South African Fishing

Galjoen Season opens!!

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the January 18th, 2008

Yes its galjoen season again and there is new life in the galjoen fraternity of Hermanus. The weather has not exactly played along, but the odd good sized fish has been taken at some of the more popular spots along our coast. Rykmansklip had a few nice fish Just before the season opened, this I heard from a very reliable source, of the fish take were well over 3 kgs. Now I have spoken to many of the fishermen about this but am afraid we will never be able to put a stop to it if the sea fisheries don’t hand out some stiff fines and hurt these few where it hurts most, in the pockets, they should also be on the front page of our local newspaper so that they may be embarrassed in the community for their stupidity.

Enough of that nonsense. Penny Pincher’s held a galjoen derby for the second year running in our area that was a huge success for anglers from all over the Western Cape. There were about 70 anglers taking part on the opening day of the season, the area was from Die Dam to Hangklip to help some of the anglers from our neighbouring towns that don’t know the spots in Hermanus and to give everyone a fair chance.

The weather played along with no rain or serious wind. At weigh in time some very nice fish were weighed in, the heaviest galjoen weighed in at just below 2kg’s, a very nice fish that should have weighed in at 2.5 kg was it in top condition. These female fish become very thin after the breading season and only really fatten up later in the season. This fish was caught at Pearly Beach with another of nearly exactly the same size being caught in the same hole.

The heaviest other addable fish was a white steenbras of 13kg’s caught on bloodworm at die dam. The guys also reported many young undersized fish taking the hook, this to me is always very exiting as it is a clear sign of younger fish moving into our fishing area, some fish being as small as 15 cm.

The cob are still around and good catches are still being made at Pearly beach and die Dam. The odd steenbras is still being caught in the same area, mostly on prawn and bloodworm.

The Winter will hopefully be here early this year with strong seas opening up all our favourite galjoen holes, it is reported that most of the holes along the Hermanus plaat are still closed up tight with sand with only the odd fish being caught being nice and fat, a number of good sized steenbras have also been landed.

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Galjoen Season opens!!