Captain’s Blog
Catch reports with stories, photos and/or video…
Offshores in summer!
Waking up to a magnificent offshore wind blowing uncharacteristically brisk for summer…something weather-wise was surely up (pity the waves weren’t!). Our 9am launch put us into the teeth of the day’s heat…cruising to Linga Linga to snorkel for sea horses and panzy shells – and hopefully look out for them elusive Queen Mackeral (Natal Snoek) … Read more
December Blues!
Huge winds and waves kept us in the bay yesterday – yet even at Linga Linga the tide vs the wind made for some rough going! Deon and John up from Maputo joined Keith, Farhad, Paul, Buck and I. Trolling into the main channel the birds were looking interested but after 2 hours with no … Read more
First Billfish for Geoff Shepstone…
More news in from Capt. Duarte Rato fishing off Bazaruto The cherry on top was of course Geoff releasing his first ever billfish, a black Marlin that gave us a awesome jumping display right by the boat!!! Check this amazing pics out and of course that smile as we celebrated with a few cold “M … Read more
Bazaruto Gamefish Action…
Captain Duarte Rato reporting in from Bazaruto… We had Mike, Shaun and Geoff the last three days and had an absolute blast with chaotic Yellowfin tuna fishing every morning at lighthouse, where tripe, quadruples and full house strikes were the norm. It was great fun everyday until the taxmen showed up and started to make … Read more