Perfect Day in May
Perfect Day in May: it’s on! For fishermen, surfers and divers! Small swell, hardly a breeze, sunny skies, warm water that’s almost clean…! And there are gamefish jumping all over the place.
Surfing
Durban is really small as the 1.5m south south east swell tries to wrap around the piers and get in there. There is still not much tide, just over half a metre or so.
The south and north coasts will fare better with this swell direction.
Diving
After many near misses, hopefully today we will see some shore diving from the spearos. Who have been having a great time – but only out deep! Here is the Bear Report from yesterday…
Fishing
Here we have Alan at Shelly Beach this morning, thank you Alan!
Ian Logie’s exciting report of gamefish jumping around after the freshly arrived sprats got many people out onto the rocks to try throw a spoon the distance. You need a good cast to get to the snoek but they are there right now and anyone with a farcaster is in with a throw.
Ian, yesterday…
Perfect Day in May
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