Fantastic Fishing Conditions for KZN by Adam Kamdar in Durban
Fantastic Fishing Conditions for KZN by Adam Kamdar in Durban: another lovely summer day unfolding in KZN. The rains seem to be holding off!
Over to Adam in Durban…
“It’s gonna be a real scorcher” – Adam
Another blustery and hot KZN summer’s day in Durban and throughout KZN. Stay in the shade!
Gallery Durban Today
Synoptic Chart Analysis
Those Guardian Angel high pressures spread out so nicely along 35 Degrees South are doing their level best to keep the impending summer rains at bay. The next cold front is aeons away in the west. It might have plans to join forces with the one below it, and together set an assault on sunny and dry Cape Town. This will only reach us here in KZN in about a week or more..
Until then we look to be blessed with fantastic early summer weather here in KZN.
Spearfishing
The Bear of The Master Watermen website yesterday posted his weekly roundup of spearfishing catches and news updates. In this episode, we have a huge wahoo shot up north. Over to The Bear…
Online YouTube report available here…
https://youtu.be/dN7J4COHtnU?si=tPxMIOweIWao9caw
So yes the water has warmed up to proper summer temperatures! 24 to 25 degC off Umkomaas and Durban bouys.
Summer fish are coming out Dorado, Wahoo, Couta, Snoek and Yellowfin tuna!
However, viz has been scarce to say the least! Guys dived the Shoal on the weekend and were back on the beach by 8am… only 8m viz and shakanado (shark) problems of note!
The Salties area was cleaning up yesterday but the SW last night did absolutely zero to help it out! Meh!
We have a NE wind blowing tomorrow and maybe that pushing against the inshore reverse current will bring that warm 25degc Moz water inshore.
Tide’s are heading towards neaps on the weekend and low is at 12h10 and high is at 06h10 and 18h12 tomorrow.
With the NE blowing tomorrow the fish should be on the feed in the morning so go get your fish on!
There is viz though… just put petrol and cruise up to Zululand and get yourself a bus Wahoo! Well done JP on a very long Wahoo on the weekend!
Aweh!
Fishing
Fishing in the sun! Well, you most likely gonna catch since the fishing has been so good recently. Everything is biting. The water is calm and warm at 22 degrees Celsius. And we welcome the gentle sea-breeze promising to blow all day.
Kob, garrick and some out-of-season shad are the main attraction. With 10 days to go for the shad season to open, we may aswell get rigged up already. MYDO Fishing Lures make a hybrid shad trace that catches all kinds of species of gamefish. In the surf, the estuary or along the backline. A moving fillet bait dressed in a duster and swum by a MYDO Silver Bullet Baitswimmer.
All you do is fillet up, wrapped in cotton, and cast. Gently retrieve and watch your bait swim through the water. The shad love a moving bait. This MYDO offering is a hybrid between a traditional drift bait and a moving artificial lure.
The traces are designed to hook right in the scissors with a small treble, at first bite. There is no striking foolishly whilst fishing with moving bait. All you need to do is lean into the fish as it hits. One bite, one hookup.
You can apply the principle to trolling in an estuary. Just set the drag at about one kilogram and off you go. Same for backline fishing. Watch out you don’t hook a snoek or something else bigger than you were expecting. The trace will handle it however.
This fillet bait presentation is a light version of the exact lures and baits we use to target big gamefish like king mackerel and sailfish, out at sea.
The following are the goods we sell to catch shad with…
https://thesardine.co.za/product-category/fishingtackle/mydo-lures/mydo-fishxfish-packs/shad
You can see the entire catalogue at https://thesardine.co.za/mydo or just get in touch on +27793269671 or umzimkulu@gmail.com. We like to work with you closely on your fishing requirements, please feel free to contact us with any enquiries you have or information you might need.
Surfing
We have no surfing news with no surf on any horizon near you. But if you are missing the waves that much, you can head on over to Brucifire Surf Retorts at https://brucifire.co.za and watch the best of the 2024 winter surfing season in the Jeffreys Bay zone. There is also some Mozambique surfing and travelling action there too.
Thanks
Shoutout to The Bear. Check his website at https://masterwatermen.co.za.
Alan of NPS Fishing…
Prof Tony Turton…
Cliff Bamber…
Mannie Joreiro…
Big thanks to Adam of Township Hyper for the daily reports from Durban…
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