365 days of fishing

Day 1 of school 3rd term, day 14 of the great fishing year.  Yay, managed to come home after visiting Gavin and Jaqui, said hello to Willy, got my salted frozen blood worm and prawn and headed off, was going to Sonwabe but was lazy and so stopped at Surfers Corner. Tide was on the way out, but still quite high, almost glassy sea, small waves, a lone longboarder, two cormorant s fishing in tandem and a seal unhurriedly flipping past, dark and suspicious in the dusk. Yet another gorgeous sunset to send my first cast off at 6:15.

sunset looking out from surfers corner muizenberg

Very pleasant, almost balmy winters evening kept me fishing past my 7:30 supposed hometime.

No bites though not even the hint of a fish, apart from the seal and the cormorants. Still my bait came back clean as a whistle, not even the elastic remaining. Must have been crabs again. Should go into fishing for them, guaranteed to catch something then.

Even though I would like to catch a Steenbras should try some foam on the line to raise it from the bottom, will try that on one rod and straight running trace on the other see what happens. Desperately need line on my Daiwa 50, I suppose I could change reels, put the smaller Daiwa30 onto the light king fisher and the Shimano onto the bigger rod. Guess I have to as there is no chance of going to buy more line given as we have a ProGro at the school for the next two days until 5. On literacy of all things. How that is supposed to relate to teaching Mathematics to High School Students I will have to wait and see. Keep an open mind.

Found a great place to rest whilst fishing below surfers corner on the retaining wall of the walkway , it is at 15 degree angle and it was very pleasant to lean rest against it tonight as I watched the rods tips with never evaporating hope. Looking at the profusion of stars wondering what sort of fish there must be on other planets. The salty breeze of the sea slightly marred by a bit of a whiff of an unemptied bin and the occasional smell of marijuana as some locals enjoyed both the evening and a joint.

Until tomorrow then, onto the joy of setting the Math prelims.