WATCH - King mackerel fishing action
Zinkwazi has had its fair share of decent tuna as well as some Natal snoek boated this week. Further south at Tinley Manor fishing for snoek has been very productive as some shoals have been big enough to be seen from the shore.
Pulling Strike Pro Magic Minnows will work wonders here, or even Clark Spoons pulled fast through the shoals when they are feeding shyly.
There are plenty of tuna off Durban as well as the odd dorado off the anchored cargo ships, most of these fish being caught with live maasbanker and even mackerel if small enough. There are some massive mackerel around, which are extremely good eating if smoked or fried in butter. Some of the tuna sizes ranging all the way up to over 25kg and around 15kg for the dorado.
For those who would like to take a trip at night for the geelbek and daga, there are still plenty of catches being reported. Most of the wrecks and ledges are producing fish day and night, but more so at night or the early evenings. Our friends down the south coast towards Port Shepstone have been getting some good bottom fish and will continue to for the next few months until the geelbek and daga follow the colder waters back down to the Transkei and Cape.
There are plenty of tuna off Durban as well as the odd dorado off the anchored cargo ships, most of these fish being caught with live maasbanker and even mackerel if small enough. There are some massive mackerel around, which are extremely good eating if smoked or fried in butter. Some of the tuna sizes ranging all the way up to over 25kg and around 15kg for the dorado.
For those who would like to take a trip at night for the geelbek and daga, there are still plenty of catches being reported. Most of the wrecks and ledges are producing fish day and night, but more so at night or the early evenings. Our friends down the south coast towards Port Shepstone have been getting some good bottom fish and will continue to for the next few months until the geelbek and daga follow the colder waters back down to the Transkei and Cape.
November is not a great time for king mackerel fishing here in KwaZulu-Natal. To remind you of what couta fishing is like, we head off the USA. There the king mackerel is known as kingfish.