Ryan Saunders of Port Shepstone with a lekker Rock salmon, caught in the Mnymeni River in the Eastern Cape (or Transkei Wild Coast). Mnyemeni is actually quite near the Casino. The fish was taken on a live mullet in the middle of the day.
This fish was caught a while back but as we move into March, the Rock Salmon are big on our minds…
If you have never been to Whitesands at the very end of the fantasmical Barra Peninsula in Southern Mozambique, this is your chance!
With the ocean on one side, and the huge Inhambane Bay on the other, there is something here for everyone. The newly famous African Kirra surf spot has been just up the beach for all this time – it’s a quick run to the paddle out and you can surf yourself all the way home!
Fishing in the same spot at night time for stumpnose and kingfish will surprise you…and gamefish come right into the huge lagoon. King mackeral are caught all the time, year round, in certain places right inside and completely sheltered from the sea.
Panzy shells and seahorses fight for attention with dugongs and dolphins in the estuary. You can go out and buy fresh seafood like sardines and calamari right off the netters dhows at Panzy Island and surrounding islands.
Deep sea fishing is excellent, check out the following for more details and keep checking thesardine.co.za for news on the current striped marlin and sailfish run. It’s been fantastic with some local boats getting multiple strikes every day.
Bathing in the idyllic and completely calm waters in front of the resort is completely safe and loads of fun.
For more information and contact details for Whitesands, click here.
HOLIDAY SPECIALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2015
R3000 for 2 people sharing Log Cabin for 7 nights including one meal per day.
DATES: 2015
1 March – 25 March
15 April – 25 Junie
21 July – 30 September
Right in the middle of all the action – Fatima’s is the perfect place to stay when getting to know the intriguing city of Maputo.
Take a walk down Mao Tse Tung Avenue towards the ocean and soon you will find the main drag, adorned with hotels, embassies, bank buildings and the like. Very impressive the investments being made in and and around Maputo.Stop in at the Polana for a coffee and soak in the views normally reserved for the rich and famous.
Head down to the ocean and starting at Club Navale, walk south along the promenade and into the lower reaches of town.
With a beautiful swimming pool and a genuine Herbie parked in the restaurant, Vasco da Gama in Tofo, Inhambane is firing up their restaurant again.
Famous for it’s genuine Portuguese cuisine and ice cold draft beer – Vasco’s now has resident chef Henrique who has been creating culinary masterpieces for decades. Henrique has cooked all over the world and blends different methods and ingredients to create his unique and international flavour.
We were served grilled pork fillet basted in a mango sauce and almost ate our fingers right off!
Check back soon for more information…Vasco da Gama opens on Valentine’s weekend.
Roger Davidson may have entered the elite 100 pounder club, with this massive ‘couta (king mackeral) taken on a live bonito, off Hibberdene this weekend. Unfortunately Roger gutted the fish before he weighed it, so we will never know!
Either way, it’s a magnificent catch – the catch of a lifetime for sure! Maybe it bodes well for another bumper big ‘couta run – like last years.
There are very few shoal ‘couta coming out anywhere, it seems the ‘couta population on our coastline is starting to age and we only have the big ones left?! Luckily the worldwide couta population is spread far and wide and in certain well maintained fisheries like Australia, the stocks are still healthy and should be able to bolster the stocks that are being so hammered, on our side of the Indian Ocean.
Roger fishes from a jet ski. The fish was 1.9 metres long. Must have been quite an interesting ride home!
