Natal snoek feeding on red-eye

Thanks to the big seas, many anglers opted to stay in bed and enjoy the sunrise from home. There were only two or three days maximum on which anglers would have been able to launch in most areas, which resulted in very few reports from our entire coast.

The boats up north managed to boat a few dorado and wahoo, and some decent Natal snoek for the anglers who stayed shallow.

The stretch between Tinley Manor and Blue Lagoon produced some large snoek on small spoons and on fillet traces. Red-eye fillets have been king, with glow dusters in the dirty water. In this dirty water, anglers are urged to trawl slower than usual, allowing the bait to be located easily.

Umhlanga produced some nice tuna, with Chris Hill picking up some lovely fish on his fishing ski. Well done on the launch, Chris. Many anglers were not up to the challenge. 

Durban had a few reports of tuna in the shallows and dorado out deeper near the ships.

South coast anglers had better luck and saw a good amount of yellowtail being caught on live baits on bottom rigs.

The usual catches of tuna were seen at Aliwal Shoal and Protea Banks.

Some good bottom fishing was reported off the south soast over the weekend, proving that there are some excellent musselcracker and steenbras around.

(File Photo: FreeSpool)

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