Nyoni Rocks shad action
Nyoni Rocks on the KZN south coast fished well over the past weekend and anglers had good shad to take home. Garrick were scarce despite the amount of bait in the area.
Anglers caught good numbers of grey sharks in the mornings too.
At Winkelspruit, garrick have been on and off the bite throughout the week, taking live karanteen or shad. The shad have been going strong mainly on the low tide in the mornings.
Umkomaas produced a very respectable shad of over 4kg late last week and a decent number of fish over 1kg as well. The grunter and kob have been biting steadily into the evenings, taking sardine belly and chokka baits. A few smaller skates were caught in the evenings on chokka/red-eye baits and prawn/chokka baits.
Plenty of blue skates around and grey sharks and brown skates were also been caught during the weekend in the Scottburgh area. The best bait so far has been mackeral cutlets and bigger red-eye baits. Red-eye belly and fresh chokka seems to be the best bait, presented on a thick chunk of glow foam secured to a Mustad big gun 4/0.
A lack of live bait in Port Shepstone has resulted in few catches of garrick. However, kob have been plentiful along with brusher and bronze bream. Paddletails are once again being used by most anglers to catch these kob at night and in the early hours of the morning. Be sure to make use of small glass rattles inside your Paddletails to further increase your chance of a bite, especially if the water is off-colour.
Orange Rocks has produced good garrick on plug and live bait. Big bronze bream, blacktail and zebras have been caught on prawn baits early in the morning. Good size shad have been taken on drift bait as well as spoon.
Hammerhead sharks have been present in large numbers around the Port St Johns area, caught on live baits and on mackerel baits. Some anglers are catching up to ten of these sharks in one session in certain areas. These hammers have also been picking up kob baits. General edibles have been feeding well, with reports of bronze bream and galjoen in good numbers.
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At Winkelspruit, garrick have been on and off the bite throughout the week, taking live karanteen or shad. The shad have been going strong mainly on the low tide in the mornings.
Umkomaas produced a very respectable shad of over 4kg late last week and a decent number of fish over 1kg as well. The grunter and kob have been biting steadily into the evenings, taking sardine belly and chokka baits. A few smaller skates were caught in the evenings on chokka/red-eye baits and prawn/chokka baits.
Plenty of blue skates around and grey sharks and brown skates were also been caught during the weekend in the Scottburgh area. The best bait so far has been mackeral cutlets and bigger red-eye baits. Red-eye belly and fresh chokka seems to be the best bait, presented on a thick chunk of glow foam secured to a Mustad big gun 4/0.
A lack of live bait in Port Shepstone has resulted in few catches of garrick. However, kob have been plentiful along with brusher and bronze bream. Paddletails are once again being used by most anglers to catch these kob at night and in the early hours of the morning. Be sure to make use of small glass rattles inside your Paddletails to further increase your chance of a bite, especially if the water is off-colour.
Orange Rocks has produced good garrick on plug and live bait. Big bronze bream, blacktail and zebras have been caught on prawn baits early in the morning. Good size shad have been taken on drift bait as well as spoon.
Hammerhead sharks have been present in large numbers around the Port St Johns area, caught on live baits and on mackerel baits. Some anglers are catching up to ten of these sharks in one session in certain areas. These hammers have also been picking up kob baits. General edibles have been feeding well, with reports of bronze bream and galjoen in good numbers.
(File Photo: Gallo Images)
Twitter - @kingfisherdaiwa @SportswaveAndre