Mike Laubscher

We started of very early with trolling small lures along the North Durban Beaches and we got our 1st Snoek (Queen Mackeral)which are still hanging around very late in theri season. As we went past waypoint 49 (My secret) we found a huge shoal of these fish which I has happened at the same waypoint several times in the past few months. We started to throw small spoons at the shoal and spent 3hrs there catching Snoek after Snoek. Once the feeding frenzy died off, we moved to deeper waters on the Norther side of Durbans No.1 Reef and we got sveral small King Fish and our first Tropical Yello Tail this summer.

Fish Species: Queen Mackeral & Tropical Yellow Tail
Bait Used: Spoons & Vertical Jigs
Tackle Used: Light Jigging Sticks with Penn Accord Rels
Method Used: Small Spoons and 50gram Jigs
Water Depth: 5m inshore - 30m on Reef
Water Temperature: 26 degrees
Wind Direction: North East
Wind Speed: 6knts
The 1st Snoek of the Day
The 1st Snoek of the Day

Our 1st Tropical Yellow Tail this Season
Our 1st Tropical Yellow Tail this Season


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Mike Laubscher

About The Author: Mike Laubscher

Company: Blue Water Charters - Durban

Area Reporting: Durban. KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

Bio: I have been fishing since I was 5 years old in Durban and have fished many places around the world and in South Africa, but Durban is my home waters. I fished competitive for many years and I have been running my own charters since 2008 with 2 companies and 2 boats, fish a variety of styles and target a variety of fish species in both Salt and Fresh water, have many published articles in several magazines on fishing. Love nature and outdoors, Am very conservation minded and have a passion for birds. I am crazy about big Tuna, Marlin Fishing and Game Fishing, and also love light tackle spinning, am a total lure junkie. Represented my province in fly fishing for many years and am also pro staff for Rapala/Shimano. I want to write a book on fishing one day. 3 items left on my fishing bucket list, guess then a new bucket list will be in order. As a writer I have my own quote: \"I love taking people fishing because it releases their inner child, and in doing so keeps my inner child alive.\"

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