MYDO lures available at Beacon Bay Spar in East London
MYDO Lures are now available in the East London area. The huge and comprehensive tackle section of the Beacon Bay SPAR, headed up by Stuart Wilson are stocking the entire MYDO Luck Shot range.
The two sizes of the MYDO Luck Shot Mini # 1 available from Beacon Bay Spar
These purpose built lures are targeted at Kob and Garrick and East London is where it’s at for these prized gamefish.
The MYDO Luck Shot Mini range (#1 and #2) also target shad and other shore and estuary caught fish.
There two types of Luck Shots. The Luck Shot Mini is designed for casting and trolling, whilst the Luck Shots, which are bigger and heavier, are designed to replace expensive swimming plug lures used for trolling, at under half the price.
The Luck Shot sizes 2 through 4, can be hauled at very high trolling speeds and are great for looking for bait whilst dragging Konas. They always hook the fish in the corner of the mouth in the top jaw. And with outsized hooks, pressure can be put on the fish. The Luck Shots do not damage the fish at all, compared to the twin treble arrangement offered by Rapalas and Halcos. With these type of configuration, the trebles almost every time damage the poor fish beyond repair, with a treble in the eye or gills. And they hook in the lower jaw as the hooks hang downwards of the lure. We all know that a fish hooked in the bottom jaw will never survive, either as a live bait, or as a candidate for tag and release. Fish singles. They are also so much easier to get out of the fish’s mouth.
The Luck Shots can also be slow trolled and the different sizes and weights mean you can fish the entire water column – watch out for those angry rockod!
Stuart can be contacted on stuart@spargs.co.za and Beacon Bay Spar is very easily found on the Beacon Bay road leading down to the beach.
Newsflash! Captain Duarte Rato’s November Bazaruto report is in!
Newsflash! Captain Duarte Rato’s November Bazaruto report is in! After a super busy season training marlin, Duarte has put proverbial pen to paper and clicking the link below will blow your proverbial mind.
600, 800, 400, 900, 950, 400, 600, 700, 500…it just never stops as day after day Duarte and his lucky clients tame these huge fish. The season started of full of them, and as time progressed, the smaller fish and striped marlin dominated. There is the usual smattering of small fish like kingfish and garfish on ultra light tackle, but mainly it’s all about huge monsters devouring yellowfin tuna, time after time.
Duarte documents and photographs each and every trip he does, all around the world. Ascension Island, Madeira, Bazaruto – where the big mommas swim, is where you will find him. The photography is fantastico as Duarte captures the action from close up and right in the mix.
The good ship Vamizi by Duarte Rato. This Bazaruto report for November 2015 is not to be missed. Check it out now!
Contact details are on the website http://fishbazaruto.com, along with detailed information about the boats he fishes, the systems he uses, the seasons and the fish that follow them…and a media section where Duarte and his Bazaruto Big Mommas feature in print and video all over the world.
Waking up to the sound of waves.
A breeze breezes through the coconut fronds.
Onto the verandah with coffee.
Taking it all in.
The endless beach.
The azure ocean.
Peace and harmony.
Nordines. Praia do Tofo. Right on the beach.
Well if location counts for anything, Nordines wins. Hidden behind a tiny dune esconsed in Casuarinas trees, a swim is barely a walk away. Tofo is famous for its safe and gentle swimming beach. It’s a great place to learn to surf and you can join the local operators geo a dive or an ocean safari.
The fishing is great up here in Inhambane, and so seafood, fresh and diverse, is on the top of the menu. Eat out at one of the delightful restaurants dotted around the market, or braai out front in the warm evening.
The weather up here in Tofo is phenomenal. Summer high pressure systems keep the skies clear and the sun shining. Rain is a welcome relief up here in the tropics.
Come and join us in Tofo this new year season. Nordines has four large beach front dwellings suitable for families or groups. There are also four more honeymoon type doubles, all en suite and we’ll appointed.
And all face the sea.
Catching kob in Port St. Johns with #1 Mydo Luck Shot
Catching kob in Port St. Johns with the MYDO baitswimmer head # 1 used as a powerful dropshot rig. These two are rigged the two different ways (see below), and with paddletails. Note the outsized hook on the orange plastic, for big fish and heavy tackle. The Orca plastic is rigged with the knot buried deep and a short shank hook further back in the lure. Choose your favourite hook!
The original #1 Mydo is turning out to be the choice lure in Port St. Johns as it’s perfect weight – 1.7Oz, and swimming action, works the waters at the mouth and in the surf zone, just right. Read on to find out more about catching kob in Port St. Johns.
The rig is adjustable and allows you to engineer the ideal swimming pattern for you, in the given conditions. The line is tied right through the middle of the baitswimmer head and through the eye of the hook. Using a uni-knot allows for the tiny adjustment needed, to play with the action. There is also a through the bait option – great for sticking a hook far back in the bait. Some plastic baits, like the ones with paddletails, need no adjustment really, they swim just so nice, straight and reliable.
But if you loosen the connection between hook and baitswimmer, and stick a split tail plastic on, you can get that thing to swim like a snake! It really is amazing to see you plastic dead bait darting through the water just like a wounded and fleeing fish would be.
The # 1’s are the budget line of the Mydo, and you get to buy them unrigged so you can choose and rig the ideal hook and leader combination for you. The #1’s come with a pin or without, the following are the adaptations of the MYDO baitswimming technologies, to various fishing applications.
baitswimmer dropshot head with pin: rig your nice soft strong leader through either of the available holes and right through the baitswimmer. Tie on your absolutely favourite hook, even a short shank will work great. Grab ahold of your plastic (anything from 3 inch to 8 inch – the hook just needs to be right for the plastic and prey), and get that hook in there. Bury the hook so far in that the eye of the hook goes right inside of the plastic. Now stick the plastic onto the pin, upright. With longer hooks, get the pin right through the eye of the hook, bend the pin over, trim it off with heavy duty pliers and off you go to the nearest river mouth. Now! The pin keeps the plastic in the right place – on the hook!
For short shank hooks, or when you want to rig a hook right in tail, keep burying the hook to where you want it. Put the nose of the plastic onto the pin, and stick a toothpick through the plastic through the eye of the hook, break off protruding ends. Now you have two anchors for the plastic, a completely flexible bait with the leader running right inside it, and a hook right back in the bite zone – far more hookups, no more tail-bite-offs.
baitswimmer dropshot head without pin:Â This is the other options (some shops sell #1’s without pins especially for this rig). Leader through bottom hole, up through eye of hook, back through top hole, and tie a uni-knot. Everyone should know this knot by now. Quick and painless, and very reliable. Use you own initiative for keeping the plastic on, when it eventually starts to fall off. I use cable ties. Toothpicks. Superglue. A slow bouncy retrieval for the kob, gives a totally different swimming pattern than a faster surface crank for the garrick. The Port St. Johns crew get their fish at a more medium pace, and when they change pace and bounce completely – that’s when they get the bang most times.
baitswimmer: the #1 was one of Brian Davey’s first patents, and all the other baitswimmers were based on this lure. Even at it’s size, it can give swimming lessons to the biggest shad, and even tames a bonito of a kilo or so. Amazing, considering how hard it was to swim those baits ,before Brian came along with his invention and rocked the fishing world. Walla walla, half beak and jap mack all started swimming upright and true – no more spinning baits. The Vaalies finally started winning some comps!
live baitswimmer: #1 baitswimmers are ideal for putting som order into your spread when dragging a bunch of errant little live baits behind you. The bit of weight just puts them away from the surface guys, and you can then play deeper with the #4 and #4 Mydo Baitswimmers safely under them. Running 6 or 8 livies takes some serious planning and execution, and the baitswimmers help you do just that
But here in Port St. Johns, shoulder to shoulder with the pro’s, I am stoked to report that everyone here is using #1’s with great results. Many kob so far, and many garrick. Getting photos out of the team is nigh impossible – they don’t want anyone to know where and what they are catching!
Click here for more about the MYDO Luck Shot #1’s and here to take advantage of our price promotion on MYDO Baitswimmer # 1’s.
Dealer enquiries to umzimkulu@gmail.com, there is a reward of a huge MYDO hamper offered out to for people who can hook us up with dealers, in their areas.
At three gigabytes, the download can be a problem for anyone with a cap on, but for those with unlimited bandwidth, the upgrade to Windows 10 was painless. The upgrade was staggered in its availability, but slowly the new operating system has been creeping onto every computer it can.
And this is good.
I have been running with the new Windows for two months now, and I am positively impressed. Light years ahead of its idiot predecessors. It handles everything better, and is definitely going to increase your working efficiency, as the finally intelligent explorer module keeps track of your current works, and has them instantly available as opposed the endless “where are my files?” situations of the past.
I have only managed to topple my little computer once since the upgrade, and that was during heavy video compositing work.
I have yet to see a spy in the system, although I believe there is one or two. They probably not even worried about what software we have hacked…not these days.
The programmes that come with Windows ie the photo viewer, and the music player, actually work, and they have close buttons again. Actually, the media player that pops up when I play a file, is simply fantastico. Soooo simple. Neat, and tidy.
So yes, get Windows 10. Right now. It is lighter, much more stable, intuitive, and just so easy! And FREE!
