Alfie's Fishing Adventures

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Alfie's Fishing Adventures All fishing. Mainly South African based but if there are fish, no matter where in the world I am I'll try to catch them. I film every fishing trip I go on whether I catch a fish or not. I share my thoughts and tactics that go through my mind while trying to catch fish. I bring you the everyday adven...

These Clone Lures smashed the fish! Be sure to check them out🎣😎

This Lure SMASHED Fish!! The Yellowtail Kingfish were being tricky and I didn't know what lure to use so I decided to throw a pink Clone Lure. Wow picking the Clone Lure was a great ...

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Clone Lures your lures smashed the fish😉

BEST Fishing Day of my LIFE!! || Cape Town Fishing This is definitely one of my best days of fishing in my life. There were so many fish and the fishing was non stop. It certainly was not a day to miss on the...

South African Fishing Tour Episode 5

Transkei SHAD || South African Fishing Tour Ep 5 When fishing the Transkei or Wild Coast one of the main species you catch while fishing is Shad. Fishing for Shad can be really exciting especially when ther...

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Slow Start but WAIT TILL THE END!!!! || Cape Town Fishing We decided to go deep sea fishing from Cape Town. It was a slow start out deep targeting Yellowfin Tuna but we did have some entertaining shark and dolphin s...

South African Fishing Tour Episode 4

Fishing ABANDONDED Brick Factory || South African Fishing Tour Ep 4 In this episode of my month long road trip fishing across South Africa I fish for Bass in an abandoned brick factory in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. The w...

South African Fishing Tour Episode 3

Exploring Forest and Mountains for ELUSIVE FISH || South African Fishing Tour Ep 3 In this episode of my month long fishing tour of South Africa we explore a beautiful estuary surrounded by mountains and forest. The fish proved to be rather...

South Africa Fishing Tour Episode 2

The Long Walk to SO MANY FISH! || South African Fishing Tour Ep 2 This was a very long walk but ended up providing me with some epic fishing. We caught so many fish and some big ones too. Fishing in saltwater with light tac...

South Africa Fishing Tour Episode 1

Month long Fishing Trip GREAT START || South African Fishing Tour Ep 1 This is the first video in a series where I travel South Africa, fishing everyday, and film the whole experience. We started in the Western Cape, South Afric...

Just in case you missed it be sure to check out this EPIC series of my South African Fishing tour💥🎣😁

South African Fishing Tour Month long fishing tour of South Africa covering 7 provinces and 6000km!

The latest video is out! It's a goody😉🎣💥 Waterbok charters

EPIC FISHING on the WATERBOK || CAPE TOWN FISHING I once again went fishing out of Cape Town on the Waterbok. Waterbok Charters certainly puts you on the fish and we got stuck into some good Yellowtail strai...

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Waterbok charters

This has to be one of my most memorable catches. 150kg Black Ray!!! 🎣💥🎉

How to catch a GIANT!!!!! Wondering how to catch a giant Stingray? Well, in this video I go through all the steps I took to catch this 150kg+ giant Black Stingray. These monsters of t...

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Searching for Drakensberg Fish || South African Fishing Tour Ep 10 In this episode of my month long fishing tour of South Africa I am exploring the central Drakensberg. I decided to look for fish that are not the typical fis...

So after dropping my latest video I get to the Cape Town International airport and see this.........🤣😂🤣🎣

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Waterbok charters

Yellowtail VS Seal || Cape Town Fishing This was another epic day of fishing for Yellowtail of the coast of Cape Town. I ended up having an epic battle against a seal that tried to steal my Yellowt...

I can't help but share this again.😔 Wouldn't it be great to be able to have the catches we had in the past?

It is so sad to see how badly our fish stocks have dropped. This article I found on Sealine shows the epic fishing from the past.

Here is an excerpt from a good book with epic accounts of the old days. The accounts of the early and later whaling industry are also eye opening. There were only 30 or so female southern rights left visiting SA left at one stage?!

Kalk Bay Harbour:

"Before the harbour had been completed a railways official had seen three men putting a net outside the entrance to the harbour. At that time there were no laws prohibiting such activities but it waspointed out that “this was detrimental to the fish feeding off the pier wall.” On 3 September 1917 proclamation no. 196 was introduced which forbade the use of nets within a radius of half a nautical mile of the outer extremity of the pier.

Even before the breakwater was completed, the pier became a popular place for fishing. A small charge was introduced for the privilege. Between 1917 and 1919 takings amounted to £3 000.

From the time that work on the harbour started, records were kept each day of the weather conditions and this information including the barometric reading, was posted up for the fishermen. The Kalk Bay pier was soon attracting large crowds. Leervis averaging between 9kg and 20kg were landed.

One angler, Mr Terence C. Ferguson, established a record when he managed to land a 25kg leervis. It took 45 minutes of struggling up and down the pier to land the fish.

Ferguson also held the rod record for the pier, of a 60kg kob, which took one hour to land.

Bumpercatches from the harbour.

During those early years of construction, excellent catches of white stumpnose were made in the harbour area every year. Without even going to sea, the boats in some seasons caught sufficient fish at their moorings to sell to the hawkers in the morning. Some of the catches made by the line fishermen off the pier can only be described as phenomenal.

On 11 January 1920 when the boats had returned from sea and most of the crew had made their way home a large shoal of yellowtail was sighted just off the pier. The men went back to the wall, caught mackerel for bait and then proceeded to catch yellowtail by the score. When the shoal moved away after a couple of hours, the harbour was covered in a carpet of fish. The yellowtail averaged between 2,2kg and 4,5kg each. The total catch was estimated to be over 6000 and sold for twopence each.

At daybreak on another day the fishermen had a good catch of geelbek off the pier. The geelbek was then followed by a shoal of mackerel so large and so dense that the top fish were forced out of the water. These mackerel were then followed by a shoal of yellowtail.At one stage there were 30 rod anglers playing the fish up and down the wall but soon all their gaffs were broken. They had to give up because the line fishermen with their hand lines were too busy to offer up their gaffs.

On this occasion fish were being caught with mere scraps of bait. When their lines broke, the line fishermen hurriedly knotted them together again.By midday the excitement was over. In this time more than 500 fish, averaging 11kg each, had been landed. Between February and April of that same year very large steenbras were also caught off the wall."

So when was the last time a 20kg leerie was caught off kalk bay? Or when was the last time 6000, or even 500, yellowtail were caught from the harbour wall? LOL One before I am too old I hope we can recover our stocks.

If one can find the old reports from hermanus, the "fishing eldorado"..That will blow your mind..it was not uncommon to catch tuna and yellowtail from the rocks there as well as hook huge red steenbras, the most common catches from the rocks being yellowfin tuna, sarda sarda, yellowtail, mackerel, large cob, geelbek and large elf.. It was not uncommon for a fisherman to catch a hundred large cob and geelbek and a hundred blou elf in ONE NIGHT when they were running. He would catch his own bait before hand by catching the plentiful mackerel that were always around. When the red steenbras would run for whatever reason, upwelling or breeding, the whole sea would go red for as far as you could see. My mates ballie still remembers the shoals of leervis that would stretch for more than 10km when returning from a breed and sardine chow up north in Natal..All those fish long gone..

We in SA in days past, literally had the most productive piece of coastline on the entire planet. Where it sits in relation to the poles and equator and the angle of the coast to the prevailing E-W current down the eastern seaboard of each continent in S hemisphere, generated from the surface ocean waters intertia and spin of the earth, and the huge (largest in the world) "goldilocks zone" of reef shallower than 120m at aghulas with its seasonal current and wind driven upwelling and resulting in a food explosion that is the largest in the world...it is all very unique. That is the reason for us having more sparid (sea bream) species in our waters than the rest of the world has combined, the unique geography and immense and unparalleled amount of food it creates. It also is the reason that the human species evolved into modern man on this coastline as well.

The largest indian ocean yellowfin come down and fatten up here, the worlds humpback whales come here to fatten up before breeding and so do the largest southern bluefin tuna come swim all the way here for the amount of food that gets generated by the localized conditions.

And our forefathers either fished it out or allowed it to be fished out..and today, even in the "untouched places" the stocks are a fraction of what they used to be and should be, we are none the wiser but fishing just the leftover scraps of days past..AND we are irresponsibly fishing the last breeding stocks that could give us the chance to allow the stocks to return..So it is up to us..That is why I have been on here like a stuck broken record for the last few years, slot limits, slot limits, breeding stock, breeding stock, slot limits..etc..it all just makes sense and the science behind it is old news already. Other countries implemented policies 20 years ago based on the science when it was new, when they were in the same boat, and those policies have spawned stocks beyond their wildest dreams!

It is time for use to wake up and claim our historic fisheries back and look the bloody hell after them! And leave them intact for our children and grandchildren to never be hungry or bored or left wanting for a job again..the sea can provide if we let it.

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Transkei SHAD || South African Fishing Tour Ep 5 When fishing the Transkei or Wild Coast one of the main species you catch while fishing is Shad. Fishing for Shad can be really exciting especially when ther...

This video just hit 2k views! Huge shout out to all my loyal subscribers for watching 😎💥🎣

She caught a MONSTER!!! While fishing for Largemouth Bass and Carp. My girlfriend managed to out fish me. She caught a monster! I was not expecting to catch this monster fish and my...

What a beast!

With winter on the way I was reminded of this productive day of bass fishing with snow on the mountains around me! 💥🎉🎣

Underberg Bass Fishing || South African Fishing Tour Ep 9 In this episode of my month long fishing tour of South Africa I am bass fishing in Underberg. Underberg is known for its trout fishing but also offers some a...

I always enjoy catching these Catfish.

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