Fish strikes back – hard
Not sure what fish this is, but it sure can punch!
Ha ha ha ha ha~!
Category: The Channel (video)
A collection of great fishing video clips available on the web…
Video: Introducing the MYDO SS Spoon range
Video: Introducing the MYDO SS Spoon range
The MYDO SS Spoon range is an adaptation of Brian Davey’s original set of MYDO Spoons. Changing the base material from lead to stainless steel made for many advantages:
- lighter in the water, they bounce off rocks much better than lead spoons
- lazer cut makes for intricate detail and design
- the spoons are always shiny
- they come out perfect every time
The MYDO SS Spoon range run from the baby – The Tarpon, to the Shad, the Snoek, Tuna, Couta and Dogtooth. The Dogtooth tops out the range at a whopping 3 and a half ounces, which can be sent to the horizon or the bottom with equal ease.
All the MYDO SS Spoons can be cast, trolled or jigged through the water column. For an extra advantage, squich some sardine or other bait into the holes in the spoon. Juicing I call it. And it increases your strike rate phenomenally.
The following video takes you through the range with an explanation of each feature as we go.
To check out the full range of MYDO SS Spoons, click here.
Supertubes is cooking
Cyclones! Amazing waves at Barra…
Cyclones! Amazing waves at Barra…
The first tropical storm to be upgraded in early January – Bansi – was graced with the accolade of being a Level 4 cyclone! She is moving away from Madagascar where she was hovering a while, and now has a newly born sister in tow!
Tropical Storm Chedza is right in the channel, our side of Madagascar, and also been upgraded to a tropical cyclone, but is also headed away from us – the two together have produced some epic conditions.
The water is super warm, around 27 degrees, and the airflow has steadily moved from onshore to side/offshore, and it’s finally raining. The light during the day is silvery blue, and as I write this, thunder is forcing it’s way overhead giving us even more to think about.
Surfing waves that can clean cut you in half can be fun once you get used to it, but the purported twin of The Donkey – a shifting superbank in Barra, is by no means easy. The drop is straight out of the sky and 6ft waves disgorge themselves onto a two foot deep sandbar that runs for hundreds of metres. When it’s perfect it can almost be easy, but the last few days at Barra have registered only about a 4/10.
It was lumpy, mean and yet still super hollow. Young Sung Min Cho was the star of the show – he was seen disappearing deep into pits that are easily heavier than any KZN South Coast break can be. The wave literally empties out on itself, is so fast, yet so perfectly difficult. And at 6ft it’s insane stuff.
And! It’s all captured, by Min himself. He and his two brothers, Sung Min Cho and Tae Sung Junior Cho only started surfing a year ago and the level they have achieved is astounding. In fact, Tofo is now littered with groms ripping up anything they can paddle into.
Enjoy the clip!
Geelbek Salmon at night
Geelbek Salmon at night: with umzimkulu.co.za
A great evening out on the Niteshift, with John van Reenen and Elvis Olimpio as crew…
“Winter time is Geelbek time, and although the ‘Bek do feed during the day time, night time, is the right time.
So when conditions do play along, and the surf is small…and the tides are right, and the Umzimkulu Mouth acts like a harbour…and it lets us out for a 3 or 4 hour window.
The night previous had produced nothing but an Englishman, and we had a lot of trouble with the anchor at Boboyi…there must be so many anchor ropes and chains down there, after all these years!
But the current did turn out to be be very slack…so this last night we used the conditions to buzz around all the spots we could, sounding around…and dropping baits, to see where these Geelbek have been hiding.
There was heaps of bioluminescence in the water, and fishing on the seaward side of the boat, John Fever and I both clearly saw a white mushroom cloud burst up silently into the total blackness, some distance in front of us?! All sorts of thoughts. And then the sound…it was a whale exhaling, the cloud of air illuminated with bioluminescence. The things you see at sea at night?!
But no fish at this stage. Nothing. So after scouring the Port Shepstone reefs, the Old Man, on a hunch, took us 4 miles south through whale infested water…to one of his very first Geelbek stomping grounds.
The new Garmin CHIRP system on the Niteshift, is so powerful, it picks out our baits! So when we we got our first showing of red, the anchor went straight down.
And spot on. Dad goes away immediately. We found them!
I got one next, but on my next down something huge took my middle bait, and after a huge tug-of-war, my trace broke on the snootie?!
Then Elvis starting making weird noises as the biggest Geelbek of the night tried to pull him overboard.
By this time my Dad had his quote of two, so he helped Fever catch two more. I had more trouble, this time with a shark, and that’s how I ended up. Then just before our safe window of conditions were up, Elvis’ rod doubled over…but he made short work of the fish this time…which turned out to be half a fish. Tax.
Then the huge shape appeared around the anchor rope…milky white in the ultra clean and flourescent, phosperous water. It might have been a great white for it’s size, and it leered up at us circling underneath…breaking the water with it’s tail a few times, in some sort of defiant  gesture.
The whales had also been barking at us some more, we were surrounded on a few occasions, so we pulled anchor and hightailed it into the outgoing tide at the Umzimkulu River.
Total fish – 7.5!
A hard days night!”
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Check out the catch and cook series on thesardine.co.za for how to best savour the flavours of Geelbek Salmon…
And a gallery of photos…
