Reply With QuoteClassic thanx Jock0, to correct myself then "tenderizing mallet" as in see attached picOriginally Posted by jock0
Must have been a big bull nosed mullet? I bet when you hit your finger with it it became a bast@rd mullet
Steelhead
Nada... thats why i give advice on how to catch them on bait!
Steelhead
Classic thanx Jock0, to correct myself then "tenderizing mallet" as in see attached picMust have been a big bull nosed mullet? I bet when you hit your finger with it it became a bast@rd mullet
PK
I am haunted by waters - Norman Maclean
Steelhead
Nothing better than live bait! Otherwise chokka.
A whopping 41cm!! BOOYA!
Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line;
Let me, less cruel, cast feather'd hook, With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook,
Silent along the mazy margin stray, And with fur-wrought fly delude the prey
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Scythe
I'm with Mark on this one. At Stillbaai there is nothing better than a smallish live Mullet. Dont go too far for the fish either. The area just up from the road bridge is best.
Enjoy
MC
Live mullet - or any other smal fishy you can get - gorries and streepies works great. Streepies also a great bait to fillet and it is a lot of fun catching them - try on fly as well.
If you only have bait - make sure you have enough to rebait every ten minutes or so. Chokka and pillies the best - the chokka keeps a bit longer when the small fishies are pecking away. Small fish taking you bait is not a bad thing - the action attracts other fish and you just need to bait up a lot.
Fillet the pillie and put on a lekker big bait, a grunter might also put on a surprise visit. For a lot of info regarding bait presentation etc. visit www.sealine.co.za Lots of super info for bait fishing.
Steelhead
Live mullet just above the bridge as well as quite a way above the bridge where the steep rocky drop offs are...Swinging a whole sardine with the current right on the bottom works too..
Cheers
"I see the fly float gently down out of the air and land on target. For less than an instant I think, how can this be? Did I actually do that? But there is no time to contemplate philosophy or magic or the rewards of hard work. A trout is on the move..." - Ed Engle, Fishing Small Flies
Steelhead
As has already been suggested here, it is very hard to go past a live bait, but having said that when livies were difficult to get, fresh Karranteen butterflied and folded wrong way round was awesome.
We used to fish this all the time at Doonside, Illovo and the Umkomass River mouth in the day. If the 'Daga salmon were there we got them!
Also used to find the colder the night, the better chances we had of success - mostly winter fishing along the Natal South Coast.
Hope you come right - they are awesome eating!
Hookjaw
Much of the advice regarding Cob sounds about on the money and my vote goes for the live mullet, but it can be boring if you are just sitting there waiting. Some good fresh chokka bait does work good also, but a nice octupus leg works so much better... an old toppie once showed me a trick that I tried whereever I could. It is always a shame to kill an octopus for a leg or two, so this old toppie told me to cut only one or maximum two legs off the octopus and then let him go. This way the octopus can grow back the leg or two and go on to make more offspring!!! Maybe some would say it is cruel, but then again its better than killing it!!
On the other hand I enjoyed endless fun catching cob on dropshot, but you have to use braid and a good rod/reel set-up to realy work.
Anyway, enjoy the fishing!!!
Hookjaw
Markus,
Cut off one leg. It grows back again. You dont have to kill then.
There is 7 times more water than land! Surely The Lord meant man to fish 7 times more than work!
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