Shad feast at Blue Lagoon

Kosi Bay - Bonefish and wave garrick are still plentiful throughout the day, with the odd grunter and stumpnose being landed as well. Most fish are being caught on small chokka blob baits. There have been a handful of sharks around, but nothing spectacular.

Cape Vidal - This area has seen a large amount of shad in the bay, caught on baits and spoon early in the morning or later on just before dark. Anglers have also been having loads of fun with wave garrick on small drop shot lures. Anglers fishing the reef had some fun with rock cod, cave bass, snapper and the odd kob.

Richards Bay - Many anglers were lucky enough to hook into kob towards the end of last week and over the weekend. Although these fish have been of the smaller variety, they are still proving fun on lighter tackle. The most effective bait thus far has been smaller chokka baits, preferably mixed with a cutlet of red eye sardine for flavour. This area has also been producing some lovely spinner sharks on chokka baits and medium sized fish bait. These sharks have been landed in the evenings.

Shaka’s High Rocks - Produced two Garrick of about 7kg over the weekend at sunrise, both on live shad baits. This is normally a very popular spot when the garrick are running.

Salt Rock - Only news of one snoek and two small kingfish from the Sheffield area. Most anglers have been kept busy with edibles such as bronze bream, zebras, rock cod and shad. Most of these, with the exception of shad, have been landed on chokka and red prawn baits.

Ballito - Small edibles have been on the bite throughout the week, which has been pleasant for the anglers scratching with smaller blob baits. Big seas predicted for the end of the week will only improve the fishing, especially for species such as bronze bream, rock cod, brusher and kob. Shad have been plentiful in the Ballito area as well and are being caught on bait at first light.

Blue Lagoon - The curse of the snoek angler, but dream of the pier anglers, shad in their thousands. Remember size and bag limits apply to shad.

Durban - The beachfront has had flat seas and little wind through the majority of the week, which meant many anglers were at the ocean to try their luck. Most caught shad, but a few anglers have also caught some extremely nice edibles such as stumpies and grunter.

Bluff - Shad have been on the rampage, proving to be excellent fun to anglers of all ages early mornings and late in the afternoons. Bronze bream have been coming out in twos and threes, which is a promising sign. Kob are being landed on a regular basis on live bait and also chokka baits. Some have also been landed on McArthy paddle tails. Kingfish are still being landed on live baits.

Toti - This area has been relatively quiet for a while, but has recently picked up somewhat. More reports are coming through of garrick being landed and some very decent size shad too.

Scottburgh - Point has been very productive for anglers targeting both edibles and non edibles. Shad have been plentiful, which means a lot more garrick baits in the water. Reports from divers and spearos indicate that there are many garrick and also kob off Scottburgh. Kingfish have been in the area, smashing bait fish, and a lure or two while they are around. Anglers are having some good hook-ups on Goldfish Jerk-Shad drop shot and kingies and grey sharks have been caught at night on most baits.

Port Shepstone - Bronze bream have been plentiful on red prawn and chokka baits. Sandspit area has produced kob and lots of shad.

Port Edward - Terry Nel from Tacklenet in Port Edward reports that while there are still no sightings of sardines, the signs are all there. Fish are on the bite and the porpoises have become very active close to the shore. Whales have been passing for a number of days now and are giving us a prime display as they breach. Shad are the order of the day and these fish are biting well at most of the popular shad spots right along the coast here, few of them now undersized and at some places the fun is on all day long.  Gamefish are with them and a few garrick have been taken off points close to us. Splash Rock saw a yellowfin tuna around the 16kg mark taken on live shad. Time to throw that spoon and plug, how great the feeling of landing a gamefish on one of these.

Transkei - There have been reports of sardines at Hole In The Wall, which means lots of sharks, shad, garrick and other gamefish. This is the time to use fresh sardine baits in any form.

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