Mike Laubscher

We launched at 04h00 in the hope of getting another early morning GT or 2, the water surface temperature had dropped to 26 deg. C and the was the lightest of NE winds blowing. It was not very long when we got our 1st hit and after 15 minutes of heavy fighting we landed another superb GT. The angler who landed this was the same one that landed the prize GT the morning before and he told me that even though this GT was smaller, it gave a much harder fight.

We then headed to Lake 2 where we got a smaller Sea Pike, and then we went to Lake 1 where we got another smaller sea pike which were to be our last fish for this trip and we started making our way back to the launch site, by this time it was so hot that we decided to stop the boat and took a really refreshing swim in some shallow waters and got back to the launch site at around 11h30. After helping someone with car trouble we went back to Kosi Cabins had lunch, packed our cars and headed home.

Whilst in Lake 2 we cam across some big schools of bait fish and decided to target these for a while to see if there was any game fish feeding of them, and they could be identified by dark patches in the water, when we went to the 2nd one we started casting and when we were right on top of it realised we were fishing for a hippo which stuck it annoyed head out of the water, and so we quickly moved out of the way.

All our fish for the entire trip were safely released, and we had a super sport fishing adventure, although we did not catch a huge number of fish most the fish we got were large and so we had good quality fishing as opposed to quantity fishing.

I will do more trips here in the future and anyone interested can contact me.

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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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