The Rocking Horse Angling Spot, Kenton On Sea South Africa
The Rocking Horse, next to
Bat's
Cave, is a lovely fishing spot that allows you to fish close in
reefs and gullies and deep water drop offs. The Rocking Horse is in
Kenton On Sea and can be reached from the Kenton side of the
Bushman's
Beach parking lot. The Rocking Horse used to be an amazing fishing spot,
but unfortunately it has been heavily over fished by holiday makers. Now
it is more of a "hit or miss" angling venue. Unfortunately I have seen
so many big
Bronze Bream,
Blacktail,
Stone Bream,
Kob,
Musselcracker and
Shad being kept it's not even funny... The fact that there are still
some big fish around is a surprise.
The Rocking Horse gets it's name from the shape of
the rocks on it's main point that actually resemble a children's wooden
rocking horse. It is best fished on a spring low tide and can be a very
dangerous spot on the high tide and during neap. Solid footwear should
be worn, and you need to have good experience to fish off these rocks. I
have seen many people fall and cut themselves here and some have been
lucky not to get washed away!
The array of smaller species and juvenile fish are
still present here and wonderful to catch and see. Natural baits are the
way to go at this spot, worms, sand prawn, periwinkle and black mussel
are the best baits to use. This is mainly an edible/reef fish spot, but
I have seen
Bronze Whalers and
Grey Sharks being landed here. Please be
careful at this spot and please practice catch and release as much as
you can here...
