Dorado action off Umdloti
We have been told of good dorado and couta fishing off Umdloti this past week.
North
Over the last week there have been many wahoo on the north coast, mainly at Sodwana, Cape Vidal, Maphelane and St Lucia. Many anglers would use a length of steel trace on their Rattlers or Halco diving lures when targeting wahoo. This is a good way to prevent being bitten off, but will halve the amount of strikes on average. These fish are clean water species, which means that all lures with steel trace will be seen. Other than wahoo, Vidal has been on fire with all species including couta, dorado, tuna and sailfish. Once again, the live baits have been producing the bigger fish, but anglers using lures such as Rattlers and small Konas have been hooking into a lot more fish. Westbrook had some very good days fishing with a variety of species coming out off the boats and skis, mainly tuna and wahoo with quite a few couta making their way onto the common marks. The famous Pink Rattler and the trusty R-15 Halco Laser Pro have been doing most of the damage in these areas.
Central
Durban has had some very good days of fishing over the last week and anglers who braved the less than desirable conditions were rewarded with some good fish. Umdloti saw massive shoals of anchovies which had everything from dorado to couta, sailies and tuna feeding on them. The problem was the sharks, other than that, many fish were landed. In these situations anglers need to remember to use the smallest lures or spoons that they can as the fish are all feeding on these small fry and will more often than not turn down anything bigger than the size of the bait in the water. Number One saw some small tuna early in the mornings and anglers who traveled to the ships caught some very nice tuna and wahoo.
South
Aliwal Shoal has produced a mixed bag of gamefish over the last week. Species like Natal snoek, couta, tuna and kingfish have all been landed. Artificial lures produced good results in the deeper water, while live baits produced some very nice results in the shallows. In the dirtier conditions which we have been experiencing recently, a small green duster in front of your live bait will be almost guaranteed to get a bite quicker than a plain live bait.
(File Photo: Caroll Hermann)
Twitter - @kingfisherdaiwa @SportswaveAndre
Over the last week there have been many wahoo on the north coast, mainly at Sodwana, Cape Vidal, Maphelane and St Lucia. Many anglers would use a length of steel trace on their Rattlers or Halco diving lures when targeting wahoo. This is a good way to prevent being bitten off, but will halve the amount of strikes on average. These fish are clean water species, which means that all lures with steel trace will be seen. Other than wahoo, Vidal has been on fire with all species including couta, dorado, tuna and sailfish. Once again, the live baits have been producing the bigger fish, but anglers using lures such as Rattlers and small Konas have been hooking into a lot more fish. Westbrook had some very good days fishing with a variety of species coming out off the boats and skis, mainly tuna and wahoo with quite a few couta making their way onto the common marks. The famous Pink Rattler and the trusty R-15 Halco Laser Pro have been doing most of the damage in these areas.
Central
Durban has had some very good days of fishing over the last week and anglers who braved the less than desirable conditions were rewarded with some good fish. Umdloti saw massive shoals of anchovies which had everything from dorado to couta, sailies and tuna feeding on them. The problem was the sharks, other than that, many fish were landed. In these situations anglers need to remember to use the smallest lures or spoons that they can as the fish are all feeding on these small fry and will more often than not turn down anything bigger than the size of the bait in the water. Number One saw some small tuna early in the mornings and anglers who traveled to the ships caught some very nice tuna and wahoo.
South
Aliwal Shoal has produced a mixed bag of gamefish over the last week. Species like Natal snoek, couta, tuna and kingfish have all been landed. Artificial lures produced good results in the deeper water, while live baits produced some very nice results in the shallows. In the dirtier conditions which we have been experiencing recently, a small green duster in front of your live bait will be almost guaranteed to get a bite quicker than a plain live bait.
(File Photo: Caroll Hermann)
Twitter - @kingfisherdaiwa @SportswaveAndre