KZN Offshore - Whatzup

[Chigger]

,  eeish DSBC is a good place to hangout on a summers day after fishing, just have a good pair  of Sunnies on hand.

 

Sorry to hear about the bad fishing though.

[Bwana]

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.

[Chigger]

Lekker report Bwana and some nice fish

Can I ask what do you use as strips for the Konas?

[Bwana]

Lekker report Bwana and some nice fish

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. 

[iNdlovu]

Well done mate, good fishing

[Chigger]

Lekker report Bwana and some nice fish

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. 

Thanks for sharing 

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Lekker report Bwana and some nice fish

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. 

Thanks for sharing 

[Bwana]

No prob guys hope it helps you get some fish 

[Toppie]

Thanks for sharing Bwana.

[iNdlovu]

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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[Nikao]

Just home after a late launch today as i had some trailer problems.. but we did manage a nice black 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 estimated 3m length from mouth to tail.. Will post a full report soon

Well done Richard, hope you have more success today, 

[dodger]

Just home after a late launch today as i had some trailer problems.. but we did manage a nice black estimated 3m length from mouth to tail.. Will post a full report soon

Well done Richard, hope you have more success today, 

Well done Richard have more    and  today

[Umpa Lumpa]

Well done on the  Rich, good fish coming out.

[maganything]

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!

[Happy Dog]

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.

[Chigger]

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.

  Ditto HD, ... but sadly not many reports of fish off Durban....just dying to read Nikoas  report.

[Hammer]

Got my first  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.

[dodger]

nice    Richard also caught on a TLD25 and light set up