Atlantic flashbacks…Roosta surfing the Dungeon…shot by Greg Chapman
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The Roosta by Greg Chapman
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Wayne Trelawney Garrick at Port St. Johns
Wayne Trelawney Garrick at Port St. Johns
Update from August 2020: Since the illegal jigging activities have been making headlines in the search engines recently (August 2020), many of our old stories are popping up. Like this trophy fish by long-time guest of Umzimkulu Marina. Which he caught the legal way. A live shad. A fish of a lifetime!
He caught it on a holiday at Port St. Johns. In September 2014. He only caught this one fish. It is all he ever wanted.
It is guys like Wayne, who follow the rules, respect the environment, and takes only a dream fish like this one, every few years – that need to be respected and acknowledged.
The gentlemen of the sea.
Unlike current scenario (June 2020) where the very same garrick that inspired Wayne to fuel up his car, load his tackle, and drive from the Free State where he lives – are being mercilessly jigged from the estuary. Just like the tourists are being jigged out of Port St Johns as photos and video of the slaughter make the social media rounds. The images are sickening and you can see very clearly that its not down and out poor people who live in Port St Johns. Nope. These guys have got twin-tailed exhaust pipes and 4WD! As you can clearly see in the pics on social media.
Garrick at Port St. Johns (original post from 2014)
Wayne Trelawney has been fishing with us down on the Umzimkulu periodically. Here he shows off a trophy-sized Garrick at Port St. Johns recently.
The fishing down in the Transkei has been consistently spectacular lately.
Trophy fish of all the most popular edibles have been caught…spotted grunter, kob, garrick, shad…at all the usual good spots.
Although it can get windy, it is very quiet and out of season on the Wild Coast right now – a great time to get away and find your own small corner and catch some fish.
In the meantime we are on Facebook right HERE, we run a YouTube Channel right HERE.
River Cruising on the weekend…
River cruising on the weekend…
The Umzimkulu was out yesterday with some of the original river pirates enjoying some river cruising – John Collinson and Lawrence Wurznip…brought a fishing rod along to test out some new lures…and a cooler box for the fish…?
Although we did try really hard in the crystal clear incoming tide, throwing dropshots and flash lures – we never got a hit. John says it’s far too clean in the river for fishing and Lawrence agreed, both speculating also that the mouth will most likely close in the next week or two. It’s bad news for the skiboaters, but for the estuarine anglers, its fantastic news. The fish generally get more and more active, the longer the mouth is close. And the garrick run usually starts at about the same time the mouth starts closing. We will start targeting garrick shortly…book your spot here.
There is a rumour circulating Port Shepstone, of a 30 kg kob taken off the wall just on the inside of the river mouth…last week?! Our investigative instincts have kicked in and we will surely have some more about this phantom fish shortly. We have a name.
In the meantime, it’s the weekend so you can catch us down on the river, at Spiller’s Wharf…river cruising from lunch time ’til dark…
My Little Pony by Wedge Surfboards
My Little Pony by Wedge Surfboards
Craig Sinclair recently took delivery of his multifunctional long board by Wedge. Dubbed the “Little Pony”, she weighs in at 9’11 and is designed to handle the chunky swells of the Cape and the Kzn waters, it features a huge concave, a my little pony paint job and a power line cutting Maisch fin.
Check out wedgesurfboards.co.za for more about the Maisch’s long standing surfboard and fin crafting operation, in Umzumbe, Kzn Lower South Coast, South Africa.
