KZN deep sea fishing report
Dorado were again feeding around the cargo ships anchored off Umhlanga this past week.
Thanks to the big seas many anglers opted to stay in bed and enjoy the sunrise from home. There were only two or three days maximum on which anglers would have been able to launch in most areas, which resulted in very few reports from our entire coast. The boats up the north coast managed to catch a few dorado and wahoo, as well as some decent Natal snoek for the anglers who stayed shallow.
The stretch between Tinley Manor and Blue Lagoon produced some large snoek on small spoons and on fillet traces. Red-eye fillets have been king, with glow dusters in the dirty water. In this dirty water anglers are urged to trawl slower than usual, allowing the bait to be located easily.
Salmon Bay was by far the most productive spot along the coast in terms of couta catches, with a good amount of decent sized fish coming out on live bait by anglers fishing on paddle-skis and jet-skis.
Umhlanga produced some nice tuna, dorado and also a few couta. Durban had a few reports of tuna in the shallows and dorado out deeper near the cargo ships.
South coast anglers had better luck and saw a good amount of yellowtail being caught on live baits on bottom rigs. The usual catches of tuna were seen at Aliwal Shoal and Protea Banks. Some good bottom fishing was reported off the south coast over the weekend, proving that there are some excellent musselcracker and steenbras around.
I hope to catch some dorado off Umhlanga this week. The plan is to go jet-ski fishing with Brendan Nolan from GoFish Magazine. I hope the weather and our diaries will allow it.
(File Photo: Gallo Images)
Twitter - @SportswaveAndre @kingfisherdaiwa
The stretch between Tinley Manor and Blue Lagoon produced some large snoek on small spoons and on fillet traces. Red-eye fillets have been king, with glow dusters in the dirty water. In this dirty water anglers are urged to trawl slower than usual, allowing the bait to be located easily.
Salmon Bay was by far the most productive spot along the coast in terms of couta catches, with a good amount of decent sized fish coming out on live bait by anglers fishing on paddle-skis and jet-skis.
Umhlanga produced some nice tuna, dorado and also a few couta. Durban had a few reports of tuna in the shallows and dorado out deeper near the cargo ships.
South coast anglers had better luck and saw a good amount of yellowtail being caught on live baits on bottom rigs. The usual catches of tuna were seen at Aliwal Shoal and Protea Banks. Some good bottom fishing was reported off the south coast over the weekend, proving that there are some excellent musselcracker and steenbras around.
I hope to catch some dorado off Umhlanga this week. The plan is to go jet-ski fishing with Brendan Nolan from GoFish Magazine. I hope the weather and our diaries will allow it.
(File Photo: Gallo Images)
Twitter - @SportswaveAndre @kingfisherdaiwa