SHAD are still biting freely at most of the popular spots, with reports of some good-sized garrick now being taken on the live baits.
Ernst le Roux, fishing in the Sunwich Port area and using a live shad for bait, was rewarded with a prodigal son of around 17kg.
This is a very good fish from the shore and while it is an excellent eating species, a lot of anglers are of the belief that this fish brings bad luck.
However, Ernst assured me that he caught a couple of shad after that so he is no victim.
Kob are still being caught on the paddle-tails, predominantly over the low tides.
This time of the year is probably the best time to start targeting brusher.
These fine eating and incredibly strong fighting fish can be targeted using either prawn, crayfish or their pudding, the blade rock crab.
Areas to look at are the ledges along Manaba Beach and Orange Rocks as well as Tweni high rocks.
However, one will find them anywhere where there is a deep gully with working white water.
Darren Poole was at it again this week, boating another cracker of around 35kg on his dad’s boat Dumizulu.
There have also been some good-sized tuna on Protea, however the sharks are rampant with most fish hooked being eaten, especially the larger fish.
Digby Smith’s daughter, Jenna, fishing on Game On, showed up her father the other day by catching a good-sized geelbek.
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It is time for these fine eating fish to make an appearance but, again, to get them past the sharks is a major issue in itself.
The weather does not look too good for the weekend with a big westerly forecast for Saturday, but Sunday is looking good, so get out there and catch some fish.
Mark Bennett, Tackle Box
Port Edward
Shad have been on the bite. The only days when they were not so active was when there were rough sea conditions.
On one of the days, fishermen were all ‘taken to the cleaners’ when big sharks moved in.
There were reports of eight failures to land these fish after the big pulls came. The following day a ragged tooth shark of 94kg was landed.
Large kob are biting as well and most fish are being taken on live shad as bait.
Terry Nel, Tackle Net.
