Lekker fresh fish!

On Sunday 15^th May, At and I launched “Avanti” out of Richards Bay. We were hoping to get a snoek or so with the perfect weather conditions. We stopped at the pipeline and caught a few maasbankers and shad before heading north towards Dawsons. On the way up, I rigged up a few rods with small rapalas and feathers. When At throttled back, I let out the lines and we trolled north in the backline.

It was stone dead so we made a deep turn and saw a few shoals of redeyes on the surface. Knowing that these primo baits were in short supply, I upped the lines and spent some time filling the bait box. After a while, the shoals disappeared and we continued trolling. The radio was silent and no one had seen good fish yet so we sounded around in the shallows and found a small reef to try for some bottoms. We were in luck and managed some nice rockcods, including a yellowbelly, and some other species.

With some fish to eat, we slowly trolled south and about an hour later, we had a pull on the fillet on japan. I pulled in a snoek of around 4kg. Great, mission accomplished. I rerigged and At made another turn. Again we had a pull on the same bait but pulled the hook. After a few more turns without another pull, we headed shallower into the backline and were rewarded with another pull. This time it was a good snoek of around 7kg. It was getting late, so after another turn without a pull, we upped lines and headed back home with some Lekker fresh fish.