Trafalgar brusher and bronze bream

Umkomaas - This spot has seen very few edibles recently, but to make up for it, large numbers of brown skates and other inedibles have been landed throughout the week. Green Point and Scottburgh had good action and produced plenty of bonefish, sandsharks and flatfish. Umdoni Point has had a few lonely garrick patrolling on the high tide, on the inside of the banks. These have been caught on plugs as well as live pinky.

Port Shepstone - This area has had a massive turn out of garrick as well as kob, both of which are taking live baits and McArthy Paddletails. The most effective rig thus far has been a back to back Mustad Big gun 2/0 or Mustad Tarpon 3/0, bound together with cotton fished on Siglon 0,70mm fluorocarbon on a standard 3-way trace with 700mm hook snootings.

Trafalgar - This area is on fire this week and has produced a number of large brusher as well as bronze bream on prawn baits.

Port Edward - With so few people fishing down in the Port Edward area over the past few weeks, there has not been much to report, weather conditions having seen to that. However, since last week, news of catches have come in and December is looking to be a good start of the fishing season there. Reports of shad  being caught from many spots sound promising. The shad are also large and hopefully will still be around when the season opens again on 1 December. Garrick are also there and a number are falling victim to the spearfishermen. Please remember that the bag limit for garrick is two fish per angler per day. A total of eleven garrick were shot by spearfishermen over the last few days.

Transkei - Lapatana in the Transkei has had good reports of big blackfin sharks, which have taken large slide baits. Nothing less than 0.58mm Giant Abrasion nylon should be used in these areas. Mazeppa has also been fishing well, with reports of raggies and blackfin sharks coming through regularly.

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