Flyfishing report: Saltwater - Gqeberha/Port Elizabeth

Date of Report: Thursday, 23rd October 2025
Name: Ruben Schoeman
Email: rubenmschoeman@gmail.com
Phone: 079 793 8169

Ruben apologizes as he has been sick with flu-like symptoms for a couple of weeks and has not been fishing but says there is very little news from his contacts. Due to the bad weather with gale force winds on most days very few flyfishers have been out on the estuaries. October should be a good month, but it has been more like August. He has heard that anglers using artificials have taken quite a few nice kob up to 30kg near the Swartkops mouth, most of which were returned although the bait anglers tend to be less thoughtful.

He says there should be plenty of grunter around and once the weather improves he plans to go out and target them.

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Into a fish on the Swartkops estuary.