Kob biting in Durban harbour
The harbour found itself busy with boats throughout the week and over the weekend as anglers attempted to avoid the bad weather.
They managed to avoid the wind and big swell, but one thing that was unavoidable was the cold.
The water temperature has taken a dip and was sitting at 18.5 degrees on Saturday morning.
This will drop further, but is at around 18-18.5 degrees average around the bay. This drop in temperature will improve the quality of fish in the bay and bring the garrick and kob right in.
The kob have been feeding well in the deeper water towards the mouth and around T Jetty.
One angler managed to hook into a few smaller sized kob further up towards Fynnland Angling Club.
Be sure to know the differences between kob and snapper salmon, as the mistake is often made and undersized kob are kept.
The easiest method of telling the difference is to check for the vampire-like teeth on the snapper salmon. The teeth on a kob are not visible unless they are exposed by the moving of the lips.
Apart from the masses of kob around the harbour, there have been catches of other species all over.
The banks saw plenty of sand gurnard, smaller stumpies, grunter and mullet.
No garrick were reported last week, but could be expected this week if the water temperature remains low.
With the massive shoals of mullet around, live bait will not be an issue.
Maasbanker are also available closer to the mouth.
(File Photo: Office of the KZN Premier)
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