Durban piers producing pompano

Umhlanga saw some very large fish that were hooked but not landed on Sunday evening. Shad are making a positive appearance and have been present early in the mornings. 

Durban had a good run of shad during the nights and most days this past week. Strange enough anglers fishing off the piers also managed to hook into some decent pompano during the evenings, which is very unusual. Pompano are usually caught in the day. They have been taking sea lice and sardine fillet baits intended for stumpnose during the evenings. Anglers fishing for shad off the piers have had good success with a glow stick tied on just above their sardine fillets, as well as with the Saltwater Sport double hook traces.

Up in the north of our province Kosi Bay was good to anglers this past week. Chokka baits with a hint of prawn added to the mix was the bait responsible for many of the catches along this stretch. Wave garrick, bonefish, pompano and various rockcod species were seen throughout the week.  

Cape Vidal had some good catches of wave garrick as well as two good sized blackfin sharks. The larger sharks were all caught on big slide baits.

Richards Bay has been quiet with nothing more than a few shad and smaller kob being caught at night. Garrick were spotted by divers slightly deeper off the backline, but they have been slow to the bite.

Ballito had some shad coming through, some of which were of decent size and were caught early in the mornings. Pompano have been caught throughout the week around midday on sea lice or chokka baits. During the evenings the odd shad and grey shark has been landed.  

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