I would like to plant a seed if possible. I am a regular visitor to Hentiesbaai, where I admit to being a bit of a 'pap gooier 'of note, but my most recent visit really got me thinking about the flyfishing potential that the coast line has to offer.

My mate Gary and I started off our week long trip on a serious high note, landing and releasing 4 Steenbras in the 12 to 16kg ball park on the first morning we arrived. The relative ease in which we accomplished this made me think that had a fly been in these fish's paths, they would surely have picked it up.

We discovered the shoal of feeding Steenbras right under our noses by default.....the usual first cast 'kraaines', which Gary was the lucky recipient of! He had no sooner undone the tangle, and lifting his sinker, which was no more than 20 metres in front of him, when he was nearly pulled off his feet by an equally powerful tug on the other end. The fish took him 300 metres up the beach before saying 'how's your aunt' and snapping him off over a reef.

I couldn't help but notice where his sinker had landed when he cast though,... it was right on the last break, 20 metres out from where I was standing. I hastened back to my rod after giving Gary a consoling pat on the back, and proceeded to do a short lob cast. It wasn't two minutes later and I was heaving into another large fish. It tipped the scale at 14kg's. I had no sooner released it when Gary hooked into another fish.....12kg's. We both went on to release another two of similar size.

Now, the reason that I am posting this 'pap gooi' report is get the salt flyfishing experts amongst you opinions on the matter. 20 metres out is definitely in easy casting range. The fish were taken on the turn of the tide and into the pushing tide. They were obviously feeding in a sand gulley, on the drop off which was marked by the last break. What do you think? Possible? Floating line, ...sinking line.....fly? Your thoughts please?
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