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Kiting on Bazaruto

Kiting on Bazaruto

Not sure who exactly took this photo of Duarte Rato kiting on Bazaruto, but it looks like he came in right over that dhow?!

The North-Easterleys of the east African seaboard can drive you nuts unless you know some way of harnessing all that evil wind. Kiting is a great way to stay out of trouble, or get into trouble? And these said NE’asters can blow for days, consistent and unrelenting – ideal conditions.

Duarte has been a main contributor to thesardine.co.za over the years and his many posts can read here.

 

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Kiting on Bazaruto. Duarte Rato making the most of the evil easterly winds that were pumping on Bazaruto waters last week.
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Bazaruto Sailfish on the run

Bazaruto Sailfish on the run

Captain Duarte Rato and clients targeting Bazaruto Sailfish for catch ‘n release thrills are beginning the season well. Bazaruto in winter time is famous for it’s proliferation of maddeningly hungry sailies and strikes often run into double figures. The sailfish are mainly taken dragging smaller plastics – making it easy to release the fish without damage. And it hardly could be called winter time – the water stays in the mid 20’s and the weather is sun filled island stuff.

Check out Duarte’s new website, fishbazaruto.com for more and more absolutely crazy entertaining fishing stories. The site features years of Duarte’s  “Captain’s Logs” from all over the game-fishing planet. Excellent reading.

FishBazaruto’s latest entry featuring Mike Koch reads here…

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Captain Duarte Rato: Back on Bazaruto!

Captain Duarte Rato:  Back on Bazaruto!

Coinciding with the launch of FishBazaruto’s new website and online campaign, Captain Duarte rato is back on Bazaruto Island and the tales are streaming in!

We would like to invite you all to check out the new website on http://fishbazaruto.com – the site features Duarte’s Captain’s Log from since 2011 and to read it all in one go will leave you a shivering wreck with the desire to go join Duarte out there on the fringe.

The site contains Duarte’s contact details and 2015 package deals, that are still available. The site also carries photos and information regards the different boat and package options, crew portfolios, a video channel, a gallery and a downloads section where you can grab a desktop that will keep you from working for hours!

So, to fire things up, here’s Captain Duarte Rato coming out blasting with an excerpt from his latest fishing commentaries, from over the last few days, on Bazaruto waters…to read the entire report and to see the pictures, you can click http://fishbazaruto.com/2015/05/06/durban-boys-ma…-bite-bazaruto/

“First bite on the first day was a huge, probably 30kg plus GT that Bjorn hooked on a Bobara, unfortunately the #50 braid was not enough to stop this fish and after a brief fight it cut us off. We then released a smaller GT, some snoek, cuda, wahoo, queenfish and some reef species. The next day we got some cuda, snoek and bonnies on the spinning tackle, a nice dorado on a jube jube live bait, some YFT on rappies and the highlight of the day was hooking a 150 pound Black Marlin on a jube jube live bait on a cuda trace. Solly had a awesome fight on the TLD 30 tackle but unluckily the fish spit the hooks as it jumped right by the boat. Third day was slower as we decided to go north and found some green pea soup, we did hook another monster GT, this time on a 3 kg jobfish live bait intended for a big cuda but could not stop it. We caught some other smaller live bait and got some cuda and a shark and the boys then had some action on a lot of queenfish, garfish and some other smaller species. The weather was supposed to blow us out on the last day so the boys decided we should rather go and enjoy a braai at Magaruque Island. We left just after 9am and decided to just have a quick spinning session before hopping on the island. What followed was 2 hour of absolute light tackle insanity with queen mackerel. We must have had more than 40 chases, lots of cut off´s and ended up releasing 12 snoek and 2 bonito´s. The trip was finished in a BIG way with a delicious braai and a few dops on the Island!”

Thanks Captain Duarte Rato! Keep up the good work! Read the full story here.

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Bazaruto Marlin

 

Bazaruto Marlin

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Bazaruto marlin by Captain Duarte Rato

Just to feature once again – the most incredible photography by Captain Duarte Rato, as he chases down billfish through the summer season, off Bazaruto Island.

Again, it was another surprisingly consistent season and even in the face of hectic weather most of the time, the tallies of tagged and released marlin swimming around off Baz are way up there.

At the moment, Inhambane is being battered by very strong swells whipped straight at us by the tropical storm / cyclone hanging off Madagascar. It is travelling in the right direction to keep compounding the swell and by the next dark moon spring tide, the line ups will be very interesting indeed. The fish are active in the wild surf zone with kingfish smashing baitballs right in amongst the bathers at Praia do Tofo.

 

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Bazaruto in November: Mayhem

Bazaruto in November: Mayhem

The last 4 days fishing we have raised a total of 15 Black Marlin, releasing a total of 6. There is a lot of fish around but bites are a bit lazy so not the best hook-up ratio.

However this is incredible fishing by any standards and today we started with Rod, Carmen and Gordon Janz from Canada and had another blasting day in flat calm seas. Twenty minutes into it Carmen hooked into a very big fish that stripped 300 meters of line before coming undone. We then had another fish miss the lure and then one about 300 pounds that come off immediately after the strike. Finally at noon we hooked up solid and Carmen managed to release her first ever Black marlin at about 200 pounds on #50 pound tackle. The afternoon was slower and we only raised a fish about 400 that never struck the lure.

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Bazaruto in November: Black Marlin action off the charts…(c) Duarte Rato
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If you want to see this in real life…Get yourself to Bazaruto Island and go fishing with Captain Duarte Rato!
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Carmen Janz about to say goodbye to her first Black Marlin (c) Duarte Rato
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