Dr halibut hoffman wrote:
great stuff ((goodp_ keep em coming t(((up((_seal1_
weather not static anymore but on the drop.. ja not sure comparing fish rich areas to areas not so fish rich lol.. but rub it in hahaha just kidding .. well it was not for nothing as i caught a first.. standing there with rod in pipe i watched how gracefully i think it was a african oystercatcher fly by and immediately thought to myself run for rod and lower line.. but no i stood watching the bird when next moment rod tip bouncing like crazy.. yip into my line.. retrieve as gently as possible with a oom walking my way.. hand my rod to him while snipping the braid.. eventually loosened the bird that flew away none the worse i guess and i started retrieving my 20lb hi vis Boss braid by hand.. lost maybe 80m max??.. will use the reel for shorter rods in future and not the heavy 10ft casting 3oz anymore.. might run out of line quickly
stood there talking to oom who intro'd him as Oom Jasper vannie Struisbaai.. not anymore though now living locally and self confessed Plaat specialist with a good few kob and steenies to boot.. wanted to know where the gallie honey holes are locally.. spoke lekker for a while then left strategizing for next time
flippy wrote:Wind makes the swell, not tides..reason it has been flat is the 3 resident high pressures are trying their best to be in their summer positions already..Fronts are being bounced off from the west off to the south and not sweeping over us, the south atlantic high is forming a barrier to the approaching fronts so their energy is dissipating before they make landfall and their winds not reaching a high enough speed over the storms fetch to generate a decent swell to send on it's way to us.Bloks wrote:
Die water het vandag so mooi gelyk by Kleinmond. Maar nie eers n pik niebw_l_)bw_l_)bw_l_)
i wonder if that moon eclipse caused weird conditions.. was out Thursday with water flat and not fishable.. i was confused as heck as it was 1 day before full moon spring.. we also had static weather conditions for the last 5 days which is always not favorable for fishing
that eclipse or blood moon was something to admire though
Awesome blood moon though! Went flat by us too, was epic for elf on the beaches though for a while until the moon got too full, ate my fair share..Then as soon as the swell kicked again..gallies and cracker. Saw 2 locals, previously less advantaged folk, hook 2 crackers, one 5kg that they kept and another very big one that they lost! In chatting to them I was told "they are cracker manne" and the ou was not fussed about loosing the big one as he put it, they would have put that fish back anyway, since they target cracker, what is they point of fishing out an area I was told, so they put the big ones back to ensure smaller ones are always there in that area to keep catching..I was very impressed, normally it is just me explaining why I put the big ones back like a broken record.. there is hope for us yet! Seems the message is making its' way to the ground and with no help from authorities in charge either, who do fokol in the way of education to the fishing masses.
I lost my blood moon cracker too haha call it self release but I never got to see him stuck under the last ledge before he unhooked himself when I left the line slack like a pleb when we were doing the see-saw back forth as I was trying to rockhop in the fullmoon darkness with big swell and spring low..sketchy..dropped a gallie too in the afternoon at high tide and missed some bites, can't win em all.. Fished one day when was completely flat, water was warm and gin clear, bites were few and far between..got a goen kolstert dipping for mullet for livebait in a gulley after chumming the gulley nicely, no takes on livebait but found the one little piece of foamy water a few meters wide and threw in there and got a gallie bite that didn't hook and maybe something bigger till redbait was up, then on pillies and chokka a kollie and a very decent and unexpected yellowbelly that took me down and swam straight into his hole..I had to wait for him for at least 10 mins to swim out, I could feel him there, knew it was either rockcod, cracker or occy. Just had to wait it out..Fish are around, one must just find em..all fish were released, none were target species, I lost those haha. I still had enough fish in the freezer and fresh shad for a fry and sashimi. But anyway 3 fishing sessions on those flat still days and there was action each go..elf and elf the two sessions after sunset before the moon was up..good elf..mates lost 5kg numbers 2 days in a row at their feet as you loose the big ones, I got my limit of those 1-1,5 kg numbers, 3 of us did, one of us got 2. Good action till moon was up then dead still. Other days gulley scratching, when one put a bait into what little white water one could find, no matter how small, it was full of fish.. and they were chowing, I was just short on bait with tides not playing along and no swell to spoel some stuff out for collection..just go fish, put back the breeders and babies and pick up the trash you find..trash left by fishermen..eish..I see poor folk cleaning up areas, and then some leaving so much cr@p behind..and rich folk leaving all their cr@p behind too and then some cleaning up..Some ou left a good 200m of crowsnested brand new line in a pile on the beach, just ripe to kill an otter or tangle up a sterretjie or seagull.. Seen enough missing limbs and untangled enough. So thanks to that ou for donating me some very larny and expensive, and unmistakable, doublex extreme abrasion camo line for me to sure as sinker line but rather take your cr@p home with you and burn your old line in your fireplace, don't even throw it in the trash. We'll get there eventually. Hopefully.
great stuff ((goodp_ keep em coming t(((up((_seal1_
weather not static anymore but on the drop.. ja not sure comparing fish rich areas to areas not so fish rich lol.. but rub it in hahaha just kidding .. well it was not for nothing as i caught a first.. standing there with rod in pipe i watched how gracefully i think it was a african oystercatcher fly by and immediately thought to myself run for rod and lower line.. but no i stood watching the bird when next moment rod tip bouncing like crazy.. yip into my line.. retrieve as gently as possible with a oom walking my way.. hand my rod to him while snipping the braid.. eventually loosened the bird that flew away none the worse i guess and i started retrieving my 20lb hi vis Boss braid by hand.. lost maybe 80m max??.. will use the reel for shorter rods in future and not the heavy 10ft casting 3oz anymore.. might run out of line quickly
stood there talking to oom who intro'd him as Oom Jasper vannie Struisbaai.. not anymore though now living locally and self confessed Plaat specialist with a good few kob and steenies to boot.. wanted to know where the gallie honey holes are locally.. spoke lekker for a while then left strategizing for next time