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6 Andre’s 4x4 Navara and headed for Rocktail Bay. After a long 4x4 trail we landed up at our destination, missing the pushing tide but continued to fish the bay. We were slightly disappointed, as we did not see any big GT’s swimming in the waves, which we were hoping for. Steve however did manage to get a small queenfish on fly in the surf and a couple small Natal stumpnose on bait. Beautiful spot though and I will be back at a warmer time! earlier that week, as they say; use dark flies for evening fly fishing, especially for king fish and especially something that pushes water. It was really dark now, and we had no idea where or how the fly was landing but had to just use our skill to assume the distance and presentation. We were getting many takes and changed retrieves to get hook-ups. I had a DI8 sinking line and Ryan was We headed back for a bite and headed out to the mouth with our night permits to get the pushing tide and hopefully until high peak. Fishing was still very slow until early evening but did manage a nice springer on drop shot. As the tide started rising and the light started to fade, we headed for the mouth area in the hopes to catch the fish coming in. Ryan picked up a small yellowtail kingy and from this point I knew things were about to change. Fairly dark, I put on one of my experimental brush flies I tied
7 (river snapper), a surprise fish, which gave me a nice little rev. fishing a floating with a sink tip and Steve and Andre had intermediates. We managed a couple of smallish big eye kingies and I hooked a nice rock salmon Something hit my fly really hard and took off like crazy but when your line gets a knot in it and there is no free flow...its bye bye fishy. I will never know what that might have been and all my line came flying back at me, leaving me standing there confused as to what just happened! That’s the excitement of fishing at night...you never know what to expect! We discovered that when we turned off our headlamps that we had more takes for some reason and only turned them on when we really needed to. A couple more big eyes were caught and we called it a day and headed back to camp. The next day (Saturday), half the group decided to hit the lakes with the boat, which could only take 3 – 4 people on it and the rest of us decided to fish the tide in the morning at the mouth. Fishing was very quiet again and the wind started to pick up from a north westerly direction but after trying a few techniques and surf we only managed a small shad and another surprise fish, a little threadfin. We headed back to camp and decided to get back for the evening. The guys on the boat could only access the big (3rd) lake due to the tide not being deep enough to cross through to the 1st salt lake and unfortunately were unable to find the fish. We had a bite and headed out for our last night at the mouth for the weekend. All geared up and with a bit of knowledge from the night before we eagerly waited for it to get dark and the tide to start rising. It was still very quiet and we had one casualty; Alwyn walked behind Warren while he was pumping a fly line and got a nice size chartreuse clousler in the cheek. After the slight flesh wound scare I told the guys to please be careful of flying hooks and to de-barb all flies. One of the guys had a take and I decided to put my big 5 inch olive brush fly and immediately started getting pulls. Changing speed on the retrieve, I was on to another strong little big eye kingy. Then straight after that Ryan screams that he’s got a bus of a fish and its taking line.
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