Durban Harbour/ Victoria embankment

[WazzyP]

I don't have any pictures of a skad, but its quite a slick looking fish. As for the gurnards, they are ugly mo-fo's, but they do provide some good fun.

A sinking line will be fine, although I do prefer and intermediate. Depending on tides, where we fish, etc, it can can be fairly shallow, and with a sinking you'll be pulling it along the bottom. Which is by no means a bad thing since lots of the fish feed on prawns on the banks. An intermediate just gives the option of fishing the bottom, or at various other levels.

[clarias]

I'm also wondering what you guys are referring to as Skad/Scad- I thought you were just spelling shad wrong!

My Van Der Elst says there are four species known as Scad- all in the kingfish family (Carangidae), closely resembling Maasbanker, and one looking like a slender kingfish.

Are these the fish?

Could you guys post a bit on how they're caught? I've never seen any info on catching them on fly...must be fun on a light rod.

Cheers

[Spilogaster]

Scads look like little bonitos/tunas imo.... they'll give you a good rev on a 6wt !!!
We got them in the yacht mole on small glassy patterns.

Just google images for "torpedo scad"