We launched from Durban Harbour at around 06h00. I have just fitted my out riggers and was eager to test them. It was raining on the way out of Durban harbour mouth but once we gout out to sea the rain was only over the land and so the whole day we could see the rain, but did not get wet. The water surface temperature averaged around 24 deg. C, there was little swells and no wind.
We started out South of Durban and caught some Mackerel to use as live bait, after that I set my spread and with my new out riggers and we started trolling some small lures. It was very quiet and when we were heading North over Reef no.1 we had a triple hook up of some Eastern Little Tuna. I continued all the way over the flats until Umhlanga Rocks were we turned to head south and I changed over to trolling the live baits which we pulled all the way to the Umgeni mouth along the 20m contour line with no takes.
We then shot back to Reef no. 1 and fished on the bottom with light tackle and caught a lot of smaller fish and a huge variety of species like Copper Bream, Englishman, Slinger, Rockod (On Drop Shot), Stumpy, Black Tail, Trigger Fish etc. . I put a large Eastern Little Tuna out as shark bait on a balloon with no takes. We headed back at around 15h00.
