Catching amberjack

Catching Amberjack

For many a while down on the KZN southcoast, we never really caught many Amberjack on Protea. We actually never really even knew what they were, often confusing them for tropical yellowtail. But as the anglers all tackled up to bigger rigs, forgoing the 49’s for TLDs, bigger and more ambo’s started to feature. Culminating in young Matt Defillippi’s huge 46kg beast that won him and his brother and Dad the boat.

Further north off Hibberdene, Mike Lang and crew got themselves tackled up with 9000’s and more. And were soon having huge arguments with giant ambo’s over 50kgs!

It was around that time that the angling records peeps gave way to the speculation that Ray Bannister -Jones’ 56kg world record yellowtail, was in fact an Amberjack. Caught off Hibberdene, long ago, I only ever saw black and whites of that fabled fish.

So, to catch them…

Marc Lange, in Angola, has been field testing the Mydo Luck Shot rigged with a plastic bait…the following results are what can be expected.

More Amberjack stories here…

https://thesardine.co.za/2014/02/01/twin-tail/