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Judging from reports from shore anglers and also from personal observation, it is clear that the long awaited Elf shoals have still not arrived. Top local spinnermen have not had much success and only a few smallish Elf have been caught.

There have however been reports that some large Elf have been biting off hooks and traces off the modern type of floats that most shore anglers like to use these days.

Between the Strand and Harmony Park, one or two nice Geelbek have been caught from the reefs in the deep water at Oumansgat and Die Torinkie.

It is a fact that the first encounter shore anglers have with medium sized Geelbek leaves them very puzzled.

This is due to the fact that Geelbek do not just grab the bait and rush off, but they sometimes nibble on the bait and one does not feel as if you're getting a good bite and the bite feels like a small fish pulling the bait around - then suddenly the Geelbek decides to move off with the bait, leaving the angler confused about what is happening.

Many a good sized Geelbek is then lost after a lively battle.

This is also the time of the year that the average angler may expect a few surprises from some big White Steenbras (Steamers) that frequent this section of the coastline.

Last weekend Barries Barnard was fishing off the Gordon's Bay rocks at Die Kerkie when he caught a medium class White Steenbras of around 7 kg and then a little later a Kob of 4 kg - all on prawn bait.

Harmony Park
At Harmony Park, another very good venue for Steenbras, Faeez Railoun landed a large 12,5 kg White Steenbras from Mosselbank while also using prawn bait.

He reported that his fishing partner was unfortunate to lose a very big fish in the same area, which he believed could have also been a Steenbras from the same school.

News from further afield is that the run of Kob at Die Dam continued throughout the weekend.

This run has lasted more than three-and-a-half weeks and some resident anglers that were fishing early in the morning had their quotas before 06:30.

Toska Germishuizen from Struisbaai, who attended the popular Yellowtail Derby that took place on Saturday, said that the competition was a total disaster with 48 boats taking part and only one catching a Yellowtail that could be weighed in.

He said there were however quite a few Geelbek caught at Struisbaai at Saturday night.

Fishing at Struisbaai last Friday evening in the Western Province Inshore League South, Earl Fenwick fishing aboard the boat Devenish caught a magnificent 19,55 kg Kob on 3 kg line - this is now a pending Western Province and South African record.

Devenish, skippered by Greg Morrison who was also the top angler in the competition, caught three Kob, a Redstump (3.8 kg on 2 kg line) and a Red Roman.

Red fish
It is ironic that Earl, who is a very experienced angler, just by chance looked into one of the WP competitor's boats on Saturday at Struisbaai and saw a red fish lying exposed in the sun getting dry.

Earl informed the less experienced angler, who caught the fish, to weigh in the fish which later proved to be a Western Province record Santa.

The elusive Snoek once again made their appearance in Hout Bay during the weekend and most of the fish were in the medium class and sold from R25 from the boats and R40 from hawkers.

Tunny catches in the deep off Cape Point were also sporadic and Tunny anglers reported that the water temperature 12 miles off Cape Point was slightly warmer.

The Western Cape Shore Angling Association (WCSAA) held a shore angling competition in Struisbaai two weekends ago in brilliant weather and reported some excellent catches.

A large variety of sharks and edibles such as Elf, Belman and Kob were caught, tagged and released. Shane Gomes's efforts paid off handsomely when he landed a Diamond Skate of 64 kg at Argonauta - a very difficult spot to fish.

Willie van Heerden of False Bay landed a 120 kg Raggie as well as a 20 kg Grey Shark.

Altogether 139 of the 350 anglers taking part weighed in 2,9 tons of fish.

The three top anglers of the year to date are all from the Two Oceans Club and they are: Karl Marais (468,10 points), Greg Kellerman (439,20 points) and Steve van der Berg (364,60 points).

Local angler Willie van Heerden (False Bay) is in 9th place with 286,40 points.

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