Monster KZN south coast couta

North - An excellent week for ski boat anglers last week, with many reports coming in of sailfish, marlin, Natal snoek, couta, tuna and also yellowtail and kingfish. Zululand anglers had excellent fun over the weekend with couta and sailfish in the deeper water, while anglers in the shallows hooked into dozens of snoek as well as some lovely kingfish. The snoek have mostly been shallow. However, the larger specimens have been feeding deeper on down rigged fillets. A few couta have been landed this way too. Tuna have loved the shallow diving Rattlers in about 50-80m of water. Yellowtail off Cape Vidal have been plentiful and have taken lures as well as live bait. Further south, Zinkwazi fished well too, having anglers stuck onto a few huge tuna on live bait.

Central - Durban is where it all happened, with countless tuna over 30ks landed with the dolphins and on live bait on the bait marks. The couta have moved in and a number of anglers have caught fish on live baits. Most fish have been between 6-15kg with the odd specimen weighing in at around 15-20kg. Bottom fishing off Durban has been spectacular, with good numbers of santer, slinger, rock cod and even the odd geelbek still being around.

South - Here anglers have had more than enough action with smaller tuna between 3 and 10kg, particularly in the Shelley Beach area. Yellowtail have been caught on jig in certain areas as well, most of which have been over 6kg.  After sharing news of 24kg yellowbelly rock cod caught off Rocky Bay, we thought we would not hear of another "wow" fish to soon. However, Roger Davison managed to boat a once in a lifetime couta of 45kg. The amazing part is that the fish was weighed after being gutted.

(The monster couta caught off the KZN south coast this week)

(Main Photo: FreeSpool)

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