I’m not big on meat fishing. My fly fishing addiction means that most of the time, I’m more than happy to go fishless, as long as I’ve got the long wand in my hand. In Eden though, getting dinner is always part of a day out on the boat. After a number of years, me and dad have come to…
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“The rock”
Somewhere on the far south coast lies a rock. More accurately, a headland. It stands and presides over a long white beach, it is regularly lashed by wild winds and waves that roll in from the southern ocean. On the other side of the rock a small south coast estuary trickles out into the vast pacific ocean. To most people,…
A few weeks in Eden and a few fish… Holiday recap.
I spent a lot of time in Eden over the holidays. First for Christmas and then for my cousins wedding. It was a pretty perfect holiday, spent balancing family time, girlfriend time, friends time, drinking by the pool time and fishing time. Fishing on family holidays is always a bit of a balancing act, so a lot of my fishing…
Kingfish report plus a few lessons from the holidays
I was lucky enough to spend a recent weekend in Eden. We headed out on the boat on Saturday, with the forecast of an early light northerly turning around to a light, 10 knot sou-easter mid-morning. Almost perfect conditions for Eden, due to the lay of the land and sea. Anyway, on rounding south head we were greeted with a…
Recipe: Crumbed kingfish and “chips”
Usually when I cook kingfish I am a bit of a wanker. “Kingfish cerviche”, “Kingfish sashimi”, “Kingfish with basil pesto wrapped in pancetta” “Seared kingfish in ponzu sauce served with shaved beetroot and radish”, you get the idea. All the above recipes are great and I will post some of them on this site at a later date. Today however,…
Eden and Wonboyn Lake fishing report, August 12-14 2011
Day 1 My alarm clock started blaring far too early the morning. I flapped around in the dark to hit snooze and went back to sleep. After this scene repeated four or five times I checked the time to see how long I had before my taxi arrived. “Shit!, 4:55!”. I was awake, out of bed and out the door…
Fishing for kingfish in Eden
Well, me and Lee fished Eden on the weekend. It was a quick trip where we primarily focussed on kingfish to the exclusion of all other species and techniques. The fishing on saturday was pretty tough, we got fish but we worked hard for them. Around Greencape the fish were there but patchy with a fair few rats, while at Mowarry when…