With much anticipation the Sunday finally arrived which was to be the beginning of our road trip or for me hoping it will be a epic road trip considering i know what potential the area has. First stop was decided to be Witsand then leaving for Port Elizabeth.
The morning itself started off well while getting bait until the bakkies keys was lost in the lagoon
. It being a Sunday and a generous beach goer allowing us to make a phone call we soon had the cavalry by us. Only problem they were not equipped to help with bakkies keys. So started the phoning around for a 24hour locksmith.
All contacted could either not help with bakkies type keys or passed us on to someone else who was also not prepared to work on a Sunday though its 24 hour services? Only 1 contacted was keen to help but only on the Monday. Leave the bake parked there overnight or try someone else was our only other option. Last person we could think of was contacted who soon put us on someone else who was able to help. So with assurances in hand or hoping so we decided to go on with our bait collection as we stopped when we realized the keys was lost.
A few hours later guy makes his appearance and removed bakkies ignition and to cut a new key for new ignition as well as calibrate new key/alarm to ignition and transponder box etc. By now it was about 4 hours later roasting in that hot sun. All we could now was wait for guy to return from his workshop with everything etc.
So on we proceed with the bait collection session. Finally the guy arrives and installs everything much to our delight and relief. With enough bait and roasted we left. Got home to shower and pack bakkie we were about 5 hours late already but no stress as we on holiday.
Got to our first destination being Witsand after 23h00 i was too tired to fish. One in the group who was not with during morning/afternoon ordeal decided to fish and was rewarded with a big stump nose during the night on octopus bait fishing at The Blokke.
At almost first light and tide receding we fished the area as we have done on a few occasions before. Preparing to fish Port Elizabeth for Poensies / bronze bream that was on my bucket list never having caught one before i had removed old line from my reel and filled up with fresh thicker line in anticipation of a Poensie picking me up i made my first cast in Witsand resulting in a small overrun with sinker landing almost in front of me. While untangling this small mess i got picked up by something small resulting in a stump nose. Quality fresh bait. Next cast again with both me and uncle on. This lasted a few minutes with the tide now receding faster and me walking to a different spot. New spot delivers a nice size cape stump nose. Soon after we left for Suzy's or now Anchorage restaurant where i fish to the right closer to the mouth and other 2 in front of restaurant. By now water was low with no bites.
We made breakfast and left after 09H00 for the next and final leg of our road trip that will be until Friday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTlZxAL5208
The morning itself started off well while getting bait until the bakkies keys was lost in the lagoon
. It being a Sunday and a generous beach goer allowing us to make a phone call we soon had the cavalry by us. Only problem they were not equipped to help with bakkies keys. So started the phoning around for a 24hour locksmith.All contacted could either not help with bakkies type keys or passed us on to someone else who was also not prepared to work on a Sunday though its 24 hour services? Only 1 contacted was keen to help but only on the Monday. Leave the bake parked there overnight or try someone else was our only other option. Last person we could think of was contacted who soon put us on someone else who was able to help. So with assurances in hand or hoping so we decided to go on with our bait collection as we stopped when we realized the keys was lost.
A few hours later guy makes his appearance and removed bakkies ignition and to cut a new key for new ignition as well as calibrate new key/alarm to ignition and transponder box etc. By now it was about 4 hours later roasting in that hot sun. All we could now was wait for guy to return from his workshop with everything etc.
So on we proceed with the bait collection session. Finally the guy arrives and installs everything much to our delight and relief. With enough bait and roasted we left. Got home to shower and pack bakkie we were about 5 hours late already but no stress as we on holiday.
Got to our first destination being Witsand after 23h00 i was too tired to fish. One in the group who was not with during morning/afternoon ordeal decided to fish and was rewarded with a big stump nose during the night on octopus bait fishing at The Blokke.
At almost first light and tide receding we fished the area as we have done on a few occasions before. Preparing to fish Port Elizabeth for Poensies / bronze bream that was on my bucket list never having caught one before i had removed old line from my reel and filled up with fresh thicker line in anticipation of a Poensie picking me up i made my first cast in Witsand resulting in a small overrun with sinker landing almost in front of me. While untangling this small mess i got picked up by something small resulting in a stump nose. Quality fresh bait. Next cast again with both me and uncle on. This lasted a few minutes with the tide now receding faster and me walking to a different spot. New spot delivers a nice size cape stump nose. Soon after we left for Suzy's or now Anchorage restaurant where i fish to the right closer to the mouth and other 2 in front of restaurant. By now water was low with no bites.
We made breakfast and left after 09H00 for the next and final leg of our road trip that will be until Friday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTlZxAL5208
. Not cheap but did budget in advance towards most things before leaving. For now only the bakkie replacement key ( R2500 ) was not in the budget.
