Fishing St Lucia Cape vidal

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Dr halibut hoffman

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willem wikkel spies wrote:
Dr halibut hoffman wrote:
Awesome report boet..Nice fish as well..epic.

On that griek, I never see the insides of a big one nor get to weigh them, keeping only one in a few years which was gill hooked and a young fish also, but anyway, purely out of interest, was the big creature a male or female, did you check ovaries and also did you get a length measure (fork length) on it?

Shot again for your posts..lekker let me know..very curious.
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yip we did inspect the fish.

it was found to be a female.
she has 2x bags of eggs.
I was quite surprised about the size of the bags.
they are quite small compared to a salmon of the same size.
they were full of eggs too, thus she did not have time to spawn.
did not measure her length, fork length should have been around 112,5 cm

hope this helps
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It does for sure..thanks boet..

My biggest griek on plug was post spawn in January in the Eastern Cape.. Thin, skraal belly, but a huge fish, 145cm fork length (with witnesses LOL) but estimated to weigh only about 14 kgs at most..It just goes to show how the fish fatten up for the spawn and put on oil mass and egg mass, all while going up north to spawn..And then we see the same fish in summer again after more than a 1000k swim south to their summer range, and after the long dash back, she will be lean and skraal again..but on the chow and honger vir plug! I wonder what my PB would have weighed up by you, My mates dad reckoned she would be a 20/21kg.. I'm going to start leaving number plates in them so you guys know which ones to send back home..;) I love the leeries..the are the gentlemen of the sea, unless you are a baitfish! You can play them on light tackle as they don't like to cut you off, though the big ones ja they are dirtier fighters..when they are wild there is nothing like it, they way they light up and talk to each other in the hunt with their silver and black colors..Like GT's do..but more so..I love em..Getting less and less and less though..

But ja no shot, epic report mate..Good fishes!
 
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willem wikkel spies

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Ballyhoo wrote:
Thank you for the daily update...the last few days was like a saga that I just couldn't wait for the next update.
Excellent catches all round.

Hope to meet you on the beach someday.
I am so wanting to get my PB GT.
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maybe we will meet.
for now my st lucia trips are over for the year.
we now need to work to get more money for other fishing trips.
 
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willem wikkel spies

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DD wrote:
This report was spectacular. Thanks for sharing...wow. All dream fish.
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my pleasure.
its never easy, other trips was bad for me, and just like that....it all comes together!!!!

St Lucia is a special place.
all my PB on rock and surf has been caught there.

i dont know if i will better them.... the weights are now getting wild.

salmon 38kg female

garrick 15kg female

kingie 50kg unknown, 35,7kg unknown
 
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willem wikkel spies

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time for a update here...…….

a quick visit to our flat in July school holidays.
I had to do some things there...….but got a even bigger surprise!!!

so we fitted a braai next to the wooden deck.
a alarm system...…
a flood light.....

but the biggest surprise was, that our double bed base of 18 months...….was crushed!!!!
seems like we had some heavy guests!!!

so I had to build a new bed base.....this time whales can have a ball on the bed!!!

not much fishing was done. and no fish was caught!!! :(

at least the flat is all good to go which paved the way for a fishing trip, to fish and not to work!!!
 
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willem wikkel spies

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so we again had a short trip from the 31st July to the 6th August.

it must be noted that this is still the beginning of the fishing season for the north coast.
we did manage to land some fish, not a lot, but some.

initially the water felt ice-cold!!!
but heated up later in the trip.

what was interesting, was the amount of sea lice, which were on the beech, all of them dead!!!
sand banks were moving of a rate of knots

so either the cold water, caused them to die, or the sand movement!!!

shad were about but not in great numbers.
the shad were also quite big at times, never too big for bait.
but for smaller fish these big shad would have been a problem.

we managed to land
2x shad sharks
1x diamond ray
1x Garrick of about 9kg
some decent shad

we also had some pulls from the tax men!!!

weather was great, but feeding fish was scarce.

the Garrick I landed, was the only one for the week.
 
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