Cape Town Question
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Ok heres a verbal explanation: Get onto Muizenberg main road towards fish Hoek. Youll go past the False Bay College on your left, past the train station also on your left, and then about 500m along youll see a small parking lot on the right(you gotta keep your eyes open or youll miss it), park in there and you can walk axross the road and youll see the cottage. Go under the train line. Put your bait on, cast and then wait for it..... ON DAD! Cant give you any more help than that. Good Luck
Hiya
I've fished Baileys EXTENSIVELY and can HIGHLY recommend the spot. Here's some tips which might help:
Bailey fish's at its BEST in a strong SE'erly wind. Its pretty much THE only place you can comfortably fish when the winds blowing THAT strong. Summer months producing kob, elf, steenbras and blou-koppe, with Winter having galgoen and the odd steenbras. I've never had good results here in a NW'erly. Prawn is the bait of choice and the long casters generally have a much better result here.
At night, muizenberg corner, right at the start of the rocks is EXELLENT for large steenbras. Its very easy fishing, as you're very close to your car and the surf is fairly flat, making wading easy (just stay away from the rocks!!)
Hope that helps!!
Regards
miles
I've fished Baileys EXTENSIVELY and can HIGHLY recommend the spot. Here's some tips which might help:
Bailey fish's at its BEST in a strong SE'erly wind. Its pretty much THE only place you can comfortably fish when the winds blowing THAT strong. Summer months producing kob, elf, steenbras and blou-koppe, with Winter having galgoen and the odd steenbras. I've never had good results here in a NW'erly. Prawn is the bait of choice and the long casters generally have a much better result here.
At night, muizenberg corner, right at the start of the rocks is EXELLENT for large steenbras. Its very easy fishing, as you're very close to your car and the surf is fairly flat, making wading easy (just stay away from the rocks!!)
Hope that helps!!
Regards
miles
This is what I know a Bloukop to be... a Steentjie! - Spondyliosoma emarginatum. There's nothing in van der Elst's books about a Bloukop!?
When the Steentjie males go into breeding/courting mode, their heads have blue/black vertical blotches on them. They grow 45cm and max out at 1kg, but maybe I got the wrong fish??
When the Steentjie males go into breeding/courting mode, their heads have blue/black vertical blotches on them. They grow 45cm and max out at 1kg, but maybe I got the wrong fish??
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Silent Bob
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we need a name that fish section? like whats a spotty and a bronsie? and are they edible or can they eat u?
Hey Silent
I guess it depends where you from too.
In some places a bronzie is a Bronze Bream, where other anglers (and maybe thanks to ESA) a bronzie is a Bronze Whaler shark.
A spotty in some parts of KZN refers to a spotted grunter, as opposed to a spotted gully shark.
I also notice the Western Cape tend to use the Afrikaans names for things eg. Leervis or Leery, as opposed to Garrick, and Elf as opposed to Shad.
In KZN a Steenbras is generally known as a pignose grunter.
I guess it depends where you from too.
In some places a bronzie is a Bronze Bream, where other anglers (and maybe thanks to ESA) a bronzie is a Bronze Whaler shark.
A spotty in some parts of KZN refers to a spotted grunter, as opposed to a spotted gully shark.
I also notice the Western Cape tend to use the Afrikaans names for things eg. Leervis or Leery, as opposed to Garrick, and Elf as opposed to Shad.
In KZN a Steenbras is generally known as a pignose grunter.
Dubsketeer
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[color="#006600"]BRENDON[/color] wrote:
heheheheeee gives new meaning to that phrase... djy vang alweer draad....
heheheheeee gives new meaning to that phrase... djy vang alweer draad....
Hiya
Sorry for the slow reponse, been out fishing!!
Anycase, Brendon has it correct. The large white stumpnose often caught in FalseBay, have a blue tinge on their head, hence the nick-name Blou-kop.
Bloukop steenjie is a totally different specie and for those that are interested, the area in front of Sunny Cove station, off Jagers Walk in Fish hoek, has PLENTY of them!! Great little fish for the youngsters to catch!!
Big elf or shad are also known as draad-elwe or Blue/Blou elf, once again named after the blue-ish/greenish tinge the large elf/shad has on their back. Baileys Cottage is well known for these large elf/shad, which are quite capable of biting through your thinner diameter steel trace!!
When fishing for blou-koppe (large stumpnose), we use a peice of white foam a couple of centimeters above the hook. I good idea is to put a short shank 2/0 hook INSIDE the float. I've caught numerous blou-koppe on JUST the float!! They grab the white float instead of the bait. Similarly, i've hook and landed large steenbras as well as kob on the float and when landed, the bait is actually untouched..........
Regards
miles
Sorry for the slow reponse, been out fishing!!
Anycase, Brendon has it correct. The large white stumpnose often caught in FalseBay, have a blue tinge on their head, hence the nick-name Blou-kop.
Bloukop steenjie is a totally different specie and for those that are interested, the area in front of Sunny Cove station, off Jagers Walk in Fish hoek, has PLENTY of them!! Great little fish for the youngsters to catch!!
Big elf or shad are also known as draad-elwe or Blue/Blou elf, once again named after the blue-ish/greenish tinge the large elf/shad has on their back. Baileys Cottage is well known for these large elf/shad, which are quite capable of biting through your thinner diameter steel trace!!
When fishing for blou-koppe (large stumpnose), we use a peice of white foam a couple of centimeters above the hook. I good idea is to put a short shank 2/0 hook INSIDE the float. I've caught numerous blou-koppe on JUST the float!! They grab the white float instead of the bait. Similarly, i've hook and landed large steenbras as well as kob on the float and when landed, the bait is actually untouched..........
Regards
miles