Angling Times Weekly Issue 61 Issue 67 | Page 27

fish North of Durban while trolling the Rattler shallow divers , especially the Pink colour . There have been plenty of Snoek off the Umgeni just on the colour lines , unfortunately they are too far out for the guys with spoons to get but the anglers on the Ski are plundering , they seem to be enjoying the lighter colours in the Strike Pro Magic Minnow range as well as a nice looking Sardine fillet , chaps on the boat are having a lot of fun throwing tiny Kingfisher Anchovy spoons at them with the lightest of tackle , light tackle really seems the way to go with today ’ s exceptional quality .
Port Shepstone is producing a few good bottom fish and there are some big Tuna out deep off Shelly Beach , anglers are having some real fun with these monster Tuna using 30lb Marlin outfits as your standard outfits can ’ t turn them . Anglers further down the coast are having fun with the Yellowtail at the moment on bottom outfits , these angers have been colliding the Yellowtail on a two hook bottom trace with basically anything for bait , often resulting in a double up .

Harbour

There seems to be plenty of artificial lure action around the Yacht Moll area at the moment with the Sand Gurnards plundering anything that hits the floor , these fish are excellent to catch as they are incredibly strong for their size , often fooling anglers fishing bait that think they have hooked into a monster Grunter and end up with a 1 kg Gurnard . There have been a few decent sized Grunter coming out from the guys walking the banks in the later evenings ; they are catching these fish on the new Mustad Offset circle size 1 hooked with a larger Cracker Shrimp . Anglers fishing off the boats have been rewarded with plenty of Grunter , Stumpnose and Brown Rays , these Rays are still tormenting the light tackle boat anglers with their Cracker eating tendencies .

Freshwater

Albert Falls has been producing some excellent Bass at the moment with plenty of - the 2-3 kg Bass around . There have been reports of some bigger fish around , these pigs of 4kg + have been colliding the June bug flukes in the deep water , often breaking

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