Durban harbour grunter feast
There have been excellent catches of grunter around the sandbanks in the evening with a few odd perch coming out. Anglers are still fighting the brown rays that are all around the harbour at the moment.
These brown rays are being reported eating cracker shrimp and sardine belly. This bait is also the bait of choice for the grunter.
As the sun starts to rise earlier, more and more anglers are opting for an early morning light tackle spinning session off the piers into the harbour. Anglers using small clear and pink lures are having the most luck catching anything from small kingfish to sand gurnards.
Light drop-shot lures are also excellent for this style of fishing until the walla-walla show their teeth. These fish will reduce your paddletail to a sad pile of rubber in an instant by just biting the tail and ripping it off. A good way to combat this and also improve your hook-up is to thread the eye of a treble hook over the point of the drop-shot hook. This will give your lure full motion of movement and add two extra hooks into the lure.
Surface lures will be working incredibly well for those of us that like to get to the water before the sun is up. Kingfish and scad love to eat at this time of the morning and tend to hit any surface lure you can throw at them.
(File Photo: Office of the KZN Premier)
Twitter - @kingfisherdaiwa @SportswaveAndre
As the sun starts to rise earlier, more and more anglers are opting for an early morning light tackle spinning session off the piers into the harbour. Anglers using small clear and pink lures are having the most luck catching anything from small kingfish to sand gurnards.
Light drop-shot lures are also excellent for this style of fishing until the walla-walla show their teeth. These fish will reduce your paddletail to a sad pile of rubber in an instant by just biting the tail and ripping it off. A good way to combat this and also improve your hook-up is to thread the eye of a treble hook over the point of the drop-shot hook. This will give your lure full motion of movement and add two extra hooks into the lure.
Surface lures will be working incredibly well for those of us that like to get to the water before the sun is up. Kingfish and scad love to eat at this time of the morning and tend to hit any surface lure you can throw at them.
(File Photo: Office of the KZN Premier)
Twitter - @kingfisherdaiwa @SportswaveAndre