Greetings again from Frankie2socks
It is 23 June 2024 today. This day is also the winter solstice in the Southern HemiSphere.
I have not really been fishing this year, but will be changing that on 23 June 2024 when I hope to catch my first shad of the season, then also something big, by swimming a shad the old way and doing " walk the dog" by following the fish and keeping some kind of near tension on the line. This is not as easy as it sounds, coz there are often other undesirable influences. Things like wind, weed in the water, other folks that were way down there in the distance when you out your live bait in the water.
Live bait often swim hard with the current, making it difficult to keep up and have your line square to the free swimming live bait at all times, then because the word is out that the shad are in town, there are many folks with bottom baits trying to catch shad in a gully or hole that they have found when walking and looking for a good spot to put a bait. This is why shad fishermen tend to gather in a common spot or close to the same spot every day. If there are rocks, then the spot is fixed, and will work in all weather during shad season.
Now here in St. Lucia village, in KZN, South Africa we have no local rocks, and one must walk about six kilometers north till one reaches where the locals call first Rocks, and back in the late 1980's early 2990's we had a special devious name, "HOTEL FIRST ROCKS" where we used to bring children with to spend the night under the stars on the beach without a tent.... Just you and your blanket and the stars.
We used to take big chances and light a fire, but it was and still is illegal to start an open fire on the beaches within Umkhanyakude district municipality. This comes from way back when.... When there still was a war time threat of foreign submarines off the St. Lucia beaches all the way to Cape Vidal.
Near mission Rocks , going north towards Cape Vidal on the old (currently in active) walking trail one of the over night slots was called Bartel's Foley, after the captain of a submarine that was bombed by the Catalina Bombers based on Lake St. Lucia.
This is a really awesome spot, where the "SHIT HOUSE" has one of the best views imaginable. Overlooking the very steep embankment, that has a semi hidden walking train to the beach at the bottom of this rather nasty climb, very steep and rather overgrown ..
Any way enough for today. But please leave a comment and start a conversation. The 4u2fish campaign needs your tongue took attack other folks ears and loosen the mental cogs and shafts that need to be turning at the correct speeds.... Public perception Management is a strange issue, where the new SEO (Search Engine Optimization) variables called #SEOVI or Search Engine Optimization Value Indicators are gonna be game changers where #EEAT (Experience, Expertise, Authority and Trust) is the primary issue that will influence SERPs or Search Engine Results Pages.
Enjoy and remember to smile
Frankie2Socks
