Tough Fishing in Cold Water
Offshore Fishing
Report – Durban – 27th November 2018
We had an 8 hour
charter booked for tomorrow which we moved forward to today due to the big SW
wind forecast for tomorrow, we launched very early to avoid the big NE wind
forecast for this afternoon. Inshore waters are still green and cold under
21deg.C so we decided to head out deep where the SST charts showed warmer water
and once we got past 500m depth about 40km from shore we found warm blue water
around 23.5degC but the current was screaming S-N from the deep to the
shallows. We found lots of bird life and even small bait fish jumping but no
fish. I was really disappointed as the water looked so good. Eventually we decided
to head back shallow and put some light tackle squids on the corners. We got
back into shallower cold green water and it was not long before the light
tackle gave us some consolation prizes in the form of 1 small Dorado and after
that the Bonnies kept us busy with us catching 1 after the other all the way
back to port and ended up with quite a lot of them with only the last 2 hours
producing us fish. Not ideal fishing but at least some action.
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