Cowabunga to you too.

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IF IT BLEEDS,.........WE CAN KILL IT.

Welcome to fishwrecked,

What sort of fishing do you mainly do over there?

Cheers,

Adam

if thats how you say it, Cowabunga mate

be the only S.African in S. Africa...ha ha....

just kiding....my other halfs work is all S.Aficans...and whenever i travel you can't miss em.

what you interested in mostly? good statring point

hi adam, we do all the same as what i've seen in your pic, marlin, game fishing, and bottom fishing. i was just looking at the pics and videos and you also  get mahi mahi there, known to us as dorado, what sort of size or weight do you get them in? and what do you guys use? what fishing do you do adam?

lol damo, yeah i have the whole country to myself!!!!! LOL oh nice man, yeah ufortunately some of my fellow countrymen you cant miss.. maybe a good thing sometimes maybe bad, who knows. lol I fish for anyhting hey, mainly game and bottom, although I do target sailfish, and yourself?

welcome to the site mate

what part of South Africa are you from?

my parents are both from SA

i have travelled to a few of the cities like cape town(awesome!), east london and jo berg

and have been on safari things and some place called port alfred

 its an amazing country

tx fisho, i'm from durban hey, and your folks? yeah cape town is pretty but species of fish seem to be limited down there. jo-burg, you have a dam up there buy no ocean, poor people that come from there dont know what they missing.... LOL

oh nice port alfred is lovely, its much further south than where i am but still good fishing there..

tx its is, just has a long way to go as a country tho.

my parents are both east londoners

yeah port alfred is wicked, i did abit of yakking cos i was there for my uncles wedding and he hired out a house on that canal system thing

have you heard of the former F1 driver Jody Scheckter by any chance?

oh awesome man, east london is if not the most beautiful part of sa.

its wicked there you right, we get 70kg coppers there what a fight!!!!!

yes i have heard of him, i follow F1 very closely, why do you ask tho fisho?

have many good memories of S.Africans from my travels....many hangovers and other stuff i wont mention....ha ha

sounds like you have many common interests as us over here, most people split between north/south species but the way you fish is somewhat simliar overall.

but the northeners are spoit for choice..adam and Co. (you will get to know them over time) are your men as they live in the best fishing patch in Oz I reckon, around exmouth. 

me personally i like lure and soft plastic fishing and will throw at any size fish.

Hey mate, Im also South African. Use to live in Durban but left many years ago like many others. I bet its changed heaps since I was there about 7-8 years ago??? Im also new here (on the forum and Perth) so from one newbie to another, welcome!

awesome damo, yeah we can be wicked party animals sometimes, and what you dont wanna mention i think eveyone knows tho.....LOL

yeah pretty much, yes we have the same here south have less species than the us in the north, but their fish are bigger.

I'll take my time and get to know them LOL, i saw some features bout exmouth, take it its awesome fishing there!!

oh nice, do you use live bait at all when targeting any species??

it is really nice

my dad used to surf at nahoon everyday

 ive been to cape point in cape town aswell where we had a run in with the gorilla's who stole my mum's handbag and ran up the hill haha

also been up table mountain and all that jazz

i really do love SA, shame about the crime though

only last year my aunty got robbed opening the door at work with a gun 

yeah im related to him through my dads dads cousin.

then his son tomas who races indy in america and i think ian did some racing who is jody's brother.

massive racing family

even my great grandfather was and he has a street in east london named after him

so you can imagine when thers a family go karting trip haha

hey kev, nice boet(i'm sure you'll get that) lovely, where in durbs did you live???

yes its changed along with alot of other things, but still as lovely as ever.

likewise welcome!!!

wow fisho, thats awesome hey!!!!

yes a pity bout the crime here, unfortunately some people want for free what others have worked their whole lives for!!!

wow thats great, i have been wathching a little on jodi, but wheather or not he will follow into F1 i dont know. A friend of mine is friens with Kimi, they all raced karts together, lucky bugger.

Shew whats the street called??

LOL i can ingine, all hell breaks lose and there is only one winner and the rest well......... LOL

do you guys do surf launching at all?????

yeah karts are great fun

the streets called Scheckter close i think.

haha yeah insane stuff

cheers,

Reuben

ha ha yip they are.

oh right very awesome man

cheers fisho

use plenty of that, sure you know the theory....love big sambo's smashing a livie in shallow water.

exmouth is awsome, got about every possible option there.

at the mo though no frozen bait on boat.....

trying the new scented SP

ok hammer you need to explain a whole lot here, LOL sambo???????? what fish is that, where can i see a pic of it?

thats great hey, nothing beats a variety of fish...

scented SP?? take it its a plastic lure of a sort?

a sambo is a samson fish (related to kingfish and amberjack) check out the lastest image section under your personal content (top left).

big fish and WA is famous for them schooling on wrecks and a lot of the new jigging gear has been designed with them in mind.

SP = soft plastic. the scented refer to the new slam/atomic/gulp brand name biodegradable as opposed to standard PVC plastics. they are scented with various chemicals to attract fish.

welcome mate, and i love jeffreys bay big time.but the rogue lions worry me a little..

welcome

oh right, i'm getting it now, i'll go have a look at that now..

yeah jigging is taking off here we getting alot of species on jigs yellowtail, yellowfin tuna, and 74, as well as all our game fish.

duh my stupidty, sp soft plastic, we some of that here, need to try it, what sort of species are you targetting with the sp??

he damo, one thing i wanted to ask, i saw a video on fishing in oz, but they did not use the conventional gaff(one with the hook on the end) more over they had some type of gaff you slid over the tail of the fish and lifted it up that way into the boat, do you know, what it is called, and any idea how i could find out more bout it???

hey tx harro, yip awesome place that, great surfing spot....

LOL they do??, ah dont be afraid, it will beok...LOL

remember aussie's tend to drop half the word and add an O (Damian to Damo) amoungst other examples....

I'v thrown SP at anything except billies......

mostly bream and pinkies (pink snapper) as I live south but caught sambo's as well plus plenty of other but these 2 are my main attack.

up north what ever my gear can handle before the taxman enters the scence....... 

dont forget the but... at the end of a sentence lol..

took me a while to get used to it,, was always waiting for .........

hahah

ahha i got it now LOL

wow now you making me keen to try it, i tend to think us here are slightly engrossed with using live bait, as for most i have ventured into jigging, slowly i'm coming right but the old members in my fishing club laugh at me, now after this weekend gone, they have realised maybe it is the way to go!!!!

LOL well gear is important, are you using braid at all damo?

LOL ok but!!!!! lol

i can bet it did, now what were you waiting for???? lol

have plenty of braid on reels, about the only exception is braid on trolling gear....now before a war starts over that comment yes i do use braid to troll but some don't like it. i still have trolling reels full of mono and will just swap in time. if you use braid to troll then just have a long leader to absorb the speed of the hit......

anything from 4lb to 50lb myself. 

jigging works real well, stuff the old drongo's and give it a go.....

something else taking off is using rubber squid jigs......

metal head shape of squid with rubber tail. has 2 assist hooks and you drop down then real gentle lift. plenty of brands on market at mo

you should talk to canadians A....they love pronounce the A on every sentance....but so do Territorians....made for good conversation when I left the territory and landed in canada..... 

Welcome im sure the guys and girls will keep you busy look farward to some pics, and some good stories.

My wife is from Durban. Her sister still lives there. There are a few expat South African members on this site. Don't hesitate to post some questions and I look forward to seeing some pics of your SA experiences.
(Colin 1 - Co-founding member of the prestigious Colin Club)