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Bruce Gold spotted on the KZN South Coast

Simon Fish and Brucifire celebrating the moment

Bruce Gold on the South Coast

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Simon Fish greets Brucifire in a south coast carpark…

It was celebrity hour in the carpark in front Orca’s Bar and Restaurant on the KZN South Coast this past week. Simon Fish and Bruce Gold popped in with various excuses for coming all the way up here from the Cape, and surfing our winter waves…

Not as though they haven’t had their share of waves this winter either…imagine how all those huge swells that battered our egos us up here, must have looked at the famed Supertubes or those other right handers that favour a slightly east swell.

Simon is busy delivering new surfboards, and Brucifire is up here to visit family for a while.

Watch this space!

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Shad bait up by Craig Sinclair

Shad bait up by Craig Sinclair

Craig Sinclair aka Baconovich, takes us through a simple yet effective shad bait on a single hook trace. A double hook trace also features in this instructional fishing video.

Shad, or elf, or taylor, or bluefish – come thick and fast this time of the year – just before the supposed arrival of the supposed sardines. They provide great entertainment and thousands of anglers hit the bays and points up and down the KZN South Coast, also known as the Hibiscus Coast (luckily not the “sardine coast”).

Bigger gamefish like garrick / leervis, salmon / kob, Queen Mackeral  /  Natal Snoek, Brusher / White Musselcracker…have also been known to gulp down a shad bait on the drift, presented like Craig’s bait in the video. 3/0 or 4/0 hooks mean you stand a chance again these chance encountered trophy fish.

Enjoy the video…

 

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Welcome to Mike Stubbs – new Sardine correspondent and photographer

Welcome to Mike Stubbs: Sardine Correspondent and Photographer

Yellowtail...
Yellowtail…Mike spends time in both salt and fresh water…

As of this month, Mike Stubbs is joining us a writer and photographer, covering various aspects of the fishing world, as he travels around the South African tournament calendar.

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Stubbs catches freshwater and saltwater fish the same…and on all sorts of tackle – this tiger fish on a fly!

 

Rosy Jobfish...
Rosy Jobfish…out in the deep…

Aswell as being dialled in an in the know, Mike is handy with a GoPro camera, as can be seen by this video of a tiger shark being subdued and released…

 

Meet all of our correspondents and contributors here…

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A quick visit to the Wedge Surfboard factory…

A quick visit to the Wedge Surfboard factory in Umzumbe, by Craig Sinclair, with a load of surfboards in for repair, after the carnage left by the swell over the last spring tide.

Craig Sinclair sets up his Little Pony for a ding repai at the Wedge Surfboard factory....
Craig Sinclair sets up his Little Pony for a ding repair at the Wedge Surfboard factory….

One broken, 2 with fins out and a smash into the “My Little Pony”.

Robin Beatty ordered this super fast 5 fin fang it model...
Robin Beatty ordered this super fast  Disco Biscuit5 fin Fang=it model…best he come fetch it soon!

Gary and Justin Maisch (and company) are busy with all sorts of projects in and around producing quality and deadly surfboards every day. Ding repairs can be requested and slotted into the hectic production schedule though.

John van Reenen displays a design by surf artist Caroline Wood...
John van Reenen displays a radical piece of art by surf artist Caroline Wood…
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The “Sard’s” proper south coast barrel

 The “Sard’s” proper south coast barrel

It takes many, many barrel rides, to finally get one this good, on video.
Sard, well done, fantastic ride…and see you in the morning!

Other than Sard’s fantastic ride today at an undisclosed faraway location, practically every surf spot on the south coast fired today. And it looks to be that way for the next two weeks solid!

Productivity week!

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