Wahoo action off Shelley Beach
We have heard of some excellent wahoo fishing off Shelley Beach this past week.
North
As many anglers may or may not have known, the gamefish catches along the KZN coast have been completely out of this world. Anglers at Sodwana have been ranting about the success they have had with the marlin and the sailfish on just about any lure that is put out behind the boat. The dorado from Sodwana down to Zinkwazi have been phenomenally good and the catches of dorado off Cape Vidal and St Lucia have been compared to some of the best seasons in the last 30 years. As the weather settles and more gaps open, charter boats have found themselves making an easy living, with their responsibility to entertain guest anglers extremely simple. Wahoo have been feeding well along the coast as far down as Pennington, but have made quite a severe appearance in the Cape Vidal and St Lucia areas too. Yellowfin tuna have made their way down the coast from Mozambique and have been found in huge shoals of 4-5kg fish. Anglers have been experiencing mayhem where every single lure trawled behind the boat is being hit by these fish, which has been fairly easy to deal with as these fish are of manageable size. Anglers have been using Rattler Stick Baits for the larger tuna on bait-balls on the north coast of Durban, casting into the bait-ball, allowing the lure to sink and winding it back with an erratic action. Further down the coast at Zinkwazi anglers have still been targeting and catching garrick along the backline. It is late in the season and the garrick shouldn't be here for much longer, but while the going is good, get into the shallow water and enjoy some garrick fishing with artificials and live baits.
Central
Westbrook has had a tough time with the launch site being washed completely away with the westerly winds, leaving only exposed rocks. This has caused for an inactive launch site and many anglers are opting to launch from Salmon Bay instead. Westbrook itself is still fishing well and has had some nice tuna come out over the last week. Beachwood, Glenashley and Virginia have all seen good catches of Natal snoek off the boats and skis, many of which were around 5kg. Along the Blue Lagoon stretch, the snoek were also caught on skis, by those who managed to keep a cool head in and among the millions of shad. Bottom fishing off Durban has been extremely good with many catches of larger rockcod, geelbek and daga. In the deeper waters, there have been good catches of dorado, bonito, yellowtail and wahoo which have been very good sizes for the majority of the fishable days.
South
The south coast has seen some lovely catches in the last week, ranging from Cape yellowtail, wahoo, tuna, couta to even sailfish in certain areas. After trawling the WS05 Rattler 150 for only half-an-hour, one boat managed to catch five wahoo off Shelley Beach.
(File Photo: Gallo Images)
Twitter - @SportswaveAndre @kingfisherdaiwa
As many anglers may or may not have known, the gamefish catches along the KZN coast have been completely out of this world. Anglers at Sodwana have been ranting about the success they have had with the marlin and the sailfish on just about any lure that is put out behind the boat. The dorado from Sodwana down to Zinkwazi have been phenomenally good and the catches of dorado off Cape Vidal and St Lucia have been compared to some of the best seasons in the last 30 years. As the weather settles and more gaps open, charter boats have found themselves making an easy living, with their responsibility to entertain guest anglers extremely simple. Wahoo have been feeding well along the coast as far down as Pennington, but have made quite a severe appearance in the Cape Vidal and St Lucia areas too. Yellowfin tuna have made their way down the coast from Mozambique and have been found in huge shoals of 4-5kg fish. Anglers have been experiencing mayhem where every single lure trawled behind the boat is being hit by these fish, which has been fairly easy to deal with as these fish are of manageable size. Anglers have been using Rattler Stick Baits for the larger tuna on bait-balls on the north coast of Durban, casting into the bait-ball, allowing the lure to sink and winding it back with an erratic action. Further down the coast at Zinkwazi anglers have still been targeting and catching garrick along the backline. It is late in the season and the garrick shouldn't be here for much longer, but while the going is good, get into the shallow water and enjoy some garrick fishing with artificials and live baits.
Central
Westbrook has had a tough time with the launch site being washed completely away with the westerly winds, leaving only exposed rocks. This has caused for an inactive launch site and many anglers are opting to launch from Salmon Bay instead. Westbrook itself is still fishing well and has had some nice tuna come out over the last week. Beachwood, Glenashley and Virginia have all seen good catches of Natal snoek off the boats and skis, many of which were around 5kg. Along the Blue Lagoon stretch, the snoek were also caught on skis, by those who managed to keep a cool head in and among the millions of shad. Bottom fishing off Durban has been extremely good with many catches of larger rockcod, geelbek and daga. In the deeper waters, there have been good catches of dorado, bonito, yellowtail and wahoo which have been very good sizes for the majority of the fishable days.
South
The south coast has seen some lovely catches in the last week, ranging from Cape yellowtail, wahoo, tuna, couta to even sailfish in certain areas. After trawling the WS05 Rattler 150 for only half-an-hour, one boat managed to catch five wahoo off Shelley Beach.
(File Photo: Gallo Images)
Twitter - @SportswaveAndre @kingfisherdaiwa