New to saltwater fly fishing

Evening Gents,

I've been fly fishing for trout for almost 20 years now and have decided to shake things up a bit and try my luck at saltwater fly fishing this year, at Kosi Bay. I bought myself a cheap-ish kit to start off with and a hand full of flies based on an interesting article I read in the Complete Fly Fisherman this month, and some of Solly's recommendations.

My questions are thus as follows:
1) I have never been to Kosi Bay. Any areas that I should specifically go to? Any landmarks I can look out for?
2) What species will I be targeting up there.
3) Are any of the lakes worth trying to fish?
4) Any other advice for fishing our magnificent coastline instead of inland rivers and lakes?

Any advice would be much appreciated. I will be in the Kosi Bay area from 19 Dec - 3 Jan if anyone else would like to tag a long in my quest for a big GT

::tight:

Some more of the flies in my arsenal.

Hi Johan,

Your arsenal looks pretty ok. Perhaps maybe a shrimp patern might round things off( I see only one). Kosi has a lake section - Where one of the Kyle brothers landed a 100+ GT and the surf section and both places make for some excellent fishing. Species like the GTs (king, greenspot and Bluefin), speckled snapper, grunter, threespot pompano or moon fish are amongst the fish that you can catch. You also have some ledges that you can fish off as well. Overall I think that you are gonna have a blast. Tight lines and may you land your PB GT

Hi Fingers,

Thanks for the advice.

Can you fish the lakes without a boat?

Johan

If youre on Facebook, look up one or two of the facebook salteater pages, Ewan Kyle is a member on most. Or go onto the Basil Manning site and see if ypu can make contact via that source.
Ewan is a guide in the area, he lives in the area and fishes Kosi probably daily.

I am sure he can give you some assitance, even if its not to guide you, but if you had the cash it would probably be worth every cent.

Youre going into fly fishing heaven, have a great trip

I agree totally with Noclue.
I stand corrected but most of the fishing, even in the lakes are done wading.

Thanks Gents, I appreciate all the advice. I have gotten hold of Ewan and will contact him when I get there. It looks like he definitely knows his stuff! I will report back in the new year... Hopefully with a photo of a GT on the other end of my line