been plentiful along with Brusher and Bronze Bream . Paddle tails once again being used by most anglers to catch these Kob at night and early hours of the morning . Be sure to make use of small glass rattles inside your Paddle tails to further increase your chance of a bite , especially if the water is off colour .
Orange rocks has produced good Garrick on Plug and live bait . Big Bronze Bream , Black tail and Zebras have been caught on Prawn baits early in the morning . Good size Shad have been taken on drift bait as well as spoon .
Hammer head sharks have been present in large numbers around the Port St Johns area , caught on live baits and on Mackerel baits . Some anglers are catching up to 10 of these sharks in one session in certain areas . These Hammers have also been picking up Kob baits and if you find decent yourself getting bitten off often , then a short bite trace of 60lb carbon coated wire will help you go through less hooks . General edibles have been feeding well , with reports of Bronze Bream and Galjoen in good numbers .
Harbour
Garrick have been plentiful in the Harbour over the last week , and have been caught on everything from live bait to Rattlers . With the rubbish and trees clearing out of the Harbour , the water has been much better to fish and more and more anglers are hooking into decent fish . Kob have been coming out around the mouth and around the Coaling terminal . Smaller Grunter have been plentiful on Cracker and bigger Grunter have been caught on small crab and also Sardine head or fillet . Mackeral , Shad , Maas bunker and other baits are being caught daily around the NSRI base .
Ski-Boat
Charter boats around Sodwana are boating a wide variety of fish from Couta to bonito . Many reports of Smaller Shoal sized Couta were caught over the weekend on live baits and on Rattlers . Maphelane saw few boats for the week , but the boats which did launch - hooked into some great Tuna and Bonito up to 10kgs . Cape Vidal and St Lucia produced decent Couta on baits in around 30-50m of
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