Overberg Angling

On Saturday 2010/02/06 Reza, Wep, Andrew (visiting guest from Zimbabwe) and myself had a fantastic day at Strandfontein. In total we had 20 pick-ups and landed 14 fish. Although the wind was not playing along, the "best fishing day" forecast was spot on.
The fish landed were as follows:
Reza, Smooth hound of 75cm, Diamond ray of 155cm, weighing in at 34.2kg, a hammerhead of 79cm and a small bronzie of 25kg.
Andre, 2 bronzies both in the 25kg range. This is his first shark he had ever caught.
Wep a monster of a black stingray of 178cm weighing in at 184.6kg, 3 bronzies of 30kg each and a duckbill of 79cm weighing in at 8.8kg.
I landed a hornback ray of 79cm weighing in at 9.5kg and 2 bronzies also in the 30kg range.
Between Wep and myself we were pick-up by huge sharks on 6 occasions which resulted in the sharks bitting the 200lbs in half.
All the fish were safely released.
A huge thumbs-up for T-Line stepped tapered leaders. We used the average of 0.85 to 1.50mm. These leaders took a lot of punishment from massive sharks and held under emmense pressure and strain. Only a shark teeth could break the leaders.
The first picture is a Wep fighting the back stingray which lasted 50 minutes.

The bait Wep used to hook the black stingray, a fillet of Skipjack rapped in chokka. A nice piece of bait Wep.

I was brave enough to get the stingray out of the waves.

A beauty, Well done Wep a brilliant catch.

Now where are my hooks, Wep is removing the hooks. Please be warned, besides the black stingray having two huge crushing plates in its mouth, it also has sharp teeth.

Reza and his PB Diamond of 34.2kg, check the smile. Well done Reza. Reza tried the whole day for cob and instead of a cob taking the chokka bait, he got a flatty.

Andrew (our guest from Zimbabwe) with his first bronzie. As he says the tigers in Zimbabwe have teeth, but they don't get this big. Need for speed he said afterwards. Well done Andrew.

Wep and his duckbill.

Excellent catches and well done all around.

Great stuff Wep for landing your ray in under 1 hour - I think I owe you a steak at Jaws in Agulhas now

Reza - they just keep on getting bigger and bigger...great.

Congrats Wep and the others. What an awesome day's fishing... hell, I should have been there....snif, snif
Wep, dis die grootste swart pylie wat ek nog op die kant gesien het, baie geluk

En ek weet die scoreboard tel nou seriously in jou guns op die 25 species comp.

Smaak my die res van ons gaan nou bietjie catch up moet speel!!!!

Well done guys - great catches overall!

WELL DONE Guys!

Wep nice work out,you got there very well done.
Rezza,glad to see you also got a chance to fish or was the skipper off duty yesterday.
Martin,well at least you got some as well,sorry about those big ones you lost,they were more likely some by cathes!

But all and all well done,soon i will come and join your guys.

Congratulations to all you guys, some good catches and a real variety of fish. Reza/Wep hoz' your backs feeling today?

Hey Manne julle maak my darem baie jaloers, was amper daar na ons Komp maar kon ongelukkig nie by julle uitkom agv die brand wat daar was nie. Baie Baie mooi