22 July 2024 Where are the Shad Biting Today?

22 July 2024 22 July 2024 Where are the Shad Biting Today?

22 July 2024 22 July 2024 Where are the Shad Biting Today?: Good morning and welcome to a magnificent fishing Monday! The morning’s news will be updated here throughout the day…

Shad

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Sardines

Are the reason the shad have moved away from some areas? There are still many sardines hanging about on the KZN South Coast. But they are not inshore. They are holding in colder pockets of water out in deeper water. And this is seemingly where some of the shad have gone too.

The absolute shad biting frenzy we recently experienced has wound down to an idle. One, one…all over the place. But no intense concentration in any one place like last week.

The water off Durban averages 21 to 22 degrees today. Heading towards sardine temperature after a long run of 23 to 24 degrees. Sardine temperature is down at 19 or so. They come from cold water.

Gamefish

This is a great time to be targeting big garrick, kob and snoek. These shallow-water predators are hunting up and down the backline every day. Sometimes those big kob are right in the shallows, like one metre.

Garrick also chase the shad right to the beach. You just got to have enough power if you hook one by mistake whilst shad fishing.

You will need some casting distance for the snoek. But they have been coming well within reach this year with many trophies taken from the side.

All the kingfish species are here too now. Some great GT catches were featured this year. There have been a few queenfish too!

If you really want to know what is going on with the gamefish in KZN, check out The Bear’s Master Watermen Channel over on YouTube. Clike HERE to get there.