Herald Fishing: Great catches on and offshore
The weather has played the game this week.
FISHING has been exceptional on and offshore this past week, with great catches of shore game as well as some very exciting fish offshore.
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With all the sardine activity, a lot of game fish have been caught, tagged and released. Well done to the anglers on the release of their catches.
The weather has not been too bad for fishing, as most anglers have got to the water to fish without any worries of too much of a swell or wash.
Lots of shad have been caught at Stiebel Rocks.
Port Shepstone has been very productive as quite a few decent edible fish have been caught on plastics and especially on live baits.
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Anglers fishing at Splash Rock in Port Edward have been having a bit of fun with sharks and game fish following the sardines.
Live karanteen and shad have been the baits of choice in the evenings and early mornings to catch the kob, garrick and kingies that have been coming out.
There has been a report of a decent tuna being landed off Orange Rocks recently. Anglers are still catching the odd bronze bream, black tails and rock cod.
Shelly Beach to Port Shepstone has been doing extremely well, as many big tuna have been coming out as well as quite a few big couta.
Most of the bigger fish have been coming out in the deeper water on live bait.
The guys trawling bigger halcos and rattlers have also had their fair share of decent fish.
The bottom fishing in the area has also been rather productive with reports of nice daga and geelbek coming out.
Tide Table
High tide
July
27 06.05 18.30
28 06.41 19.07
29 07.19 19.47
30 08.00 20.34
31 08.57 21.42
August
01 10.28 23.20
02 12.18 00.46
03 13.29 01.43
