Bluff shad and kingfish success
Brighton Beach has finally woken up and has begun to produce good numbers of blacktip kingfish, shad and stumpnose.
Toti is also getting plenty of stumpies as well as pompano. The pompano have been in full force and reports are increasing daily. There are still a few flatfish being caught in the area on baits intended for pompano, which are welcomed as the fight keeps anglers busy for a while.
Warner Beach anglers have been harassed by smaller shad and snapper salmon. In the evenings, grey sharks have been moving in to feed on the shad and snapper salmon and so live shad or shad cutlet has been by far the most effective bait.
Umkomaas has been busy with anglers who have been targeting kob, grunter and some fairly large snapper salmon. The fishing at Umkomaas as well as Scottburgh Point has improved drastically and despite a pack of anglers at Scottburgh over the past week and weekend, plenty of fish were reported.
Port Shepstone has also had a fair amount of kob which were caught mainly over the weekend. Bronze bream and other edibles are beginning to come on the bite now, which is exciting news for anglers planning trips to these areas.
Trafalgar is starting to produce better size bronze bream already and they seem to be plentiful at this point too. These fish have been found in their favourite spots, ledges being battered by choppy water which has become oxygenated. These fish have also been found feeding well on the low tides.
Orange Rocks has seen some nice shad as well as kob and bronze bream.
Further down towards Port St John's, good numbers of juvenile garrick have been caught, along with better sized shad and also hammerhead sharks up to 15kg. Most fish have been caught off the deep points.
Later this month will see Pumula on the KZN south coast hosting the annual Quattro King of the Sea fishing contest.
You can contact [email protected] to enter the Pumula event scheduled for 23 and 24 May.
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