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Article 9 - 15 June 2007
The week's fishing has been extremely slow but with the tide coming right towards the end of the week, things started to hot up. Elf, as normal, were quite thick on the Marine Drive but most of the light tackle fishermen were looking for Leeries and Cob which were eluding them most of the week. With the hot weather that was forecast for the weekend and with spring tides on us my brother and I knew that the fishing would hot up on the weekend. We decided to try the Gamtoos river as my Dad has a shack there. Weather conditions were fantastic and the fish were playing the game. We made our way to a sand rip that we know well that often produces fish on spring tide. Within the first 5 casts my brother and Anthony were into small Leeries on dropshot. A few casts later Lando landed a 58 cm Cob which we tagged with another smaller one 5 minutes later. Roz and I got there 10 minutes later and Roz got a Cob on her first cast on an olive leadhead. The little Leeries then came gale and between the four of us we caught between 35 and 40 Leeries.
Then Anthony hooked and landed the fish of the afternoon working an olive leadhead deep down. Anthony hooked and landed a 15 pound Cob which he tagged and let go. This was a beautiful catch on 8 pound tackle and quite early in the season to catch fish of this size. The end of June is what we call Big Cob season so we are expecting a bumper season this year. The nice thing about this winter fishing is that you can fish the beginning of the tide for small Leeries which you are basically assured of catching if you know where they are and then go and fish for big Cob later on in the push. All in all it has been a good start to the winter fishing and we expect excellent catches of Cob this season because a good season usually follows a good season and last season's Cob fishing was fantastic.
We are going out again now at the Gamtoos River to get some more good catches.
Tight lines and happy fishing.
The week's fishing has been extremely slow but with the tide coming right towards the end of the week, things started to hot up. Elf, as normal, were quite thick on the Marine Drive but most of the light tackle fishermen were looking for Leeries and Cob which were eluding them most of the week. With the hot weather that was forecast for the weekend and with spring tides on us my brother and I knew that the fishing would hot up on the weekend. We decided to try the Gamtoos river as my Dad has a shack there. Weather conditions were fantastic and the fish were playing the game. We made our way to a sand rip that we know well that often produces fish on spring tide. Within the first 5 casts my brother and Anthony were into small Leeries on dropshot. A few casts later Lando landed a 58 cm Cob which we tagged with another smaller one 5 minutes later. Roz and I got there 10 minutes later and Roz got a Cob on her first cast on an olive leadhead. The little Leeries then came gale and between the four of us we caught between 35 and 40 Leeries.
Then Anthony hooked and landed the fish of the afternoon working an olive leadhead deep down. Anthony hooked and landed a 15 pound Cob which he tagged and let go. This was a beautiful catch on 8 pound tackle and quite early in the season to catch fish of this size. The end of June is what we call Big Cob season so we are expecting a bumper season this year. The nice thing about this winter fishing is that you can fish the beginning of the tide for small Leeries which you are basically assured of catching if you know where they are and then go and fish for big Cob later on in the push. All in all it has been a good start to the winter fishing and we expect excellent catches of Cob this season because a good season usually follows a good season and last season's Cob fishing was fantastic.
We are going out again now at the Gamtoos River to get some more good catches.
Tight lines and happy fishing.