Fishing The Eastern Cape

Nice kob for the wee fella

  Just got back from a few days up the Bushmans River, highlight was this 52 cm kob for my 8 year old son on a mullet live bait. He caug...

Light tackle Grunter hunting

  I fished a very central spot in East London, the Bonza Bay river and had some great fun on light tackle. I was fishing with local angl...

Haga Haga Blue

  Myself and a work colleague went to Haga for a throw last Friday; the weather and sea conditions were in our favour, and the fishing w...

Awesome day

  got this beauty on a popper fly was a great fight... Fish: Leerfish Length/Weight: didnt measure Caught by: Dustin Caught where: East ...

Garrick on Sand prawn

This Garrick picked me up on a prawn. I was fishing for some size Stumpies to tag when I saw Garrick smashing mullet on the surface on th...

I was shocked!

Early morning on the outgoing tide. Cast into eddy just of the main stream allowed the fly plenty of time to sink and then slow strip re...

My first raggie

Me and my uncle left the house 04:00 to the gas station!This was the first time i was going to fish for non-eds!I was exsited to go fishi...

Big Bay Gully

  Got this beaut of a gully in EP league last Saturday after loosing a rag over 100kgs with my throw of the morning which would of made ...

Over night

My friend invited me on his boat to fish with him over night at the Kei River. We got everything ready the morning and on our way it star...

447kg Day @ Fish Point

  What a Day!! It was end of January when I was last able to make it to Fish point. Weather and other commitments have just kept me away...

Birha League Kob

  Fished league yesterday and had decent conditions for a change. I tried a big throw bait for a while and no luck so moved further up th...

Open Tagged Bass Competition - Results

  The KWT Bassmasters held their inaugural Open Tagged Fish Competition at Wriggleswade Dam this past Sunday with 35 entrants from around...

Spotty caught by a girl

My 8 year old daughter "Jemma" just loves fishing. I have nicknamed her the spottie princess because she always catches spotties in the Ha...

Nice bag on throwbait

I spent the weekend camping on the beach with my girlfriend. On the last day I had one big mullet left so decided to have a throw at a sp...

Fish Point Sample

Myself,My Wife And 3 Mates Went For Bags At Fish Point On Saturday And I Managed This Female Pup Soon After We Arrived.My Mate Also Manage...

Open Tagged Bass Competition

GREAT PRIZES FOR THE FIVE HEAVIEST TAGGED BASS COOL PRIZE FOR THE FIRST TAGGED BASS WEIGHED

April 2012 non-edible online comp

Win by sending us your best non-ed catches made during April 2012. The best judged non-edible fish will win a PENN Rod. It is a brand new...

Small piggy

This small piggy picked me up last Saturday as the barometer started to rise. Other than that my mate got his first river bream and I los...

Little Spotty

At 4:30 in the morning my dad and i went to Swarries and being a little scared we were glad there was someone fishing there as well.  Aft...

What a catch

I caught this kob off my boat near hogan park across the st croigh islands in port elizabeth . I caught it on light tackle and it took me...

March online comp winners

Well done to Dylan and Roger on their outstanding catches that has won them each 10 Triton spoons sponsored by Bilimoria Fishing Tackle. D...

McArthy species

  The only fish I managed to catch on Mc Arthy last month (21/03/12) was this Koaster (300mm) I caught off-shore testing Cyril's new boat...

Open Tagged Bass Competition

GREAT PRIZES FOR THE FIVE HEAVIEST TAGGED BASS COOL PRIZE FOR THE FIRST TAGGED BASS WEIGHED

Great EL Fishing Ski Session

So After a long layoff, Hylton, Darin and myself made plans to go out to sea with our fishing Ski's off Cintsa. After facing the breaking...

Smooth Hound on dropshot tackle

On arriving at Gonubie on Sunday I started searching for mullets, but after a hour I only managed to get one. Things were not looking goo...

Silver at Palm Springs

After the storm on Friday night and Saturday morning, my wife ask me if I was still going to the RASSPL outing at Kidds Beach and i told ...

Garrick in fresh water

I went up to the top of Bonza bay river, not expecting fresh water...I thought oh well, catch a bass then!  3rd cast, BOW WAVE!! 4th cast, F...

Fish Point Rag

Fish: Raggie Length/Weight: 205cm/ 166kgs Caught by: Brendan Caught where: Fish River Point Date caught: 21 March 2012 Bait or lure used: ...

Ragged Tooth Shark Hat-Trick

FISHING NEWS - Nigel Louw, ASFN Daiwa Ambassador with three Ragged Tooth Sharks landed at Fish River Point in the Eastern Cape. Weights ...

Untagged Spotty

We were in a bit of a rush to get down to the Gonubie river ski boat club Sunday afternoon. When we got there we were met with a light an...

Nahoon Garrick (round 2)

After my successful session last week, i decided to take a mate along and give the Nahoon another bash.  This time the tide was already ful...

Time to get one on fly. What a fish!!!!

Last weekend a friend and i went down to one of our best rivers in the kei. We had a few problems with the boat motor, so decided to use the...

Amatola Bass Classic Winner

The Mercury Amatola Bass Classic 2012 stuck with tradition once again, as always, and as is evident from the photographs and descriptions to...

Black Beauty

My mate roger and his family spent the past weekend at our bosses cottage at trennerys.suffering from severe backpain (old age) lol, he on...

Nahoon Garrick on Fly

After a few weeks of only fishing the Nahoon Causeway I finally managed to find time to try a few of my old haunts on the Nahoon.  The ti...

McArthy online catch monthly comp

McArthy Baits has 10 packs of baits up for grabs each month on Fishing The Eastern Cape. 5 packs goes to the two best catches that were caug...

Fluid Bamba with motor for sale - demo model

Fluid Bamba with trolling motor fitted (Motor was installed by Wild Coast Kayaks), demo model only used once on Hamburg River. Includes fu...

2012 Amatola Bass Classic

It is time for the annual Amatola Bass Classic at Wriggleswade dam again. Please feel free to forward any enquiries to Tyrone Schwartz ...

Raggy Fun Day

My mate Byron and I with our better halves decided to go target some Raggi's off fish river point on Sunday morning. it was a good outing ...

March online best catch comp

Win by sending us your best catches made during March 2012. Can be any facet of angling. We have 20 Triton spoons up for grabs. 10 for be...

Barbel Bonanza 16-18 March 2012

February online comp winners

Well done to Clinton Stanford and Dylan Victor on their great catches during February 2012. You both win 5 packs of Riptide dropshot baits...

Mdumbi Heaven

My mate Chad and i spent five days at Mdumbi in the Transkei last week. We had perfect weather and the fishing was amazing! we caught a to...

First fish in South Africa

Had a great holiday fishing and shooting last july, truly magneficent country and some wonderful fishing, just booked again for 2013, i s...

SASAA Ladies Nationals

I filmed the SASAA Ladies Nationals last week. The event took place over three days. Day one was Hamburg, day two was at Mgwalana to Birha...

First Shark

Went out yesterday with my swaer and New Saltiga for a bit of shark fishing and managed to land this little one. I must admit though the f...

Grunter on Swimming Prawn

On holiday on Bushmans River I caught 6 swimming prawns in cast net and saved them for dusk when the peckers had stopped biting and it was ...

First Time Surf

Went out for the first time surf fishing at Hogan park and to my surprise pulled out this babe , not huge but my biggest ever. Fish: Kob ...

East Coast Yellow Belly

The next evening after landing the Bronze Bream, Black Steenbras and Blacktails we headed to the same spot. We were stull trying for a monst...

Register & you could win a Fin-Nor 30H reel

The Fishing EC site has been totally overhauled so previous users will need to re-register. Simply register on the Fishing The Eastern Ca...

Searching for Black Steenbras

Craig and myself had a good fishing evening last night. We were trying for Black Steenbras and we got 10 fish in total and 4 different spe...

Kob on Blob

2kg Kob caught 3km north of the Birha River using a little chokka blob bait on a Poseidon Ultra Light Spinning and a Daiwa Seagate 3500 ...

Monster Snapper

Myself and two mates went down to Gonubie river on Friday night to see if we could get some Raggy pups on light tackle. We had been there ...

Bigh fish on small rod

Went out early with my 10ft rod and shimano slade 4000 reel,to scratch for a few small fish. Found a nice gully and landed a blacktail on m...

Early morning Bream

My Mate Chad and i have just recently bought a nice small little flat bottom river boat and after some minor work we where able to put it...

Fat Black!

I arrived home from a braai at a mates place at 00:45 on Sunday morning, packed my fishing kit and headed off to Glen Muir. Started target...

A good Day at Fish Point

Hello All, So last weekend I had a poor trip to fish point where I only managed a 142cm Male Raggie while a 204cm & 196cm were caugh...

EL angler lands Steenbras with 22-year-old tag

FORMER ichthyology student Bruce Mann was amazed to learn that a red steenbras he tagged in 1989 was hooked 22 years later – more than 60...

Towed 750m on the river for 2 hours

Rods check, reels check, tackle check and of coarse the boat and motor then we were off in search of some Spotted Grunter and Kob. Our de...

Third outing on the fishing ski

I went out to a spot just outside of Port Elizabeth with my friend to go and target some Poenskop on the fishing ski. On our way to the r...

Pullins Bay Bream

My fishing buddy, Fluke, and myself, took a trip up to the Haga Haga / Pullins Bay area yesterday. The fishing was a bit tough as the wat...

A good day at the office!

The weather was looking good with low winds, overcast and some light drizzle. My favourite fishing conditions. Daron and Myself loaded th...

Nice Grunter from the kayak

Fished from about lunchtime and did not have many bites and while getting ready to pack up I got smashed on my Kob bait which was squid. ...

Grunter in Gonubie

Myself and Nigel went kayaking again and managed to land some fish this time. I landed this Grunter in photo along with another 3 Grunter...

Daron breaks the 100kg barrier

Myself and Daron went off to Fish Point on Thursday in search of some big sharks. I managed the Smooth Hound and Smalll Grey and Daron la...

Fish Point Smooth Hound

I had a few bites at Fish Point this time so was not a bad day at all. I managed to land this 124cm Smooth Hound and a small Grey Shark. Da...

Eastern's Kobby

My Mate,Roger,And Some Mates Went Down To Easterns Lastnight In The Hope Of Catching A Kobby Or 2 For The Pan.It Was Definately Rogers Ni...

Awesome Black!

I've been fishing for just over 2 and a half years now and have caught a fair number of blue fish. My new years resolution for 2012 was t...

Dorado 13.8kg

We went out on the boat Grand Slam from the harbour drove until we found water of 23 degrees and started trawling. I took the first strik...

Sisipho goes fishing

Sisipho Nyangwa (26) has a great sense of humor. She smiles easily, has a ready laugh and she has a huge sense of adventure. On her menta...

Kob on the drop at night

With the awesome weather we have been having lately and almost full moon. My father in law to be Chad and myself decided to go for Kob at...

Start em young

My daughter with her first fish at kinibay fishing in a small gully with little river rods on light tackle. She said that this one must b...

Blacktip in the Tkei

I hooked into this Blacktip on my fist day of holiday in the TK. It was from a spot close to mpame called manzimnyama which translates to...

Hamburg Piggy

Went on a trip to Hamburg recently in search of some Kob. Unfortunately no Kob were around, but managed to land a nice little Piggy. Fis...

Nice Bronzie at Gamtoos

Managed to clear a lip at high tide yesterday about 3km from the Gamtoos mouth; water was very warm was suprised at the immediate action;...

Early Morning Catch

Yesterday morning saw a wonderful catch of this Yellow-belly Rockcod, on a Posioden Couto rod, BG60 and 14lbs Firline. Fish was tagged an...

164cm Fish Point Diamond

We tried Fish River Point this week in hope of catching some big sharks. Daron had also just received his new Poseidon Heavy and Daiwa Salt...

Transkei Dorado

Went deep sea fishing. It was a perfect calm sea. Water temperature of 23 degrees Celsius. Had a whole sardine on drift when this Dorado ...

My first Skipjack

The day started at 03:30 with the alarm going off. My duties as host then began to make flasks of coffee for the early morning throw. My ...

Transkei Bronze Bream

At the beginning of December me and some mates went down to Msikaba in the Transkei. The weather wasn’t great and the water was dirty but...

Return of the Nuclear Chicken

With the arrival of an early shoal of big leeries in PE, team leadhead took the opportunity to capitalise on some good fishing. About 2 y...

Crackers on the bite

First cast, bait just hit the water and on! Half a hour later, second fish was landed. Fish: Musslecracker Length/Weight of fish: 84...

Debut Copper

After postponing the first outing on my birthday due to less than ideal conditions. At 5am Friday morning my boet and I met team Rawdog f...

Grunter worth the walk

After getting to the river at about 2 we decided to walk as far up the river as we could so as to try and get our baits onto the drop off...

Tagged Garrick recaptured

I caught this Garrick on the 17 November at about 14:00 on a 2,5oz mad mullet through wire plug, it measured 80cm to the fork. It was on...

Owen "bags" a new league record!

Owen Richter caught 346.5kg's of fish in 8 hours during the last Border league at Hamburg. He managed to land two big ragged Tooth Sharks...

Gonubie Point Raggie

I went to Gonubie Point Slipway on Wednesday night after work. I was hoping to find that the chocolate water of Tuesday had turned to tha...

Possible fishing ban for E Cape beaches

Johannesburg - A spokesperson for the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality says officials are considering a ban on fishing close to recreationa...

Mazeppa Raggie

Took a long weekend at the start of the month to go down to Mazeppa. Fishing was a bit slow with the wind howling the first two days. Man...

BIG Skipjack

At this stage my sun was busy fighting a big Diamond Ray off 1.515m of 42.1kg, and my rod started screaming, first i thought its a Leerie,...

Memorable catch

Great day on the river. FISH: Skipjack WEIGHT/LENGTH: + – 4kg’s CAUGHT BY: arthur CAUGHT AT: Kwelega River 17 April 2011 BAIT/LURE: D...

First size Kob

Taken in the middle of the day in warm clear water, there was hardly any working water around. Imagine my surprise when that thing pullin...

Lightning Rock Blacktip

Early Saturday morning went for a throw at Seavale from 6 – 10 with no lucky. We decided to go to Lightning Rock. Slid out a Yellow Tail ...