Sardine pockets at Port Edward

Toti has been on and off with shad of varying sizes and a few anglers have reported garrick taken on live baits. This area usually begins to produce good numbers of garrick on plug at this stage, so keep the live baits in the water and plug in the same areas to attract the fish to the bite.

Umkomaas pier has produced a few smaller shad and a fair number of snapper salmon during the week. The mouth saw shad, kob and grunter action. Anglers spinning in these areas have caught very little apart from the odd shad.

Scottburgh Point saw grey sharks, shad and a few stumpnose landed over the past week.  

Umdoni failed the Natal snoek spinning enthusiasts with plenty of chases, but no fish committing to the bite. Other fish such as shad were landed, but were few and far between.  

Trafalgar came on the bite and saw good catches of bronze bream, kob, a few brusher and a truck load of shad in certain parts.

Port Edward has seen sardine action with a few smaller pockets moving through. Boaters have managed to catch bucket loads on Sabikis. These are confirmed Natal sardines. With the massive cold front coming up from the Cape this weekend, the temperature should drop even further and hopefully drive the sardines further north.

Port St John's has been a winner and has produced excellent numbers of many species. Kob have been plentiful, along with garrick, shad and other rock species. The weekend hit a low, but still produced good catches of Kob.

Pat Symcox, the former Proteas spinner, informed us this afternoon of sardine activity at both Margate and Pumula.

I know that some were netted in the Margate area today.

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