Snoek caught off Blue Lagoon

The Sodwana area is producing some fine fishing lately and has recently seen an excellent run of larger Dorado and Sailfish. 

Charter boats have done incredibly well and have put clients on the fish each and every single day. With the amount of fish in the open waters which are not around any structure (such as drop offs), most boats trawling in the bush have had a good run of Dorado and Tuna, with the odd Couta jumping onto the lures. 

On the days that the water has been flat, boats have ventured into the deep and had a few good Marlin all the way down to Richards Bay.

Maphelane has seen good Dorado and Snoek with many anglers experiencing very little action in the deeper waters over the last week.

Zinkwazi has seen a load of decent sized Couta, but the one catch that really stands out is the beast of a Couta weighing in at 31kgs caught off the Paddle Ski by Rob Waites. 

Westbrook has begun to heat up and saw a nice few catches of Bottom fish such as Amberjack, Rock Cod, Soldiers and Cave Bass.

 On the game fish side of things, there were good numbers of Dorado and Tuna coming out on Konas and Rattlers. Recently tested is the brand new Poseidon Couta Light which comes in at 7'6" long with enough back bone to land the most stubborn of Tuna but still has enough action for the smallest of Snoek or Dorado. An affordable, good quality rod in the Kingfisher range which will be the next rod on many an anglers shopping list.

Durban had also seen good action over the last week with the Snoek eventually showing up in good numbers off Blue Lagoon as well as the areas north of the mouth. 

Bottom fishing has also been decent on the backline and in the deep, with reports of large Rock Cod, Slinger, Geelbek, Soldiers and Rubberlips. The game fishing has been out of this world and has seen more Dorado this last week than in the last month. 

This action extends all the way down to Port Edward where Mike Wilson managed a good few Dorado on his trusty Daiwa SL50 and Poseidon Bonito outfit whilst fishing on his Paddle Ski. 

Bottom fishing has been fairly decent with some good Yellowtail and Cracker coming out in the shallower waters. The Couta have been scarce but have recently been showing up slowly but surely.  

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