Fishing St Lucia Cape vidal
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when the turtles are having a go at your bait, then you know they are hungry.
this one was caught at mission rocks.
it was landed safely, hooks removed and set free!!!
well done to the angler for taking great care of it and the release.
shad is also present at cape vidal.
this one was caught at mission rocks.
it was landed safely, hooks removed and set free!!!
well done to the angler for taking great care of it and the release.
shad is also present at cape vidal.
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Super goeie nuus.
St. Lucia klink byna soos n St Lucia van ouds, baie shad, kabeljou, garrick & groot GT's.....opwinding kook & besighede maak goeie geld.....Kom ons hou duim vas vir St Lucia dat dit vinnig beter word as die natuur saam speel.
St. Lucia klink byna soos n St Lucia van ouds, baie shad, kabeljou, garrick & groot GT's.....opwinding kook & besighede maak goeie geld.....Kom ons hou duim vas vir St Lucia dat dit vinnig beter word as die natuur saam speel.
The shad is literally boiling in St. Lucia.
Bait set out for stumpies and pompano are taken by shad.
Seems there are some fish left in the ocean.
Good fun for the current holiday makers.
Garrick will hopefully be in their numbers this year.
Its a nice fish to catch, i do not like eating them.
Why make curry fish to spoil meat?
but that's just me, i like fresh fish grilled in butter with some salt.
Bait set out for stumpies and pompano are taken by shad.
Seems there are some fish left in the ocean.
Good fun for the current holiday makers.
Garrick will hopefully be in their numbers this year.
Its a nice fish to catch, i do not like eating them.
Why make curry fish to spoil meat?
but that's just me, i like fresh fish grilled in butter with some salt.
Just a short update regarding angling at
St. Lucia the previous week untill Sunday the 3rd July, & as shared with me by many friends.
It is reported that shad was abundant along St Lucia beach up to Cape Vidal.
Cast for cast would result in a shad being caught & even the kids had fun on the 6/7'Â bass outfits & within minutes you had your quota if you kept your shad.
Anglers who targeted stumpies & pompanos were not spared with their chokka strips & some sealice baits, & the pesky shad would pounce on it.
The lure guys also had huge fun & caught shad on a variety of lures, spoons & even dropshot.
So that really gives an idea how thick the shad was.
A friend of mine Travis drove down to St Lucia for a quick day session on early Sunday morning & to target garrick.
According to him he quickly landed a few shad, had them rigged up & slid them out.
He was bitten of twice by what he think was sharks & late in the morning he landed a good size garrick on live shad.
He had 2 more pick-ups on live shad, but each time the shad was dropped after a minute or so.
He reckons it could have been garrick, as he previously experienced this during a garrick run, whilst my personal opinion is that it was a matter of the live shad bait being slightly to big for the kob who grabbed the shad, realized it's to big & then dropped it after scaling & mauling it.
I believe some kob was also caught, though in the 2-4kg range.
So my money is on the small kob.
I must admit it is good news to hear that fishing has picked up......cause if the shad is around & hangs around for weeks to come, they will attract more bigger kob & garrick & other predators alike, & best of all......the visitors & anglers to St Lucia.
The rest is not hard to work out.....
Hope St Lucia gets a boost this season.
St. Lucia the previous week untill Sunday the 3rd July, & as shared with me by many friends.
It is reported that shad was abundant along St Lucia beach up to Cape Vidal.
Cast for cast would result in a shad being caught & even the kids had fun on the 6/7'Â bass outfits & within minutes you had your quota if you kept your shad.
Anglers who targeted stumpies & pompanos were not spared with their chokka strips & some sealice baits, & the pesky shad would pounce on it.
The lure guys also had huge fun & caught shad on a variety of lures, spoons & even dropshot.
So that really gives an idea how thick the shad was.
A friend of mine Travis drove down to St Lucia for a quick day session on early Sunday morning & to target garrick.
According to him he quickly landed a few shad, had them rigged up & slid them out.
He was bitten of twice by what he think was sharks & late in the morning he landed a good size garrick on live shad.
He had 2 more pick-ups on live shad, but each time the shad was dropped after a minute or so.
He reckons it could have been garrick, as he previously experienced this during a garrick run, whilst my personal opinion is that it was a matter of the live shad bait being slightly to big for the kob who grabbed the shad, realized it's to big & then dropped it after scaling & mauling it.
I believe some kob was also caught, though in the 2-4kg range.
So my money is on the small kob.
I must admit it is good news to hear that fishing has picked up......cause if the shad is around & hangs around for weeks to come, they will attract more bigger kob & garrick & other predators alike, & best of all......the visitors & anglers to St Lucia.
The rest is not hard to work out.....
Hope St Lucia gets a boost this season.
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Lekker man.
sounds like the old days........"on Sunday 7 Garrick were landed at st lucia"
This is how we had it in the past.
Seems like there are still some fish in the ocean.
sounds like the old days........"on Sunday 7 Garrick were landed at st lucia"
This is how we had it in the past.
Seems like there are still some fish in the ocean.
Mike Smith
Sealiner
Spool-Song wrote:
Ja nee daar is mos 'n paar manne hier soos Marthin en Kenty wat see siek raak as hulle net'n shopping trolley stoot met skewe wiele!
Respect to the skipper! He knows when to run!
Ja nee daar is mos 'n paar manne hier soos Marthin en Kenty wat see siek raak as hulle net'n shopping trolley stoot met skewe wiele!
Respect to the skipper! He knows when to run!
Just another update.
Locals claim, its a shad run like not seen before...
Shad, shad and more shad.
They bite on anything present in the water.
even live shad are eaten by their own kind.
not much garrick landed.
plenty of black tip sharks around.
Locals claim, its a shad run like not seen before...
Shad, shad and more shad.
They bite on anything present in the water.
even live shad are eaten by their own kind.
not much garrick landed.
plenty of black tip sharks around.
Pappa Roach
New member
Thanks for the updates, great to see some action again.
Hi Guys.
Just a report back on my trip to St Lucia from 24 June to 1 July 2022. Arrived at Vidal Friday arvie and loadshedding kicked in at about 16h30 and did not come on after the expected two hours. Our phones were pap and the electricity blackout lasted for about 28 hours. But we didn't mind...made a plan and warmed our supper, which was a breyani flown in from Durbs, on the braai stand. It was a good evening spent around the fireplace and catching up with family who came in from Durban. Saturday morning due to the power outage we kept it local and went to Jabula beach. As we made our way onto the beach we were greeted by a local who was just leaving on his bicycle chockful of shad. The water was on its way out and I didn't expect the shad to be biting. Shad trace and on dad...water was drifting north with a medium breeze blowing north and a big bow in the line and then you feel that unmistakable bite of a shad ... pointless striking as you are just removing the bow in your line...just reel as fast as you can and then the line straightens and tightens and on dad .. the shad were fast and furious. That was a precursor of the days to follow. Caught our quotas in no time. Sunday we found ourselves back at Jabula Beach. Looking south to Ingwe beach we could see that the beach was quite busy and looking north to Main beach was the same story. Surprisingly it was relatively quiet at Jabula beach and the shad were again on the bite. We did slide live baits but 7 and 8 ounce wire grapnell was not holding. it was just shad, shad and more shad without the crowds that I have always encountered when shad is on the bite. Saint Lucia beaches are lovely and more so when the fish are biting wild and you have acres of space on either side of you and no one to tangle with. Monday we made our way to Mission Rocks filled with hope of catching something else other than shad. Water was two days from full springs and the water ran out quite quickly. We fished big fleshy baits and chokka prawn combos hoping for a stumpy or rock cod or speckled snapper but somehow they were scarce. Caught a few baby rock cod and stone bream. I was busy baiting up when I heard my name being shouted above the sound of the crashing waves. I looked to the right and my fishing Buddy's rod was in full tilt ... 80 lb braid being tested. He was about twenty metres away from me...I made a dash to him and on my way there it looked like he was stuck in the bricks but as I got near i could see that the tip was bouncing and this "rock" was pulling string..his drag was yielding line. I told him this must be a speckled snapper from the way it was fighting. My Buddy tightened up and started to bully this beast which was keeping low in the water close to the sea bed. About thirty metres out it came close to the surface and from it's colour it looked like a big rock cod. This fish dived again and kept us guessing its numberplate. Applying maximum pressure my Buddy started to win the battle and at about twenty metres out this beast surfaced and for the first time we could see it was a turtle. We took a decision to land this beautiful creature and to safely remove the hook rather than cutting the line and leaving the creature to swim off with a hook in its body and trailing metres of leader and braid. My Buddy fought the turtle expertly and managed to nurse it into shallow water and over a sandy patch amongst the rocks. I got into the water and grabbed it and I was almost pulled off my feet from the immense power of this creature in just a few centimeters of water. I managed to hold on and lifted it out of the water. This turtle came to snack on a whole baby squid and got hooke on the left shoulder. The hook was removed and after a few pics it was released and swam off strongly. A picture of the turtle was posted above by Mr Willen Wikkel Spies.
A special thank you to Mr Spies and Mr Ben Reinders for keeping me informed on the road conditions and sea conditions on my way to Saint Lucia. They are the go to guys if you a ever panning a trip to saint Lucia and surrounds. Thank you Gentlemen.
Part two to follow...
Just a report back on my trip to St Lucia from 24 June to 1 July 2022. Arrived at Vidal Friday arvie and loadshedding kicked in at about 16h30 and did not come on after the expected two hours. Our phones were pap and the electricity blackout lasted for about 28 hours. But we didn't mind...made a plan and warmed our supper, which was a breyani flown in from Durbs, on the braai stand. It was a good evening spent around the fireplace and catching up with family who came in from Durban. Saturday morning due to the power outage we kept it local and went to Jabula beach. As we made our way onto the beach we were greeted by a local who was just leaving on his bicycle chockful of shad. The water was on its way out and I didn't expect the shad to be biting. Shad trace and on dad...water was drifting north with a medium breeze blowing north and a big bow in the line and then you feel that unmistakable bite of a shad ... pointless striking as you are just removing the bow in your line...just reel as fast as you can and then the line straightens and tightens and on dad .. the shad were fast and furious. That was a precursor of the days to follow. Caught our quotas in no time. Sunday we found ourselves back at Jabula Beach. Looking south to Ingwe beach we could see that the beach was quite busy and looking north to Main beach was the same story. Surprisingly it was relatively quiet at Jabula beach and the shad were again on the bite. We did slide live baits but 7 and 8 ounce wire grapnell was not holding. it was just shad, shad and more shad without the crowds that I have always encountered when shad is on the bite. Saint Lucia beaches are lovely and more so when the fish are biting wild and you have acres of space on either side of you and no one to tangle with. Monday we made our way to Mission Rocks filled with hope of catching something else other than shad. Water was two days from full springs and the water ran out quite quickly. We fished big fleshy baits and chokka prawn combos hoping for a stumpy or rock cod or speckled snapper but somehow they were scarce. Caught a few baby rock cod and stone bream. I was busy baiting up when I heard my name being shouted above the sound of the crashing waves. I looked to the right and my fishing Buddy's rod was in full tilt ... 80 lb braid being tested. He was about twenty metres away from me...I made a dash to him and on my way there it looked like he was stuck in the bricks but as I got near i could see that the tip was bouncing and this "rock" was pulling string..his drag was yielding line. I told him this must be a speckled snapper from the way it was fighting. My Buddy tightened up and started to bully this beast which was keeping low in the water close to the sea bed. About thirty metres out it came close to the surface and from it's colour it looked like a big rock cod. This fish dived again and kept us guessing its numberplate. Applying maximum pressure my Buddy started to win the battle and at about twenty metres out this beast surfaced and for the first time we could see it was a turtle. We took a decision to land this beautiful creature and to safely remove the hook rather than cutting the line and leaving the creature to swim off with a hook in its body and trailing metres of leader and braid. My Buddy fought the turtle expertly and managed to nurse it into shallow water and over a sandy patch amongst the rocks. I got into the water and grabbed it and I was almost pulled off my feet from the immense power of this creature in just a few centimeters of water. I managed to hold on and lifted it out of the water. This turtle came to snack on a whole baby squid and got hooke on the left shoulder. The hook was removed and after a few pics it was released and swam off strongly. A picture of the turtle was posted above by Mr Willen Wikkel Spies.
A special thank you to Mr Spies and Mr Ben Reinders for keeping me informed on the road conditions and sea conditions on my way to Saint Lucia. They are the go to guys if you a ever panning a trip to saint Lucia and surrounds. Thank you Gentlemen.
Part two to follow...
Thanks for the update and heads-up.
Its been wild, just like the wild west.
Guys have been bitten off today on 300lb wire.
twice in a row, so must be zambies.
Real fun in the sun.
snoek are still being landed from shore, so in a sense, its been cooking all along, one just needed to make the right choices, on which area to fish.
Its been wild, just like the wild west.
Guys have been bitten off today on 300lb wire.
twice in a row, so must be zambies.
Real fun in the sun.
snoek are still being landed from shore, so in a sense, its been cooking all along, one just needed to make the right choices, on which area to fish.
We just had to get in on the action!!!!
we did a short trip down to st lucia.
the shad were wild!!!!
we did have some fun.
we did a short trip down to st lucia.
the shad were wild!!!!
we did have some fun.