Colourful wrasse caught at 10 Downing street, Uvongo, South Coast KZN

Went wishing at my favourite spot , 10 downing street, Uvongo and caught this rather colorful fell, a type of wrasse earlier today (Sunday may 24)

used a no 10 hook and prawn bait.  Trace was a standard christmas tree trace with two hooks and a 2 ounce sinker..  caught this fella on the top hook, and he had me tangled in the rocks for a while, but I just held on and he pulled the sinker loose himself.

Surf was small, and there was no side wash at all. I  had a few other bites, but this was the only one that took the bait nicely.







Now on a more serious note, the issue of the proposed marine protected area  (MPA) for the south coast is still happening, but it has moved further north to the area around the Aliwal shoal, apparently some where between Umkomaas and Scotsborugh, but I will need to confirm this.

The guys from the Department of environmental affairs seem a bit too quite for my liking, and nobody is being helpful, which makes me a bit nervous, as the original issue apparently came about because an Environmentalist group in the Scotsborugh area requested this.  Once again things are not clear, and nobody is talking openly so I will need to do a bit of old fashioned investigation...

When I know more I will let you all know whats going down with the MPA for the KZN South Coast.

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Fishing at 10 downing street

10 downing street is a local fishing spot also referred to as LOLI  POP lane by some locals in the shelly beach / Uvongo area  along the South Coast of  KZN South Africa.

On 2 May  2015 I was fishing just to the left (North) of Lolipop lane, and the guys slightly more north caught this nice Black tip  King Fish, on crayfish tail, using a 3 O hook and a running trace.

I was jealous as you can imagine, coz we only got a fair sized bronze beam, but were using cracker shrimps and pink prawns.   I should not complain, as  my mate and I were targeting Bronze Bream any way, as we often get them at 10 downing street.

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Fishing Orange Rocks Uvongo KZN South Africa

Garic by Algy Dooling

Ernest throws back Hammer head

Fishing Orange Rocks in Uvongo along the South Coast of KZN South Africa is always a great experience

 I have not blogged here a while, as I have been busy writing my book on #FUFISM or Functional User Freindly Integrated Social Media, and took a break to clear my mind, as I was getting stuck and thinking in SQUIRCLES.

Pieter Herbst with his Yellow tail.

Yesterday Pieter Herbst caught this 4 Kg Yellow tail  on live shad

Ernest Botha with Hammer Head Shark

and today (30 November 2014) a few shad came out that were also put out as live bait.  the fish that cane out today at about 05H40 were  a Garic caught by Algy Dooling and a Hammer Head shark caught by Ernest Botha.

The Shad Season opens again tomorrow, (one December 2014, and I am looking forward to eating a few smoked shad before they disappear  until June / July next year.  

 Sunrise at orange rocks this morning.

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Fishing at Orange rocks - 27 June 2014

Fishing at orange rocks, 27 June 2014

Went down to Orange rocks, at Uvongo along the KZN south Coast this morning and was rather disappointed.  The wind was up just a little, and it was rather over cast so I was thinking that there should be a shad or two in the district, but there were not even peckers.  Some other guys were using bait and they were bringing back their bait just as they had thrown it out.

 Threw a spoon for about ten minutes then decided that I was wasting my time and came home.

The water looked so nice at orange rocks, but there were definitely no fish looking for something to eat, so we took a drive to St. Mikes at the swimming pool.  We sat in the car and checked the water out.  There was quite a bit of sand churning up in the waves, and that is usually a bad sign for the fishing, so we watched the guys surfing for a while, then came home.  The waves were not big at all, but they were surfable and there were about 8 or 10 guys surfing.

Maybe later this afternoon....things may be a bit better.