Fishing Report - Geelbek run underway
Reports suggest that the winter geelbek run is underway off parts of KZN.
St Lucia, Cape Vidal and Maphelane have been on fire over the last week with massive shoals of Natal snoek and dozens of couta. Reports from Maphelane indicate that the catches of Couta over 15kg have sky-rocketed. Most fish are being landed on walla-walla or bonito. Snoek have been taking almost any bait in the water, but the bigger fish have been landed on red-eye fillet traces and once again the trusted Strike Pro Magic Minnows.
Zinkwazi has also produced good catches of couta over the last week and these have been bigger couta of about 16-25kg, which is good to see. Live bonito seems to be the best bait for these bigger fish, with walla-walla being the second choice. It is often difficult to catch live bonito as they are feeding on tiny sprats and in order to imitate the sprat, anglers have been very successful using Kingfisher Sprat spoons or smaller Anchovy spoons. These spoons can be retrieved at lightning speed and are extremely effective.
Durban has been very good to us with tuna, many of which have been over 20kg, snoek and recently bottom fish such as geelbek and daga salmon. We have had more reports of geelbek as the days pass. Hopefully we will have a good season.
Aliwal Shoal has produced many tuna on trolling lures such as the Kingfisher Rattlers.
(File Photo: Caroll Hermann)
Twitter - @kingfisherdaiwa @SportswaveAndre
Zinkwazi has also produced good catches of couta over the last week and these have been bigger couta of about 16-25kg, which is good to see. Live bonito seems to be the best bait for these bigger fish, with walla-walla being the second choice. It is often difficult to catch live bonito as they are feeding on tiny sprats and in order to imitate the sprat, anglers have been very successful using Kingfisher Sprat spoons or smaller Anchovy spoons. These spoons can be retrieved at lightning speed and are extremely effective.
Durban has been very good to us with tuna, many of which have been over 20kg, snoek and recently bottom fish such as geelbek and daga salmon. We have had more reports of geelbek as the days pass. Hopefully we will have a good season.
Aliwal Shoal has produced many tuna on trolling lures such as the Kingfisher Rattlers.
(File Photo: Caroll Hermann)
Twitter - @kingfisherdaiwa @SportswaveAndre