We launched the morning at 05h00 and headed out of Durban Harbour, where we stopped to collect some live bait. There was a lot of bait fish around and we quickly filled up the hatch. There was a lot of large Shad around as many of our live baits came up with only the heads left.
The sea was flat, there not much wind, the sun was out and it was a lovely day. The water was dark and turbid, and the surface temperature averaged 24 deg. C. Later on the wind picked up and the water was choppy.
We headed North to the old Well and then started trolling lures from around 60m and continued North until Umdloti at the 170m depth and then turned South and continued until 250m. There was no surface action and we passed several boats which had caught nothing. I then started heading towards Durban and we had a pod of around 15 Dolphins swimming with the boat on the bow, and there was a baby in the pod which shadowed its mother all the time. Such a beautiful sight; and the baby was so cute, perfect in every way and fully formed, just smaller.
The Dolphins travelled with us for quite some time, and immediately after they left us 3 reels started screaming and we had a triple hook up of Yellow Fin Tuna on the Rapala's and Sailfish Catcher. They all weighed in just under 5kg (11lbs). We continued towards Durban and at the 170m mark we had a double hook up of Oceanic Bonito's which weighed in just under 6Kg (13lbs). All caught on light tackle. After that we headed back to port.
