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Mostly cloudy, with a shower or thunderstorm around. The Durban harbour is producing some really excellent fish at the moment. Timing your trip down there is imperative if you are looking for some bigger grunter.

These fish will be on the banks in the lowering tide and eat the cracker in the sand. Walking out on to these banks on a low tide can offer some brilliant catches, but make sure you take your cracker pump with you, because there are plenty of smaller fish around that will strip you clean. Using a number 4 Mustad Mosquito Hook allows for an almost instant hook up. This hook has an incredibly thin gauge and hooks up with every fully committed grunter.

At Cape Vidal, anglers should be pleased to learn that there are still good numbers of edible and non-edible fish coming out, mostly being caught on Chokka and Red Eye baits.

North of Richards Bay is still producing some excellent flatfish, such as diamond and honeycomb rays, but unfortunately not as many as the week before. Bonito fillet seems to be the bait of choice currently.

Albert Falls seems to be producing some excellent carp of up to 12kg, mainly coming out on the sweeter Super Cast flavours. Anglers also seem to be going smaller to get the bigger fish. 4.49am; 6.51pm; 20/22°C; 21.5°C; 3 (Moderate); 40%; 13km/h (ENE); December 14; Neap (Low), Low: 7.25am, 8pm (0.4m); High: 1.25am, 1.50pm (1.9m); Sea: 1.5m swell.