Wahoo and dorado off Durban
It didn't take much to get the ski-boaters on the water and towards the end of the week and over the weekend many fish saw the gaff, mainly at Cape Vidal and St Lucia.
Good catches of wahoo were seen at St Lucia, mostly caught of strip baits and live baits. Just a tip to use steel trace when using lures and live bait in an area which is known to produce wahoo or has been producing wahoo recently. Wahoo have some of the sharpest teeth in the ocean and will not hesitate to bite straight through even 1mm fluorocarbon. For diving lures such as Rattlers, a minimum of No. 6 wire should be used, and on Konas and surface lures, no less than 150lb carbon coated wire. Don't take a chance, because a wahoo of even 15kg will give you a fight that you would not want to miss out on.
Due to the "up and down" seas over the last week, the Durban anglers have had to be fussy about launch days. The weekend was touch and go, but fishable, and those who could not resist a launch and made the attempt to get out of bed at 3am, were very pleased with what was offered to them. Boats saw wahoo up to 18kg, tuna were caught and dorado were still plentiful. The Natal snoek were on the bite for a few lucky anglers at first light off Glenashley and Virginia, and were caught mainly on small Rattlers and Strike Pro Magic Minnows. A few boats also had fun with spoons at a few of the rips off Hyper-by-the-Sea.
South coast anglers found themselves puzzling for amberjack and yellowtail, which did show up eventually and made many a charter angler happy. Good trawl soldiers in the deep, the odd daga and geelbek and also good catches on trap-sticks of tuna and wahoo.
(File Photo: Caroll Hermann)
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Due to the "up and down" seas over the last week, the Durban anglers have had to be fussy about launch days. The weekend was touch and go, but fishable, and those who could not resist a launch and made the attempt to get out of bed at 3am, were very pleased with what was offered to them. Boats saw wahoo up to 18kg, tuna were caught and dorado were still plentiful. The Natal snoek were on the bite for a few lucky anglers at first light off Glenashley and Virginia, and were caught mainly on small Rattlers and Strike Pro Magic Minnows. A few boats also had fun with spoons at a few of the rips off Hyper-by-the-Sea.
South coast anglers found themselves puzzling for amberjack and yellowtail, which did show up eventually and made many a charter angler happy. Good trawl soldiers in the deep, the odd daga and geelbek and also good catches on trap-sticks of tuna and wahoo.
(File Photo: Caroll Hermann)
Twitter - @kingfisherdaiwa @SportswaveAndre