{"id":6100,"date":"2019-08-05T18:50:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T16:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishbook.co.za\/?p=6100"},"modified":"2019-08-05T19:37:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T17:37:53","slug":"pennington-winter-offshore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishbook.co.za\/?p=6100","title":{"rendered":"Pennington Winter Offshore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Winter offshore fishing on the KZN South Coast can be exceptional, or it can be tough. It all depends on the sardine run activity and sea conditions at the time. A few weeks back there were some fantastic GT catches off Pennington, they seemed to be everywhere, and none were under 20kg’s. I was itching to get out and get stuck in to my favourite species in my home waters, but my usual boat partner had meetings and was not available for the week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GT’s were coming out daily on the South Coast<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When we finally got out last week, the GT’s had disappeared and the action was over. We spent some hours working the shallow inshore areas, where the bait concentrations were high and where the GT’s had been the previous week. This tactic produced some very good yellowfin tuna, with the biggest coming in at around 34kgs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yellowfin tuna were the only game fish that we could find the following week<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After having some fun with the tuna, we decided to move out to some reefs and try drifting over them with live maasbankers out. I did some light jigging as we drifted over the structure and had some fun with bottom species. I landed up catching five species of rock cod on small 60g jigs, some of which were big enough to put up a good fight on the light tackle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yellowbelly Rockcod caught on a jig and light tackle<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

While it was a good session and we had plenty of fun, I was a little disappointed not to get into some GT’s. The lesson that I learnt a long time ago came back to me. When the fish are biting, you need to go fishing. The following week is not going to cut it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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White edged rockcod, or Captain Fine, caught on a jig<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Winter offshore fishing on the KZN South Coast can be exceptional, or it can be tough. It all depends on the sardine run activity and sea conditions at the time. A few weeks back there were some fantastic GT catches off Pennington, they seemed to be everywhere, and none were under 20kg’s. I was itching to get out and get stuck in to my favourite species in my home waters, but my usual boat partner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":6101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ia","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.fishbook.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Yellowfin-Tuna-CU.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5965,"url":"https:\/\/www.fishbook.co.za\/?p=5965","url_meta":{"origin":6100,"position":0},"title":"I Met The GT’s of Farquhar","author":"Rhuan Human","date":"July 15, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"We all know or have met someone who ranks somewhere on the alphabet of the \"celebrity\" scale and all of us, even the ones who deny it, will drop name at some point about these chance encounters. \"Did I ever tell you about the time I had dops with the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Fly Fishing"","block_context":{"text":"Fly Fishing","link":"https:\/\/www.fishbook.co.za\/?cat=23"},"img":{"alt_text":"I Met The GT's of Farquhar","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fishbook.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Unknown-1.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fishbook.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Unknown-1.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fishbook.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Unknown-1.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fishbook.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Unknown-1.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fishbook.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Unknown-1.jpeg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fishbook.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Unknown-1.jpeg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8907,"url":"https:\/\/www.fishbook.co.za\/?p=8907","url_meta":{"origin":6100,"position":1},"title":"2020 Sardine Run So Far… Updated, Sat 20th","author":"Craig Thomassen","date":"June 18, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Today is the 18th June 2020, usually around this time of year we are starting to get excited about the imminent arrival of the sardines in KZN. 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