Durban beachfront shad action

North

Kosi Bay has been a bit quiet with a few kingfish only being the main species. Cape Vidal is sanded up and there are a few small shad and wave garrick. The ledges are fishing well, but the fish are not that prolific.

Richards Bay north has had catface rockod, stumpies and cave bass. Richards Bay south has had good shad, snapper salmon and spinner sharks action.

Tugela north bank saw a few garrick caught on live baits.

Zinkwazi has had sporadic catches of grey sharks. Early morning has seen some shad there as well.

In the Ballito area there were grey sharks and diamond rays with the odd garrick at Shaka's High Rock.

Well done to Larry who caught a 65kg grey on a swim bait at Umdloti. There have also been smaller greys and the odd diamond as well.

Umhlanga has had some big greys on slide baits although not many fish were landed.

Central

Durban beachfront has had some good shad catches in the late afternoons. Some pompano are still being caught during the early mornings.

Bluff has also started to get shad more frequently.

Toti has had very good shad fishing on both spoons and baits.

Well done to Michael Rodgers for catching a 6kg Natal snoek from the beach at Winkelspruit. Garrick have been on the run on live baits in the Illovo area.

Scottburgh also had some action with shad and garrick as well as some smaller grey sharks.

South

Umdoni Point was good to Shaun Numes and his friend who both got garrick on Sunday.

Port Shepstone has had good shad fishing, although not many garrick have been caught.

Shelly Beach and Margate had good catches of shad and garrick in the mornings.

Port St Johns saw lots of garrick and kob caught over the past week. The non edible anglers have hooked a few Zambezi sharks. Most of the other points are also producing garrick, but Mazeppa Bay is a bit off the boil with mainly kob being caught.

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