Blue skates at Scottburgh

Amanztimtoti - Nyoni Rocks fished well over the weekend and anglers had good shad to take home. Garrick were scarce despite the amount of bait in the area. Anglers caught good numbers of grey sharks in the mornings too.

Winkelspruit - Garrick have been on and off the bite throughout the week, taking live karanteen or shad. The shad have been going strong mainly on the low tide in the mornings.

Umkomaas - This area has produced a very respectable shad of over 4kg late last week and a decent number of fish over 1kg as well. The grunter and kob have been biting steadily into the evenings, taking red-eye and chokka baits. A few smaller skates were caught in the evenings on chokka/red-eye baits and prawn/chokka baits.

Scottburgh - Plenty of blue skates around and grey sharks and browns were also been caught during the weekend. The best bait so far has been mackerel cutlets and bigger red-eye baits. Red-eye belly and fresh chokka seems to be the best bait, presented on a thick chunk of glow foam secured to a Mustad big gun 4/0.

Port Shepstone - A lack of live bait has resulted in few catches of garrick, however kob have been plentiful along with brusher and bronze bream. Paddletails once again being used by most anglers to catch these kob at night and in the early hours of the morning. Be sure to make use of small glass rattles inside your paddletails to further increase your chance of a bite, especially if the water is off colour.

Margate - Orange Rocks has produced good garrick on plug and live bait. Big bronze bream, blacktail and zebras have been caught on prawn baits early in the morning. Good size shad on drift bait as well as spoon.

Port St John's - Hammerhead sharks have been present in large numbers, caught on live baits and on mackerel baits. Some anglers are catching up to 10 of these sharks in one session in certain areas. These hammers have also been picking up kob baits and if you find yourself getting bitten off often, then a short bite trace of 60lb carbon coated wire will help you go through less hooks. General edibles have been feeding well, with reports of bronze bream and galjoen in good numbers.

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