Shad success at Margate

Bluff - This area has been a bit quiet of late, but should be on fire towards the end of this week after the northeast winds.

Toti and Warner Beach - This stretch has also been quiet, but has been picking up over the past few days. Grey sharks have been the main target species here.

Scottburgh - This spot has been on fire, with most of the anticipated species coming out in good numbers. Brown skates, grey sharks, diamond rays, sandsharks and nice shad have all been caught and should remain on the bite in the northeast winds this week.

Margate - The beaches have seen quite a few anglers and a showing of fish to match. Shad have been caught regularly. Grey sharks, a handful of blue rays and some decent raggies were also landed.

Transkei - Fishing in this region has been productive and only seems to be getting better. With flat seas, anglers are finding it easier to slide large baits out and are enjoying the shark and garrick fun now that the shad season has been reopened. The kob have been relatively quiet, but anglers have been happy to target yellowtail instead, which has been a blast. Raymond de Bruyn and a few mates were at Hole In The Wall for a few days and had some great fishing. Ray landed a 154kg bronze whaler shark on his Daiwa Saltist BG 40 and .45mm Giant Abrasion line, a great fish on that tackle. They also landed a number of edible fish on the Daiwa Exceler 11 foot rods. They had over 50 shark pulls in two days as well as 14 yellowtail and nine Garrick between the guys.

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