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Late season Dorado by Justin Campbell

Late season Dorado by Justin Campbell

Late season Dorado by Justin Campbell

How about this Late season Dorado by Justin Campbell taken on a a MYDO Baitswimmer Couta Trace #1. Not sure what the bait was, but it was caught off Port Shepstone, whilst fishing with his old man Neil.

The dorado seem to come in two waves. November is the most reliable, whilst the April run seems to produce better sized fish. Nice one pal!

The MYDO #1 is an extremely versatile tool for rigging baits for big saltwater fish. Weighing in at just over an ounce and featuring a hydrodynamically designed keel shape, you can swim a ballyhoo/halfbeak at high speeds – for fish like sailfish, dorado and wahoo. It means you can target more species with the same effort.

It is also main season time for crocodile sized king mackerel down the south coast of KZN in South Africa…get in touch if you want to give it a go at the 30kg plus sized fish that have been coming out. This year’s best stands at 36 and was taken off Port Edward, as usual.

Email me on umzimkulu@gmail.com for more information and a plan to get out there…off the rocks or from a ski-boat.

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Big Bazaruto Couta by Wade Kendall

Big Bazaruto Island Couta by Wade Kendall

Big Bazaruto Couta by Wade Kendall

Full story and video to follow but this is a preview of the Big Bazaruto Couta caught by Wade Kendall out on Shades of Blue, yesterday.

We were out off San Sebastian a little south of Bazaruto (on the big scale), when we lucked into some bait and rigged a bonnie with a MYDO Livebaitswimmer couta trace – and it wasn’t three minutes.

Paul Saayman skipper and Wade on the rod, Wade’s Dad Ian, myself and our local guide enjoyed the 15 minute fight immensely until the leader jammed on the reel and we had to handline the last few metres! But after a generally slow day, this fish sealed the deal for us all. Especially Wade.

On our way home we bumped into one those baby black marlin that everyone has been talking about. It was free jumping after it had smashed something – in about 3 or 4 metres of water! We are really after one of those guys for a release candidate today…stay posted. – Xonalanga

Big Bazaruto Couta by Wade Kendall
Big Bazaruto Couta by Wade Kendallpp 

 

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Gearing up for shad season

This is the MYDO SS Spoon Shad in 3.2mm Stainless Steel specification 316 marine grade. Made in South Africa available at http://thesardine.co.za/mydo/

Gearing up for shad season

Gearing up for shad season has become real fun as the market has presented us with so many ways to catch these delicious and sporty fish.

You don’t even need bait anymore!

Catching shad on lures, normally spoons, has been the national favourite past time for many. Now the art has been augmented with a wide range of options for the lure angler. Shad love it shiny whatever the colour. And a slow retrieve with gentle twitches to get the spoon acting like a live bait.

Leave the bait at home!

From MYDO we have the radical new range of SS Spoons. The twin blade design with lateral line holes together create a lot more fuss than regular spoons. The twin blades provide underwater sound that shad and kob love to hear. The lateral line holes make for huge casts on such light lures as they fly through the air unhindered aerodynamically. Then when the lure hits the water, the holes create cavitation of air and water leading to all sorts of wild and fish enticing effects. Bubbles and spray flying everywhere! Smoky bubble trails that fish can see for miles.

The shad season has been open a while now, but it’s usually from about now on, that things really start hotting up. As much as dreams are free – when divers Marc and Pierre (pictured below), saw and shot this giant shad – it was one of a shoal all about the same size. This shad had a karanteen trace in it’s mouth when it was taken off Chaka’s Rock in Umtentweni, KZN South Coast.

Marc-Lange-and-Pierre-de-Villiers-8.7kg-Shad. Shad season
Marc-Lange-and-Pierre-de-Villiers-8.7kg-Shad.
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Fish-eye view – the MYDO Luck Shot dropshot rig

Protea Reef Tuna are suckers for the MYDO Luck Shot Mini

Fish eye view – the MYDO Luck Shot dropshot rig

Dropshot fishing with a MYDO Luck Shot is so entertaining!

And it’s not all about luck!

This is how much technology a fish has to deal with, when faced with a MYDO Luck Shot dropshot head. The hydrodynamic design features an articulated join that allows for complete freedom of movement for whichever plastic bait you choose to use.

The results are unpredictable side to side and up and down swerves that mimic the plight and flight of an injured, fleeing baitfish. Predator fish are excitable at the sight of anything out of the ordinary, movement – and colour. Use the colour Luck Shot that suits the water and light conditions.

And change your retrieve for completely different results.

  • Crank it up hard onto the surface and it comes up blasting like a plug, and when it goes back underwater, it drags a beautiful and shiny bubble down with it, that becomes a smoke trail of air and chaos as it dissipates. Repeat.
  • Troll or wind evenly and it swims life-like and calm, like an unwary baitfish.
  • Do the twitch and variate for violent swerves and panicky actions
  • Drag on the bottom and excavate clouds of sand – just what the kob are keen on…

To get in on the MYDO action, click on over to https://thesardine.co.za/mydo/ and check for a tackle store near you. We are in 90 shops so far! If there isn’t one (unfortunately there are many tackle stores who refuse to stock our South African home grown and hand made lures for whatever reason), then just order online, and we will deliver to you sharply.

Click here for the shop and more MYDO information.

Many thanks

Sean

+27 79 3269671

umzimkulu@gmail.com

JP's Dorado on Mydo Luck Shot Mini #2 dropshot fishing
JP Bartholomew’s Dorado on Mydo Luck Shot Mini #2
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A box of Mydos in the mail! Order your Mydos online at thesardine.co.za

A box of Mydos in the mail! Order your Mydos online at thesardine.co.za

Wish I was getting a box like this one, in the mail! Order your Mydos online at thesardine.co.za #mydolures #thesardine!

The Sardine News shop is back open to the public, in order to reach those anglers, whose tackle stores don’t stock our decades old and highly proven homegrown brand.  It’s a huge market. which Mydo team was leaving out, in order to rather distribute through the tackle stores around the country. No chance. But for a few really cool shops and distributors, The Mydo just cannot break into certain areas, without the support from the tackle store owners. Except by internet.

We are operating on an EFT basis. We have taken down our credit card payment facility completely, which benefits both us and you, in every transaction. They also take days to clear funds, and take a big bite. And we have had charge back and other problems with that payment system too. When the funds clear in our account, you get your stuff. Sometimes this means the same, or next day service!

We use good old Postnet. And they handle worldwide!

The shipping is calculated by weight to which zone, and is actually quite reasonable. Postnet have partnered with Aramex in order to supply this efficient and reliable service.

Delivery takes a few days internationally depending on many, many things, but your parcel will arrive. The table here is for out of South Africa deliveries. South Africa deliveries cost R99 per 5kg’s. Too easy! Your Mydos arrive at the Postnet, they call you, you pick up…you go fishing!

PGE Rates 2016
The MYDO range consists of the …

Baitswimmers

Luck Shots

SS Spoons

You can read all about The Mydo on the Mydo website at

https://thesardine.co.za/mydo/ or on facebook at…

https://business.facebook.com/MydoFishingLures

And see a list of dealers that are supporting local.

Finally, a big, very big thank you, to these shops, for stocking us and allowing us a channel to our loyal markets that have been using Mydos since the eighties. When Brian Davey first invented and marketed them. Respect!

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