Top Anglers Clash at All Coastal Bottom Fish Inter-Provincial 2024!

Some of SA’s top anglers compete in an epic fishing showdown at the Overberg Boat Club for the 2024 All Coastal Bottom Fish Inter-Provincial 2024

The 2024 All Coastal Bottom Fish Inter-Provincial is set for the 7th to the 10th of August and sees 27 Anglers from Border, Eastern Province, Natal, Southern Cape, and Western Province battle it out at the Overberg Boat Club at Kleinbaai/Gansbaai.

Known for producing some of the best bottom fishing on SA’s coast, the Overberg Boat Club is the perfect place to see some of SA’s top Men’s, Ladies and Junior Anglers reel in a large variety of epic bottom fish. 

Get all the details as it looks like winter is hotting up at the All Coastal Bottom Fish Inter-Provincial 2024.

All Coastal Bottom Fish Inter-Provincial 2024 Prizes:

What an honour to represent your province at the All Coastal Bottom Fish Inter-Provincial 2024. The 9 teams comprising 3 anglers each will be vying for top honours determined according to SADSAA’s rules at the end of the 3 fishing days.

Winners will be announced and awards given at the closing function on Saturday the 10th of August 2024.

All Coastal Bottom Fish Inter-Provincial 2024 Dates & Times:

The All Coastal Bottom Fish Inter-Provincial 2024 kicks off on Wednesday the 7th of August 2024 with the Opening Function where the teams representing their provinces come together, share a meal, and receive their instructions for the 3 days of exciting Bottom Fish angling action.

The All Coastal Bottom Fish Inter-Provincial 2024 wraps up on Saturday the 10th of August 2024 with the Closing Function where teams will enjoy dinner together, as well as receive their awards for top finishers.

For more info about Competition times, follow: 

South Africa Deep Sea Angling Association (SADSAA) on Facebook.

Join the Overberg Bootklub/Boat Club Gansbaai’s Facebook Group.

Join the Western Province Deep Sea Angling Association’s Group on Facebook.

All Coastal Bottom Fish Inter-Provincial 2024 Info:

9 Teams from across the country will represent their provinces at the 2024 edition of the All Coastal Bottom Fish Inter-Provincial. The teams and anglers are:

• Barbarian Men: John Luef, Gary Lunt & Brett Potgieter 
• Barbarian Ladies: Jacky Luef, Belinda Fischl & Michaela Schorn
• Border: Andrew Sprag, Tim Wood & Peter Klug
• Eastern Province: Brain Gerber, Donald Brown & Gerold Els
• Natal: Sayid Cassiem, Kyle Loumeau & Jethro Doman 
• Southern Cape Juniors: Jack Magerle, Owen Linker & Luca Kruger
• Southern Cape Seniors: Bertie Stewart, Christopher Schorn & Robin Corker 
• Western Province Juniors: Luke Truter, Hugo Bester & Mickyle Vermaak
• Western Province Seniors: Ossie Sauermann, Stephen Flemming & Wouter Rykaart

Ensuring the teams get to where all the Bottom Fish action is are the skippers and boats, including:

• Dp Burger on Double D
• Mark Truter on Cavalier
• Roger Marais on San Diego
• Iaan Viljoen on Piromero
• Piet J Wessels on Bayswater
• Patric Christoudoulo on Genesis
• Colin Joubert on Haven 
• Stephen Ewels on Reef Raper
• Owen Pretorius on Booby Trap

The South Africa Deep Sea Angling Association’s (SADSAA) rules will apply, with a 6kg line class for Seniors, and a 4kg line class for Juniors.

All Coastal Bottom Fish Inter-Provincial 2024 Contact Details

For more information about the tournament, you can contact the Overberg Bootklub/Boat Club Gansbaai.

Address: Danger Point Road, Kleinbaai, Gansbaai

Phone: 082 929 8688

Extra: 076 316 7825 

Or find them on Facebook.

Also see: 

The South Africa Deep Sea Angling Association’s (SADSAA) website and Facebook page.

The Western Province Deep Sea Angling Association’s Group on Facebook.

Fair weather, tight lines, and epic catches to the anglers, skippers and organisers of the All Coastal Bottom Fish Inter-Provincial 2024.

Previous Year’s Comps

Just two days of fishing put provincial teams to the test. Congrats to all the top-performing teams at the All Coastals Bottom Fishing Interprovincial

NOTE: Below details a report on a previous year’s competition. The 2022 competition is taking place 13–16 May 2022 at Gonubie in East London – contact 082 821 4565

Fourteen teams from five coastal provinces competed. Only two days of fishing due to the weather. And an All Coastals interprovincial like we’ve never seen before. The 2019 Bottom Fish All Coastals was hosted by Eastern Province Deep Sea Angling Association between 19–23 February in Port Elizabeth at PEDSAC.

And, as Allen Ford, captain of the Border Blue team, pointed out in a quick speech during the prize-giving ceremony, this is one we’ll all likely remember for some time to come. The first All Coastals that featured an all-new and creative bottom fish catch and release system.

But more on that later. For now, let’s get to the winners.

ALL COASTAL INTERPROVINCIAL SENIOR RESULTS

FIRST PLACE: EASTERN PROVINCE RED

• Kevin Clark (C)
• Peter Dawson
• Adrian Von Schuetz

After tallying the second most points overall on Day 1, EP Red came from a no-fishing Day 2 to claim the top spot after Day 3. Securing the 2019 All Coastals win for Eastern Province Deep Sea Angling. Especially exciting was seeing the performance of young Adrian Von Schuetz, who came up through the EP junior ranks to compete at senior level for the first time during this comp. Naturally, he was bolstered by being teamed with veterans Kevin Clark and Peter Dawson – who both sing the young man’s praises – but, anglers take note: Keep your eye on young Adrian.

SECOND PLACE: BORDER BLUE

• Allen Ford (C)
• Andrew Harris
• Everitt Van Loggerenberg

THIRD PLACE: SOUTHERN CAPE

• Chris Schorn (C)
• Koos Scholtz
• Johann Crouse

ALL COASTAL INTERPROVINCIAL JUNIOR RESULTS

It was especially awesome seeing such an excellent turnout of junior teams from most provinces. Border did very well, bringing in the most points on Day 1. And hats off to the Natal Juniors team, who managed a silver, despite all team members competing at this level for the first time. Here are the results:

FIRST PLACE: BORDER JUNIOR BLUE

• Joshua Olivier (C)
• Ben Steyn
• Keegan Brunsdon

SECOND PLACE: NATAL JUNIORS

• Chais Gaul (C)
• Owen Barclay
• Mohammed Abdul

THIRD PLACE: SOUTHERN CAPE JUNIORS

• Barend Boshoff (C)
• Henrico Scholtz
• Morne Crouse

Congratulations to all the winners. And all the competitors. As the sentiment during the prize giving suggested, the mere fact that we can have such successful interprovincial bottomfish competitions is a big win for fishing as a sport, so everyone should feel very proud.

Especially since this was no ordinary bottom fish event.

A FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND COMPETITION

Mark the year 2019 as the first time the All Coastals BottomFish Interprovincial featured a revolutionary new bottom species catch-and-release system. Driven by PEDSAC, the conservation-minded club who worked closely with a division of Rhodes University to develop a safe and efficient catch, measure and release system for bottom species featuring a system of specialised mats and hypodermic needles, this was the first-ever interprovincial comp in SA to feature the release of bottom fish.

PEDSAC received much praise from competing teams for this incredible initiative. And club chairman Richard Donaldson confirmed that the system used is similar to the one developed by PEDSAC to promote bottomfish conservation (click through to read more on how it works) during last year’s ECM Species Challenge.

We’re very excited about this for the future of bottom fishing in SA. And we’ll talk to SADSAA and get some more input on this catch and release system soon.

For now, congratulations to all the teams who competed. We can’t wait to see what you guys are going to do in the rest of 2019.

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Also discover this year’s Junior Bottom Fish Nationals and see the seniors and masters perform at the 2019 SADSAA bottom fish nationals.

See all the big fishing competitions in March and the whole year’s fishing competitions in South Africa.

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