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Orange Rocks delivers Andre’s New Years Gift.

Orange Rocks delivers Andre’s New Years Gift.

I was scratching a couple of hundred metres north of Orange Rocks and I saw someone go tight off Orange, so I went home across the road and grabbed my camera and my lightie, to go and show him what I thought...
Orange Rocks on Sunday

Orange Rocks on Sunday

    There was a bit of action at Orange Rocks yesterday morning, with 7 runs and not one fish landed.  (and I think that I figured out why…. but I will tell you just now.) Johann dropped a brown...
Sunrise at Orange Rocks

Sunrise at Orange Rocks

With conditions improving very slowly,  it seems that we are still waiting for our fishy friends to get hungry. There has been absolutely no action, whatsoever for the last few days. Two shad came out on...
Conditions have turned for the better

Conditions have turned for the better

I had a quick look at Orange Rocks this morning, I never fished – just popped in to see the guys on my way back home. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the conditions were actually fish-able...
Weekends Fishing

Weekends Fishing

Howzit Friends, My wife had a friend come and visit us this weekend, so I took the opportunity to make myself scarce and put in some serious fishing time. Conditions were almost perfect, however a slight South...
Great days fishing

Great days fishing

Lucky’s first kingfish. I got down to Orange Rocks  ( see Google Map) at about 8:30 on Saturday morning, a little late for the shad – but I had bigger things on my mind. The rocks were quite...
Garrick caught at Orange Rocks

Garrick caught at Orange Rocks

I went down to Orange Rocks for a quick throw this morning, too late for the action…. again. I really have to get my car back, it is driving me mad not having my own transport. Hopefully it will all be...
Kob caught off Orange Rocks

Kob caught off Orange Rocks

I had my best buddy Haigh, down for the weekend and I really thought that we would get stuck into something nice; especially after my nice pull the other evening. Unfortunately Mother Nature had other ideas...
Orange Rocks Last Night

Orange Rocks Last Night

I am still swamped with work and have not been able to get in a good fishing session, the whole month.  It is affecting me psychologically and the withdrawal is starting to play tricks on my mind. Just...
Fishing Soon

Fishing Soon

Work commitments have kept me off the water for the last two weeks and I am getting withdrawal symptoms. I am going to try my absolute best to go down this afternoon when the wife gets back from work and...
Salmon Caught at Orange Rocks

Salmon Caught at Orange Rocks

My Friend Jaco, caught this Salmon at Orange Rocks last week. It was quite a cool catch, as he had just lost one earlier, that he hooked on a drift trace for Shad. He  thought that it was the current...
Sardine Fever

Sardine Fever

Well the weekend has come and gone and there is still no sign of the Silver Tide of  Sardines that were expected over the weekend. The water temperature has not dropped enough to bring them closer to the...
Orange Rocks

Orange Rocks

Orange Rocks is an iconic fishing spot which is on the border between Uvongo and St Mikes by the Sea in Kwazulu Natal, South Africa. It is my favourite fishing spot as it is safe and it produces fish. What...
1st Garrick of the Season

1st Garrick of the Season

I was luck absolutely blessed to catch the first Garrick on our stretch of the coast.  It was around midday and everybody had packed up or gone home already as it was a blistering hot day and we had all been...
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