We launched from Durban harbour at 05h00 for a short 5hr trip. It was a nice morning and very little wind. We headed straight out to the 35m depth contour. On our way out the harbour mouth we saw a huge Queen Mackerel (Natal Snoek) jump several meters out of the water chasing a smaller fish. When we got to the 35m mark I saw a small Dorado jumping out the water.
The water surface temperature was just below 25deg. C and I set my spread of 6 lines, the boat had just got to speed and 3 reels started screaming, we landed 2 Eastern of around 3Kg (6.6lbs), and the other line was something huge and we got smoked with the whole spool emptied.
I put the 2 Eastern little Tuna out as live baits and trolled to 60m where we hooked up a large shark. The water here was a little warmer.
Whilst pulling the live baits I put new line on the smoked reel and set the spread again and we continued to troll hooking up several Eastern Tuna and then it all when quiet at around 07h00 and the wind started to shift and pick up. All our fish were taken on shallow run Rapala's.
We then did some bottom fishing but the 2 of the guests started getting sick and so we trolled some more yielding only 1 more Eastern Little Tuna before we went back in.
