Wahoo Winter Game Fish Spearfishing Competition

The Wahoo Winter Game Fish Spearfishing Competition is coming up in a week and a half. So far the weather has been good and the seas 100s. So with a little luck it will be a hum-dinger!

This week end is the Hibiscus comp and that should be good, I know the guys will be hitting it hard to see if they can scoop the R4000.

On the home front the swell is small and the vis looks ok. there is a small west coming and that will help keep it clean for the week end. But I am not sure there will be any surfing ... or great surfing going down.

See you in the water

Coatesman

Hibiscus Gamefish Open

Hi everyone,

This is just a reminder about the annual Hibiscus Gamefish Open which is set for this weekend, on Saturday 14th June. This is going to be a excellent comp with all the good fish that have been about. I have heard reports of good catches of Wahoo, Sailfish and even some Kingfish and Cuta. The odd Garrick has also been sighted which bodes well for those that are doing a shore dive.

The area is open from the Tugela River Mouth in the north to Port Edward in the south. This is a big area and remember that the cut off for weigh-in is at 3pm sharp. No fish will be accepted into the weigh-in area after this time. The cash prizes are as follows:

Biggest gamefish: R4000
Second biggest gamefish: R1500
Third biggest gamefish: R500

Note that the above prizes will also include spearfishing gear. There will also be prizes for the biggest crayfish, the biggest bottom(minimum 3kg) and more... There will also be a lucky draw that includes 2 holidays worth +-R3500 each and some smaller prizes for R20 a ticket...

Your R200 entry includes the following:

A braai pack with salads, rolls, etc at the venue after the weigh-inn.
A T-shirt with graphics designed by the legendary Darryl Hattingh.
1 free entry into the lucky draw.

So if you havent entered yet, please go to www.hibiscusunderwaterclub.co.za and get an entry form from the downloads section and follow the instructions on it... Otherwise phone Carl at 084-5769018 or Daan at 082-4130746 to enter...

Cheers

Carl Werner
HUC Spearfishing Officer

Epic Weekend in the Sea.

If you were not around you missed out!! ..straight!

Saterday has to go down as one of the nicest days of the year. The wind was almost zero the whole day the sea was clean and warm with a small clean swell running.

I took my lighty Braiden for a dive in the morning on the high tide off one of the points. The dive was really great. We did not see any fish but the conditions just made it a really good dive.

We then grabbed some pancakes before hitting the surf, it was perfect! Not to big for Braidy and big enough to get my old carcus moving. We surfed for about 2 hours went home and crashed. We woke up for lunch and went back down for another hour or so, and it was still going off.

When I got home a mate Glen called up saying he had shot a nice Cuta and wanted to weight it on the club scale. He came round and we weighed the fish, it was 16'4kg ...not a bad fish in any ones book.

The dive has been generally queit, but if you do get a cuta its generally a good fish. This fish was shot in only 8 meters of water near a drop off. There were apparently a couple fish in the shoal aswell. ...right place at the right time.

Hopefully the wind holds off and we get some waves in the next day or so.

Coatesman

Should be Spearfishing!!

Its Friday

Its Clean

There are FISH around

I should be out Spearfishing!!!!

& I dont feel like working!!!

.....Whats new???

And what makes it worse is the thought of my mates who have flexible jobs (who earn 2 or 3 times as much as I do) are out diving ...all day!! I am not jealous promise :-)

Anyway it looks like tomorrow will be good aswell so we will be out there 4sure.

Tonight is Salty Club nite ...its just good ol braai social thing, so bring the family and friends ... nothing like a little bit of humor!!

Catcha

Coatesman