Vis Report - Mapelane Lighthouse and Vidal

Just a quick Vis report...

I was down at Mapelane this weekend, this vis is terrible and diving was not possible. The swell was also huge and there was some bad weather out in the distance.
There was some activity out there. Bonnies/Tunas were jumping and were tending to hang around on the pinnacles.

Vidal produced mostly small couta, with reports of the Vis being "not really clean but divable".

Cheers
Warren

Cape Vidal report

Andre Badenhorst and Dylan Banwell went down to Cape Vidal on Tuesday morning and got a few fish.
Andre got a queenfish and a couta, Dylan got two couta shown below. They were continually been harassed by Zambezi's, one of them brushing past Dylan's fins trying to get his couta. They lost some fish to sharks. They did however see shoals of big couta in the distance.

Bait Bomb - Final Product

Just thought I would show everyone what the baitbomb finally looks like.



Note the SS Hinges and Lock



Levin Still Producing

Terry Dean & Billy Macarthy went out on Wednesday and did really well. Fish were shot at Levin Point on the shallow reef, which still seems to be holding fish.
Might have to brave the bad weather this weekend and get out there.



Terry & Billy





 

Petingo

Kevin & Ray went fishing at Petingo yesterday morning (Tuesday 15th).
The water was clean, but not crystal.

Ray caught a nice kingy and Kevin got a Couta.

There should be a few more patrolling that wreck for us spearos




Ray on the right, and his 28.5kg Ignobilis Kingfish

 

Snoek at Vidal

I got down to Vidal on Saturday afternoon, after hearing a story or two of lots of fish coming out.
Sunday we got up nice and early, hoping to get the early morning run of snoek.
We made sure we launched first....and it paid off.

I was the unlucky sod who lost “rock paper scissors” and had to buggy first. I was grinding my teeth away
As Neil and Dylan were shouting “boat boat” – fish after fish, while I had to buggy. In 30 minutes they
each had 3 or 4 fish! Finally it was my turn, as I jumped in, there was a snoek right underneath the boat. Bang J.
All that tension disappeared after shooting that fish.
The fish soon wisened up and started thinning out. They were already a little skittish to start with. I think the previous few days of the Durban guys nailing them, gave them a phobia of spears.
We tried to get some big couta and moved to the deeper water a bit later in the day. We only managed to get small couta.
All the snoek we got were fairly decent size between 4-7kg.
I wonder how long they will stick around.

Myself with 2 of the snoek we got on Sat



Jonie and crew with a queeny and some snoek.