Fishing over the week holiday

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Andz

Senior Member
hi guys

all im gonna say is damm it was 1 hard week of fishing...

started on the 26th april satday in long beach..its just south of mapalane

caught afew under sized pompano's ..all released...

picked up 1 nice sized shad...just under 3kg's

lotsa baby sandsharks..

 

sunday afternoon..fished blue lagoon....had a nice run wit a garrick...

saw 2 nice sized garrick come out & decided to try wit the light tackle SL30 & assasin lite....didnt know i had a kink on my line....& guess wot....lost my 1st garrick for the season

tried drop shotting in the river...had 1 nice chase...not sure wot it was...mite be a shad cos the 3" chatruese shad got bitten off...other then that...i didnt see anything else happen....later in the evening...was sad seeing the guys take baby grunter & salmon ....i dont think they where even 15cm...guys where bagging them

tuesday/wednesday afternoon fished umkomas river mouth....

water was very brown

lotsa juvey fish grunter shad & salmon

i caught afew...but threw them all back....

& yet again the locals where even catching 2 at a time....& bagging them

guys where even bagging the 10cm baby kingies...was a really sad site

i even approached them & asked them bout the fish being undersized....lets say it didnt go too well....

 

thursday/friday nites.....fished the new pier at the beach front...

the pinky mafia was there....but caught afew shad inbetween

there where 2 learner fishermen wit us...& they had to 2 good runs, didnt tie there knots well....& the rest was history...suspect to be kingies....took out 1 underize 1 earlier

yup it was a good week...being at the coast....watchin the sun rise's feeling the sand between the toes...
 
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Andz

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sunrise at long beach....was such an awesome site

plse excuse the pic quality
 

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skrops

Sealiner
Awesome Andz,

fishing is still awesome even if you catch just a couple of small ones, but being there is the best.

sad that we always hear about the local taking undersized fish.

thanks for the feedback.
 
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Andz

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yup skrops...being there is the best part...& the bonus is getting sum fish

on the dropshot it was fun catching the small fish...even fun wen the drag goes off....

yup i seen for myself how they catch them...
& u know wot i fished the whole week...didnt see 1 parks board person...
 
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Andz

Senior Member
thanx reefman & Keane..
reefman, not sure which rockcod it was......was a nice fight on the 8"6 dropshot rod..caught on a sardine bait though......didnt think i was gonna land it....

wish i had my SLR camera wit me..the sceney at longbeach to the light house was beautiful....
 
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Reefman

Sealiner
Not pointing fingers or anything, but just as a matter of interest Andz...

the reason I asked about the species of Rockcod is that we need to be careful about which species we catch, because not all Rockcods are equal...

For instance...

a White edged Rockcod - minimum size is 40 cm, Bag limit 5
a Catface Rockcod - minimum size is 50cm, Bag limit 5
a Yellow belly Rockcod - minimum size 60cm (thats a BIG fish!), Bag limit 1

2c and just FYI ... use it, don't use it.
 
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Andz

Senior Member
yup reefman
yeah i know.....i normally release all the rockies i catch
even if they over size...but this 1 was injured & hooked badly
& they normally take really long to die...


thanx Homie...wen we hooking up
 
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