Good fishing at Zinkwazi and Ballito
Most anglers who visited Kosi Bay last week left with smiles from ear to ear. Fishing in this area has not been this good since last year and impressed even the fussiest of anglers. Kosi Bay was also prime spot to be over the weekend as anglers proceeded to carry on with the week’s success and managed to land some excellent honeycombs, sandies and also kingfish up to 30kg. Smaller edibles were also plentiful and were caught on a variety of baits. Wave garrick making up the bulk of the catches, with pompano coming in at a close second.
Cape Vidal also saw some smaller inedibles such as honeycombs and brown skates, but had an even better run of edibles. Stumpies, pompano, grunter and wave warrick to name a few, and to top it off, the sizes of these fish were impressive too. Most of these fish were caught on either red-eye or sea lice. For the week to come, anglers can definitely get excited for what is expected. Anglers spinning off these areas also had a fantastic time with some extremely respectable wave garrick and kingies. These were landed on a variety of spoons and drop-shot lures such as the McArthy 3" paddletails, the Iron Candy Spoons and also Maria Spoons. The water has cleaned up nicely in most areas besides Maphelane where the river has been reopened.
Richards Bay saw a good number of brown skates, milkies and grey sharks which kept many anglers busy, particularly over the weekend. The stretches between Richards Bay and Zinkwazi saw very little attention which resulted in very few reports from the anglers in these areas.
Zinkwazi did manage to give anglers something to report, which was an excellent grey shark run and also produced many pompano.
Ballito produced some nice stumpies and pompano in the beginning of the week and although catches slowed down substantially towards the end of the week, anglers still did well to catch a good number of fish. Anglers spinning off the rocks did some serious damage with some very nice kingfish, garfish, wave garrick and also a few shad.
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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