Herald Fishing: Gamefish nationals come to town
Fishing has been pretty good of late.
The Senior Gamefish Nationals was fished recently at Shelly Beach Ski-Boat Club.
Anglers had perfect conditions the whole week. All five days were fished.
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Team Natal White from the Pennington area won the champs, the team comprising Doug Dustan (captain), Shane Dennis and Abel Khan.
One of the highlights was the 24.4kg amberjack caught by Wessel Grimbeek on a 10kg line.
This was a new All Africa and South Africa record for an amberjack on 10kg line.
During the five days, Natal White fished on Triple T (Jan Fourie skipper), Predator (Des Rielander skipper), Bliksem (Anton Gets skipper), Must Byt (Mike Schneider skipper) and Ros-a-lind (Chris Diedericks skipper).
RESULTS
Team: 1 Natal White 1152, 53 points; 2 South African Deep Sea Angling Association 895,01; 3 SG Blue 807,016; 4 Free State 454,39; 5 ZDSAA 408,50.
Boat: 1 Predator 1035,72; 2 Aquaholic 1002,20; 3 Watt4 609,39; 4 Reel McCoy 462,90; 5 Ignobillis 434,47.
Individual: 1 Jan Kapp 516.09 points; 2 Louis Vosloo 450,63; 3 Wessel Grimbeek 382, 17; 4 Andre Opperman 281,20; 5 Adrian Feher 262, 19; 6 Karili Schulze 232,81; 7 Doug Dustan 205, 39; 8 Shane Dennis 198, 91; 9 Elmar Basson 139,75; 10 Johan Coetzer.
General
The weather and sea temperature have been kind to the rock and surf guys this week.
The cold water has brought a flurry of late-season inedible fish which has had the competitive anglers up late most nights.
The recent influx of cold water on the South Coast has made for some spectacular late-season inedible fishing.
Most of the big points and deeper beaches have been throwing good fish in amongst the shoals of grey and blackspot sharks.
There have also been several sharks hooked while targeting garrick, which have ended with the shark winning 10 times out of 10.
These are fish that can be targeted during winter and are extremely fun to catch.
The garrick have been around and are starting to feed properly at most of the usual spots along the South Coast.
The shad have made their appearance. Famous spots such as The Block and Sandspit in Port Shepstone have been attracting a lot of anglers with the shad being frenzied at these spots.
A couple of kob have also being caught while fishing for shad.
Tight lines.
Tide Table
High tide
May
31 04.29 16.53
June
01 04.58 17.23
02 05.29 17.54
03 06.01 18.27
04 06.37 19.06
05 07.20 19.57
06 08.18 21.12
07 09.44 22.49
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