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Zambizi

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Well Howdy

I'm an ex pat south african living in NZ and still mad about fishing.  Grew up in durbs, still a fanatical Sharks supporter and absolutley nuts about fishing.

Extremely frustrated with the gear available to me in NZ as it's been like learning to fishing all over again for almost 10 years and I miss my grass roots fishing knowledge.

So on a mission to lead a revolution in NZ fishing I am planning to take what I've learned about fishing in NZ and apply it to what I know about how to fishin SA.   The staple LBG fish here is Yellow tail and I have branched out to shark fishing over the last 2 years and it's a completely insane way of fishing compared to how I was taught to fish for them growing up.

So seeing as I've been out of the fishing seen locally for so long and I've been spying this forum out for awhile now it seems like the friendly place I can get honest advice on local tackle and traces and what not.

I realize I'm not in SA and my advice won't be worth even R0.2 but there still heaps I can learn from here and apply over here.

I have a sneaking suspition it's a good idea.
 
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Hey Zambizi:welcomesea:Please give us more info of where you were based in Durbs,where your favourite fishing spots were,that sort of stuff-strange feeling that you sound so familiar??Could be......????
 
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Zambizi

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checkpoint wrote:
Hey Zambizi:welcomesea:Please give us more info of where you were based in Durbs,where your favourite fishing spots were,that sort of stuff-strange feeling that you sound so familiar??Could be......????
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In sweet sweet old Amanzimtoti oh how I long to go for a fish in inyoni rocks again lol.

So yeah grew up there learnt to fish there with the OLD boys who used to claim the rocks next to the gully in front of the pool, they took us under their wing and taught my brother and I everything we know.   Fished all up and down that section of coast with a bit of spearfishing done too.  My brother was a junior angler for Warner Beach fishing club for a few years till we left.  I also did a few trips up to saint lucia and down the the transkei down msikaba ways.

Rays, sand sharks and edibles where what I fished for most.  I can't remember all the names for the tackle we had but I sure as hell remember the looks on people faces when the used to see two little lighties biffing baits out with the 14ft'ers we had.

That was 10 years ago, since then been fishing here in NZ for mostly edibles until just under 2 years ago when i started chasing bronzies.

The wonderfully nightmarish way of fishing for them on the east coast here is to paddle bonito out on kayaks and throw them over board.  They're big kayaks but after having to many run ins with the toothies coming to have at look at what the yellow thing is doing smelling like fish we've decided to change tactics and not paddle them out.

They are big kayaks but seem really small in a hurry when these things show up.

This is my biggest to date.  You can't see it but the buggers really fat for the breeding season

So in order to not have any more runs in with them on the water we are going to start swim baiting.  Which they don't do here.  I'm also picking up some gear from SA to tackle the west coast here has the local gear is not up to the job of fishing the beaches.

The west coast is a whole other story for us.  Bronzies, six gills, hammer heads, mako's, tigers and hopefully we never ever hook one (but it has happened) great whites.  And they are all over in force most of the year on the west coast.  We feel we have the gear to take on the NZ record for hammer heads on 24kg gear we just don't have the gear to catch the bait, nor are we to up to scratch with swim baiting aswell.  Hence my joining here.

As of current I use a 24kg Shimano Backbone LBG rod an Old Sealine 600h on 24kg.  Our shark rigs are about 4 - 5m of 400lb suffix leader  with big ass circle game hook.  We double the leader back from the hook twisting it up good an proper and then crimp the whole thing together.  24kg clip swivel to the main line.  We also file the barbs off the hook or flatten them with pliers. 

We stick a cable tie through the eye's of a 3 - 4kg bonito and cable tie the hook between the eye's.  Depending on the wash we may use 1 or 2 10oz sinkers which we attach with rubber bands to the  leader right near the clip.  We then flop it onto a kayak and paddle it out.  This whole rig 100% of the time is a corner mouth hook up and we've had the hooks pull out but never been bitten off.  And we've hook a few submarines as which have spooled us completely.  So will be upgrading the reel to something like a tiagra 50 or 80w before the warmer fishing months roll around.

This bait delivery system is only possible on the east coast here in a few places as a good portion of it gets no swell so it's like fishing a lake.  BUT the west coast is like the transkei only colder but very rugged in places with huge swell in the best looking shark spots.

Wowo what a wall of text hope it helps.
 

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I also just found someone here selling in Exage 1446 which is awesome for getting back into serious surfcasting here.
 
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