Good couta fishing off KZN
On the ski-boat side of things it is great to hear of decent numbers of couta being landed all the way from Sodwana down to Durban. Most of the catches up north have been on trawled lures such as the Rattler 150 shallow diving lures, mainly in the pink or blue colours.
When using bait such as sardine or mackerel, green or blue dusters in the clean water or pink in the dirty water has been a good indication.
Tuna have been slow up north, but the few which have been reported have been of good size.
Natal snoek have frequented the shallows, taking Strike Pro Magic Minnows, sardine fillet and Clark spoons. Most anglers trawling Clark spoons fast have managed to hook into some of the bigger fish off the rips in deeper water.
Richards Bay has had good numbers of yellowfin tuna move in, and a few beasts of over 60kg have been reported so far. These fish have been taken on the 400m mark on Konas.
Westbrook managed to dish out some fairly decent couta, dorado and snoek too.
Umhlanga saw a few small tuna, some snoek and also the odd couta, which have been landed mainly by kayak anglers.
The normal stretch between Hyper-by-the-Sea and Blue Lagoon produced good numbers of snoek during the week, with most fish being landed on small spoons or fillet baits.
From the Number 1 area off Durban down to Isipingo, there have been good catches of dorado along the 50m mark. The most successful lures have once again been the Rattler 150 and the Williamson Dorado and Sailfish Catchers.
Protea Banks is fishing better and has shown signs of increasing catches as the weeks go by. The usual species such as dorado, tuna and yellowtail have been plentiful. Live bait has caught more of the larger fish, while anglers after numbers have stuck to trawled lures.
(File Photo: Caroll Hermann)
Twitter - @kingfisherdaiwa @SportswaveAndre