The Sardine Newspaper has acquired a talented underwater photographer…as a contributor…Florian Martinelli…a denizen in his own right!
Check out this gallery of underwater chaos…
Category: Photograph
9kg Rock Salmon speared in Tofo
Bazaruto Traffic
BAZARUTO TRAFFIC!!!
After a very windy start to the season the weather as just been absolutely phenomenal from early November. It has been a peach to be out there in sunny skies and calm electric blue water.
This was yesterday morning as we made our way to the office, a little bit of traffic but nothing too crazy!
Captain Duarte Rato
Gas Bottle Yellowfin Tuna on Protea Reef
Shaun Posthumous and Mark Perreira turned up the drag on these two gas bottle sized yellowfin tuna last week. Weighing in at 30 and 31kg’s, these fish are representative of the good sized fish being taken on the south coast lately – a result of the tackling up trend going on.
Since the shark epidemic on Protea Reef came about, anglers have all been losing good fish to the zambesi’s, the whalers, the hammers, the blackfin, the tigers…etc. The only way has been to tackle up, from the TLD’s to 30’s at least, with heavy line…80lb does fine!
Now imagine all this tackling up occurred long time ago…and imagine the fish that would have come out. Many TLD’s have been stripped and many huge fish taken by the sharks, using lighter 50lb and less tackle. Although the yellowfin move offshore when they reach sexual maturity at 35kg’s, there are still the huge amberjack, yellowtail and kingfish to deal with…their mean size being caught has also been going up with the sales of Stella reels and their counterparts. Full of 80lb braid!
Blue-tailed mullet on the run in the Umzimkulu
Julian Ruthnum caught this beautiful Blue-tailed mullet fishing near Spillers Wharf on the Umzimkulu River in Port Shepstone, today. These big and powerful fish are quite plentiful in the Umzimkulu right now…plenty coming out.
Contrary to popular belief…they are delicious…in Mozambique they sell for the same price as king mackeral!
