Fresh news in from a competition held off Inhaca Island…the new Gummy Squid Jigs are proving to make excellent catches, time and time again.
These fantastic photos were submitted by some of the participants…
“Hello
The fish equaled the all tackle world record Yellowspot king. Also caught a golden king that was very close to the 10kg line class IGFA world record but released the fish so didn’t weigh it. Caught a nice GT of 107 cm.
All on squiddies. Regards
Pierre”
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We had some pretty good sessions all along this last week fishing light tackle spinning but one was really awesome with the boys releasing over 10 species of fish in two crazy hours of jigging at Alladin´s!!! Here´s some pictures of the action…
Green Jobfish. Also known as Kaakap. And Kakaap?! Great eating! (c) Rato
Oey! Sharks are surviving fine in the Bazaruto Archipelago Reserve (c) ratoBaby GT ready for photo and release (c) Captain Duarte Rato
Yellowfin like this jump on the jigging style of fishing (c) Rato
My charter this week did not want to fish for Marlin which was a real letdown as the fish finally starting to show in better numbers and some big fish have been caught recently including a 923 lbs Black that was the biggest on the CADSAS competition held at Inhassoro last week.
As I said my guests only wanted to do light tackle spinning, plugging and jigging for the week but on the afternoon of the first day I convince them to pull Marlin lures for a couple hours and we raised three only hooking one that pulled the hooks. They were really shy on the lures so when we got a Yellowfin tuna the next day I begged them to put it out as live bait just for half an hour and within 20 minutes we hooked up to this acrobatic fish which was Scott´s Brown first ever Marlin release.
That was it Marlin fishing for the week but we still had a few other encounters with them. One day we at 25 Mile Reef plugging for GT´s when we get a 300 pound fish come after the rooster popper in 15 meters of water and the yesterday we hooked one about 140 lbs on a bucktail jig while jigging in 28 meters of water out of III trees with light tackle…obviously it was a rather short encounter!!!
Black marlin jumping in the clear Bazaruto waters (c) Duarte RatoVery high speed chase! (c) Duarte RatoScott´s Brown first ever Marlin release (c) Duarte Rato
