Spearfishing Update

Well the west has hit and so has the swell from the tropical storm south of Madagascar. With it all has come clean water, can you believe it!! The last time we had swell the water was also clean!! The forecast shows that there will be a small window of opportunity tomorrow morning and Saturday might be good for a surf. Although the swell does not turn south till Sunday nite so it might be Monday before the surf cooks.

On the dive front I am not sure when we will get out, well not with the swell being biggish.

Anyway I was reading the report from last year today and how similar the conditions have been over the last few days. Some snoek, the odd cuta and the small grunter shoals.
Spearfishing Report March 13 2007

Ciao
Coatesman

P.S - did you check the Cyclone and Tropical Storm tracking links I put up?? They are in the right hand menu bar.

Scotty's 1st Cuta

There is a mile stone in a spearfisherman's life and thats when he gets a Cuta. Ok I suppose for the guys in the Med its a gropper or black tail. But on our coast it is definitely a Cuta. Some guys go months with out a cuta, I know for some it was years.

For myself it was acouple years, I started young and had no one to show me the ropes, I fumbled along trying to learn from mates who were suffering the same fate. I remeber being up at Cape Vidal and a boat with some spearo's came in. They must have had at least 5-8 cuta each some were in the 20kg mark. I thought these guys were hero's.

It must have been 5years after that when I finally got up to Leven pnt and got some for myself.

Anyway Scotty has been chasing Cuta around for the last few months, and just has not come right. We decided to hit a quick bug dive and wammo he gets a cuta ..... in fact I dont think he even got buggs to day? Just fish on the brain!!

Well done Scotty...

P.S a mate dropped a monster cuta off Umhlanga last night, he fought it for a while but it tore off. Bummer it got away ...but good to here some big fish are still around.


Coatesman

Spearfishing ...when?

Well it looks like the poo is going to hit the fan again ..... the swell forcast is calling 3m swells??
The south west should hit late tomorrow and blow till friday with another south over the weekend.

The swell only turns on the weekend and monday morning is looking epic for a surf ...... and with low being at 8 bells on monday morning it should go nuts :-)

amped for some waves

Coatesman

Serious Weather On the Way

After a fairly good weekend weather wise .... thats excluding the fact that the water was green and cold!! Well the surf was at least on the good side, we surfed some great lefts on Saterday and Sunday.

But now there is some serious weather coming.

There is a cyclone in the channel and a strong cold front down south. These two are going to smash into each other and at this stage it looks like the cold front will smash the cyclone.

A mate sent me a new link that tracks cyclones ...really cool!
Indian Ocean Cyclones

It will be interesting to see if this sorts the sea out or if it puts us on dry land for another week.

Cheers

Coatesman