Herald Fishing: WATCH: Pietie Bodenstein (8) lands the catch of his life … a huge couta
There's never a dull moment in South Coast waters.
PIETIE Bodenstein, aged only eight, provided one of the highlights of the week with his spectacular 33.2kg couta catch off Shelly Beach on ‘Bliksem’.
Another youngster, Travis Claridge, bagged a whopper of a barbel in a dam in Umzumbe. It weighed in at nearly 15kg.
Rock and Surf
The water has been very cold over the last couple of days with five days of north-easterly winds blowing. Despite this there are still signs of hound sharks around, plus a few hammers and blackfins off the deeper points.
Water has had good colour and a raggie pup was caught in the Leisure Bay area. Not much shad or bream around but a few snoek and kob have been caught.
Water has been rough all week and those who braved the cold and wind got a few fish. Some anglers travelled to the Transkei and got some lovely raggies, greys and blackfin sharks.
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Deep Sea
The past weekend saw persistent north-easterly winds blow, but there was some good couta fishing off Port Edward. Some very big fish were caught, between 20-34kg, on several boats.
As mentioned earlier, there were the good catches by junior anglers. Pietie Bodenstein caught his 33.2kg couta and Reydon Basson caught a 23.5kg couta off Red Sands.
General
Some interesting things have been happening way down south due mainly to the water temperature, it is surmised.
It has been reported that many fish, both big and small, have washed ashore in the East London area.
Coming up
TO Strand in Leisure Bay will host the Kayak, Rock & Surf Fishing Competition from July 16 to 18. Prizes to the value of R20 000 are waiting to be won.
It will also include archery, zipline, a music festival, raft building, rock climbing and paintball. There will be accommodation specials as well.
Tight lines!
Tide Table
May
04 11.06 23.59
05 12.36 01.04
06 13.30 01.48
07 14.09 02.00
08 02.23 14.42
09 02.54 15.12
10 03.23 15.41
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