on the boat now!
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Well done to your son and his mates
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Awesome well done (clap)
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Well done to Kieran and the team as well as the skipper and dads, great achievement. :win: :win: :win: :cgrts:
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https://youtu.be/E7spZu4tcBM
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Nice.......just don't show it to Anthony Keidis :hnthnt: :hnthnt:
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Hopefully after all the rains and some rivers breaking their banks we may see an improvement in the fishing :dunno: :dunno:
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Agree Chris, the big cycles that I believe in just don't seem to be turning fast enough!! :-( :dunno: :dunno:
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So... Launched tday at public slipway as there were no tractor drivers at dsbc, headed out towards harbour mouth and before i could even think about radioing port controll i found muself doing a big u turn back into the bay...sea was on its head! So fished around the bay a bit, anyone rlse found themselves doing this today?
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So... Launched tday at public slipway as there were no tractor drivers at dsbc, headed out towards harbour mouth and before i could even think about radioing port controll i found muself doing a big u turn back into the bay...sea was on its head! So fished around the bay a bit, anyone rlse found themselves doing this today?
Saw the sea conditions on Tuesday afternoon and decided a sleep in would be the better option.
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Tomorrow looking good, see you on the water :fshn: :fshn: :fshn:
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Stuff on tomorrow so its Sunday for me :rck"
I will give you a shout tomorrow afternoon to see whats what :hnthnt:
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Ya tomorrow and sunday look like stunners :tite
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Well Strike Craft is fixed so we will be out on the weekend. :happ: :happ: :happ:
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Enjoy the weekend you lucky fish! !!
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Tight lines guys
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So we got the boat back on the water Saturday. Denzil Kieran and myself. Managed to get some bait pretty easily and went out to the deep wrecks to try for a Bek. The showing were not good and after a couple of down at 139m we gave up and decided to go see if we could find some bottom fish in the shallower marks.
We managed a couple of nice fish so good to be back on the water again. Kieran caught a very nice catface and lost a real bus. Still has to perfect his back winding when you get a proper fish on with the KP, but he is getting there.
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:fshn: :fshn: Good to have the salt flowing through the veins again. Shot dot.
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Nice fish boys, we went whale watching, got some nice pics and videos!!
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Oh, and we pulled some raps for about 15kms and got some frigate mackerel/tuna.
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Nice pics DB. There are a lot of whales around. We had a couple really close to us a few times.
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So we got the boat back on the water Saturday. Denzil Kieran and myself. Managed to get some bait pretty easily and went out to the deep wrecks to try for a Bek. The showing were not good and after a couple of down at 139m we gave up and decided to go see if we could find some bottom fish in the shallower marks.
We managed a couple of nice fish so good to be back on the water again. Kieran caught a very nice catface and lost a real bus. Still has to perfect his back winding when you get a proper fish on with the KP, but he is getting there.
Nice going chaps!! :rck"
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Also fished Saturday and managed a few nice sized rubber lips, the whales were harassing us on the 50m mark and we eventually had to leave, three times it followed us with its calf, they came as close as 15m to the boat so I decided to move.
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Well after catching a few nice bottoms on Saturday and Tuesday being the holiday we decided to try our luck again.
Woke up and the wind was puffing a bit still and the sea did not look so we decided to do a later launch.
Eventually launched at about 9:30 and struggled for bait, only seemed to be shad around.
Went bottom fishing and caught a few fish. Kieran caught a really nice Five fingers, have never seen them this big before.
Anyway was nice to be out on the water again.
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Saw strike craft leaving vetchies on tues🎣Nice fish bever seen them that size before🐟!
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Saw strike craft leaving vetchies on tues🎣Nice fish bever seen them that size before🐟!
Next time you see us come say hello.
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Would have but was paddling and a bit far away... Just close enough to see boats name🐠Next time though🎣
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See you on the water tomorrow :fshn: :fshn: :fshn:
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See you on the water tomorrow :fshn: :fshn: :fshn:
I wish😦 Wont be out tomorrow but gud luck and tight lines🎣🎣🎣🎣🎣
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Anyone fishing the Garrick comp?? Looks like its going to be a bit breezy but I think I might give it a bash.......never caught a Garrick from the boat :dunno:
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Wet and windy ??? eish, might give it a skip.
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Garrick Comp is postponed, When its on I think we will give it a go.
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Garrick Comp is postponed, When its on I think we will give it a go.
Great idea Ant, lets all enter this year, will put on my big boy speedo :hehe: :hehe:
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Garrick Comp is postponed, When its on I think we will give it a go.
Seems like they may have cancelled too soon, it looks like it might be ok to fish??
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I am launching tomorrow, I need to test my rebuilt boat and new motors.
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What have you had done??
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New foam and deck and new Yami F70's
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Well the weather has not been nice in Durban for a while. Every weekend the wind blows and we don't go fishing.
Friday afternoon the wind was predicted to blow Saturday morning getting less during the day so I convinced Denzil to launch sat morning.
We were at the club early and had a easy launch with no wind at all.(It was supposed to be blowing so I was very happy)
Managed to get some nice mackerel and put out a live bait while Denzil and Kieran were catching us some bait.
The stick went away and Denzil managed a nice 8Kg Yft so high fives with a great start.
Moved south to try around Coopers but the Shad were a pest so moved to another mark.
First down Bottom fishing now and Denzil went Tight, he had a great fish on and managed to get his First Bek so Big smiles.
The NE came up and we headed back earlier than expected but caught a few nice Fish
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Very Nice Ant and Big D :cgrts: and thanks for the update
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Very nice Boy's, nothing like being on the water and coming home with fish (clap) (clap)
PS Ant, wouldn't Denzel let you have a turn on the rod :hyst: :hyst: :hyst: :hyst: :hyst: :hyst:
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Well done guys, I made the wrong call and didn't go, so was super grumpy when I heard the guys got some fish :fshn: :fshn:
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I'm having my boats COF done this friday, so should see you guys on the water soon. Weather looks shocking for this coming weekend.
Nice fish there Denzil (clap)
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Nice fish boys, I see a couple of sailys came out over the weekend and some very nice snoek were landed last week during the week :rck"
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Nice catches chaps (clap)
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Nice fish boys, I see a couple of sailys came out over the weekend and some very nice snoek were landed last week during the week :rck"
Any idea where the sailys came out?? Home next week... hint hint
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Nice fish boys, I see a couple of sailys came out over the weekend and some very nice snoek were landed last week during the week :rck"
Any idea where the sailys came out?? Home next week... hint hint
I know of two for sure but have heard of another two and one lost?? :dunno: The one was just inside No.1 by a jetski and another on the 50m off the Bluff.
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I am launching tomorrow, I need to test my rebuilt boat and new motors.
Mike you still got the sailfish ?
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I am launching tomorrow, I need to test my rebuilt boat and new motors.
Mike you still got the sailfish ?
Mike's boat is anything but that rubbish... been built proper now!!
Shot for the info on the Sailys DG...
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I'm having my boats COF done this friday, so should see you guys on the water soon. Weather looks shocking for this coming weekend.
Nice fish there Denzil (clap)
Sunday is going to be a great day for fishing,
Just got to get the wife to take Kieran to Cricket them im sorted
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I am launching tomorrow, I need to test my rebuilt boat and new motors.
Mike you still got the sailfish ?
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Mike's boat is anything but that rubbish... been built proper now!!
:thmsup"
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I'm having my boats COF done this friday, so should see you guys on the water soon. Weather looks shocking for this coming weekend.
Nice fish there Denzil (clap)
Sunday is going to be a great day for fishing,
Just got to get the wife to take Kieran to Cricket them im sorted
Thanks for the ride on Saturday Ant, pity the fish had lockjaw but anyway was a great day on the water, at least we saw a lot of whales w;k
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Snuck out for a mid week launch, an got this baby. A pb of 25.5kg. Thanks to Greg F for all the help.
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Very nice Yellow Tail in your yellow jacket HD!
Well done on the pb.
Those mid week launches when there are no other boats around, are the best.
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:yft: (clap) :rck" Well done HD
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:envy :cgrts: :cgrts: (clap) Details??
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Well done, its about time you caught something :hehe:
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Tomorrow looking fishable, see you on the water :fshn: :fshn: :fshn:
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Been having some amazing fishing off Shelly lately.
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Nice Geet!! :shk (clap)
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Some tuna
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Very nice Adrian :fshn:
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What a bus of a Geet (clap) (clap)
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What a bus of a Geet (clap) (clap)
x3!!!
More details please! Tackle and method?! I bet on jigging...
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What a bus of a Geet (clap) (clap)
x3!!!
More details please! Tackle and method?! I bet on jigging...
Natal Ski with a 10inch KP live Mackerel.
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What a bus of a Geet (clap) (clap)
x3!!!
More details please! Tackle and method?! I bet on jigging...
Natal Ski with a 10inch KP live Mackerel.
Whaaat! On a KP!! :shk That's flippin awesome! Must be 40-45kg that fish?
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Hahah that's why I don't gamble!!
Seeing that your are typing, I guess you still have your knuckles?!?!? :crzy
Fantastic skills!!! Well done!!!
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What a bus of a Geet (clap) (clap)
x3!!!
More details please! Tackle and method?! I bet on jigging...
Natal Ski with a 10inch KP live Mackerel.
Whaaat! On a KP!! :shk That's flippin awesome! Must be 40-45kg that fish?
Hahaha - 34.6kilos
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The :yft: were loose on the barge this morning. If you managed to get a bait before your yozuri was destroyed by shad, the livies weren't lasting longer than 30 seconds. Tomorrow is going to be pandemonium out there if the weather holds.
Had to start paddling back at 6 to get to work on time. Seeing my empty hatch may have brought a small tear to my eye. :blush:
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So managed to official open my dorado season with a 9kg bull on Saturday, lost another 3 and a tuna after 15min got cut off on the ships anchor chain.
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So managed to official open my dorado season with a 9kg bull on Saturday, lost another 3 and a tuna after 15min got cut off on the ships anchor chain.
Well done on the Dorrie.
Hoping to find them soon too.
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So managed to official open my dorado season with a 9kg bull on Saturday, lost another 3 and a tuna after 15min got cut off on the ships anchor chain.
Must be a bit rusty, and I don't mean the anchor chain :nuts: :hnthnt:
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:dor: Lekker Oompa, agree with Dugong on being rusty LOL :crzy :beer:
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I was at the club earlier and see a fair number of dollies have come out in the last week :rck"
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Will launch this weekend so mkre will be coming out :crzy :hehe:
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Will launch this weekend so mkre will be coming out :crzy :hehe:
mkre...speak english :dunno:
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Its Monday was typing in simple so you would understand.
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Ok so lots more will be coming out.
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Its Monday was typing in simple so you would understand.
Ok mkre acronym for makree, don't be like Keegan and we don't know warappen right.
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:hehe: :hyst:
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:hehe: :hyst:
Warrappen yesterday ??
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So managed to official open my dorado season with a 9kg bull on Saturday, lost another 3 and a tuna after 15min got cut off on the ships anchor chain.
Must be a bit rusty, and I don't mean the anchor chain :nuts: :hnthnt:
:hehe: :hehe: :rotfl :rotfl this is true.
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:hehe: :hyst:
Warrappen yesterday ??
Warappen, we all Bras right, right, dis o got a bomb :yft:
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That he did
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A pic of latest catch. Thanks to a lot of help from Greg F. This fish gave me serious gears. Weight 27kg
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Well done, was that the day I saw you..........same place?
Looks like you need night rating (bat
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Correct. Yesterday. Boat and skipper night rated.
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Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday looking mighty fine :dor: :dor: :yft: :yft: :fshn: :fshn: :sreel: :sreel: :beer: :beer:
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:dor: :dor: :dor: :yft: :yft: :yft: watch out here come. They have had 2 weeks to get bigger.
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Looking good, only problem is its the Water Scooters comp this weekend. So that means a 03h00 launch :fshn: :fshn: :fshn:
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Yes, forgot the crotch rockets are going to get in our way.
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81 Jetskis and 102 anglers so far !
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81 Jetskis and 102 anglers so far !
Good numbers that. :ScooT:
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We fished yesterday, first on the water to beat the crotch rocket comp, got bait and headed to the ships, FFF jnr managed a dart dorrie at ship one, tried several ships and he also got a Bonnie 8kilo, chummed several marks, saw Dorrie jumping but nadda. tried bottoms but dead, water very cold.
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Heard a boat flipped at Tinley yesterday, hope all aboard are safe, not nice to hear.
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My boys blanked, biggest fish was a 24kg tuna. Not a fun start apparently , bobbing around for ever waiting for the start. Could take a look at the Ponta comp, around 100 skis launched in under 30 minutes!
Put something exiting between your legs, buy a jetski !
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Some nice fished weighed in at the Jetski comp, not many but some quality fish.
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Some nice fish came out on both days, pity I couldn't launch :cry: :cry:
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Howsit All..
Quick one I have 2 spaces available on a trip for this Saturday sadly some mates of mine let me down and have had to cancel so just looking to fill the spots we will be launching for Durban ski boat club cost is a once off R800 each call me on 060 929 7886 to book a spot
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See you on the water tomorrow :fshn: :fshn: :fshn:
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Howsit All..
Quick one I have 2 spaces available on a trip for this Saturday sadly some mates of mine let me down and have had to cancel so just looking to fill the spots we will be launching for Durban ski boat club cost is a once off R800 each call me on 060 929 7886 to book a spot
Where is Black Friday discount?
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We launched Sat. The night before we made the call to give the ships/dorries game fish a miss as we suspected that there would be 100 boats/skis doing the same thing, good thing as we heard there was sometimes 5 boats on a ship and lines been crossed and choice words swapped. Anyway we decided to do bottoms to look for some chow for the pan, managed good bait, plenty red eye and Macks and size macks too. We managed some decent bottoms, had live baits out while drifting aimlessly hoping a passer by would be interested but nadda.
Attached pic of a decent English boated.
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Decided against an early launch (wasn't keen on a black Saturday!! :craz: (bat) as with boat inspections and good weather I knew it would be a bunfight so we launched at 8:30 and were greeted by very cold 20.8deg water inshore, headed straight out to look for warmer water and found 23deg close to 20kms offshore just over the 100m line, pulled south along the current line and ended up with 2 dollies, one of about 6 and one peanut that was released, also got a big kawa on the 50m line on the way in - nice day with a bit of rain but great to be on the salt again!!! :rck" :rck" :rck"
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Also noted very cold water averaging 20.5 to 21.5, also was watching huge bank of rain alot deeper but lucky it did not come in.
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Launched in the dark and was at the ship as the sun was rising, managed 1 small dorrie before the other boats arrived, as Big D said a lot of choice words were passed then we decided to move on, we ended up with 3 x monster bonnies of 8, 8.5 and 9.5kg. was a good day out but some guys have no idea what they are doing and need to learn some manners and move onto another ship when someone is there before them.
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No-one fishing this month?! :dunno:
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Daughter got married last week so its been hectic the last few weeks, (and I can't afford the petrol :blush: :nuts: :nuts: :dunno:) but things are slowly returning to normal so I am aiming for a few attempts in the coming weeks - warmer water has pushed in a bit and it is starting to pick up :dor: :dor: :dor: :sailf: :sailf: and hopefully the :cout: make an appearance :dunno: :dunno:
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CLS , dude hoping for manners from ski boaters may be stretching the imagination a little. So many times they come charging up and past in the hope of seeing where you are fishing or if you are catching. I don't fish weekends any more for obvious reasons.
Then you get them water scooters too.
Just check when the snoek arrive, some ou catches 2 , plasters it all over facebook and on Saturday you have an instant fleet of muppets driving all over each other.
Its the same with the ships and fads. The proper commercials are going to huge expense setting their fads for summer. Ever wondered why they are getting further and further from Durban?. Most are now in excess.of 50 km from Dbn. Keeps the bloodsucker's away.
Perfect example is a short while ago we beat a well known Dbn commercial to his fads by half an hour. So we waited and asked if they were his. He said yes so we backed off and fished behind him . That's his living. Later in the day we wanted to fish some very far marks but wouldn't have enough fuel to get home. So we asked him to lend us some fuel and were given 4 cans to replace before next day. Awesome!!!!!
There is etiquette to be applied when fishing. This seems to to be lacking nowadays. Now I am not that old , younger than Mike Pike anyways, but good old fashioned manners go a long way
If you are on the sea, don't follow a boat around or go charging up to them spraying water all over. Stop a way off and talk to them.
Its much the same on the rocks. Ifthere are people fishing on a spot , chat to them and ask if they mind you joining them. It may lead to an invite to fish with them and even to some "secret " spots. You may even learn something.Particularly if you are not a local. I do this when ever I am out of my home ground. You need information. It all depends how you go about obtaining it.
When somebody does catch a fish, contain yourself don't rush over and take his spot while he is baiting up.
Its probably much the same on inland waters. One doesn't park next to some guy fishing for carp with 4 or 5 rods out , set up on top of him and proceed to cast over him and make a general bloody nuisance of yourself. FFS
Same with bassing.
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Good post! :+ cred:
Wish it worked like this in the real world! duh
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Hope springs eternal!!!!!!
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:hyst: :hyst: im not that old , got stuck at 18 something , just the body cant keep up .. interesting thread as always , yep fishing etiquette is a must , seen okes want to break each other and tackle off the beaches and rocks with burn-offs , crossed lines , throwing over each others lines etc ... its a big patch of sea and sand , use it to the best of your ability , knowledge , remember fish dont hang motionlessly in one spot waiting for a bait /lure to be thrown into there mouths .. Tight lines chaps .. :rck"
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:hyst: :hyst: im not that old , got stuck at 18 something
Is that like 1845 ?
Hope your fishing improves chaps!
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Silly season is here - 130 boats launched yesterday at DSBC!! :clwn
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Grumpy I agree but I have had charters / commercials come charging up and going between myself and a ship trolling konas, I had to pull in my live baits otherwise they would have got tangled, so not all of them are polite, not even the well known ones. If I am trolling and come across a FAD I will fish it and to hell if someone comes up to me and says its theirs, they are illegal and there for anyone. I will on the other hand not purposely go to some ones FAD unless given the marks and permission by them.
Tight lines all :fshn: :fshn:
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Yep silly season is here, weekdays are just as busy as weekends MADNESS!! Some guys waited more than 2hrs for the tractor on Wednesday, must say having the night rating etc is a big help, but even that is becoming a tad busy, arrive at the club and there already 15 - 20 boats waiting at 03h30 in the am.
There is no etiquette on the water anymore, we were working a ship on the drift and chumming and within in 15min 5 other boats, two pulling Konas thinking its a F1 track, #%^&* irritating.
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Any decent fish come out over Xmas?
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Not yet, but I will be fishing from next week. So will post some descent fish soon.
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Start again in a week or two when all the part timers have gone back to work. In the meantime I am going to fish the Eastern Cape and generally make a nuisance of myself between Morgan bay and Cintsa. Lekka fishing there if conditions right. Promise not to be a pig and annoy the locals. They are quite lekka dudes though. :gljn:
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Mates in E cape have just parked their boats for the last month, and all but given up on the shore game fishing..chaos out there too, 20 boats on each little patch of reef, just pulling rapalas all over each other from sonop tot sonaf . The fish are around but hiding on the bottom in the gulleys and by the time they reach the rocks have been driven over 20 times and don't even want to look at a lure, don't even think of doing a drift or looking for surface workups to cast to..just park the boat and go trolling for their visiting daughters in the pub rather. I was at cape point last week and the "weekend specials in the middle of the week" out on their boats seem to think the fish wait under the cliffs for food and were doing big detours back and forth trolling donuts in front of the spinnermen, commercials were also in the mix a third of a cast out. Eish..spinners are much cheaper than boats but anyway. Most of those skippers figured it out but not after one or two passes right in front of everyone. WTF, it is a big ocean out there and the beauty of a boat is you can go find your own piece of fish and not ruin it for everyone else, least of which drive all over the fish that the guys on the side are waiting all day for and can't just up and move to where the fish are. We fish boat, shore, you name it and we show a bit more respect to other anglers. But ja manners in short supply on the water this time of the year everywhere not just up north.
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Nuh, too far to tow boat for maybe 2 days at sea.wind blows in E Cape this time of year.. Covers are on. Waiting for silly season to end.
I will scratch in rocks for bronze bream , snotties and maybe a musselcracker if they cooperate. Otherwise chillout time
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With weather being up and down, up to S H one T more so, also all damn binnelanders and over 130 boats launching on the days when weather permitted, meant every ship had 5 plus boats working them and there are some inconsiderate Aholes out there, but we managed a couple days here and there on the water, nothing spectacular on catch front, opened the account on Wed with first dorrie of the year and season and FFF junior caught his first Bull dorrie, man the lighty was chuffed. All out of towners have gone back, leave has come to an end, back to the grindstone tomorrow. Now to hope weekends bring good weather.
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Lekker Dorries! Well done Guys.
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Managed to get a sailfish of 35-40kg before Christmas and 3 bonnies of 8kg each before new year and a snoek of 5.8kg to start the new year, pretty happy.
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Managed to get a sailfish of 35-40kg before Christmas and 3 bonnies of 8kg each before new year and a snoek of 5.8kg to start the new year, pretty happy.
(clap) Well done! Did you take any photos?
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Managed to get a sailfish of 35-40kg before Christmas and 3 bonnies of 8kg each before new year and a snoek of 5.8kg to start the new year, pretty happy.
:cgrts:
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Managed to get a sailfish of 35-40kg before Christmas and 3 bonnies of 8kg each before new year and a snoek of 5.8kg to start the new year, pretty happy.
I"m sure Oompa did :creep: :creep:
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Managed to get a sailfish of 35-40kg before Christmas and 3 bonnies of 8kg each before new year and a snoek of 5.8kg to start the new year, pretty happy.
Very well done Chris!! :rck"
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I forgot also got a few :dor: to add to the collection :fshn: :fshn: :fshn:
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I forgot also got a few :dor: to add to the collection :fshn: :fshn: :fshn:
And I got 17 Marlin but no pics :crzy
Well done Oompa
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No Pics No Proof :crzy (bat
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And I got 17 Marlin but no pics :crzy
Well done Oompa
No Pics No Proof :crzy (bat
Eish... a man's word is worth nothing these days! :crzy
Don't worry Chris! They are just :envy 'cause they got fewer dorries than you! :hehe:
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And I got 17 Marlin but no pics :crzy
Well done Oompa
No Pics No Proof :crzy (bat
Eish... a man's word is worth nothing these days! :crzy
Don't worry Chris! They are just :envy 'cause they got fewer dorries than you! :hehe:
Haha i already seen the Pics :crzy
:envy Yes
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I forgot also got a few :dor: to add to the collection :fshn: :fshn: :fshn:
And I got 17 Marlin but no pics :crzy
Well done Oompa
:hehe: :hehe: go on my facebook page all there..
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Not all are friends with you on facebook (bat :hehe: :hehe:
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Not all are friends with you on facebook (bat :hehe: :hehe:
:rotfl :rotfl lucky I can chooser my friends :crzy
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Not all are friends with you on facebook (bat :hehe: :hehe:
:rotfl :rotfl lucky I can chooser my friends :crzy
Hey one two sorry for You...... :crzy :hyst: :hyst:
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We fished Sat, flip thought holidays were over got to the club just after 4 and were No. 13 in the queue to launch and already dozens trailers on the beach, total of 125 boats launched. Headed out, + - 15 boats puzzling for bait just off limestone, we went around the corner another + - 15 boats looking for bait, went to Sh** pipe instead to find another 15 odd boats chasing bait, huge baitballs all over the place. Headed off for our own gameplan, decided to fish bottoms and managed some fresh fish for the pan also FFF Snr managed a nice Dorrie 7kilo.
Water temp was average 25.5 degrees and beautiful purple colour.
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Fished with Greg and Tara, was at the club 03h40 and 5 in the line, launched and went for snoek but the baby shad were wild and a pest, managed one snoek rev but it didn't stick (story of the day) puzzled for bait and chased dolphins, had a number of runs but could not get a fish to stick was one of those days, all I caught was a sunburn for 7 + hours on the water :cry: :cry: :cry:
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Fished with Greg and Tara, was at the club 03h40 and 5 in the line, launched and went for snoek but the baby shad were wild and a pest, managed one snoek rev but it didn't stick (story of the day) puzzled for bait and chased dolphins, had a number of runs but could not get a fish to stick was one of those days, all I caught was a sunburn for 7 + hours on the water :cry: :cry: :cry:
We all have those days Oompa, heard plenty boats blobbed. So fish were not keen on going home.
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While you were all queuing :nuts:, I was snoring w;k :hnthnt: got up at 6:30 has some coffee, checked the wind history on my iPad, connected the batteries, loaded some rods and some drinks, hitched up and took a slow drive down.......first in line to launch at 8:30 :hnthnt:......crew bailed so just me!!
Loaded up with small shad and pulled for couta off Glenashley, its a bit early in the year but the water was 25 and crystal!! No couta but a first for me was a small 40-50kg Tiger shark, I have seen big ones around the boat but never caught one - nice to see!
At around 11 I shot out to the 50m off Umhlanga and pulled lures, as it start raining the two very close flatlines went away and I ended up with a double up of dollies around the swirl area, with 4 rods out it was fun and games but I landed both in the end, a female and a bull. Interestingly they were both an identical length of 107 but the female was almost 1kg heavier at 8.7kgs compared to the bull at 7.6 :dunno: possible all the roe....
That Tiger shark is excellent eating I must say :crzy :craz:
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While you were all queuing :nuts: , I was snoring w;k :hnthnt: got up at 6:30 has some coffee, checked the wind history on my iPad, connected the batteries, loaded some rods and some drinks, hitched up and took a slow drive down.......first in line to launch at 8:30 :hnthnt: ......crew bailed so just me!!
Loaded up with small shad and pulled for couta off Glenashley, its a bit early in the year but the water was 25 and crystal!! No couta but a first for me was a small 40-50kg Tiger shark, I have seen big ones around the boat but never caught one - nice to see!
At around 11 I shot out to the 50m off Umhlanga and pulled lures, as it start raining the two very close flatlines went away and I ended up with a double up of dollies around the swirl area, with 4 rods out it was fun and games but I landed both in the end, a female and a bull. Interestingly they were both an identical length of 107 but the female was almost 1kg heavier at 8.7kgs compared to the bull at 7.6 :dunno: possible all the roe....
That Tiger shark is excellent eating I must say :crzy :craz:
LOL, lekker Dugong.
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Beautiful shark those Tigers!
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While you were all queuing :nuts:, I was snoring w;k :hnthnt: got up at 6:30 has some coffee, checked the wind history on my iPad, connected the batteries, loaded some rods and some drinks, hitched up and took a slow drive down.......first in line to launch at 8:30 :hnthnt:......crew bailed so just me!!
Loaded up with small shad and pulled for couta off Glenashley, its a bit early in the year but the water was 25 and crystal!! No couta but a first for me was a small 40-50kg Tiger shark, I have seen big ones around the boat but never caught one - nice to see!
At around 11 I shot out to the 50m off Umhlanga and pulled lures, as it start raining the two very close flatlines went away and I ended up with a double up of dollies around the swirl area, with 4 rods out it was fun and games but I landed both in the end, a female and a bull. Interestingly they were both an identical length of 107 but the female was almost 1kg heavier at 8.7kgs compared to the bull at 7.6 :dunno: possible all the roe....
That Tiger shark is excellent eating I must say :crzy :craz:
Well done, it was your lucky day.
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Well done. Take Chris with you next time. He might actuall catch something :crzy
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Well done. Take Chris with you next time. He might actuall catch something :crzy
Flip, you still around HD?
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Yes still here. Just need a new boat.
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Yes still here. Just need a new boat.
Why you need a new boat ?? you don't catch anything ?? :craz: :craz: (bat (bat :nuts: :nuts:
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Well done. Take Chris with you next time. He might actuall catch something :crzy
at least he got the :sailf: that has been eluding me :blush:
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Yes still here. Just need a new boat.
Why you need a new boat ?? you don't catch anything ?? :craz: :craz: (bat (bat :nuts: :nuts:
:rotfl :hyst: :hyst: :+ :hbag
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I want to be a real fisherman like you oompa...
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I want to be a real fisherman like you oompa...
:happ: :happ: :happ: :happ:
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See you all on the water tomorrow. :fshn:
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Going early again Chris??
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Going early again Chris??
For sure, although some guys only have to launch after breakfast w;k :blush:
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Oompa follow lindsey, he will shkw you how its done. :crzy
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Sad day WATR Boyz has been sold. But also on track for an upgrade.
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Saturday was a long day and a long sad story. Greg Fuller, Tara and Chris Engler joined me for the trip, we had a game plan all sorted, target tunny so we launched at 04h15 and headed out, bait was scarce and we battled, fished off the Sh** pipe, down to the cutting then back to the Sh** pipe then chased dolphins off the stadium, it was non stop action and the fish were there but so were the sharks, we finally beached at 15h30. Chris fought a monster for 15min before being taxed, we tried forcing the fish, letting them free spool nothing helped plus there was a 4km per hr South - North current. In the end we had 15 fish hooked, 10 eaten by sharks, 4 tackle failures (from pulling too hard) and 1 fish of 12 kg boated which was airborne on two occasions with a shark in pursuit and had the scares to prove the attack. All in all an awesome day on the water with a lot of action but far too many fish lost to sharks which is a great pity. Greg had an 80lb rig and we could not stop some of the fish. Till next time.
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Unlucky there Oompa :uzi: :brnz:
We did a late launch at 1pm as Anthony had to take FFF jnr for district cricket trials, travelled to the ships down to Umhloti back along the coast line and beached at 5, was a nice sea cruise with no fish :cry:
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Launched yesterday and went to target some tuna, well the sharks were out in full force once again and ate everything that was hooked. To those who say the sharks are endangered they need to spend a morning on the boat with me to see how many fish are wasted to the bastards. swr <:
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Late launch yesterday, took three lighties fishing, great fun all round but it got a bit bumpy for one of them :cnfzd
Ended up with my Omoto almost getting spooled (it only holds about 250m of 20lb) and ended up with a 14kg YFT - live moz on a 9/0 circle hook.
Sharks were full up on the reefs and I saw three other fish taxed including a huge dollie and a nice queenfish on one boat!!
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Nice one Dugong! (clap)
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Well done
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Nice fish well done.
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After three years of trying, the first couta on my boat :-)
18.5kgs
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That's a beaut! Well done! (clap)
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After three years of trying, the first couta on my boat :-)
18.5kgs
:yipee: Congrats!!!!
Tell us more :pray:
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Awesome catch well done!! (clap)
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:cgrts: :toppie:
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After three years of trying, the first couta on my boat :-)
18.5kgs
:yipee: Congrats!!!!
Tell us more :pray:
Fish took a live mackerel off the Whaling station on a reef about 17m deep, 20lb line and fight was 20mins. :rck"
Fork length 135cm =20.3kgs but weight was 18.5kgs
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Lovely specimen! Congrats (clap)
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After three years of trying, the first couta on my boat :-)
18.5kgs
Those are the ultimate fish when you have been after a species for so long and finally get it. well done!
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After three years of trying, the first couta on my boat :-)
18.5kgs
Congratulations great fish (clap) (clap) (clap)
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After three years of trying, the first couta on my boat :-)
18.5kgs
Those are the ultimate fish when you have been after a species for so long and finally get it. well done!
Thanks guys, Hannes the worrying thing is the absence of shoal couta(5-10kg), for the last three years I have put quite a bit of time in fishing for them - right place/right baits/right conditions and apart from a croc that was taxed two years ago I haven't even had a pull.....going back 7-10 years or so you would at least get a few pulls, land a few and lose a few to sharks or mistakes but they are very scarce......in the same area where I got this fish I have probably caught 30 or more fish over the years!!
Strangely in the last two years the guys on the south coast have caught a lot of big fish(20kg+) - more than the norm :dunno: :dunno:
Lots of theories around, without doubt the sea is getting knobbed but I believe in big cycles........lets hope the cycle is almost there :hnthnt:
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Great fish Dugong, well done.
Been a long wait :resp:
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Fished on Saturday, launched in the dark and went for snoek but the swell was up and no rips so the fish were hiding, got some live bait and headed south, managed one yellow tail kingfish of about 4kg which was released and a long over due couta of around 9kg which I managed to land before the sharks found it.
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Nice Chris, I saw a pic earlier of a 26er that was caught around the corner on Saturday, some decent fish about, just need to find the time and I will get my croc!!
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Long time since I have seen a weather pattern like this, days of south winds, not from a front but from a low sitting offshore...........maybe this will break the cycle :hnthnt: :hnthnt: :hnthnt: :hnthnt: :rck" :rck" :rck" :rck" :rck" :rck" :rck" :rck" :rck" :cout: :cout: :cout: :cout: :cout: :cout: :cout:
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If the weather predictions hold, then we're in for a cracker weekend.
I'm definately heading out on saturday, see you guys out there.
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Went past the beach earlier - massive pockets of baitfish straight off the stadium with birds in tow!! :rck"
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Took a days leave last week as boys were getting cabin fever. Original plan was for snoek. But after storm the lrevious evening water was dirty. Thanks to a call from greg that they were getting tuna. We caught some bait and headed to join in as had told Wade we are geytting a tuna today...... But in true HD form when we got there no tuna... So we headed for couta on the bluff. Had one good pull and wire trace snapped. Thants what you get for using an old trace. :blush: :blush:. Already been kaked out by chris for that. And vorgot to put ratchet on :blush:.
Headed home. Still had a promise to keep... and that i did. Put Wade onto a yft to christen the new boat. And christened in style with a 28kg yft..
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Pic on the boat
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:happ: (clap) (clap) :fshn: HD....your boys are getting big
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Well done Alexis (clap) :rck" :rck" :rck" :rck" :rck" :rck" :rck" :rck"
Details??
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Awesome stuff Alexis.....Man that's a lekka boat you have there. :hnthnt: :yft:
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The kosi cat is a machine
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You know you getting old when you have to tag team a fish.
We launched on saturday and headed out to a few deep marks off the Bluff.
All in all we brought up 8 sharks alongside the boat.
I photographed this tiger as it was the first time i'd ever caught a shark by it tail.
I'm walking around like an old man now, my back is still buggered.
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LOL old man MK, you fishing the festival? i dropped a big Tuna on Saturday, took half a spool of line on first run, 2nd run hook pulled.
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Bad luck D
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How did you all go in the comp?? I see some good numbers of shoal couta were caught in the last few days.....maybe the cycle has turned fully :hnthnt:
Lots of fish off Umdloti and even Coopers-Toti had good numbers - some at No1.
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Launched from DSBC this morning for 3 hours of fishing. Water at a warm 23.7 degrees out on the 50m line and trolled north. Plenty of YFT around, a four hook-up on the way out and two more on the way back, but smallish in size of around 4kg. Should be similar conditions for the next few days.
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What were you pulling??
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Halco's and Rapala's 2m divers in blue-silver and purple-silver, about 20-25m behind the boat, at 9-10 kmh. That's the setup that worked for today.
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Pat you going North or South? :dunno:
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Couta are stupid thick at the moment, weather did not come right yesterday, but come weekend there is +- 140 boats launching DBN Sat and Sun crazy stuff. Next 8 days looking pearler so hopefully a weekday trip or two coming up :-)
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Took a day off and ended up with a 8kg couta, started in very green water round the corner, where I had one pull but lost the fish after two mins when the line parted, suspect another fish took the duster :dunno:
moved to much cleaner water at No1 where I got the fish on a live mackerel.
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May has been a hectically busy month but I've finally got a gap to update the past month's fishing. Myself and Adrian (forum member) fished the Umkomaas interclub in April - wasn't too eventful and we battled on the second day with a gale force NE but in the end we got a few decent Blacktip and Yellowspot kingies on jig and a couple of bonnies and a yellowtail all in the Aliwal Shoal area.
The first weekend of May we fished the Natal Gamefish Champs / Interzonals at Pennington which is a great 3 day comp to train up and coming anglers from the various zones in KZN and get them used to competitive IGFA angling on 10kg line. This time around the Shoal was on fire and some great fish came out over the weekend. The teams all have rotating captains and boats each day so that the anglers get to fish with different captains and skippers each day to maximise their learning curve. I captained three teams over the weekend and we got fish every day which was a bonus:
Day 1 - calm seas and light wind, live bait was scarce but we got a few mozzies and sea pike. Went for couta early on the 20m reefs but no pulls so headed out to the trusty 19FA line off Hospital Road (Scottburgh). There were a lot of boats there and some the guys already had a few wahoo and one boat a 35kg couta. We worked the area but it was quiet on the turn of the tide so we ventured south to Landers pinnacle. We found some spearos there who had shot a few wahoo and a sailie so we worked the area with livebaits for a while. Eventually we found a pattern and worked a baitball with chum for about 20 minutes and raised some yellowfin which we managed to tease into eating poppers. The biggest one went 18kg.
Day 2 - I had a different team and a different boat on this day and we chose to work the same area. We got better live baits this day and headed straight back to Landers while the rest of the fleet went to Hospital Rd. We worked the pinnacle with lures for the first hour and got two yellowfin (one on a feather and the other on a shallow runner Halco) and then had a pull from a wahoo that ate a daisy chain! It lasted five minutes before the fish chowed through the nylon. We made another turn over the same spot and I got a nice 15kg wahoo on a blue/silver Speed Pro which was great. Spent the rest of the day looking for a third species (couta or kingie) but the strong reversed current didn't help. My fellow angler Adrian also picked up his personal best wahoo of 18kg on a kona.
Day 3 - The Sunday started with a strong SW wind that just got worse through the morning. We went to Landers again but it was unfishable so we opted to stay inshore and look for couta. We drifted the 16m line from Park Rynie launch to Scottburgh point. We got three couta pulls and dropped a sailie all on baits. The one lightie I was fishing with was whipping a spoon late in the morning and got a nice 12kg Yellowfin so it ended well. All in all a great comp and some great fish caught over the weekend.
Some pics:
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Very nice Mark. well done. (clap) :rck"
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Good Fishing (clap)
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Good Fishing (clap)
Ditto
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Went fishing on Sat morning. Took Kieran to do some bottom fishing.
Managed to get some nice bait so headed so try our luck for some decent bottom fish.
There are a lot of gannets around Diving, Seems a lot of bait is around at the moment.
Water temps have dropped in the last week or so down to 20 from being 23 a couple weeks ago.
We struggled in the early part of the day but started to catch a couple of fish from Lunch time.
I managed to get a nice Yellowbelly rockcod which made my day as I have not caught on of these for a long time.
Then to top the day off Kieran managed to catch 3 Yellowbellys after me. Shame all of his were 50cm and we released them.
We were not fishing very deep so the fish were fine and swam back down immediately.
Thought it was a good sign to catch so many of them in the same day.
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Well done squire great fish. :rck"
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Well done
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:rck" nice chow that!!
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We decided to do another trip last Saturday morning. Denzil, Kieran and I launched at first light.
We tried for Bait in front of the club and managed a bit of everything.
Headed off towards the bottom marks as that was the plan for the day.
The water is still cold at about 20 now. There were a lot of sardines around and saw them being netted at a couple of spots.
I managed a nice dagga and Kieran got a very fat Catface otherwise fishing was hard and did not catch much.
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Very nice congrats on the catches (clap)
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managed a few snoek in my secret spot yesterday with some of my new rigs.
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Decided to do an afternoon trip on Saturday. Denzil and I left just after lunch and found a very bumpy sea.
Was supposed to be no wind with a decent wave gap. Weather forecast was wrong again.
Sea Temp was at 20.6 degrees and the current was not too bad. We fished a bit of bottoms but struggled.
The fish were there but just seemed to not be interested in our bait. As it got dark we headed to try our luck for a dagga.
There was another boat there already and they seemed very quiet. I changed traces and put out a bait.
Normal story as I started doing other things I got the bite, Hand full of chips, trying to hold the rod and stop the KP with the other hand.
Anyway managed to get things under control and caught a really nice dagga.
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Well done CLS on the Snoek. Glad to see they around. You are the master.
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Nice fish guys :rck" what size are the snoek Chris, mate of mine got 4 last week down south all small, snoek have been very bad this year, actually the worst its been for years......still time to change though!! :dunno:
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Monster Dagga Ant......Nice one bud. :rck"
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Hand full of chips, trying to hold the rod and stop the KP
:hyst: Here Denzil hold the these :hyst: , throw them in the $%^ sea Haha, well done squire, you on a roll keep it up.
Well done Chris on the snoek, nice day on water.
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well done Ant a reel knuckle breaker :hehe:
We had a few days at the coast with the family and launched on Friday from DSBC, a reel swr <: (bat
k*K launch the tractor driver dropped us short into the shore dump, Richard had to jump off to get us straight then we got away
We went to the barges and caught plenty of Makies, I caught a beauty just on 600mm the rest were smallish.we headed to the ledges a clean run but some big big slamming
holes :the sHPLAT
Richard also copt a knuckle breaker, something big the 9'' scarbie burnt a hole in his shorts and into his leg, it was very very quick 5 secs at the most :sreel: [size=78%] [/size]
then my body started to pack up :blush: so back on shore and a couple of :beer: can still manage those ok :toppie:
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Thanks for report Dodger, sorry about all the mishaps. Agreed the sea was still wild on Saturday thanks to the new moon.
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Launched late at 12:30pm from DSBC on Saturday as the afternoon was free and looked forward to some quiet time on the sea. Water at 21.8 degrees. Battled for live bait so trolled on a pleasant sea until i found dolphins around 2pm...and had a triple hook up of yellowfin tuna. Landed two fish of 16kg each and a final of 31kg. Great fun to have three fish on the go at once...and all in all, a good afternoon.
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One more pic of a decent fish.
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Nice :rck" :rck" (clap)
Where north or south??
Snoek have finally arrived, a mate got three on Friday and five yesterday......also spoke to a spearo earlier and he saw two big shoals of 40+ fish off Umhlanga.
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Nice fish Partrick! (clap)
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Tuna caught in the bay. Initially trolled out to Number One and then hooked up just south of the red and white beacon that ships use to line up for harbour entry. Had four lines out, was calling it quits and had pulled one line in already. Then saw dolphins and pulled the remaining lines towards them. Then the reels started to scream...
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Great stuff Patrick, nice fish well done. :rck"
We tried yesterday, was a hard days work with no reward, but it beats standing on the beach watching.
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Well done some nice fish there.
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Excellent catches.Well done brother :yft:
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Well done guys, I been off the water for awhile due to work and weather.
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And you old and grumpy! w;k
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And you old and grumpy! w;k
Hey Sailor, that ski-boater going to klap you.
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Well done guys, I been off the water for awhile due to work and weather.
Both you and i, now i see why the guys pull the piss out of landrover owners.
I bought my landrover purely to tow and launch my boat. Its been out of action now for almost a month.
The mechanic says its an auto electrical issue, the auto electrician says its a mechanical issue.
I changed my spark plugs yesterday and it fired up :happ:
Now just to get some decent weekend weather to launch again
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Well done guys, I been off the water for awhile due to work and weather.
I changed my spark plugs yesterday and it fired up :happ:
:hyst: :hyst: :hyst: ... Real 4wd vehicles have diesel injectors :crzy
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After a long two months of very poor weather conditions, work commitments and general fishing obstacles we managed to get a gap on Saturday and I hooked up with my buddy Clint to take our lighties fishing on his rig off Shelly Beach. The forecast was for light NE with a very small swell so we jumped at the opportunity. We managed live bait quite quickly and headed out to some deep marks to try for an Amberjack, Yellowtail or geelbek. The current was pushing a bit (2-3 knots average) so I worked the jig while Clint and his son Owen (13) sent livebaits down. There was no action for an hour or so and we decided to move to an inshore reef to try and beat the current. Our first few drifts on the shallower line were pretty quiet and I rigged up a lighter rod for my son Ryan (8) to do some scratching for bottom fish while we worked the jig and bigger baits. His first down got him hooked up to a very decent slinger which he landed all on his own. Shortly after we found a showing and Owen bagged a decent geelbek, followed by Clint. Ryan was super eager to get in on the action so I re-rigged his rod with a bek trace and 16 oz sinker and he sent a fresh redeye down to have a go. Within a minute he hooked into a bek and then realised he had a tussle on his hands! Credit it to him he never gave up and reeled it up from 50m all on his own, i helped him here and there to keep the rod clear of the gunnel so the grinder didn't get smashed up. It was great seeing the kids doing well and we finished up with 5 bek and a decent slinger for the morning. Some early reports of dorries coming our way so that will be our next mission.
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Nice one with the laaites Mark :rck" and some awesome fish coming out of Protea.
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Lekker Mark, good to see the laaities catching and having a ball. Lekker catches there.
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Nice Mark :rck" also went for a ride on Sunday to give the motors a run (that's what I call it when I don't catch anything :nuts:)
Drifted live mackerel at the caissons for a few hours for YFT but there are loads of sprats and pest shad about - good to be out!!
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I agree, just nice to be out there again after the catastrophic weather the past two months
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Started a new thread for fishing reports for both Fat Girl and Nawty Girl
http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/index.php?topic=22557.new;topicseen#new (http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/index.php?topic=22557.new;topicseen#new)
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Wow this thread has been dead.
Myself, FFF and FFF junior decided last Saturday was a good gap, but eeish this weatherman needs to go back to school because he don't know what he is doing. Supposed calm day flat seas, got on the water at 04h10 with the NE blowing 20knts which was only predicted to roll in by 14h00pm, anyway we stuck it out and the day settled nicely, then the NE again picked up around 11 then settled again, fish were not playing the game. So we were trawling two livies stopping every now again on good structure to see if we can get a nice bottom feeder for the pan, then the left rod screemed :sreel: then off swr then all of a sardine the right rod screemed and the game was on, anyway we opened our summer :dor: account with a nice 9kilo queen. Ended the day with lovely fresh Dorado nuggets, like butter in the mouth :rck"
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Nice, :rck" I need to get moving :creep:
What temp did you get??
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:cgrts: :dor: :sreel: :fshn: (clap) well done boys
I pulled lures long time ..only got 1 x bonnie.....then got a disappointment at new club.. no more Captains breakfast ... :-(
@ Dugong water was 22.2Deg C
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Nice, :rck" I need to get moving :creep:
What temp did you get??
Averaged 22.2
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:cgrts: :dor: :sreel: :fshn: (clap) well done boys
I pulled lures long time ..only got 1 x bonnie.....then got a disappointment at new club.. no more Captains breakfast ... :-(
@ Dugong water was 22.2Deg C
Unlucky Chigger, you still came past us and waved, we greeted back but not sure if you knew it was us, then again you can't miss me from far :hehe:, thats the area we got the fish.
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Well done on the dorrie Umpa!!!
Water is stupid cold up here too!!! Been to Baz and Zavora and the water is 23o C... it's flipping December already!!!!!
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Well done on the dorrie Umpa!!!
Water is stupid cold up here too!!! Been to Baz and Zavora and the water is 23o C... it's flipping December already!!!!!
I was on Santa Maria a few weeks ago and I kept getting stung by bluebottles... I've always associated them with cold water.
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I was on Santa Maria a few weeks ago and I kept getting stung by bluebottles... I've always associated them with cold water.
Oddly enough, we spotted plenty Blue Bottles on Saturday all over the place.
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Unlucky Chigger, you still came past us and waved, we greeted back but not sure if you knew it was us, then again you can't miss me from far :hehe:, thats the area we got the fish.
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I saw it was Team FFFx2 Umpa, didn't want to get all up in your business so gave you a wide birth .....if I knew then what I know now,... I would of buzzed you like a Somali pirate :hnthnt:
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I saw it was Team FFFx2 Umpa, didn't want to get all up in your business so gave you a wide birth .....if I knew then what I know now,... I would of buzzed you like a Somali pirate :hnthnt:
You can always drive past us, we not like the other grumpy boaters out there.
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Got a few nice fish over the Christmas week when the weather allowed us to launch. 1 x 24kg YFT and 1 x 11kg
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Got a few nice fish over the Christmas week when the weather allowed us to launch. 1 x 24kg YFT and 1 x 11kg
Nice Chris, been wondering where you have been, hows the new boat?
I fished last week and dropped two dollies in the bush, one was a 10+ methinks....a mates lightie was on the rod and it just threw the hook after about 10mins :dunno:
Any idea where the clean warm water is, I battled to find a patch at 24 a bit further south after starting off Umdloti.....the reverse current was quite strong though and I heard it has turned??
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Well done Chris. Nice fish. Weather has been so bad this December we have not fished. Hoping January will be better.
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Got a few nice fish over the Christmas week when the weather allowed us to launch. 1 x 24kg YFT and 1 x 11kg
Nice Chris, been wondering where you have been, hows the new boat?
I fished last week and dropped two dollies in the bush, one was a 10+ methinks....a mates lightie was on the rod and it just threw the hook after about 10mins :dunno:
Any idea where the clean warm water is, I battled to find a patch at 24 a bit further south after starting off Umdloti.....the reverse current was quite strong though and I heard it has turned??
New boat is awesome and light on fuel, we picked up a dorrie in the bush as well and dropped one, fished South on Sunday and the water temp varied between 23.2 and 24.6 but green. Fishing this Sunday as the club is having a social R100 in with some prizes, come launch could be fun.
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I was looking at tomorrow but might change, problem with tractors/launching/space at the moment down there, have to park on the beach if you want to stay for a beer, that means removing rods/finder etc.. from your boat otherwise someone else will (bat I need to fit a front hitch for self launch, not so much for launch but for retrieval!!
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How did you go Chris? We had a late launch at around 7:30, filled up with mackerel and went very deep straight off Umhlanga, found beaut water at 24deg and spent about three hours drifting livebaits, ended up with one dollie of about 7kgs :dor:.....luckily did a bit better than most, a mate of mine launched at 4, used six cans, visited 5 FADS and got zero fish :nuts:
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We launched yesterday, after all complaints about new club, space etc, we got on the water quite quick, arrived at the club at 03h35am and on the water by 04h00am. when we beached probably waited 20 mins we were trailered and parked back at the club to go enjoy a beer or three. Maybe it was just one of those days where everything went smooth except the catching fish part as we had a game plan which we stuck too but blanked, BUT the beers were cold. The club had a nice mini social comp yesterday, 102 fisherman and ladies too, 40 boats, 42 fish weighed, mostly dollies, some tuna, nice Wahoo. Then a crap end to the day, the left wheel bearings collapsed, lucky we heard the squeek squeek squeek slowed and noticed the wobbly wheel before it took flight, FFF had spare set in the van so took a while to sort and get back on road, lucky no major disaster.
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Eish ...sorry to hear about the bearing guys. Opened my account on Saturday with a :yft: of about 10kg, SW came through at around 9am so came back early for breakfast.
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Eish ...sorry to hear about the bearing guys. Opened my account on Saturday with a :yft: of about 10kg, SW came through at around 9am so came back early for breakfast.
Lekker Chigger, yeah we been experiencing some really crap weather last few months, when i have a day off weather sucks. :dunno:
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I agree, weather has been very unseasonal - no strong NE like usual this time of year. Down here we have yet to see the clean blue/purple water and a proper turnout from the dorado. We fished yesterday and conditions were poor, no dorado or any other gamefish. Managed some decent bottomfish and a chaotic half hour period catching skipjack tuna on the light flicksticks and spoons which made up for the generally poor day overall. My lightie enjoyed the action so that's what counts!
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Have to Agree, Fishing was not great over December...
However, we managed to Boat a few noteworthy Fish,
:dor: :dor: :dor: :yft: :yft:
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Have to agree, weather was not great :dor: :sreel:
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Fought a 40+ YFT for 2hrs yesterday and then :brnz: came round swr <: :-(
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Sorry to hear that. Where did you hook it and how...live bait or trolling?
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Fought a 40+ YFT for 2hrs yesterday and then :brnz: came round swr <: :-(
Geez that's infuriating.
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Sorry to hear that. Where did you hook it and how...live bait or trolling?
Was on the 200m off Durban drifting live mackerel on a 8/0 circle.............as Bwana said - an 8'6" trapstick and a decent YFT is always going to be uphill :nuts:
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Yoh.... catch of a lifetime!!!! :-(
Been busted twice out in the deep... so now my rule is minimum of 50W with 80 lb line or 80 Lb tackle when deeper than 50 m....
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I here you John but not much fun catching dollies on 80lb w;k a mate was actually on the rod and we had the first leader knot on the reel twice, saw the fish both times, once 4m away - at least 40....also almost got spooled by another fish an hour into this fish but we couldn't chase it so put brakes hoping it would stop duh
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I hear you. But losing a fish like that breaks one's heart....
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So after about 3 months off the water and the Easter weekend here, We took the gap to fish Sunday, Water was flat, we tried for Couta early morning with no luck so changed to bottom fishing, fishing was hard as very few bites, FFF and his Jnr landed some nice fish and i struggled along. FFF jnr i have to say is coming on leaps and bounds he boxed a nice 2kilo false Englishman from 50m and a few decent soldiers, no complaining or asking for help as those fish give you a tussle that you don't expect and when you have about 20 downs for his age he did brilliant. When it counted and i finally got a bite the taxman took more than his 15% smoked me for 80% of a Beeg Yellow Belly Rockod. swr :shrk: <:
Photo 1 FFF with a nice rubberlip 5.5 and FFF jnr False english 2kilo and soldier 1.8
Photo 2 whats left of my Yellowbelly :cry: the head alone weighed 3.9kilo
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Nice fish, sorry about the yellow, flippin nice fish that - make sure you fill out the shark register at the club.......or should I call that 'tax return' :nuts:
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Ja these flipping sharks swr <: Hard luck there Big D that was a proper yellowbelly. Well done Ant and Kieran on the rest of the fish some good chow there!
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Quite a lot of action here off Shelly Beach over the Easter weekend, always fishes well this time of year and some unbelievable fish came out.
The crew on Nitro had a weekend to remember with a 100.7kg Yellowfin caught out deep pulling for Marlin, the fish ate a purple/black Pulsator Marlin Magnet and sets the new Shelly Beach record for Yellowfin Tuna. The next day they went out again, worked the same area and bagged another one of 77kg! Talk about a lucky charm!
Some big couta came out as well on the Sunday with a few boats getting fish above 25kg. Biggest one weighed came out on King Tutt, pulling the scales to 34.5kg. Another boat also had 3 fish over 30kg! South Coast on fire :-)
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Wow Mark, those are quality fish off Shelley, well done to the anglers. (clap)
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Nice fish, sorry about the yellow, flippin nice fish that - make sure you fill out the shark register at the club.......or should I call that 'tax return' :nuts:
When signing back in, Jake pointed the book out to me, was a bit confused about what he meant, now you mentioned it, will have to fill it out next time i am down there.
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And a small mention of the first ever grander out of Richards Bay yesterday.... :billf:
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Fought a 40+ YFT for 2hrs yesterday and then :brnz: came round swr <: :-(
Just had that happen today, as I was about to grab the leader. Grrrrr
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Wow Umpa...unlucky with the yellow belly.We all got to pay our taxes sometime or the other.Now even more than before at 15% :nuts: Atleast you guys still did ok with a few decent fish.
We fished sunday as well.Got a nice yellowfin tuna and a few good bottoms....a nice captain fine,king soldier and soldiers.Some good fish came out this weekend.Conditions where great.
Now need to get me a couta..havent caught one of those in ages.
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Took the Kids for a quick trip yesterday as it was school holidays and there seemed to be a gap.
Launched at first light and managed to get some nice bait. Kieran got a nice Tuna on the bait mark.
Did the same drift again and His friend went tight but the hook pulled.
Took the kids to my bottom marks as that was the plan for the day. Managed a few nice bottoms and the kids had a great day.
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9 am launch and managed one 5 kgs bigeye tuna and lost one.
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Shelly Beach Ski Boat Club hosted their annual Interclub Comp over the past weekend. After a fairly sketchy weather forecast both days ended up fishable and the guys got some very decent yellowfin. Not many other species except for one dorado, lots of skippies, a jobfish and a nice 13kg Amber. There were a few bomber tuna caught with the biggest puling the scale to 30.2kg and a few north of 25kg. Overall standings were Umkomaas (1st), ERB (2nd) and ERB (3rd). Was nice to see Denzil, Ant and Kieran there for the comp.
Pic 1 - 30.2kg yellowfin (10kg line class!)
Pic 2 - Dorado for Durban team (Ant's team)
Pic 3 - Amber for Durban team
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Shot Mark, good fish caught, decent Dorado too. (clap) :beer:
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Thanks Mark for a well run comp had a great time.
I fished for Durban blue. Day 1 we headed out to the pinnacles and tried for a tuna but did not have much luck early on.
Moved to deep gat and we hooked up with a very good tuna. We fought the fish for 2hours 15 minutes before the leader broke.
Day 2 we headed straight to Deep gat and chummed. we got a 15.8Kg YFT early. Did 2 more drifts without anymore luck.
Pulled rapalas and the small tuna were everywhere. Could not go wrong only problem none of them made the 6Kg minimum weight.
Moved back and chummed again. We got that lovely Dorado just before lines up so had a good day.
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Thanks Mark for a well run comp had a great time.
I fished for Durban blue. Day 1 we headed out to the pinnacles and tried for a tuna but did not have much luck early on.
Moved to deep gat and we hooked up with a very good tuna. We fought the fish for 2hours 15 minutes before the leader broke.
Day 2 we headed straight to Deep gat and chummed. we got a 15.8Kg YFT early. Did 2 more drifts without anymore luck.
Pulled rapalas and the small tuna were everywhere. Could not go wrong only problem none of them made the 6Kg minimum weight.
Moved back and chummed again. We got that lovely Dorado just before lines up so had a good day.
Well done Squire, pity about losing the bomb Tuna on day 1.
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This weekend is the annual DSBC :cout: festival, lets see if that elusive <: swr fish will finally be interested in what we present for the two days, 4 years now and we still have not had a fish to take to the scales :cnfzd :dunno: . If anybody else is down for the weekend, maybe have a frosty or 3 :beer: :beer: :beer:
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Good luck Big D, must say the couta gave us the slip last weekend in Durbs despite a world class spread of livebaits :cry:
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I decided not to fish the DSBC comp this year.
Looks like you boys should have some decent weather if predictions remain as is.
Good luck with the comp Denzil, will probably see you guys at the club on sunday
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Shot Mark, that fish gives us the slip permanent. :cout: <:
Lekker Mike, have a cold one and banter. :beer:
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Afternoon fellow Anglers,
Any feedback on the DSBC Festival?
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Geez,
Assuming by the lack of response, it was not great....
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Eeish, have not got around to doing a report yet, FFF still gave me guns (bat
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DSBC comp is always going to be difficult with so many craft in the water.There was close to 700 fisherman and around 240 boats.
Most fish came out Saterday due to a huge westerly that busted thru on Saturday afternoon.
The boats were all spread out on the Saturday but on the Sunday eveyone ran North.
Only 79 fish were weighed.
26.9kg fish was the winner by the guys from Winterton.
As usual big fish were caught before the comp and after the comp.
This last Saturday saw the paddle ski guys get five 28kg couta up north. I think the top 15 guys all had fish over 20kgs.
We did a late launch on Saturday and got some good fish.
Tuna are plentiful at the moment with a wahooo or two also being loaded.
Two weeks ago a 22kg prodical was weighed in at the dsbc interclub.
Now waiting for the Bek.
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Morning Fishlus,
Thanks for giving some feedback to us blokes here on the Highveld...
It is always interesting to read up on how the Festival played out, pity about the weather, at least some Fish came out.
I travelled down to Moz, "Ponta do Ouro" to be exact, weather also did not play game, only launched twice.
The Couta eluded us, only managed to put 1 in the Boat, lost 2, hooks did not stick...
Couple of Yellowfin Tuna and Oceanic Bonito came out on the charter boats.
Nonetheless, still beats being at graft or stuck up here on the Highveld.
Hopefully someone can post some pic's of the crocodiles caught during the Festival...
Later...
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Yep as Mark stated fishing was not the best. Think alot of people did not enter as they were worried about how the whole new club structure would play out on the beach etc everyone was expecting chaos, also alot of weather watchers. Surprisingly the launching of boats on both days went quite smoothly, there was 3 tractors and 11 sponsored vehicles from CMH Nissan (apparently the new Mazda was top vehicle), the luck was that the basin was flat both days in the morning. Start of day 1 half the fleet went North the other half South us included as the buster was predicted to hit by 1pm. Bait was the problem, everybody struggled for bait there just was no bait :dunno: (this was on both days) but we managed 3 nice Mackerels and FFF said lets go fish before everyone invades the area. Fished between whaling station and Ansteys and after a short while we had our first hook up and i got a :cout: of 9kilo, started the same process and FFF Snr managed a 7 kilo :cout: round three a double up and FFF Jnr got a pickhandle Barracuda +- 3kilo, gave him the other rod and he got a 2nd, all the mackerel and a mozzie paid dividends. These weren't the winning fish or even in the prizes, but swr we finally got to take fish to the scales for first time fishing this damn comp in 5 years, unfortunate that was our last bit for the weekend, oh wait Ya a damn 3kilo Catface on a down rigged Sea Pike duh . We got a call at 11h15 saying the buster had hit Port Edward, so basically 2hrs and you must be off the water, we called it at twelve after a swr :brnz: took two baits at the same time and relieved us of our traces, safely trailered and enjoying a couple :beer: :beer: :beer: in the tent, whilst, word had it that guys were kakking off on the beach in tractor queue, boats waiting to beach and guys still heading in from North caught in the buster as it hit Durban at 13h30. One 2 sorry for you .
Sunday the NE was predicted to Puff from about 11h00am, so lines in, 80% fleet went North balance South us included, we decided to try same plan (rule #1 never change your game plan) anyways we blobbed and hit the beach by 12pm again, safely trailered enjoying :beer: :beer: :beer: letting the die hards who stick it out to last minute fight it out in the wind and sand.
Winning fish was a 26.9kilo Couta, 2nd place 25kilo couta and 3rd place to a Junior with a 20.83kilo couta.
Few Dorries, 2 Bomb tuna plus a few more, 2 Prodigals, some queenies, some nice snoek (one being over 6 kilo), bonnies, some wahoo all weighed over the 2 days, 79 fish in total (all species).
Guess we will try again next year, win or not the atmosphere, sharing that cold one, swapping stories and general k*K praat makes it enjoyable.
DSBC hosted a kiff event, everything was tops, the chow, the staff except the damn fish, if you have not been down to the new temporary club, you missing out, if you had ever been to the old Thirsties (picture that but even better)
Pic 1 Myself and a dart
Pic 2 FFF Snr and a dart
Pic 3 FFF Jnr and 2 Pickhandles
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Nice size Pick handles. Well done on getting 2 Couta more than most
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Well done anyway Umpa and 2XFFF, next year you'll get a big one
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Nice one team FFF, getting into the fishies again, & a nic report :+ cred:
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zinkwazi this past saturday, hit my wala while paddling at speed between spots, not normal hey, weighed-in 20kg.
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zinkwazi this past saturday, hit my wala while paddling at speed between spots, not normal hey, weighed-in 20kg.
Lekker Bassbug, the eggbeaters have been getting quality Couta at Zinkwazi, the UKFC comp plenty over the 20 mark landed.
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Nice fish Rui!! (clap)
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Pulled a very late launch at 9:30 and fished for couta and ended up with a nice bycatch of a 17kg YFT :hnthnt: plenty pockets of bait around up north!!
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We fished Saturday, whilst catching bait, FFF put out a live Mackerel, not even a minute and we had a screamer, almost spooled us on first go, FFF was winning battle and said something not right fish coming easy now, when the fish checked the boat he was off again, huge head shakes with reel on full drag that tuna still stripped line as if the drag was free, after about 25min the grey suit relieved us of what would have been a bus tuna. I put a second bait out and 5min on again but this time was definitely a johnson as that oke sat straight down on bottom not bothering to go anywhere in a hurry, FFF tried to bring him up but we could not, after about 30min i held on tight and broke off as Shark was taking up fishing time, i have to say my setup, BG8500 with 80lbs braid and 7ft Okuma Mettaloid rod handled easy almost doubling putting pressure on the Shark, if we knew that would have forced the Tuna to the boat. That was our action for the day we managed a few nice reef dwellers for the pan, called it quits and headed back for a few :beer: :beer: :beer: .
Whilst at the club Jason Christie weighed in Tuna of 51.7 kilo as well as 2 Couta, 22 and 24 kilos.
Jasons fish
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Spectacular fish (clap)
A shark can really break one's spirit... And one's tackle :blush:
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We fished Saturday for snoek but the shad were a pest, then tried on the bait marks but had gone quiet as saw some distinctive showing on the finder of big sharks, tried deep for bottoms and managed something for the pot but the current was screaming, the SW buster hit us at around 10h00 so we headed home in a very unpleasant sea. Must say the :beer: was cold and most welcome.
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Pity about the snoek Chris, because normally you're on the money.
I managed to get a break to fish on Saturday as well, and hit a luck by finding some :yft:, first one was about 15kg and the second around 5kg. It was interesting though, the bigger one was full of Natal sards, so the tuna are already feasting on them up here.
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Hard luck Chris. Shad can be a real pest. Well done Chigger on the fish.
We just redone our trailer so hoping to get back on the water this weekend.
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Hi guys sounds like you are having some real winter fun.
Week after next I will be chasing Marlin for 3 days.
That should be my last charter before I have my own boat again.
Tight lines everybody!
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This section is ominously quiet.
3 days 4 nights then I have lines in the water.
Can't wait
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OK so preached in church yesterday and then left Joburg an 12h30 for Sodwana.
After som hard driving arrived in Sodwana at 8pm.
Launched into slight wind this morning this wind quickly picked up with white horses all around and if you dared go out of the cabin you got soaked quickly.
It was quiet as we tried to stay close inshore for protection from the wind.
Then it rained.
Obviously on the big magnum it was never dangerous but not pleasant.
Quite a few pale faces around as we were flung all over the place.
And then 3 rods screamed away.
My son took a tumble and fell hard while fighting the feistiest of the three fish.
The other two came up steadily and then at the boat on the gaff my fish tangled with my friends line and he was cut off.
So we landed one of the three a yft of 21 kgs.
We were home and on the beach by 10 with sore bodies hoping tomorrow is better but it is raining hard at the moment.
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OK so preached in church yesterday and then left Joburg an 12h30 for Sodwana.
After som hard driving arrived in Sodwana at 8pm.
Launched into slight wind this morning this wind quickly picked up with white horses all around and if you dared go out of the cabin you got soaked quickly.
It was quiet as we tried to stay close inshore for protection from the wind.
Then it rained.
Obviously on the big magnum it was never dangerous but not pleasant.
Quite a few pale faces around as we were flung all over the place.
And then 3 rods screamed away.
My son took a tumble and fell hard while fighting the feistiest of the three fish.
The other two came up steadily and then at the boat on the gaff my fish tangled with my friends line and he was cut off.
So we landed one of the three a yft of 21 kgs.
We were home and on the beach by 10 with sore bodies hoping tomorrow is better but it is raining hard at the moment.
Nice size Tuna, well done
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OK so preached in church yesterday and then left Joburg an 12h30 for Sodwana.
After som hard driving arrived in Sodwana at 8pm.
Launched into slight wind this morning this wind quickly picked up with white horses all around and if you dared go out of the cabin you got soaked quickly.
It was quiet as we tried to stay close inshore for protection from the wind.
Then it rained.
Obviously on the big magnum it was never dangerous but not pleasant.
Quite a few pale faces around as we were flung all over the place.
And then 3 rods screamed away.
My son took a tumble and fell hard while fighting the feistiest of the three fish.
The other two came up steadily and then at the boat on the gaff my fish tangled with my friends line and he was cut off.
So we landed one of the three a yft of 21 kgs.
We were home and on the beach by 10 with sore bodies hoping tomorrow is better but it is raining hard at the moment.
Eeish, hope you guys get a few good days fishing in. Post some pics if you can. Shot for the report. (clap)
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OK thanks for replies guys.
Today was heart ache!
Rainy but much calmer than yesterday. We landed 5 small tuna 4 skipjack and 1 yft.
We lost 2 big fish GUESSING tuna. Both after more than 30 min on the line.
We also had a marlin strike but it was never on.
So came back by 1h30 cold wet and sore with not mutch to show but so much fun.
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not bad at all Mal Hannes, well done
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OK thanks for replies guys.
Today was heart ache!
Rainy but much calmer than yesterday. We landed 5 small tuna 4 skipjack and 1 yft.
We lost 2 big fish GUESSING tuna. Both after more than 30 min on the line.
We also had a marlin strike but it was never on.
So came back by 1h30 cold wet and sore with not mutch to show but so much fun.
May I ask how the big fish were lost?
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Mike we took long to fight the fish.
They all had bite or chafe marks on the leader.
So the leader was bitten off above the steel traces.
I can't quite get my head around it.
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So another lovely day on the water.
5 by 5 kg Yft.
Towed 2 around for hours and again a strike by most probably a shark and all off.
Then put Conas out and towed that for hours.
Another missed strike!
Awesome 3 days sitting around the fire now. Talking about what could have been.
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Thanks for reports MH, sorry about the misses etc, still beats sitting behind a desk or slaving away at graft.
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Just got home.
What an awesome week now I have to work like crazy to be a bit productive.
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Boys launched at Umkomaas this morning. Bait fish and Shad Whales and Dolphins everywhere. Didn't even get a pull. Sardines on the finder.
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Plenty Sardine action deeper off Durban in about 70m
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Its been a bit quiet on this thread...had to go a long way down the list to find it ...Anyway launched from DSBC on a beautiful Saturday morning (you could tell the Boks were playing badly up until then, cause plenty boats launched). The water temp close in was only 20 deg C, so although I tried for :dor: I didn't hold my breath, a :yft: would be great anyway, but got neither.
I did manage 2x nice lucky (not for them) snoek though. We also stopped to watch three or four whales (from a long distance off), they were "playing", slapping tales and fins in one spot on top of each other for the longest time, which was great to watch on a flat sea.
Two very nice bull dorries of about 15kgs each did come out though, but apparently from faaaaar out :dunno: ....oh and small shad were full up on the bait spots.
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Thanks for the update Chigger, those Dorries are early are they not ?
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Thanks for the update Chigger, those Dorries are early are they not ?
Dorries are not actually early, we used to always get the first ones in September but for the last few years they have been late so in my opinion they are on time this year, I think with waters warming up nice and a good sardine run we in for a bumper season
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Find the warmer water and you will start getting them, those guys got those fish in 23.5deg water.......half way to Richards Bay :nuts:
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Two of the three landed the weekend.
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Floating island very deep.
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Two of the three landed the weekend.
If you look carefully on the horizon you can see Madagascar
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Two of the three landed the weekend.
If you look carefully on the horizon you can see Madagascar
Haha true true, yeah those floating islands are beyond our fuel budget, murphy law the day we do, there are no :dor: around duh
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Floating island very far.
Corrected :hnthnt:
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Where those Dorries caught on FAD's?
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Nice and good to see that they are here so early.
We fished deep on saturday but mainly for bottoms, blanked badly and only hooked big :brnz: all day
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Where those Dorries caught on FAD's?
Floating islands :hnthnt:
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Nice and good to see that they are here so early.
We fished deep on saturday but mainly for bottoms, blanked badly and only hooked big :brnz: all day
Unlucky Mike, eeish i have not been on the water in over two months, either weather against me, was in processes of relocating down to Umtentweni South coast or Anthony had either rugby or cricket on with his lighty, now this long weekend out again as FFF son FFF jnr been chosen to fish for KZN juniors team for the interzonals fishing out of Warners. I wish the lighty all the best and stywe lyne.
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Sunday "Three" species .....
We managed to take the gap in the weather on Sunday. Started off early with a 2kg bonnie, that for some reason my crew thought was a 28kg tuna and was going to spool him... sry.
Then while fishing for snoek, we hook into about a 7kg hammerhead shark on a duster which revved us a bit. Finally just before lines up I hook into something decent on the backline, :sreel: :sreel: :sreel: :fshn:, I expertly open the throttle and turn the boat and head for deeper water, while screaming to my crew to clear the other lines.. :sreel: :sreel: :sreel:, We get everything sorted and I start fighting the beast, "its got a bit of weight" I said to my first mate while pumping and reeling :fshn: :fshn:...."Don't force it!" was the advice from my crewman, gaff in hand...."its fighting funny" I replied ...."its on the top.." ......"what the hell is it?"......
Well we ended the day with 1x 2kg Bonnie, 1 x Hammerhead (released) and 1x Checkers packet,....pollution is real :blush:
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:unhap :hyst: :hyst: :hyst: :hyst:
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Sunday "Three" species .....
We managed to take the gap in the weather on Sunday. Started off early with a 2kg bonnie, that for some reason my crew thought was a 28kg tuna and was going to spool him... sry .
Then while fishing for snoek, we hook into about a 7kg hammerhead shark on a duster which revved us a bit. Finally just before lines up I hook into something decent on the backline, :sreel: :sreel: :sreel: :fshn: , I expertly open the throttle and turn the boat and head for deeper water, while screaming to my crew to clear the other lines.. :sreel: :sreel: :sreel: , We get everything sorted and I start fighting the beast, "its got a bit of weight" I said to my first mate while pumping and reeling :fshn: :fshn: ...."Don't force it!" was the advice from my crewman, gaff in hand...."its fighting funny" I replied ...."its on the top.." ......"what the hell is it?"......
Well we ended the day with 1x 2kg Bonnie, 1 x Hammerhead (released) and 1x Checkers packet,....pollution is real :blush:
duh :hyst: Unlucky there George, next time.
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Was the Checkers packet size, or did you release it?
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Was the Checkers packet size, or did you release it?
:rotfl I kept it and released it into a bin at DSBC
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Howzit gents, been quiet on this thread for too long.
We launched on Saturday morning and decided to fish south for a change. It was more of a final boat test and to get a feel of the boat for me.
We were fishing between the 70-100m mark down south and at about 8 am went away with 3 skippies which were all safely released.
I then reset the spread and 2 mins later went away with this nice queen dorado. Was so lekker to be back on the water and blood the deck with a lovely fish.
Till next time,
Mag.
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Very lekker Scott, you seem to have good Mojo with new boats, first trips always producing, that why you keep changing :hyst: :hyst:
Must give FFF gears, they fished Sat too and got 3 nice :dor: and small :yft: and i don't see a report.
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Very lekker Scott, you seem to have good Mojo with new boats, first trips always producing, that why you keep changing :hyst: :hyst:
Must give FFF gears, they fished Sat too and got 3 nice :dor: and small :yft: and i don't see a report.
I do actually have good mojo on new boats, now that i think about it... hahaha.
Just trying to find the right one for me as i dont have enough bucks for a 21 ft + yet!
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Nothing wrong, the Seacats lekker boats, well done on getting back on the water.
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Well done Scotty, congrats again on the new boat and the nice dorrie christening :rck" :rck"
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Congrats Scott, great dorrie (clap)
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Well done Scott great boat and fish, weather hasn't been too good for us weekend anglers but I have been out a couple trips on Greg Fullers boat doing a bit of bottom fishing which has been rather successful landing some big captain fines and soldiers. Till the weather allows us see you on the water. :fshn: :fshn: :fshn:
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I took a small gap in the weather (because they have been few and far between) on Saturday morning, it was cold rainy and misty. We hadn't got the rods rigged and were just off shore, when we saw a flock of birds just off the breakwater heading north at quite a speed, we managed to get a popper out and on the first pop it was taken by a 3 kg bonnie. Once landed and sorted the school had moved about a kilometre north so we chased it down in a choppy sea, hoping to get a better fish. Successive casts fell short and failed to produce another strike, so we set the trolling rods. Within meters we had a shad and a sada sada, they were so thick you could see the lines hitting them as you got into the school. We then decided to go for tuna or dorado, but the sea got unpleasant and we had no takers, we were back by 9h30.
On getting to the wash bay at DSBC we noticed that there was a jam ...which was strange cause only a few boats launched. What has happened is of the 3 wash bays 2 have been taken over by a pay system with a guy running a boat/car wash. I wanted to pull into an open bay to wash my boat, but was told I couldn't and had to wait for the only "free" wash bay to open up!
So if you want to wash your boat yourself at DSBC good luck because when its busy you will have to wait.
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Good Morning All
Season's Greetings and a Prosperous reel screaming year 2019 ahead for all. prty :sreel:
It has been a while, 4 months plus i last fished, myself FFF and FFF junior launched on Boxing day, at club by 4am to beat the rush at a total of 79 boats launched. The sea was %^&9 to say the least, big choppy seas ( I almost ended up in the drink), heavy mist and unpredicted rain and a screaming current 5km p/h, but anyway fish we must as it was the only decent looking gap in a while after constant days of NE than SW and many more similar days predicted keeping everyone shore bound except those who brave it and those with bigger boats. With sea conditions miserable we changed our game plan, got a few livies and proceeded to No.1 after 3 or 4 drifts myself and FFF junior opened our :dor: season with a double up. Made a few more drifts and got a Bonnie of about 7 kilos. Called it quits by 10h00 as it was like a parking lot at No.1 with 14 boats counted, 3 of us drifting baits and the rest driving the ocean flat in circles. The sea was settling but we decided a lekker brekkie and coffee was in order.
We bumped into isiVuba on the water with his Son and Mate, sorry Mike always forget your mates name. duh Was good to catch up with Mike at the club.
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We only managed to launch once these holidays.
We launched out of glenmore on the 30th. Had Shaun and Don from scouseafrican join me and the plan was to target marlin.
We were fishing the dropoff on the 100m and working the ledge looking for a black which unfortunately we never got.
We did however get 2 nice dorries and the biggest bonnie i have ever seen. No decent pics unfortunately.
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Nicely done Chaps!! Cant wait to get back and get out. We launched twice in early December at Zinkwazi and managed to get some nice fish. First day we got a bunch of Snoek and some Bonnies! The nex time we got a small couta and again a bunch of Snoek and a Cape Yellowtail which was nice surprise!
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Sea temp back close to 25 :rck" now we just need the reverse current to slow down and change :wahoo: :dor: :yft: :sailf:
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Some crazy stuff been going on. In the transkei we had days of strong ne, sea temp of 15 odd Dec, then it would blow west for a day sea would warm to 22 odd but green soup, only for east again and back to 15 Dec, and so it went. No current. Got 3 strikes all holiday, 1 small :dor:, one big strike out deep but no hook up and one lost :billf: had one :billf:swim past rhe boat when bottom fishing in soup but it was going somewhere and typical, went past the bow and not to the ba k where the mackerel were waiting.
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Mates got some seriously good fish yesterday :dor: :dor: :dor: :dor: :dor: :dor: :dor: :sailf: :sailf:
But they did some serious mileage to get them :hnthnt: 55kms one way!! :nuts:
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Mates got some seriously good fish yesterday :dor: :dor: :dor: :dor: :dor: :dor: :dor: :sailf: :sailf:
But they did some serious mileage to get them :hnthnt: 55kms one way!! :nuts:
Yep, thats how far they deploy them these days.
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Mates got some seriously good fish yesterday :dor: :dor: :dor: :dor: :dor: :dor: :dor: :sailf: :sailf:
But they did some serious mileage to get them :hnthnt: 55kms one way!! :nuts:
Yep, thats how far they deploy them these days.
the closest one i have seen is 45km. and it was empty.
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Actually they never went to a FAD, just found a purple patch at 26 deg, I found one 13kms off Glenashley three weeks ago......as the distance and location suggests it was a real noob attempt - one plastic buoy and far too much shadecloth :nuts:
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Had 4 launches over the past 4 weeks of Shelly Beach. Water generally cold and green and the summer gamefish scarce. With a bit of perseverance and local knowledge we have managed to get some nice dorado and tuna and also raised a small sailfish that didn't connect. Glad to have got the lighties some fish as well. Was also good to connect with Shaun17 and DangerDon for a session during their visit to the South Coast.
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Shot Mark, was a lekker day out!! Always lekker to come back with a few fish in the hatch...
Nice EASY launch at Shelly and a good day on the water with some good mates!!
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Shot Mark, was a lekker day out!! Always lekker to come back with a few fish in the hatch...
Nice EASY launch at Shelly and a good day on the water with some good mates!!
Thanks bud, by the way there was nothing easy about that launch at all you handled it like a pro! (clap)
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Myself, FFF and another mate Jeff, launched Saturday 02.02.19, because the Dorado have been plentiful off Durban of late our game plane was to catch and hatch a few, word was live bait very scarce so plenty guys driving the ocean flat pulling Rapalas and Konas, but lucky for us round the corner we found sweet spot loaded mozzies, mackerel and some Shad, as other boats spotted us and soon gathered we were on our way, first stop weather buoy, the current was flying along 5km an hour and after three drifts FFF said lets go nothing here, next minute my rod went and after short battle Strike Craft had landed its first Prodigal (12kg), we proceeded south where for the rest of the day we fished bottoms with live bait out but had no interests, we however did manage some decent bottom dwellers. The current slowed as the wind changed and we went to the deep but with the poison wind SE blowing we decided game over time for a beer. I suggested we pull Konas back to the club which we did, after a short while we had triple up on Eastern Tuna mayhem tangles over under bumpy sea everything and everyone soaked, i got burnt off but we landed the other 2, they weighed 6 and 7kilos. Reset 2 rods and on with a YFT 12kilo, reset the 2 rods again double up with YFT 11 and 12kilo gas bottles and finally back to base for that well earned :beer: :beer: :beer: what a kiff day on water, sadly no Dorries for the day.
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Well done :rck" methinks that when the reverse current changes we are going to have fireworks!!
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Nice day out!! Well done
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nicely done.
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Pretty work boys, pretty work :rck"
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Well played Boy's, you got some nice fish (clap)
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(clap) (clap):fshn: :fshn: Well don boys, long time since Ive seen a Prodigal son...nice size as well...good catch :happ:
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Hi Guys,
We decided to fish the Durban Skiboat Club social comp on Sunday. It was a really great initiative as the comp comprised of your heaviest fish and your bag of plastic which you brought back from sea. combine these weights and that gives you your total overall weight.
We launched just after 5, game plan was to look for tuna first as a tuna is generally much heavier than dorado.
We pauzzled for bait but eventually found some about 300m off of Dozer and headed for Umdloti drop.
I drifted the drop off and it wasnt long before we got our first pull, unfortunately circle never set :dunno:
Sent out another bait and this time went tight and managed to boat a nice Tuna of around 11kg.
Sent out another bait and also had another good pull, and again the circle never set. 2 pulls on the same rod without the circle setting. On closer inspection i noticed the hook was tied direct and not snelled and the fish which was landed was snelled correctly. Just shows you the difference snelling the hook makes.
Anyway, we beached just after 12:30 and weighed our fish and plastic collected. My combined weigh was 12.68kg, and i ended up wining the comp.
out of 120 anglers, we removed 42.5kg of plastic from the ocean and 220kg of fish was weighed. Mostly dorado with a few yellowfin.
Was a great day out, and big up to dsbc for this new format. Lets clean the ocean chaps.
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Nice report. Well done.
I like the idea with the plastic from DSBC. Well done
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:cgrts: Nice report, great concept and thanks for the point made on snelling a circle.
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Did you release undersized plastic ??? duh . Great idea , well done . :toppie:
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Lekker Scott
Great initiative by DSBC, pity we missed this one, with FFF missus away the weekend, he had to take FFF jnr to cricket as he plays for KZN South team, lighty is doing well in sports but it is messing with fishing time duh :cry: :hyst:
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Nicely Done Scott!!
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Myself, FFF and FFF jnr fished this past Sunday. We did our usual trick, got some decent bottoms dwellers, some nice slinger all averaging 1.5-2kg each, we had tried several spots with live baits but no interest, the SE was slowly picking up so we decided to pull konas back to base and see if we can get similar results as the previous trip, little did we know we would actual do fantastic. Anyway we trawl with our jigging rods (Okuma Mettaloid 7ft) these rods are value for your money, with BG8000 grinders, one has 50lbs braid the others 80lbs. We were pulling blue and white konas and a purple white kona, FFF decided come in from 80m into 50m line when all of a sardine the middle rod with kona out long started :sreel: , puzzled for a few seconds then it showed itself :billf: whoohoo game on, under gunned but lets do our best, i was on the rod whilst FFF got the boat going and keep it where it should be and keep up with the fish, 1hr20 mins later we had him alongside the boat Black Marlin, the SE blowing and sea bumpy handling the fish was tricky, FFF had him by the bill and Jnr trying to get photos proved a bit tricky the boat bouncing around, FFF jnr was green the whole day too much sun, he had played a cricket tournament at Glenwood the whole of Friday and Sat and now whole day on boat Sunday so wee man was worried the phone goes for a swim, we got the hook out and off the fish went to fight another day. What an experience to have caught this beautiful specimen of a fish.
We have a Kosi 16ft6 boat, the tail was alongside our false transom and the head in line with forward console, so we guessing 3m and about 120-140kg, the colours on this fish are spectacularm bright luminous blue tail, purple and pink running down his body, man i will never forget this trip. The photo below is the best pic we have of him, me being a big fella and FFF holding fish, jnr did his best to get in between the two of us and get some photos, i tried loading a video clip but file to big where some of the 15 plus aerial displays he gave us.
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Absolutely brilliant. :happ: Well done on the :billf:
:resp: for the fish caught on the tackle used (clap)
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:cgrts: well done
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Lekker man :rck"
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Congrats great catch (clap)
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Great fish boys! Well done!
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Well done boys on :billf::rck" :rck"........I am very :envy..but :bow: :resp:
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I launched on Saturday morning.
Plan was too look for a couta and tuna.
We got bait easily in the vetchies basin and headed north.
Set the spread and started working the area. After 5 mins a pod of dolphin came past and i through my popper into the mix, 3 pops and i was on.
Boat a nice 14kg YFT in about 3 mins, the sargossa and assasin teaching that fish a lesson.
Carried on working the area and the down rigged massbunker was picked up, fish was fighting strangely and i was puzzled as to what it was, but it came alongside the boat and saw it was a small couta. First couta for the season so ill take it.
We dropped a very nice bull dorado after a spectacular aerial display.
NE chased us off the water at about 10am. Nice new service at the club where they wash your boat and clean your fish while you enjoy a beer.
Was lekker to see bwana (Mark) get some nice snoek with his lighty, im sure he will post some pics!
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After 5 mins a pod of dolphin came past and i through my popper into the mix, 3 pops and i was on.
Boat a nice 14kg YFT in about 3 mins, the sargossa and assasin teaching that fish a lesson.
Thanks for the report... I'm curious... Do YFT usually accompany the dolphin? Are you not worried about a dophin taking your popper?
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We planned a trip to Durban to target snoek as the snoek season usually kicks in from mid-March. With a good weather forecast for this past weekend we towed the boat up from Shelly Beach planning to fish Saturday and Sunday to get the lighty his first snoek. We launched at first light and headed up to Blue Lagoon where we found absolutely filthy water. All of the emphasis in the media lately about plastic pollution has created valuable awareness on this shocking phenomenon and seeing walls of plastic and floating debris in the ocean directly off Blue Lagoon was an eye opener! We moved north towards Hyper and found some cleaner water in 8m with a few birds and bonnies working the sprats. We fished two strip baits and two Strike Pro's and cast with the flick sticks wherever we found the action. We had two hookups on the spoons but both came off before we found a decent rip that yielded Ryan's first proper hookup and eventually he landed his first snoek - a real bus of 7,4kg. We had a few more chases and hookups eventually landing 4 more all in the 3-5kg range on the fillets and spoons with Stuart getting two and Ryan getting two as well. We were the only boat in the area the whole morning which was great. What was important was putting in the time and seeing out the turn of the tide which is when most of the guys usually give up and head off to search for fish in the deep. The rips and currents that attract the snoek move around through the morning as the tide drops and then pushes again so you constantly need to be aware of where the rips are and concentrate your efforts there. Snoek don't just feed at first light, they can be active throughout the day and 3 of our 5 fish came out in bright sunshine between 10am - 11.30am all on the surface so it goes to show if you put in the time you will be rewarded!
Tackle used:
Shimano Sustain 5000 reels, Shimano Vengeance 8ft spinning rods, 20lb Gosen braid, 1m of 25lb fluoro leader and the CID casting sprats in 80mm size (absolute snoek magnets!)Shimano Torium 30's, shimano Talavera 6'6 trolling rods, 20lb Berkely Blue IGFA line, 25lb fluoro and the pearl coloured Snoek Candy traces with clear CID skirt (http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/index.php?topic=12657.msg196308#msg196308 (http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/index.php?topic=12657.msg196308#msg196308))
Unfortunately our plans for fishing the Sunday were dealt a blow when one of my crew ended up with food poisoning so we cancelled the day to be on the safe side. Was good to catch up with Scott at the Club on Saturday and to admire his awesome new boat which by the looks of things has some good luck as he got a nice yellowfin and a couta on the Saturday.
Some pics:
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(clap) Nice fish Ryan :cgrts:
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WELL DONE!! :rck" :rck" :rck"
Nice to see the snoek are there, it was very bad last year and has been bad up till now with very few guys targeting them.
I see you have a 146 Raider, it must be the one I saw at the club on Saturday, I ran one for about five years, nice little boats and much drier than a SkiVee w;k
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WELL DONE!! :rck" :rck" :rck"
Nice to see the snoek are there, it was very bad last year and has been bad up till now with very few guys targeting them.
I see you have a 146 Raider, it must be the one I saw at the club on Saturday, I ran one for about five years, nice little boats and much drier than a SkiVee w;k
Thanks bud. Ja if you put in the time you will get the fish!
Yes that was ours at the club, lovely little rig and as you say very dry for small mono :corrct:
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Well done Mark. Very nice to see Ryan with a proper snoek. Let me know when you coming this way again. Kieran's Cricket season is now finished so hopefully more time on the water.
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Well done Mark!
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"What was important was putting in the time and seeing out the turn of the tide which is when most of the guys usually give up and head off to search for fish in the deep. The rips and currents that attract the snoek move around through the morning as the tide drops and then pushes again so you constantly need to be aware of where the rips are and concentrate your efforts there. Snoek don't just feed at first light, they can be active throughout the day and 3 of our 5 fish came out in bright sunshine between 10am - 11.30am all on the surface so it goes to show if you put in the time you will be rewarded!"
100% Mark, I have fished that stretch for many years(starting in the the days of Clark spoons and sprat feathers - no fillets w;k)its especially important there as its a beach break and the banks are constantly changing from week to week, whereas if you go around the corner you have reef patches to work, same for Peace Cottage and up.
If you arrive there at say 6-6:30 on the springs high the fishing is generally poor(especially in a low swell)......give it an hour or two and start looking for the drains and you often end up with 1-2 hrs of action. Depending on the waves I will often work the drains by doing big circles into 2m and out to 6m(the problem with this is if there are lots of boats around) WATCH THE WAVES!! (bat I have got into a habit that as soon as a rod goes away I swing east and hit idle!
If there are sprats getting clubbed it is generally in deeper water 8-12m - let the spoon sink a bit for snoek as more often than not bonnies will take it near the top.
For some reason I have found the late afternoon/evening spring high can offer fireworks - drifting and throwing sprat spoons :rck"
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Congrats on the catches Bwana Scott (clap)
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"What was important was putting in the time and seeing out the turn of the tide which is when most of the guys usually give up and head off to search for fish in the deep. The rips and currents that attract the snoek move around through the morning as the tide drops and then pushes again so you constantly need to be aware of where the rips are and concentrate your efforts there. Snoek don't just feed at first light, they can be active throughout the day and 3 of our 5 fish came out in bright sunshine between 10am - 11.30am all on the surface so it goes to show if you put in the time you will be rewarded!"
100% Mark, I have fished that stretch for many years(starting in the the days of Clark spoons and sprat feathers - no fillets w;k )its especially important there as its a beach break and the banks are constantly changing from week to week, whereas if you go around the corner you have reef patches to work, same for Peace Cottage and up.
If you arrive there at say 6-6:30 on the springs high the fishing is generally poor(especially in a low swell)......give it an hour or two and start looking for the drains and you often end up with 1-2 hrs of action. Depending on the waves I will often work the drains by doing big circles into 2m and out to 6m(the problem with this is if there are lots of boats around) WATCH THE WAVES!! (bat I have got into a habit that as soon as a rod goes away I swing east and hit idle!
If there are sprats getting clubbed it is generally in deeper water 8-12m - let the spoon sink a bit for snoek as more often than not bonnies will take it near the top.
For some reason I have found the late afternoon/evening spring high can offer fireworks - drifting and throwing sprat spoons :rck"
Some solid info there! Thanks for sharing those tips I'll keep them in mind. I agree about the swell, need to be WIDE AWAKE especially when fighting a fish.
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Good memories on my Raider, lots of snoek on her and my PB!!
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After 5 mins a pod of dolphin came past and i through my popper into the mix, 3 pops and i was on.
Boat a nice 14kg YFT in about 3 mins, the sargossa and assasin teaching that fish a lesson.
Thanks for the report... I'm curious... Do YFT usually accompany the dolphin? Are you not worried about a dophin taking your popper?
Correct, that is why guys chase the dolphins as the YFT swim with them, you will win the lotto before you hook a Dolphin.
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After 5 mins a pod of dolphin came past and i through my popper into the mix, 3 pops and i was on.
Boat a nice 14kg YFT in about 3 mins, the sargossa and assasin teaching that fish a lesson.
Thanks for the report... I'm curious... Do YFT usually accompany the dolphin? Are you not worried about a dophin taking your popper?
Correct, that is why guys chase the dolphins as the YFT swim with them, you will win the lotto before you hook a Dolphin.
Correction - You will win the lotto 30 days in a row and still not hook a Dolphin. They way to smart
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Thanks guys. Good to know that. :uarocks
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Anybody know what happened with the DSBC comp :dunno:
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It was a wet and cold comp.
Saturday was cancelled and moved to Sunday/Monday. Mondays close was 12. Quite frankly they should of only fished Sunday as people had to travel.
Only 74 fish brought to the scales, 600+ anglers - that's all species. Don't know how many couta in that lot.
Winning fish was 22.54 JJ van Rensburg.
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28 Couta apparently, 22 on Day 1 and 6 day 3 :dunno: i could be wrong, but it is what i heard.
Yep conditions were bleek, Sunday sea was wild rain rain more rain, we woke up Monday with rain rain and more rain and SE blowing so decided to call it, went through to the club only to discover weather was not bad but the sea was still upside down. There is absolutely no bait around only plenty tiny mozzies. Monday 60 boats already pulled out, sad thing is next year i think entries will be down way down. They need to move the comp to mid May.
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I tend to agree with you Denzil, with the global climate change our seasons are off. I'd like to see it brought forward to ensure that its kept in the summer gamefish period, rather than later in the season and into the winter period. But then again, checking the posts on facebook of how the chinese are currently hammering the couta by the tons in mozambique, i doudt there will be many couta left to migrate down to kzn waters in the near future.
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I tend to agree with you Denzil, with the global climate change our seasons are off. I'd like to see it brought forward to ensure that its kept in the summer gamefish period, rather than later in the season and into the winter period. But then again, checking the posts on facebook of how the chinese are currently hammering the couta by the tons in mozambique, i doudt there will be many couta left to migrate down to kzn waters in the near future.
Yep, see 200 tons of Couta offloaded in Beira, that's what happens when you give the chinese a foot n the door.
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Hard luck on the comp chaps. Really wish they would change the format to something similar to what the Guinjata Bonanza have.
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So much rubbish in Durban Harbour, it is filthy. Went out to sea and even 20km out there is rubbish. I have never before seen so many empty plastic bottles in my life, offshore there are 1000s and 1000s of empty plastic bottles. The Sprite ones show up the brightest.
Ok so I have heard some people blame the flood for all this rubbish. Really, Wake up people. This is the rubbish that is thrown everywhere and ends up in the street gutters and eventually in the storm water drains and finally the harbour and rivers and then out to sea. It is also the rubbish of people that live alongside rivers that gets washed out.
So it was not the floods that did this, it is humans and their filthy littering habits, it is municipalities that fail to clean up and leave everything to clog up and build up.
What the storm has done is highlight these facts.
Beaches and harbours will be cleaned up, but what becomes of those 1000s of empty bottles floating in the ocean. Do they end up at Plastic Island???
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So much rubbish in Durban Harbour, it is filthy. Went out to sea and even 20km out there is rubbish. I have never before seen so many empty plastic bottles in my life, offshore there are 1000s and 1000s of empty plastic bottles. The Sprite ones show up the brightest.
Ok so I have heard some people blame the flood for all this rubbish. Really, Wake up people. This is the rubbish that is thrown everywhere and ends up in the street gutters and eventually in the storm water drains and finally the harbour and rivers and then out to sea. It is also the rubbish of people that live alongside rivers that gets washed out.
So it was not the floods that did this, it is humans and their filthy littering habits, it is municipalities that fail to clean up and leave everything to clog up and build up.
What the storm has done is highlight these facts.
Beaches and harbours will be cleaned up, but what becomes of those 1000s of empty bottles floating in the ocean. Do they end up at Plastic Island???
Is the water offshore fishable?? I want to go for a ride tomorrow.
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So much rubbish in Durban Harbour, it is filthy. Went out to sea and even 20km out there is rubbish. I have never before seen so many empty plastic bottles in my life, offshore there are 1000s and 1000s of empty plastic bottles. The Sprite ones show up the brightest.
Ok so I have heard some people blame the flood for all this rubbish. Really, Wake up people. This is the rubbish that is thrown everywhere and ends up in the street gutters and eventually in the storm water drains and finally the harbour and rivers and then out to sea. It is also the rubbish of people that live alongside rivers that gets washed out.
So it was not the floods that did this, it is humans and their filthy littering habits, it is municipalities that fail to clean up and leave everything to clog up and build up.
What the storm has done is highlight these facts.
Beaches and harbours will be cleaned up, but what becomes of those 1000s of empty bottles floating in the ocean. Do they end up at Plastic Island???
Is the water offshore fishable?? I want to go for a ride tomorrow.
It will clear up but loads f freshwater so its green. Bottoms will be ok
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So much rubbish in Durban Harbour, it is filthy. Went out to sea and even 20km out there is rubbish. I have never before seen so many empty plastic bottles in my life, offshore there are 1000s and 1000s of empty plastic bottles. The Sprite ones show up the brightest.
Ok so I have heard some people blame the flood for all this rubbish. Really, Wake up people. This is the rubbish that is thrown everywhere and ends up in the street gutters and eventually in the storm water drains and finally the harbour and rivers and then out to sea. It is also the rubbish of people that live alongside rivers that gets washed out.
So it was not the floods that did this, it is humans and their filthy littering habits, it is municipalities that fail to clean up and leave everything to clog up and build up.
What the storm has done is highlight these facts.
Beaches and harbours will be cleaned up, but what becomes of those 1000s of empty bottles floating in the ocean. Do they end up at Plastic Island???
Is the water offshore fishable?? I want to go for a ride tomorrow.
It will clear up but loads f freshwater so its green. Bottoms will be ok
No blue water out past JR and Bencorum and towards the hole........15-20kms??
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So much rubbish in Durban Harbour, it is filthy. Went out to sea and even 20km out there is rubbish. I have never before seen so many empty plastic bottles in my life, offshore there are 1000s and 1000s of empty plastic bottles. The Sprite ones show up the brightest.
Ok so I have heard some people blame the flood for all this rubbish. Really, Wake up people. This is the rubbish that is thrown everywhere and ends up in the street gutters and eventually in the storm water drains and finally the harbour and rivers and then out to sea. It is also the rubbish of people that live alongside rivers that gets washed out.
So it was not the floods that did this, it is humans and their filthy littering habits, it is municipalities that fail to clean up and leave everything to clog up and build up.
What the storm has done is highlight these facts.
Beaches and harbours will be cleaned up, but what becomes of those 1000s of empty bottles floating in the ocean. Do they end up at Plastic Island???
Is the water offshore fishable?? I want to go for a ride tomorrow.
It will clear up but loads f freshwater so its green. Bottoms will be ok
No blue water out past JR and Bencorum and towards the hole........15-20kms??
Not yesterday
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The polution will spread with the current South and I suspect that we will see a lot of it being washed up on our shores in the deep South. :-(
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So much rubbish in Durban Harbour, it is filthy. Went out to sea and even 20km out there is rubbish. I have never before seen so many empty plastic bottles in my life, offshore there are 1000s and 1000s of empty plastic bottles. The Sprite ones show up the brightest.
Ok so I have heard some people blame the flood for all this rubbish. Really, Wake up people. This is the rubbish that is thrown everywhere and ends up in the street gutters and eventually in the storm water drains and finally the harbour and rivers and then out to sea. It is also the rubbish of people that live alongside rivers that gets washed out.
So it was not the floods that did this, it is humans and their filthy littering habits, it is municipalities that fail to clean up and leave everything to clog up and build up.
What the storm has done is highlight these facts.
Beaches and harbours will be cleaned up, but what becomes of those 1000s of empty bottles floating in the ocean. Do they end up at Plastic Island???
totally agree, we went out yesterday, but the sea is filthy mankind must accept responsibility for this
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We launched Saturday
Current was flying along, shoo as the chaps have posted, there is a lot, i mean a lot of plastic floating in the ocean, as well as logs, trees, bamboo which is not good. Water was dirty brown greenish on inside, we went South to the deep where was still pretty dirty to target some bottoms, with current moving was going to be tough, with a persistent South wind blowing most the morning fish were biting one here one there but the water colour was improving and getting cleaner, than by 10am poison wind SE started blowing and poof fish disappeared, we worked our way back and back to the dirty water again. In end we managed a couple fish, i got a nice Catface of 4.9, weeman FFF junior a nice soldier just short of 2, strangely i hooked a Sada Sada fishing bottoms on 70m, a fat little bugger easily 4kilo.
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Got a few more catface on salty rubbers on Sunday, including a third with a tag :rck"
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Launched off Shelly on Saturday, sea was terrible until around 9.30am, we got some nice livebait and went looking for yellowtail. We scratched for bottoms up until 11am but no takers only a pile of sharks. Then my luck changed at House of Pain in 75m of water when my 300g jig was grabbed by a beautiful amberjack. Epic fight on the Stella 10000 and Blue Rose and 10min later I had my personal best AJ on deck a beauty of 21,5kg. We bagged a couple of nice pink salmon and rock cod to finish the day.
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Launched off Shelly on Saturday, sea was terrible until around 9.30am, we got some nice livebait and went looking for yellowtail. We scratched for bottoms up until 11am but no takers only a pile of sharks. Then my luck changed at House of Pain in 75m of water when my 300g jig was grabbed by a beautiful amberjack. Epic fight on the Stella 10000 and Blue Rose and 10min later I had my personal best AJ on deck a beauty of 21,5kg. We bagged a couple of nice pink salmon and rock cod to finish the day.
I saw that on FaceBook. Well done (clap) (clap) (clap) :happ: :cgrts:
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Well done Mark, nice fish!!
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Beaut!!! (clap)
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Well done guys, good to see some action back on this page :rck"
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Beast fish that, well done!! :rck" :rck" :rck"
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We launched yesterday out of Tinley Manor.
Plan was to look for the croc couta that are around this time of year.
Unfortunately didnt manage to get any couta, but i did get this YFT which ate a live bonnie on a couta trace.
West hit us at about 11, so we hit the beach.
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Bwana congrats on the AJ, Scott nice YFT (clap)
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Damn good tuna (clap)
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Nice Scotty, well done!
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Thought I would add a couple pics of wat we have managed to get out on the Northcoast over the last couple months. I had the DSBC Juniors fishing off RT1 during the Zinkwazi Interclub and we managed to bring home the bacon on the last day and win the comp, was really enjoyable to see the lighties enthusiasm and willingness to fish hard. Had a couple other enjoyable days with some nice snoek, Daga and Couta!
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Well done some good results there, nice to see good quality couta and snoek around (clap)
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Nice fish well done to the lighties :rck" I Wish the snoek would start coming this side!! :-(
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Congrats some great catches there (clap)
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Morning gents,
We launched on Friday afternoon as that looked like the best weather gap for the weekend.
The plan was to look for geelbek.
Took us a while to find decent bait and then we headed out to the deeper reefs.
We found the bek but the werent eating properly.
We managed to get 2, warrens's one of 10kg and the other of 7.2kg.
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That's a goen! Nice one..Here's my fishing story from the weekend..although not in KZN..
We went looking for some bek, far far south of you, after an unsuccessful trip to the deep for tuna, since sunrise till late afternoon lots of life and bait but absolutely no fish around...We come back inside and on the current line we take a look at what the huge and really wierd stuff is on the sounder that is down there so thick for miles but not appearing or coming together as fish, so we drop a sabiki down to look see and as the skipper says you could have sunk your boat with mackerel if you wanted to..we found the mackies (miles and miles and miles of them, all fat and ready to spawn) and they kept on getting bigger and bigger till a full string of 1-2kg guys (and females) were pulling you all over the place and taking drag no problem on a 5000 spinner, never gets old! As the sun got lower we ducked off to the shallower reefs to look for bek, the water and conditions, like for tuna were perfect, but like the tuna they ended up being still up north.. I grab a bottom stick and put some .7mm leader, a big kendal round on and drop a fillet down to look see, no real signs on the sounder..The karels are in full force and baits are not lasting long.
Sarda sarda were busting up all over around us, a little snake spinner quickly put 3 in the boat and I was trying to take the third one off the hook to try release him, which was impossible as he was mal and would not stop going mal, and he was sown up proper by the treble. Between the second and third bust-up, second and third fish, I had put my bottom stick in the rod holder with a xlarge/big mackerel head on and left the ratchet on and drag loose. Just before the bustup a mako had cruised on by 20 meters from us, a decent 2m one at least, so while trying to unhook my katonkel, my bottom stick goes absolutely nuts...ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....I grab it, strike and flip the lever drag all the way up...hahahaha that fish just gets more mal and has serious weight and is fasssssst, we skiem mako, I try stop it but I don't get bitten off.. the line flies off the reel at a rate of knots on locked drag with my thumbprint starting to go too and before I know it I am in the bricks...He swims out eventually I pull him for a bit and he busts me off again in the bricks right above the hook. Hmm. Not a mako.
So I tie on a 1.2mm leader and a new kendal, adjust the drag on that reel to max-max, and put another head down, doesn't take a minute and a fish considerably bigger than the last picks me up, a proper bruiser..I try my best but cannot put the brakes on him, not with that lever drag reel that was on that rod..and against locked drag and with no thumbprint left he takes 200m of line off in a flash..skipper says " you are lucky the fish is coming up for some reason" I reply" No he is in the bricks past the drop off". He was just so far away the angle of the line made it seem like he was surfacing LOL.. After a tug of war he busts me off on the mainline just above the leader..line is all scraped from the rocks.
So I am tying up a new leader when I have a brainwave..and grab my light tuna stick with two speed avet with 65lb double x on, crank that drag to the max and tie the leader and trace on and send down another big fat mackerel head.. Doesn't take long and the rod bends like I hooked the bottom, I flip the lever up to strike and wind him vas...He decides to make a duck for the reef, we are only in 15-20meters of water, and I flip the lever up to full and he gets stopped dead in his tracks.rod doubles over and I turn his head and bring him up..pump and wind..Didn't even use granny gear, that fish was no match for a proper reel! The drag on that other lever drag (I won't meantion names but for a reel marketed on its drag washers its not up to task) was just not up to the task of stopping these fish..and so I boat a decent 10kg tail with the hook still vas somehow and hanging on, having ripped out the fishes mouth and stuck in again behind the gills and the fish is still vas stuck in its side vlerkie with a clean rip. That fish did not want to get gaffed and fought till it was being bled out and spiked. Skipper landed one out the same mould and also released one a few kg bigger. The second fish I lost was one of those proper 40lb'ers...gotta be ready for them. The third katonkel never got to be released LOL. Ended up being a great day out @ sea after a whole day of beautiful mombak out in the deep. A bad day fishing is better than a good day in the office!
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Ohhhh jinne , love my geelbek fishing , proper EATING machines .
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Nicely done chaps!!
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Been a few decent fish around lately but have to fish hard for them.
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Nice fish well done to the lighties :rck" I Wish the snoek would start coming this side!! :-(
You still fishing ??? haven't seen you around for awhile ........
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Fished Saturday in a big swell and cold water, fishing was slow and tough but managed a Bek and cracker as well as some nice soldiers and slinger, caught some of the biggest mackerel I have ever seen in the deep, well over a kg in size.
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Battled to get out the last couple weeks with the Clubs tractor being down but we did geta couple days in. Did a day out of DUC and the sharks were wild at the barge chowing 5 tuna! We then had a go on another day for some Garrick and got 2, 1 being a real bus around 16-18kg and both were safely released, the big one before I could get a photo, accidentally dropped it back into the drink picking it up. Sunday we fished and the Snoek were just absolutely crazy!! Managed to get what we wanted for the pot and released a bunch more and got a nice sized Daga for the pan!
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Nicely done Chris and Charles.
I just had a knee opp, so i am out of action for a while. Hopefully all sorted just before summer gamefish arrive.
Also just sold my boat, so if either of you need crew, just shout.
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Haibo, that was a new boat, upgrading again?
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Haibo, that was a new boat, upgrading again?
You know me bud... Get an itch and it must be scratched.
There is something in the pipeline that im working toward, but if it comes together will only be middle to late 2020. If it happens this will be the boat that i have for a very long time. Lets see.
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Haibo, that was a new boat, upgrading again?
You know me bud... Get an itch and it must be scratched.
There is something in the pipeline that im working toward, but if it comes together will only be middle to late 2020. If it happens this will be the boat that i have for a very long time. Lets see.
Cool. hope your plan comes together, not missing out on much at moment with all this wind, take it easy hope the knee is coming right.
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Late launch Saturday and opened the season with a small dollie :dor:........came across plenty pockets of sardines out deep, no gamefish or birds but a few massive mantas around them, one with an estimated 4.5-5m wingspan :rck"
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well done Lindsay.
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Great day on the water Saturday, launched at 04h15, managed 6 mozzies headed out landed 3 dorado, lost 2 and threw off one mozzie, all by 05h45. :fshn: :fshn:
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We are coming down Saturday. Is there likely to be decent weather by then, as I just spoke to my mom in Umhlanga and she said the sea is a mess.
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We are coming down Saturday. Is there likely to be decent weather by then, as I just spoke to my mom in Umhlanga and she said the sea is a mess.
Aim for Sunday, Saturday is a no go!!
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Good to know, then we can leave a little later on Saturday am.
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Is Sunday still looking better than Saturday? Was thinking about leaving Friday pm as it looks like Sunday will be raining? Don't care too much about the rain, but would like to know if we Should try and capitalise on Saturday?
I see that the wind will be up on Saturday so perhaps will take a trek around the harbour. Are there any new rules about launching from the public slip at PYC or can you just head down there and sign out as long as you have COF etc? Think that may be quite fun for a first trip. Would be good to take out the light tackle and have a crack at some grunter etc. and perhaps something a little bigger near the harbour mouth.
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20kts is still pretty breezy even for the bay but you can get some protection, you won't have any problems launching at the public slip is all is in order just beware fishing the mouth area as they have been clamping down on boats disregarding limits there.
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Also chat to the SAP chaps to make sure they are ok with where you have parked. I've had a few mates park there, only to come back to find hefty fines placed under their windscreen wipers.
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Good point. I have not used the bay since we had our dam boat, which was a few years back and I would park in those long bays just in front of the ramp to the left. Where does one park now?
I have also asked the office at DSBC is they can give me this "bay permit" although i have never heard of it before and should have asked about it while I was done for the COF.
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Sunday def the better day for deepsea. We will be launching Sunday.
If you in the harbour and want to go out to see, you should have a DOC. Not sure if you have one.
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Definitively not going through harbour mouth as I understand there is another quiz with the harbour master for this which I have not done. Also my wife won't come out to sea as she get sea sick pretty quickly but she was happy to potter about the bay. We have some stoepkakker's that also like to run around the shallows during low tide and it is quite nice to potter about looking at ships, pop into that coffee shop at wilson's wharf and get a brew etc so this will be the agenda for Saturday.
Then Sunday we would like to bag some Dorado's and anything else that will bite our lines.
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Well we went into the Bay on Saturday and it was not a great experience. I had a lingering sense of dread that the car would be on bricks etc, and it reminded me a lot of the public slipways on the Vile river. Anyway, I think we will give the bay a wide berth moving forward.
Dragged my youngest out on Sunday relatively early and we took the new boat for its first proper run in the sea. Went and picked up some live bait at the marker bouy that the ships line up on for the run into the harbour. Then trawled out over number 1, and then onto the ships off umhlanga and Umdloti. We had some mankey old sardines that a friend had given us that were starting to get a bit ripe, so I convinced the young sprocket to head for Umhlanga Barge to try and chum the waters.
We rocked up on scene and put two dead Sards onto circle hooks and then let them out with just the ratchet thingy on on the multipler reels. He then just started chucking the whole cards overboard as we were drifting. After about 2 mins he had a Darado on that we managed to boat. We had three boxes of Cards so he hooked up another dead bait and kept checking the others overboard and sure enough he got a scond male Dorado, but it ran and managed to pull the hook. I think he was winching a bit too hard as he was worried about sharks.
Anyway we steamed back as we were wanting to keep the fish fresh with a few lures out but at a good speed, with no further bites. All told very happy that we managed to get fish on the board this early and I hope we will be able to feed the family and a mate or two whiile we are here and dare I hope, have a bit left to take back to JHB when we are done.
Not sure how to attach a photo, but it was a nice colourful Darado.
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We made a quick launch yesterday morning.
Also fished the marker buoy and bumped into CLS and GregF there, nice banter between the boats as usual.
Managed one dorrie on popper and called it a day early. Sea wasnt lekker in the early morning.
No pics unfortunately.
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Well yesterday was a late start as my young fellow was convinced he was going to get wet. Went down to kings first to find a little net to fish out the live bait as this was clearly an omission previously. Then back to the boat to find out why the live bait pump stopped working. Corroded wires that we managed to fix but I will sort properly today. Then filled the boat, but by now we were starving so filled up with cheese burgers at the club.
Finally out to sea around 13h00, and we went straight to the marker bouy, which after listening on Ch9 i believe is called the fair-weather bouy. Picked up some mozzies and then the strangest thing happened. At least two mozzies were replaced by shad only slightly bigger. Very odd as the shad were perhaps 25-30cms, but seemed too small to have eaten the mozzies whole, but were hooked through the bottom lip as if they were rigged for a slow trawl. Not sure what happened there. Anyway another up country boat pulled out three Dorado while we were there and so my son decided that there must be no more dorados so we must go to no1.
Went there and picked up what I can only surmise was a large shark as it felt like we had hooked the bottom. Then decided to go back to bouy and got another strong bite. My son told his lilttle mate to take this fish, and after about 5mins he was knackered so my son took over. He managed to get a shark onto the surface and pretty close to the boat before it took off and broke the line. We hung around as another fellow was onto a tuna and then the wind and rain came up very quickly so we steamed back to DSBC and got quite soaked getting the boat on the trailer.
All told another good day and quite fun hauling up that shark, but want some tuna or dorado now. I am told that the rest of the week will be lousy, which is fine as I go back to JHB until thursday, and then we will hope for good weather on Friday and the rest of December.
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Thank you for the feedback!! :envy :envy
Enjoy the fishing!
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Well yesterday was a late start as my young fellow was convinced he was going to get wet. Went down to kings first to find a little net to fish out the live bait as this was clearly an omission previously. Then back to the boat to find out why the live bait pump stopped working. Corroded wires that we managed to fix but I will sort properly today. Then filled the boat, but by now we were starving so filled up with cheese burgers at the club.
Finally out to sea around 13h00, and we went straight to the marker bouy, which after listening on Ch9 i believe is called the fair-weather bouy. Picked up some mozzies and then the strangest thing happened. At least two mozzies were replaced by shad only slightly bigger. Very odd as the shad were perhaps 25-30cms, but seemed too small to have eaten the mozzies whole, but were hooked through the bottom lip as if they were rigged for a slow trawl. Not sure what happened there. Anyway another up country boat pulled out three Dorado while we were there and so my son decided that there must be no more dorados so we must go to no1.
Went there and picked up what I can only surmise was a large shark as it felt like we had hooked the bottom. Then decided to go back to bouy and got another strong bite. My son told his lilttle mate to take this fish, and after about 5mins he was knackered so my son took over. He managed to get a shark onto the surface and pretty close to the boat before it took off and broke the line. We hung around as another fellow was onto a tuna and then the wind and rain came up very quickly so we steamed back to DSBC and got quite soaked getting the boat on the trailer.
All told another good day and quite fun hauling up that shark, but want some tuna or dorado now. I am told that the rest of the week will be lousy, which is fine as I go back to JHB until thursday, and then we will hope for good weather on Friday and the rest of December.
Evening Stephen,
Good to hear you enjoying the new Boat...
Any pics??
I will be down over December, launching from Durban Ski-boat Club, perhaps we might see each other on the water.....or at the Club....
Tight Lines....
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back in JHB today and tomorrow with poor weather. Boat is a big orange Ace Glider 530 that we should have named garfield, but it came with the name "biteme."
Have yet to work out where my iPhone is stashing the image files, but if I can figure it out will try and post a pic.
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Well back in KZN and the outlook seems bleak for the next few days. Where's that sad face emoji? Anyway, we may try our luck a little later today, but will probably end up just letting the kids boogie board and I will try and drag my tired carcasss for a gallop along the new beach walk.
Problem is in Hillcrest you can never really tell what is going on at sea and I have missed some days before where my weather app told me it was a no go and when we get to the beach it looks awesome!
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Use this - its a real time graph of what the wind is doing and what its done :rck"
http://fred.csir.co.za/windnet/d.html (http://fred.csir.co.za/windnet/d.html)
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I'll see you Lads at DSBC on the "Fishable Days" :fshn: :fshn:
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Them “Fishable Days” are few and far between at the moment...
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Well back in KZN and the outlook seems bleak for the next few days. Where's that sad face emoji? Anyway, we may try our luck a little later today, but will probably end up just letting the kids boogie board and I will try and drag my tired carcasss for a gallop along the new beach walk.
Problem is in Hillcrest you can never really tell what is going on at sea and I have missed some days before where my weather app told me it was a no go and when we get to the beach it looks awesome!
Morning Stephen,
I see you launched quite late on Monday afternoon...
Any luck???
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Slim Dusty, Saw your boat at the club today, how did you go?
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Slim Dusty, Saw your boat at the club today, how did you go?
Good Morning & Merry Christmas to All.....
I hope the Festive Season has been good thus far.
Fishing has been good off Durbs, boated a few Dorries over the last week, here is a brief recap,
20.12.2019 - our first day launching since arriving in Durbs for our December Holiday, boated a nice Bull Dorado and called it a day....
21.12.2019 - boated 3 x Dorries, good sized ones as well... had a double up which created a bit of pandemonium with crossed lines etc. nothing like a bit of excitement...beached at 10h15.
23.12.2019 - landed and successfully released a really small Dorado, smallest I have ever caught....nothing else for the rest of the day....headed back to the club for lunch with the family.
24.12.2019 - had a double up and boated 2 x Dorries, we were back on the beach by 10h20
I must add that all our fish have been caught on live bait, on the drift @ the 50m mark....
Being Christmas Day, my crew and I decided it would be best to spend the day at Camp with the Family, so no Fishing today.....
Tomorrow is supposedly going to be a cracker of a day, so will give it a go again tomorrow...
Enjoy the Festivities and be Safe
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Bull Dorado on our first day fishing
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Couple more pics...
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Sorry, photos are too large to post...
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Slim Dusty some nice fish there! Fished yesterday, saw your name in the book from the previous day, you guys cleaned up again :dor: :dor: :dor:
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Managed to fish one day during the December holidays after 5 months of no fishing... got about a dozen rat dorries and turned my pap gooier crew into a bill fisherman!!
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:shk nice one Shaun. :sailf:
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Very nice. Decent size sail that. What boat you on now. Still the tom?
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Awesome stuff Shaun and crew. Well done on a good day out.
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Very nice. Decent size sail that. What boat you on now. Still the tom?
Still on a Tom, just on a 21 now...
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I seemed to mess up my login and did not want to clear my whole inter webs cache (cookies) so did not report more while in KZN. That being said, we totalled three Dorados, 3 small Tuna, and also got a few sharks to the boat before cutting them off and hooked what I can only assume were Zambezies, off No1 as it felt like hooking the bottom.
We saw a turtle, light coloured (not sure if it is loggerhead or leatherback or some other variety) off LaMercy next to one of the ships, ran with common dolphins for a good few hundred meters, while we were heading to the drop off at Ballito, saw some big grey suites under the boat just off the harbour mouth.
Despite the family scoffing the fish at a rate of knots, I was able to bring a smallish coleman back full of fish, so that was mission accomplished.
Also super impressed with how frugal these suzuki motors are! I would say around 30% less fuel that the 40 strokes I have on the rubber duck.
Overall, it was a great time and while we could always have bought a few more fish, I am pretty happy that we are making progress. A long way from brilliant anglers, but at least doing better than we have previously so onwards and forwards.
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Sorry, photos are too large to post...
Some more Pics from our December Trip....
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Congrats on the catches Slim Dusty Stephen, Shaun congrats on the bill.
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To be honest, although the weather did not play game on most days, we had exceptional Fishing off Durban...
Made our trip down from JHB well worth it!
It's always nice to come back with some Fish in the hatch, nothing like fresh fish on the Plate for Dinner.
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I seemed to mess up my login and did not want to clear my whole inter webs cache (cookies) so did not report more while in KZN. That being said, we totalled three Dorados, 3 small Tuna, and also got a few sharks to the boat before cutting them off and hooked what I can only assume were Zambezies, off No1 as it felt like hooking the bottom.
We saw a turtle, light coloured (not sure if it is loggerhead or leatherback or some other variety) off LaMercy next to one of the ships, ran with common dolphins for a good few hundred meters, while we were heading to the drop off at Ballito, saw some big grey suites under the boat just off the harbour mouth.
Despite the family scoffing the fish at a rate of knots, I was able to bring a smallish coleman back full of fish, so that was mission accomplished.
Also super impressed with how frugal these suzuki motors are! I would say around 30% less fuel that the 40 strokes I have on the rubber duck.
Overall, it was a great time and while we could always have bought a few more fish, I am pretty happy that we are making progress. A long way from brilliant anglers, but at least doing better than we have previously so onwards and forwards.
Stephan,
Was good to catch up with you at the Club...
Glad you enjoying your new Boat.
Great to see how keen your lighties are about Fishing!
Cheers for now...
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Howzit Gents, managed a few launches over Dec/Jan on the Northcoast and got into the fish, best was a nice Yellowtail of 117cm, fishweights gives it as just under 17kg, was hell of a strong fish! We got plenty Dorries, most being rats and mice with a few decent specimens. Also got some decent Yellowfin and then first Couta of the season. Had Maganything for a day out but unfortunately we just got :brnz: and some small bonnies!
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Nice fish guys well done, we also got our share of :dor: and one :wahoo: as well as some nice bottom fish. Fishing was excellent for a couple weeks now back to the wind.
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Hi guys what do you catch in Durban in Feb?
I am down in Umhlanga for a few days mid Feb and will most probably do atleast one day charter.
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Hi guys what do you catch in Durban in Feb?
I am down in Umhlanga for a few days mid Feb and will most probably do atleast one day charter.
Dorado, Tuna, Couta..
Feb march is a great time of year.
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Congratulations!
4 in 2 days!
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So tomorrow is the day.
Hopefully can bloody some decks.
Can't wait.
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So tomorrow is the day.
Hopefully can bloody some decks.
Can't wait.
Tight lines hope you have a great day
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Hi Guys, anyone coming down to Durban for the Xmas holidays ????
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I'm hoping to, leave application done but havent received confirmation yet.
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I'm hoping to, leave application done but havent received confirmation yet.
We will be down as soon as the schools close. Our school doesn't know whether they are arthur or martha, so it could be anwhere from the 28th November to very early December? Once the clan are down there, I will come backwards and forwards a little and then come down around the 14-15th to get everything ready for Soddies from the 17-23rd and then I will be back in hillcrest until early jan.
I am hoping we manage to fill at least one coolbox to bring back to JHB in that time, although most of the fish gets scoffed pretty quick smart and if we get one/trip we consider ourselves to be doing well.
Looking forward to some down time after, what has not been the best year in recorded history.