BIG Couta Time in KZN – 2026 BIG Couta Time in KZN: moving into the dry season (two months or so away), the clean and clear Agulhas Current pushes right up against the KZN coastline. It replaces the prevailing inshore brown water produced by the summer rains of KZN, with this warm, couta lights-studded universe. … Read more
Fishing Browntown Fishing Browntown: the rod screamed, and I just couldn’t understand what could be in this absolutely dirty water?! What could be at the end of my light line? I was trolling a tiny blue balsa rapala (this was in 1983) past the old bridge pillar, in the Umzimkulu Estuary, on my tiny little … Read more
Stay Out Of The Brown #water #ocean #conditions Stay Out Of The Brown #water #ocean #conditions… how about that for a big patch of brown waterbut as you can see from the haloclinethe Agulhas Current gonna push that stuff awaybut there’s so much coming still anywaycurrent scenario at the sand spitstill looks very fishy to … Read more
What a night! What a night! So, I get another phone call for the fishing the Umzimkulu. This guy sounded really cool, had an accent, his name was Josh, and he hailed from New York! So I took him fishing! He really wanted a kob. Josh has caught Malabar Rockcod, and Perch (in the Mpenjati … Read more
Historic 540lb Grouper shot in 1970 is Back in St. Lucia Historic 540lb Grouper shot in 1970 is Back in St. Lucia: we have a friend, Wessel, who had a vessel moored at our place a while. One day, he says to us, are we interested in seeing his Dad’s historic and record grouper shot … Read more
