Karl Gouws, diving his local beach near Seapark last week, encountered a big shoal of Natal Snoek and before he took a shot was surrounded by hundreds of large garrick aswell. Taking his time he shot two of the more heavies – the bigger one weighing in at 15kg’s! With the bag limit at 2 … Read more
Swimming in the backline with Craig Sinclair, and all of a sudden surrounded by hunting dolphins and garrick…Carl banged his first of the season. That’s about the 10th fish we’ve heard of so far! They could teach the sardines a lesson or two in punctuality. They were spearfishing on the backline at Seapark, a really … Read more
Noel Labuschagne was our guest on the Umzimkulu River last night – in the first 10 minutes he took this nice perch…duly released. It was a bit slow but with the odd bat and otter to entertain us…and a braai on the bow of the boat…it was good fishing nonetheless. Rumours of the odd geelbek … Read more
MYDO Fishing Lures available again The revolutionary range of MYDO Baitswimmers are now available again. Invented in the 80’s by award winning designer, Brian Davey…click this link to go straight into the catalogue…https://thesardine.co.za/mydo-lures/ If your local tackle shop does not yet stock the MYDO, contact me on umzimkulu@gmail.com to make a plan. Pictured below is … Read more
Karl Gouws and Elton van Rooyen went deep off Port Shepstone with live bait to load this hard fighting and heavy weighing Amberjack. Pulling these things from 60m on anchor is no joke…but they get up to or more than 60kg’s on some of the deeper Kwazulu Natal lower south coast reefs! Protea Reef has … Read more
