Artificial Lure Angling in East London and surrounding area's.

Bushbuck

Senior Member
clinton stanford wrote:
Jakes 10 wrote:
Hi Guys, I have a few questions and this seems like the right thread to ask it in, I hope this is not hi -jacking....

My family and I are planning a trip to Palm Springs Resort, Kidd's Beach in December. I would like to get my kids into some small leeries and other fish on lures. I would like to take them to a river, I have a very small inflatable.

I myself have never been successful with saltwater lurefishing, then again, I've only tried it a few times. So any advise on locations, lures or any advise will be greatly appreciated. ^^..^^..^^........damn, Desember is still so faaaaaarrrrrrrr......

Hi Jakes.

Palm springs is a awesome little place. that little blind river has some small leeries in at the moment and should still be there by December if it does not wash out with to much rain.

you also have the Gulu river just down the road towards East London side. perfect river for your inflatable.

there are also some good points and holes in the surf to fish from a round Kidd's beach area . using drop shot, spoons and surface plugs should get you some fish in the sea.

for the rivers get some Strike Pro's and some Led heads.
also try small drop shot plastics, worms and prawn artificial's

you might think that December is still a long way away. but it is just around the corner ;)

hope that helps a bit.
cheers.
clinton.
December, whats that. Feels like years away for the guys down here in the WC. things are SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW this side. Some lovely learies coming out at ganubie i hear. Also PE guys are getting some nice ones
 
Jakes 10 wrote:
Clinton, have you caught garick at Palms? Or anyone else for that matter.....

yes, on live bait and on artificial's. after the floods last year there where some nice fish in there.and the river closed shortly afterwards, so they must still be in there cause it hasn't opened since then.
 
Bushbuck wrote:
clinton stanford wrote:
Jakes 10 wrote:
Hi Guys, I have a few questions and this seems like the right thread to ask it in, I hope this is not hi -jacking....

My family and I are planning a trip to Palm Springs Resort, Kidd's Beach in December. I would like to get my kids into some small leeries and other fish on lures. I would like to take them to a river, I have a very small inflatable.

I myself have never been successful with saltwater lurefishing, then again, I've only tried it a few times. So any advise on locations, lures or any advise will be greatly appreciated. ^^..^^..^^........damn, Desember is still so faaaaaarrrrrrrr......

Hi Jakes.

Palm springs is a awesome little place. that little blind river has some small leeries in at the moment and should still be there by December if it does not wash out with to much rain.

you also have the Gulu river just down the road towards East London side. perfect river for your inflatable.

there are also some good points and holes in the surf to fish from a round Kidd's beach area . using drop shot, spoons and surface plugs should get you some fish in the sea.

for the rivers get some Strike Pro's and some Led heads.
also try small drop shot plastics, worms and prawn artificial's

you might think that December is still a long way away. but it is just around the corner ;)

hope that helps a bit.
cheers.
clinton.
December, whats that. Feels like years away for the guys down here in the WC. things are SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW this side. Some lovely learies coming out at ganubie i hear. Also PE guys are getting some nice ones

hahaa! its not that far away Bushbuck. Feb is even further away for me, thats when we go to the Transkei!

yes there are some leeries coming out at gonubie, but they small rats, one or two nicer ones have come out though.

the guys in PE always have good catches, those rivers are amazing!
 

boepens

Sealiner
This leerie came out at leonards in the surf on a spoon a few weeks back
 

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Jakes 10

Sealiner
clinton stanford wrote:
Jakes 10 wrote:
Hi Boep, do you think that leerie was a lucky shot, or are they common in the area?

It depends on time of year, but when the sardines and shad are around, you will get a few.

Thanks Clinton.

Some more questions...:fbash:fbash..... Do you know if the shad are in the area of Kidd's Beach in Dec or is that up to the prevailing weather conditions and so on??

Sorry for all these questions but I'm only there for about 10 days and would like to spend more time fishing and less time searching for them.
 
Jakes 10 wrote:
clinton stanford wrote:
Jakes 10 wrote:
Hi Boep, do you think that leerie was a lucky shot, or are they common in the area?

It depends on time of year, but when the sardines and shad are around, you will get a few.

Thanks Clinton.

Some more questions...:fbash:fbash..... Do you know if the shad are in the area of Kidd's Beach in Dec or is that up to the prevailing weather conditions and so on??

Sorry for all these questions but I'm only there for about 10 days and would like to spend more time fishing and less time searching for them.

Hi Jakes.

their might be one or two around but they wont be thick. you will get Leerie in December also weather depending though.

i would stick to the rivers around that time of year. Cob, Leerie, Skipjack and Bream are very active in our rivers during that time of year.

I hear what you saying, 10 days goes bye very quickly, but you still going to have to look for fish, thats just the way it is if you know what i mean ;)

if you need more info just ask :)

cheers.
 

Jakes 10

Sealiner
clinton stanford wrote:
Jakes 10 wrote:
clinton stanford wrote:
Jakes 10 wrote:
Hi Boep, do you think that leerie was a lucky shot, or are they common in the area?

It depends on time of year, but when the sardines and shad are around, you will get a few.

Thanks Clinton.

Some more questions...:fbash:fbash..... Do you know if the shad are in the area of Kidd's Beach in Dec or is that up to the prevailing weather conditions and so on??

Sorry for all these questions but I'm only there for about 10 days and would like to spend more time fishing and less time searching for them.

Hi Jakes.

their might be one or two around but they wont be thick. you will get Leerie in December also weather depending though.

i would stick to the rivers around that time of year. Cob, Leerie, Skipjack and Bream are very active in our rivers during that time of year.

I hear what you saying, 10 days goes bye very quickly, but you still going to have to look for fish, thats just the way it is if you know what i mean ;)

if you need more info just ask :)

cheers.
Thanks Clinton, plenty more questions to follow.
 

Jakes 10

Sealiner
clinton stanford wrote:
Jakes 10 wrote:
clinton stanford wrote:
Jakes 10 wrote:
Hi Boep, do you think that leerie was a lucky shot, or are they common in the area?

It depends on time of year, but when the sardines and shad are around, you will get a few.

Thanks Clinton.

Some more questions...:fbash:fbash..... Do you know if the shad are in the area of Kidd's Beach in Dec or is that up to the prevailing weather conditions and so on??

Sorry for all these questions but I'm only there for about 10 days and would like to spend more time fishing and less time searching for them.

Hi Jakes.

their might be one or two around but they wont be thick. you will get Leerie in December also weather depending though.

i would stick to the rivers around that time of year. Cob, Leerie, Skipjack and Bream are very active in our rivers during that time of year.

I hear what you saying, 10 days goes bye very quickly, but you still going to have to look for fish, thats just the way it is if you know what i mean ;)

if you need more info just ask :)

cheers.
Thanks Clinton, more questions will follow.:fbash
 

xtc

Senior Member
clinton - any news re the weekend away trip

otherwise hows the fishing been? took a little walk the weekend, good fun with lots of leeries, mostly the 35-45cm size - fished closer to home on sunday with no luck before getting blown away by the wind
 
xtc wrote:
clinton - any news re the weekend away trip

otherwise hows the fishing been? took a little walk the weekend, good fun with lots of leeries, mostly the 35-45cm size - fished closer to home on sunday with no luck before getting blown away by the wind

Hey Xtc.

to tell you the truth i have hardly had any time to look in to it. things at work have been hecticly busy!

i think we must wait for the start of summer, September/October might be a good time for the away trip?

we fished Gonubie on sunday and man it was dead! water was 12 degrees and only warmed up to 16 by mid day!

::titanic:

as for the wind, we were blown all over the river.

where did you fish? Summer must come now dammit!!
 

xtc

Senior Member
howzit

for sure - summer be better for the trip - haha possibly keener on the get together earlier just for the beers portion of it - maybe we should arrange that in the meantime

ja also gonubie on sunday - but just from the side - boat still outa action till I can get some fibreglassing done - got some soft plastics back with some decent bite marks but ja other than that sunday was pretty quiet
 

mnyamane

Senior Member
My apology for the 'attempted hijack' of the thread. A week ago I was in East London on a business trip, and later took a walk on the Nahoon river point (mouth). How is fishing from the point moving upstream? I saw good stretch of working water from the right of the mouth towards the harbour. I'll appreciate your help, thanx
 
xtc wrote:
howzit

for sure - summer be better for the trip - haha possibly keener on the get together earlier just for the beers portion of it - maybe we should arrange that in the meantime

ja also gonubie on sunday - but just from the side - boat still outa action till I can get some fibreglassing done - got some soft plastics back with some decent bite marks but ja other than that sunday was pretty quiet

haha...im sure we can arrange a get together and have a couple ::slo

Ja Gonubie very quite, going to start looking out of town.
also doing some work on the boat, getting a new trailer built. just getting everything done before we go to the Transkei in Feb :fishn
 
mnyamane wrote:
My apology for the 'attempted hijack' of the thread. A week ago I was in East London on a business trip, and later took a walk on the Nahoon river point (mouth). How is fishing from the point moving upstream? I saw good stretch of working water from the right of the mouth towards the harbour. I'll appreciate your help, thanx

Hi Mnyamane.

Nahoon mouth is not to bad. it is very quite at the moment but in the summer months it starts getting better. if you can get that working water in the mouth area there will be some fish holding there. i am not over exited about Nahoon river, but if the water is right you should get fish.

cheers.
 
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