Elusive Bait

Hi guys

Anyone knows what is happening the Durban red eye and the Bay squid.....are these now on the endangered list??????????

Rdgs

Jace

howzit jace

dunno about the bay squid, but i recently "aquired" some redeye from natal, so i dont think they are, also i see the guys on ESA are forever using them

cheers

Hey guys

I saw a couple of fisherman on the south coast using red food colouring on normal sardine fillets. They rekon it works just as well as redeye. The one guy picked up 2 good size shad in the 10 minutes that i watched them fishing.

Has anybody tried this?

Hi mike

Any idea where in Durbs who got them ......we tried every bait shop in the area but no stocks.

Rds

Jace

Hey Jace..........

I've tried as well today...........

Nuthing bru !!!!

They all got stock in earlier in the week. I guess the clubs got in and bought bulk, lock stock and barrel!

basil manning shipped them to us here in CT ::H as well as some sarda sarda's

whats your addy so i can ransack your freezer.::H

       

Quick question for you Cape Town boys and girls....

Being a ex Banana boy, I grew up having easy access to good quality sardines... Mostly sards caught myself during the run, with a cast next, dropped straight into a cooler box full of Ice water, with crushed ice, half salt half fresh,( kills them quick and keeps their shine ) then taken home, liad on trays on their backs, straight into the freezer then taken out two days later and packed into bags of 6.... now these sardines, even 2 years later, when defrosted, were bright and shiny and firm, almost as if they had just left the ocean.... Even the regular sardines bought at any tackle store, were usually of a fairly decent quality.

Down here in the Cape now, I have not been able to find anything even closely resembling decent sardines.... They are all just PORRIDGE! I even bought some of those J-Bay individually wrapped buggers a while back hoping that they would be better quality.... but unfortunately, on defrosting found myself once again with Sardine porridge!!!

 

Any pointers on where to get decent sards down here, or what "brand" to purchse???

 

Thanks

Nepps

 

 

hey boet

we get our sards from gansbaai they are called "dyer island" i think.... best sards are from PE. my opinion only.

most of thetime i dont use sards when fishing unless of course they are redeyes from durbs, cause they are  :first