Umzimkulu Estuary Fishing Update for October 2024
Umzimkulu Estuary Fishing Update for October 2024: Having regulars returning to the river is always fun. Expectations have been set already and everyone is far more relaxed than first-timers. We have had plenty of return visitors lately.
This gallery features fish taken recently while fishing in the estuary…
The fishing has not been fireworks like it normally is this time of the season. But the recent spate of rain might be the switch to turn things back on – bring those kingfish back inside to hunt. The catches made have been noteworthy.
Especially the decent-sized garrick that Angus caught on a live mullet. In the early morning. Only after his fishing pal Jacques released a very good-looking koblet of about 5kgs too the evening before. Also on live mullet. Jacques fish never got a photograph somehow.
Life of Prawn
An incredible filming session in crystal blue water at the Umzimkulu Estuary mouth on an incoming tide on Saturday captured another solitary tiger prawn. Going about his/her day. And swimming right into the river! Not after prancing delicately on a tree of seaweed and looking about a while. Before slinking back off along the bottom.
These guys it turns out, live out at sea. Deep. And bury themselves in the sand during the day. And at night they pop up and out and start foraging – they just eat and eat. And then go back and hide in the sand all day long.
What the hell they are doing swimming in the Umzimkulu Estuary mouth like that I just don’t know? So exposed and vulnerable looking.
Enjoy the picture show…
Maybe this guy knows the power he has got in that radical horn he has on his forehead. If any of you have not been speared by an angry tiger prawn – try avoid it. That spear goes right in. And that prawn knows exactly when you aren’t looking. And even if you were looking, the speed at which he strikes is phenomenal.
Here is another prawn story for you…
“It’s a Prawn!” on The Sardine News. Also with video.
Sardines n Sighting Maps
Channels
Websites
umzimkulu.co.za – self-catering right on the Umzimkulu River
umzimkuluadrenalin.co.za – will get you right out and onto the edge
thesardine.co.za – never miss a single sardine
