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If fishing is 90% preparation…

…then we shoulda had something in the hatch this day…!
A week of tackle prep…an endless tally of MYDO lures and traces…perfect livebait…beautiful water…crack of dawn launch…etc…

However, our tally for the day…
– 1 Porpoise (first time ever this has happened with any of us, but a porpoise chowed the very first live bait in the water, almost immediately! We pulled the hooks out luckily. Sorry Mr. Porpoise.)
– 1 Tiger Shark can you believe it. On a MYDO #4 Orange and a walla walla.
– 1 Striped Marlin…came into the spread all lit up and anxious…went from bait to bait and then ate Mike’s mackeral…spat the single treble after a good run…
And a turtle that followed us around…

Our second launch for the day had young Keegs and Josh aboard, who each caught a rockod, as did Lee (Josh’s mom). Bela’s Mozambican Restaurant at Spiller’s Wharf prepared the fantastic seafood feast for supper whilst the Boks trounced the Italians…

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Paul Cook and Uncle Skomolo

Paul Cook and Randy Stevens helped us catch about 30 livebaits which we took to Protea Reef off Shelley Beach this afternoon. Expecting everything we got nothing, until we anchored in 50metres straight off Port Shepstone.
Soon rods were buckling under the pressure of Amberjack. After boating one, my Dad hooked a monster which finally broke the trace after circling the boat for half an hour! The one that definitely got away.
Then Paul Cook, down from Inhambane, Mozambique, pulled his first ever Black Steenbras…Skomolo…Poenskop…Musselcracker… and it was home time…

Randy Stevens fed our favourite Skua bird, with live maasbanker on the way home…

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Karl Gouws again!

Karl Gouws and Elton van Rooyen went deep off Port Shepstone with live bait to load this hard fighting and heavy weighing Amberjack. Pulling these things from 60m on anchor is no joke…but they get up to or more than 60kg’s on some of the deeper Kwazulu Natal lower south coast reefs! Protea Reef has produced some boat winners. Hibberdene is a hotspot for very big Amberjack, and there are some crazy big ones up in Mozambique too. On the back of the diving reefs off Tofo they are reported to shoal and the locals get quite a few in the 20 to 30kg class, during the winter months. Hard to catch. Need live bait.

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Umzimkulu Leopard

Fishing the Umzimkulu River off Spiller’s Wharf yesterday afternoon, local angler Ahmed, pictured, hooked into a beautiful Leopard Ray. It took him a solid 10 minutes on ultra-light tackle.

Fishing the Umzimkulu is made very comfortable at Spiller’s Wharf. There are a choice of restaurants – Bela’s Mozambican themed diner is most popular.

There is safe parking, grass, chairs and 50 meters of river frontage to choose your spot from. This night there were 11 rods in the water, catching grunter and perch.
It costs R20 per angler to fish on the premises.
Many species can be targeted. Catfish, kingfish, grunter, perch, eels, rays, oxeye tarpon, rockcod, shad, garrick, rock salmon and even sharks!

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Karl Gouws on the attack!

Not to be outdone or miss out on the south coast action going on this awesome time of year, Karl sports a nice couta. Port Shepstone and the Kwazulu Natal South Coast area is on the boil right now, many nice fish up and down the coast.
Comment Karl?

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