Just a few updates. There are some new photos up.

GAVIN GOODWIN WILL BE ATTENDING TO ALL ENQUIRIES FROM 21/11/2005 TILL 12/12/2005

CELL 0824505340

EMAIL ADDRESS: neptune@nisc.org.za

Just a few updates:

1) There is a article about corruption in Mozambique in the forums.
2) A report back from the Guinjata species competition: Paddleski vs Jetskis with some photos in the gallery.
3) I have updated the links page with a short description of each link plus we have some links to other boat manufactures. We want to be the first place you come to, to surf the internet looking for fishingski information.

Long time no blog. The site is still pumping and the forum very funny with two guys threatening to beat each other up. At the moment we have exceeded our bandwidth usage by over 100megs if that means anything to anybody (the web tech guy coming out in me).

The news is that there are still a good few newbie’s that are looking into the sport, so guys encourage them where ever you see them, because once you are hooked nothing else in your life matters.

Should be getting some updates soon so will keep you posted.
Lantz

COME AND TEST DRIVE THE NEW TOM SKI!!

Fishing Ski Adventures will be on the beach this Sunday (4th September) from 7 am till 10 am. The beach in question will be Addington next to Ushaka Marine world in front of the marine life saving club.

Please let us know if you are going to be there by sending an email to webmaster@fishingski.co.za or SMS Don on 0722074798

Thanks FSA

National Boat Show 2005

Start Date:26 August 2005 End Date:28 August 2005

26th: 11h00–20h00,
27th–28th: 09h00 – 18h00.

Price: Costs – R50 per adult - R20.00 per child under 12 plus pensioners.
Main Product Group: A world class boating and related products and services extravaganza, that will include, luxurious speed race and ski boats jet skis, personal watercraft, sail boats and so much more.

Web Site: http://www.nationalboatshow.co.za

OFFICIAL LAUNCH PARTY THIS WEEKEND DURBAN 27/08/2005

Venue: 21 FLACK PLACE- DURBAN NORTH.
Directions: (M4 take exit 5 Virginia Airport, Left into traffic circle,
left in Mackeurtan and 2nd right in Flack place)
Date: 27/08/2005

RUGBY - NEW ZEALAND V.S. SPRINGBOKS.**** ALL WELCOME- 3 TV's****
Kick off 9:30am

What to expect:
1. Display of new boat.
2. Shuttle service to and from beach to test new demo crafts.
3. Bait demonstrations through-out the day
4. Various stalls. such as Furnuno, Magellan, Safety equipment stalls etc
5. Wors rolls and bar.

We look forward to seeing you and hearing your suggestions:
Team
FSA

The new galley is coming along nicely with some nice photos of good catches. It also has a nice feature where you can see how often people are looking at the pictures.

We can also do some polls like guess the location of where I caught this fish etc. Just give me a shout if anybody has a nice photo that they would like to put up.

Thanks
Lantz

RICHARDSBAY date mistake

Venue: Meer en See club - (Richardsbay skiboat club.)
Date: 28/08/2005 this is the correct date

OFFICIAL LAUNCH DATES:

Our previous projected dates in the latest newsletter were out by one week, due to a large order from Mozambique. We have postponed the launch dates, the new dates are as follows:

SPECIFICATIONS OF NEW SKI:
The new ski has been designed by myself and the help of all our readers and is manufactured by a well know skiboat manufacturer in Durban. The new ski will be a Unique Design and the first of its kind. We have once again improved on what is available in the market and made it user
friendly. In a Nut shell the craft will be the first post-cured boat available. The craft will also be vacuumed during construction. The buoyancy will be SAMSA approved and sold with a buoyancy certificate. Our vacuum technique will not weaken the strength as we achieve in our first design "NEPTUNE". The shape offers more curves and no square edges (hence no gel coat chips), all-adding to the structural strength. We have designed a new mould for customising leg lengths. There are many features and they will be revealed at the launch! Our new hatch lid and tackle tray are classy! The boat has facility to have an anchor. All fitments are recessed for safety purposes as well as a quick release foot strap.

The boat will be standard with back rests/ front net/ rear bag and other items. The new boat is pre- tubed to accommodated the transducer and wiring necessary for your Fish finder, making your installation as easy as 1 2 3. The craft will retail at R4250.00 inc

We will offer the craft with a mono or TOMCAT hull.

DURBAN:
Venue: 21 FLACK PLACE- DURBAN NORTH.
Directions: (M4 take exit 5 Virginia Airport, Left into traffic circle,
left in Mackeurtan and 2nd right in Flack place)
Date: 27/08/2005

RUGBY - NEW ZEALAND V.S. SPRINGBOKS.**** ALL WELCOME- 3 TV's****
Kick off 9:30am

What to expect:
1. Display of new boat.
2. Shuttle service to and from beach to test new demo crafts.
3. Bait demonstrations through-out the day
4. Various stalls. such as Furnuno, Magellan, Safety equipment stalls etc
5. Wors rolls and bar.

RICHARDSBAY:
Venue: Meer en See club - (Richardsbay skiboat club.)
Date: 28/09/2005

What to expect:
1. Display of new boat.
2. Paddle demo crafts
3. Bait demonstrations through-out the day
4. Various stalls. such as Furnuno, Magellan, Safety equipment stalls etc
5. Wors rolls and bar.
6. Guest speaker -largest fish on ski, ever recordered..........(non bill fish)

We look forward to seeing you and hearing your suggestions:
Team
FSA

Life Jacket found at Eastmore Crescent on the Weekend 06/07 August 2005.

Please contact Rob Waites on 082 574 2517.

The weekend away was top I managed to catch fish and some crayfish. Check out the gallery

Fishingski adventures has a new gallery which you can upload your photos yourself. It has a great feature where you can have your own gallery which you just keep updating. A great place to keep your friends and family updated of the fish you are catching.

If you still have problems please send your photos to lantz@fishingski.co.za and I will upload them for you with pleasure and set up a album for you.

This website is also a great place to advertise your product or service and it is very well priced, please go to our advertising form and fill out the details and we can see what we can offer you.

The new forum is still a bit quiet so guys get on it and make it hum.

One update in the gallery

And some disturbing articles here..... this article is very disturbing "Cruelty and plunder in South Africa - Foreigners rape our seas"

Will be away for the weekend untill Wendsday going to do a spot of fishing.
Cheers
Lantz

Finally I have found the time to tell the story about the trip down South to Shelly fishing the “Sard run”, we did get down to St Mike’s for the 15 the 20 June. Oh boy what a trip!!!!

We arrived on the Wednesday and spent the Thursday getting ready and doing domestic things to keep the family happy and watched the birds flying South. When we woke up on Friday the birds were active just out side of St Mike’s bay and started getting ready to launch. The sea conditions looked reasonable although there was “brown water” for about 150 meters out. As we were about to launch a local friend said before we go out we should go and see what was happening at Orange Rocks. It was an absolutely amazing site the water was bubbling with sharks they were going crazy about 100 meters out in a relatively small area. There were fins and tails everywhere.

We decided to going out anyway (first mistake), and would bypass this activity. My son, Dean, had a good launch and I came off a few times and after drifting north gave up trying to fight the current and started again at the “rip” next to the pool. After swimming in. (Yeah, I know it was stupid now, brown water, no shark nets, etc etc. frankly I did not even give it a thought. Plus I had cut my leg so I had blood running down it). But I was determined, anyway I did get out eventually and baited up (second mistake, should have put a Halco or a Rapala on), tried trawling where the birds were diving without any luck.

We then decided to head south to Uvongo, yes passed Orange Rocks! No sooner had we started, WHAM 4x4 LOW RANG!, after about 15 min got busted, I was using fairly light tackle. And off we went again, about 15-min later same thing but this time Dean got busted. (We later established that it was sharks).

We got to Uvongo and turned around and shortly after that in the blue water. There was an almighty splash behind us, we kind of looked at each other and said “what the F%^& was that”. The splash was so big that by the time we turned around to look “the water was still flowing into the hole left in the sea.” By this time we were about 10 meters apart and Dean was slightly in front of me, I happened to look to him and behind him following about 3 meters, was the biggest shark I have ever seen in my life. I have subsequently identified it as a Bronze Whaler (or pretty sure it was) the same size as his Fishing Ski or dam close. !!!!!! I said, “I think we need bigger ski’s”. This guy followed us a little while and then headed east. A short while later to the east of us, seaward side, what appeared to be the same kind of shark jumped out of the water, but it cleared the water completely, so high we could see the horizon underneath it. We later caught (hooked) 3 more sharks and got busted twice and released one, (released? Yeah ok, cut the line loos). Dean remarked during one of the encounters that, “we should have brought the water ski’s with”.

We beached without incident and then started thinking about the day’s events. Were we ever in any danger? Not sure! Were we stupid to have gone out? Probably. Would we do it again? No way! Would we have missed the opportunity? Hell no! To have experienced that, was absolutely amazing.

By the way we later (on Sunday) met up with the Fishing Ski Adventure guys at Scotties, calling the “breaks” for the guys going out and detected a certain amount of bias depending on the type of Ski going out : -) only joking.

From the investigation on the Internet, the big shark could have been a Dusky or a huge Bronzy. I put my money on the Bronzy because of the colour but the information I researched says they normally don’t get bigger than 3 to 3.5 M. So I am open to correction on that.

Tommy

Where have all the Tuna gone

Hi Roger

Today 25 July I watched a longliner offload tuna caught off the EC coast over the last few weeks. The fish (mainly yellowfin and bigeye) were longlined legally under licence and were being transferred by crane frozen to a larger vessel in the PE harbour. Screens were erected preventing Joe public seeing or estimating total volume. The bycatch included broadbill although I did not see any myself. The yellowfin avg weight was around 30 kg and the bigeye round 50 kg. The quantities were clearly vast. The SA observer had spent just over a month on the vessel. I have little doubt this 1 trip caught more tuna than the EC recreational anglers do annually. If it continues the reduced quantity of yellowfin caught this year will no doubt be considered plentiful in years to come.

regards
Colin de Villiers

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Just two changes The front page has a new small note plus the gallery has been updated with 2 new pics of some very nice couta

Welcome

I will be posting updates here and any interesting news so people who take advantage of rss feeds can see what is updated plus comments are welcome.

Lantz