Good fishing at Aliwal Shoal
Over the last week there have been many Wahoo in this area, mainly at Sodwana, Vidal, Maphelane and St Lucia.
North Coast - Anglers should use a length of steel trace (American Fishing Wire) 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.
Durban - 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 Sprats which had everything from Dorado to Couta, Salies and Tuna feeding on them but the problem was the Sharks. 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 sprats 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 Coast - Aliwal Shoal has produced a mixed bag of game fish over the last week. Species like Snoek, Couta, Tuna and Kingfish have all been landed. Artificial lures produced good results in the deeper water whilst 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 almost guaranteed to get a bite quicker than a plain live bait.
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