Category: FishBazaruto

Posts by Captain Duarte Rato, fishing the pristine waters of the Bazaruto Archipelego.

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Blue Marlin Bazaruto

Blue Marlin Bazaruto. The Sardine News Travel Agency can get you out there

Blue Marlin Bazaruto

Blue Marlin Bazaruto action has been on the rise year after year…according to Captain Duarte Rato. And Duarte is being supported by many other regular marlin chasers up and down the East Coast of Africa. And even down into the Cape.

Duarte fishes out of Vilankulos and Bazaruto each season – and has noted a rise in both the size and frequency of the blue marlin being encountered, especially this time of the year. It’s weird how each billfish species seems to have their own month or so, with which to frequent a given area.

It’s the Striped Marlin who next move in shallow to terrorise shoals of unsuspecting baitfish congregations on our East Coast of Africa. Who invites them and how you get on the invite list is still a mystery!

Check out the full story on http://fishbazaruto.com. Click on Captain’s Log and read the latest stories Duarte has posted (he documents each and every trip he takes), right back to 2010!

Cheers Duarte, for getting that really compilation of pics and facts together.

Keep it coming Captain!

Click this link for the full story…

http://fishbazaruto.com/2017/02/15/blue-marlin-mozambique-africas-east-coast/

 

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Baby Black Marlin shoal off Bazaruto

Baby Black Marlin shoal off Bazaruto

An Instagram feed journal of the activities of The Sardine News activities…Baby Black Marlin shoal off Bazaruto

A few days ago, Capt. Duarte Rato reported on all the baby Black marlin been caught off the Bazaruto Archipelago, into this new year. These are amazingly beautiful fish – which put on a great show and fight on appropriate gear, be it conventional, spinning or on the fly.
 
Here´s a very short clip of one of these rat´s being released aboard VAMIZI, it just shows you on beautiful these little creatures are. Amazingly these small fish come right into the inshore reef´s and are caught in depths as shallow as 15 meters of green water.
As you can see in the rad little clip…

fishbazaruto.com‘s Captain Duarte Rato educates one of a proliferation of baby black marlin off Bazaruto this year – how to jump real good for the camera, just prior to release. More on thesardine co.za #thesardine #fishbazaruto

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Captain Duarte Rato and the Great Barrier Reef

Captain Duarte Rato and friends Fishing The Great Barrier Reef with Team Tradition Charters

Captain Duarte Rato and the Great Barrier Reef

Dreams are free, so they say. And for some they sure come true!

Our own Captain Duarte Rato of FishBazaruto.com fame had the opportunity to make a big tick off his bucket list, as he joined Tradition Charters, fishing the Great Barrier Reef, off Australia.

This well put together video encapsulates the vibe and the excitement of fishing exotic locations, with Duarte.

Duarte is available for charter in different locations in different times of the year. Bazaruto, Ascension Island, Madeira, Cape Verde – his non stop tour across the globe chasing and taming huge black and blue marlin.

To get in touch with Duarte, click on over to his website at http://fishbazaruto.com, where you will also find a comprehensive collection of Captain’s Logs from every trip Duarte has done since 2011. And that is a lot of trips!

Duarte is an accomplished photographer and his jumping mad billfish photographs are crazy mad, AND, they never stop coming!

Duarte is currently on Bazaruto Island – where he spends every marlin season, this time of year. They are getting some great fish now and you can expect more entertaining and inspirational reports from http://fishbazaruto.com

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The Great Barrier Reef by Captain Duarte Rato

Captain Duarte Rato and friends Fishing The Great Barrier Reef with Team Tradition Charters

The Great Barrier Reef by Captain Duarte Rato

It’s a dream for many of us to visit The Great Barrier Reef and chase the legendary huge marlin the place is famous for. Well, Captain Duarte Rato was over in Oz lately and managed some amazing figures for fish.

Enjoy the gallery and the good read – by Duarte on location near Cooktown.

IGFA RulesCaptain Duarte Rato and friends Fishing The Great Barrier Reef with Team Tradition Charters

Duarte travels the oceans with his lucky clients, to all the marlin corners of the globe. Including but not limited to The Azores, Madeira, The Ascension Islands…and now The Great Barrier Reef.

In this two part series, Duarte relates in detail, each days fishing. The tactics and techniques, the encounters, the tackle – and the areas they fished in.

Part 1 is here…

And part two below…enjoy!

From BAZARUTO to the GBR / Nov 2016 – Part II

Based in Vilanculos, the closest town to the fabled island of Bazaruto, Duarte has been taking charters for decades. He grew up in these waters and knows the Bazaruto Archipelago backwards.

Duarte focuses on grander marlin, but along the way many fish are caught and most released. Check out his website on http://fishbazaruto.com to get in touch.

The website is also features The Captain’s Blog – a full record of every trip Duarte has been on, with incredible photos to compliment the entertaining fishing reports.

Going back years it becomes clear why Duarte delivers such good results.

 

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So you wanna see a bait ball?

An amazing shot by Captain Duarte Rato (c) of a baitball off Bazaruto Island, Southern Mozambique

So you wanna see a bait ball?

So, you wanna see a bait ball?

Check this one out!

A bait ball and black tip shark captured by Captain Duarte Rato (c)Bazaruto Bait ball

When Captain Duarte Rato gets excited, so do I! He has been frothing over these amazing pics he lucked into whilst on a charter off Bazaruto two days ago. This one is a shark based bait ball, but many others were instituted by sailfish the same day. The bait balls are everywhere, even down here in Barra and Tofo.

And they are having the desired effect on the fishing.

The fishing off Bazaruto has been epic this last couple of weeks. Huge yellowfin, by inshore standards are being encountered. The ones that are coming out have been 40kg’s! The ones that have been getting away and there have been plenty, have been estimated at over 50!

Wahoo and couta have also been going mad, as they do, this time of the year, every year.

Sailfish are a bycatch of fishing for tuna, couta and wahoo really, and are almost as plentiful. There have been plenty sailfish all over lately. Targeting just sailies yields big numbers. Sometimes 5 or 10 a day. All released of course.

It’s just the big mommas, that are taking their time to appear. A few encounters with 800s, and a bunch of smaller fish, “rats”, as Duarte calls them, but a little quiter than last year.

Duarte is at sea right now…so stay tuned for more Bazaruto torture!

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