Kob at Poenskop The local dude on the rocks fishing for kob at Poenskop was stocking up on live pinkies. It was about 4pm and after casting plastics all day – only enticed a few shad to strike, destroying my 5 inch bullheads and forktails. It was an overcast day and even showered some and … Read more
High flying in Port St. Johns Now it was all about us, the SA Armies newly adopted troops, two sardine correspondents… The Colonel beckoned from the grassy knoll and we ran towards Spot X. “Faster”, he bellowed. We ran faster to be treated with a huge round of laughter from the onlooking officers. The Colonel was shouting … Read more
Fishing the Umzimvubu Although we missed the good run that the Port St. Johns contingent just got through, we managed to raid local operator Rob Nettleton’s tackle box and hard drive, whilst on tour through the Transkei, fish testing the Wavejet powered Pau Hana SUP, last week. The fishing tackle we got from Rob, we … Read more
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 … Read more
