Herald Fishing: Snoek on the run, bottom fish busy

Natal snoek are on the run. If you get to the rocks early, you might get hooked onto a decent snoek.

Anglers have hooked some nice-sized snoek at Chaka’s Rock, Elephant Rocks and Sandspit in Port Shepstone.

A few garrick were landed at the Sandspit just before the storm hit last Saturday afternoon.

Reports continue to come in stating that edible fishing has been very productive, as a few musselcrackers and bronze bream have been landed off the rocks, using crabs, mussels, red prawns and sealice for bait.

Anglers have been catching a lot of grunter, perch and small kingies on the Mzimkhulu and Mpenjati rivers.

Some of those spinning have also had a bit of action with small kingies taking their spoons.

Anglers fishing for the non-edibles have been having some fun with blue skates.

The bottom fishing has done rather well with reports of big fish coming out.

There have been a few small kingies that have kept the guys busy on spoons and drop shot.

It’s safe to say that the bottom fishing has been the more productive facet of fishing over the past week, with many reports of decent fish being caught from the top right to the bottom of our coastline when the weather allowed it. Bass fishing has been consistently productive in terms of quantity of fish.

There have been a few big bass that have come out but not too many.

Most of the smaller bass coming out have been on curly tails, c-tails, u-tails and most small worm that have a lot of movement.

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The slightly bigger sized bass have been taking crank baits and surface lures.

Early morning poppers and tiny crank baits around the water grass will get you a few bites.

Small spinner baits have been getting their fair share of action in deeper water.

Tights lines.

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