Help to get you into the game
some grunter surface action
They call them ”Grunters” in the Western Cape, “Tigers” in Port Elizabeth and “Spotties” in East London. Nevertheless, it is an awesome fish to catch and it gives you a great fight.
As I relocated a few times during my life, I’ve encountered many different instances fishing for Grunters with prawns.
Western Cape woes
I am no Dynamo, David Blaine or some other master of illusion. Enticing a rise or fooling an unsuspecting ghost of the flats to take interest in my offering, a surface lure, having the spotted grunter believe that it is a prawn just doing a bit of backstroke along the surface, oh the disappointment.
The Eastern Cape anglers probably shake their heads in disbelief at my lack of regular success, you don’t know how easy you have it with your swimming prawns and weedless rivers (or so I thought – edit 2016, see update success).
Jay vertel ons hoe
Daar word gereeld hengel vrae aan ons gerig en dit verskaf ons groot genot om bietjie van ons kennis en ondervinding te deel met ander.
n Aanhanger het die vraag aan Jayson gerig : “Ek wil bietjie kunsaas hengel terwyl ek in Namibia is, help asseblief uit met basiese benodighede, addisoneel tot stok en katrol”
We received the following question :
“I need to get a little more distance off the rocks and in the surf. What can look at in the line of rods and reels without it getting too complicated but enough to be able to hold my own when fishing in the sea. I have looked on the web at the fishing store and am confused as there is a big selection. Obviously light rods and good reels is the way to go.”
Hi xxxx
There is a huge selection of Rock & Surf tackle out there, and multiple setups to suit everyone’s needs.
This is a topic I am asked about quite often. Lure fishing and more importantly, success at it, takes fishing to a whole new level. I have managed to gain some experience and picked up some tips along the way and we have not looked back since.
The tackle we use for our artificial lure angling in the estuaries and rock and surf spinning.
So we got stuck into this whole artificial lure angling thing quite a while ago. I was glued to the TV each time the ESA team had a “dropshot” fishing session. I loved the idea of the challenge, outsmarting a fish to have a go at your lure; and of course, the ESA guys were catching loads of kingies and wave-garrick in KZN, seemed so easy, but little did we know that it is a bit more difficult the further South you went. Regardless, I was convinced that we were going to catch dozens of fish down in the Eastern and Southern Cape…
Fishing with a non-return slide. The term “sliding” is used to describe the form of angling where a piece of bait is slid into the water instead of casting it. This enables the angler to get larger baits into deeper water. This facet of angling can be used effectively by all anglers, regardless of their level of skill or expertise. Once you have mastered the basics you will be pulling some big fish in no time. It is mainly utilized to target larger fish species and sharks.
The use of soft plastics, or otherwise known as dropshot, is already a very well-known and tested way of lure fishing. When it comes to this art there truly is no definite right or wrong.
Twitch, bounce, twitch, bounce, twitch, ON!!!
We have found that for targeting kob, this is the most effective retrieve to use. Make no mistake, we have hooked kob on flat-out retrieves whilst specifically targeting leeries, but nothing comes close to the turnover ratio of the “The Bounce Retrieve”.
The “knock” is what we call the unmistakable bite from a kob (not to be confused with a “bump” which generally just describes a bite from a fish). It happens in a heartbeat, one moment you are twitch retrieving your lure and then knock, knock, BOOM!
I have never been one for the most expensive tackle and have always enjoyed being a middle class fisherman. I would much rather say a few curse words over a broken reel than fall down on my knees in agony over a broken rod tip.
