Offshore Fishing
Report – Nawty Girl – Durban – 26-11-2017
Stunning weather today with flat seas, which was great
after all the lousy weather we have been having, we were supposed to do the
trip tomorrow but the forecast looked terrible so we moved it to today.
Inshore the water is still green, but deeper out we found
crystal clear blue warm water and there is still a lot of litter floating
around which is annoying as it keeps snagging the lures, none the less there was
less litter than our last trip.
Our trip today was a short 5 hour trip with a family from
Gauteng and we launched from Wilson Wharf at 05h00 and made our way out to sea
to be back by 10h00. It was not long after we set our lines at about 06h00 when
one of the reels started screaming with a serious bend in the rod and a big
fight followed, I thought it was a large Yellowfin Tuna by the way the line
went deep and about 1 hour later we found that we had tail hooked a Hammer Head
Shark with one of the Rapalas, no wonder we had such a big fight on our hands
and the angler was very excited with his catch, we had teased him about taking
so long but he did well with a tail hooked catch.
This was not to be the end of the surprises and when I
got my hands onto the Shark I found that the leader had wrapped around the
lower tail fin with a single wrap so even a brief moment of slack line would
have resulted in the fish coming off. With the Shark safely released and back
in the water we continued out to deeper waters and managed to land a small
Yellowfin Tuna, by then time had run out and we headed back to port.
#game-fishing #tuna #game #deep-sea
#fishing #charter #Durban
