Herald Fishing: Summer visitors finding their way in
Fishing has been decent this past week.
Anglers targeting inedibles are out in full force and the fish are obliging.
Species’ diversity has really starting to heat up and the normal summer visitors are finding their way in to anglers.
Kob have still been around and are favouring a large paddletail, pulled slowly along the bottom.
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Kob can also be caught on chokka, rapala and mud prawns (cracker shrimps).
Reports are in of a lot of kob and grunter being caught at Sandspit in Port Shepstone.
Look for edges of sandbanks, gutters or a rip current close to a river mouth to target them.
Best time to catch kob and grunter will be early mornings or late afternoons, going on into the night.
Bronze bream and other scratching species are still around but few reports have been coming in due to the focus shifting to the bigger inedibles that are around.
Deep sea
The south section of the KwaZulu-Natal coastline has been a hit-and-miss affair of late.
Reports have come in of good and bad fishing from both the bottom-fishing fraternity as well as the game fish boys.
The bottoms that have been coming out have been rock cod and reds while the game fish catches have been mainly tuna, wahoo and dorado.
Freshwater
Fishing has been excellent the past few weeks.
There seems to be a creature bait theme at the moment with lots of anglers opting for the slow-pulled bottom lures for bass.
This seems to be working in a lot of the dams with a lot of fish over 2kg coming out in such fashion.
Anglers fishing flukes slowly along the bottom and heavily weighted worms are having the most luck.
With the heat rising, the fish are moving deeper and deeper, so, if soft plastics are not your style, then a deep lipped crank bait will do wonders for your catch percentage.
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Anglers caught some decent fish in Paddock over the past week with plenty of these fish coming out at around 2kg.
Anglers from the sides are at a bit of a disadvantage as the cover from the trees and submerged structure is now well up the bank.
The Zoom junior flukes and top water lures have been doing most of the work catching the fish early mornings.
Tiny brush hogs and June bug speed craws have also been getting some bigger fish.
Tights lines.
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