False Bay Tail

Seeker1

Senior Member
For those who want to catch some tail, this will be the weekend to do it.
There should be fish at Robbin, Dassen and Rocky Bank, and the weather looks ok at this stage.
So no more "wish I could catch some yellowtail" posts, get off your butts and go catch some.
 

Fin-S

Sealiner
After this weather I don't know about tail, but snoek should be around. I think you would have more success venturing outside of the bay though.
 

Ledge

Senior Member
There might be one's and two's around in the bay, but outside will have a lot more tail me thinks...
 

Decker

Senior Member
Seeker1 wrote:
For those who want to catch some tail, this will be the weekend to do it.
There should be fish at Robbin, Dassen and Rocky Bank, and the weather looks ok at this stage.
So no more "wish I could catch some yellowtail" posts, get off your butts and go catch some.

NOW WE TALKING!!! I like it Seeker1!

Time for that Tail comp again?
 

pr0t0c0l

Senior Member
Lots of tail at dassen today. 5-7kg class. and some snoek too. This NW has warmed up the water nicely. Sat shud be brilliant for dassen.
 

Fishy Boy

New member
Thanks yes ,saw to much 5 meter great whites in the bay bigger than the rubberduck. So i got a bigger boat.

 

Will be there definitly tommorro.Never caught a tail yet just lots of snoek. Will try again tommorro.

 

Good Luck everyone and thanks for all the help.

 

:wfish
 

Patrick

Sealiner
Windfinder is showing a 15/16knt NW for Sat and 17/18 for Sun and a 2.5 swell at 9 secs. I could be wrong but RB will probably be a lumpy fish?
We were at Robben yesterday in 13knts with 3-4m and it was interesting around Whale rock on a small duck. Plenty birds working but didnt see a single fish. The weather forced us off our plan to fish the afternoon feed.
 

Seeker1

Senior Member
Patrick, sorry you did not come right at Robbin, on Tuesday the fish were active with the pushing tide from about 10 in the morning until just after the the high tide in the afternoon, which is a normal yellowtail thing.

As often happens at Robbin the fish and birds were very shy, and often its only a single sterretjie that indicated the shoals of tail. And you had to approach the shoal very slowly not to put them down. The best approach was to stop up wind of the fish and drift down, takes a bit of patience, but it works. We never saw a fish on the surface, just followed the birds.

You can always see by the way it flies when a sterretjie is over a shoal of tail.

Maybe I'm just getting old, but I enjoy the days like Tuesday were you have to work for you fish, much more than the days I can pull 10 fish in a hour.
 

Patrick

Sealiner
No worries Alan, thats tail fishing. Funny thing is we fished the same pushing tide and approached the birds exactly like that, and either drifted right into them or had them moving towards us. Being boat alone we were able to put spinners over them, in front of them, underneath them without any sounding, but nada. We even let the spinners sink deeper according to the height of the birds from the water but still nothing. The birds were moving in lines as they seem to do when following a shoal so i'd like to believe the fish were still there.

Who knows, i probably still need many more lessons from you. Actually make that a definite.
 

Decker

Senior Member
Ok, so I'm taking Seeker1's advice and Tail-Time is putting to sea tomorrow (albeit in trouble with the wife!) But a tail fisherman's got to do what a tail fisherman's got to do, and that's go FISHING! Got that built-in man instinct to "hunt and provide" for the family.

I'm sure that I'm not the only weekend warrior itching to get out there after this weeks reports.

So who is going where?

We are either going Rockies or Dassen.
 

Georgy

Senior Member
Decker wrote:
Ok, so I'm taking Seeker1's advice and Tail-Time is putting to sea tomorrow (albeit in trouble with the wife!) But a tail fisherman's got to do what a tail fisherman's got to do, and that's go FISHING! Got that built-in man instinct to "hunt and provide" for the family.

I'm sure that I'm not the only weekend warrior itching to get out there after this weeks reports.

So who is going where?

We are either going Rockies or Dassen.

Rocky Bank
 

Seeker1

Senior Member
Can't fish this weekend got weighmaster duties for the WP Bass regionals, but if I was fishing I would go to Robbin. Dassen will have lots of boats trolling and running over the fish and thats no fun. Rocky Bank will be the same and with a 15 knot NW thats not the place to be on the smaller boats.
 

BluFlu

Sealiner
eScape2 (if she starts after the long break ^^..) will be launching at Millers and hitting the banks. A lumpy sea does not scare me :)

Apparently it has been a VERY good day at RB today for those there with beeg fish in the 6 to 8 kgs class - nuff said!
 
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