Eastern Cape spinning in the surf

[Tommo]

Thanks Chris. How are things in Angola, you still there?

[aquadementia]

yup still here, going well thanks! Got my species hat trick at flamingo at least, lost a pb shad though (they're all pb's there lol)...


back at Kwanza now, these barracuda are frustrating us to no end! all 10-15kg jobbies smashing mullet in the river, even saw two come flying out of the water one behind the other through a school of mullet. And we've been trolling and popping and plugging and walking and wiggling and sliding and not a sniff :/

[Tommo]

Eish, sounds awesome! Those Guinean Barracuda are serious beasts, I have seen them jumping close to 3m out of the water when they hit a surface lure!

[aquadementia]

what tactics worked for you?

[Tommo]

Slow blooping with a floating chugger, also walking the dog with floating stickbaits. We also got some trolling Rapala Super Shad Raps, not my favourite way of fishing though...

[aquadementia]

exactly what I've been doing... thanks... guess I'll just have to persist!

[vismal]

Nice catches there Tommo,I fully agree and things cannot continue the way they are,I dont know how someone can catch so much fish a day and then freeze them or what they do with it,they must be selling the fish,makes me sad!!

[fedu]

Just casting the bucktail out onto the bank, allowing it to sink to the bottom and then twitching it back, with enough pause between twitches to allow it to make contact with the bottom. Most times the hits come just after the bucktail has come off the bank on the edge of the channel in the churned up milky water.

Thanks Tommo,

I'll try to learn this techinique from Aqua this next Saturday at the Kwanza.

Another great post.