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Ouisurf in Mozambique – Surf travel show releases web version

Ouisurf in Mozambique – Surf travel show releases web version

Roosta and I were all muddled up on the south coast earlier in 2014- battered and fried after the swell just refused to stop, day after day, week after week. Roosta had an impending tour to Europe, and I was just getting through my days until something else came up. Which it did! Ouisurf in Mozambique!

Some history. About a year ago, this French Canadian TV show got in touch with Roosta asking if Roosta would guide a crew of four around the East Coast of Africa, to check out and surf the faraway and secret spots available. Roosta saw red and told them to get stitched. No chance pal!

A year later and the motley Ryan Poisson, call us up saying he got a job as a surf guide, and could he please borrow Roosta’s van for 10 days. Roosta helps a mate out and off Ryan goes.
Half way through his tour, he calls us and asks us if we want to go to Mozambique with his clients. Me and Roosta jump at the chance – and yes – it’s the same crowd Roosta told to vanish all that time ago! Ouisurf.tv!

We accepted the invitation and what a trip that turned out to be. Since the show is in French mainly – I will give you a quick rundown.

Game reserves, obviously. Some hectic action with a tame elephant that charged us down the road a few hundred metres, and a million photos of giraffes. Early next day Ponto d’ Ouro. Huge easterly. Huge. Blast to Maputo for my birthday – we get a $2000 suite in a city hotel and don’t even sleep there! Inhambane the next gruelling, gruelling day. Then easy street. Baia Sonambula. Casa no Praia. Restaurants. Parties. Surfing small south-east swells and having a lot of fun around the Tofo area. Pomene for a night. More fun waves and so many memory sticks full of footage, drone, gopros…all kinds – mostly and professionally operated by a tall funny guy name JP. Benjamin the producer also flew the drone and co-hosted the show with his mate Jean-Michelle. The production manager Stefano was super proficient and had his eye on me and Roosta at all times. We killed and ate a goat, a chicken and a tuna. The last day spent island hopping, spearfishing and deep sea fishing. Lots of blood. And we ate a goats testicle! Cooked yes!

Check out the super duper web presentation of the show…

Click the image to check out the Ouisurf.tv in Mozambique web presentation
Click the image to check out the Ouisurf in Mozambique web presentation

A really good experience for Roosta and I, we both learnt an immense amount during our 10 days blasting around the place with a crew I was really stoked to be a part of – real professionals!

Thanks Ouisurf.tv

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A brace of Wahoo: by Darrell Hattingh

A brace of Wahoo: by Darrell Hattingh

Oceanic Marine artist Darrell Hattingh has been producing amazing fish art and sculptures for over 30 years.  Darrell excels in underwater scenes drawn or sculpted as he has seen them in his thousands of hours spent underwater – spearfishing. This experience enables Darrell to perfectly emulate the subjects in their natural behaviour of hunting and preying.

Here Darrell has produced a brace of serious looking wahoo as they hunt for prey somewhere off our coastline.

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A brace of Wahoo: by Darrell Hattingh

Darrell can be contacted through his classifieds listing on thesardine.co.za…Click here to go there.

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Hibberdene for good fishing

Hibberdene for good fishing

Scelo Cele, lifeguard at Hibberdene’s Blue Flag beach, get’s lots of opportunities to get out there and shoot or catch some fish. He wastes no chances either, as can be seen from these photographs of Scelo and his catches, from this last week.

With the westerley about to blow…the water for the next few days could be promising, with Garrick and Daga Salmon about…things are great for spearfishing, down here on the lower south coast of Kwazulu Natal.

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Huge King Mackerel caught on light tackle

Huge King Mackerel caught on light tackle

Kevin Collins from Queensland in Australia caught this huge king mackeral (scomberomerous commersoni), on 10lb light tackle braid, with a 60lb leader!

He was fishing Mackerel Island in the Whitsundays when he hooked and landed this trophy fish. It was never weighed properly but estimates are sitting at around the 100lb mark, or 45kg’s. We say more like 55!

The size of the head is a big factor here, it’s girth – it’s a really healthy and fat fish, and then the length – no way could Kevin hold this fish up any other way – it looks to be a good 6 inches taller than him – all add up to what could be the biggest king mackeral / couta / spanish mackerel / narrow barred mackerel / tanguieguie / sierra / … a fish with many, many names, ever caught!

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The mystery fish – This is Kevin Collins the owner of Fish D’Vine and the Rum Bar in Airlie Beach Queensland, Australia

Huge king mackerel speared

The following two great fish were shot – the first is the official world record couta – a 46kg fish speared by Greg Pickering, and then the big daddy of huge king mackerel claims – a 52kg fish shot off Mapelane not three years ago!

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World-record ‘Couta spearfishing – 46 kilograms, Dorre Island, Western Oz, July 18, 2004 by Greg Pickering
Huge King Mackerel speared at 52kgs off Mapelane, KZN North Coast
Huge King Mackerel speared at 52kgs off Mapelane, KZN North Coast
Huge King Mackerel mystery
Another mystery…this brace of really big couta were rumoured to be 100 pounders each?! In South Africa…anyone recognise anything?

Catching huge king mackerel

Catching these magnificent and high-speed gamefish is an art. Your tackle needs to be in tip-top shape and your reels spooled with a lot of line. A lot! A 50lb and upwards king mackerel will spool a TLD 25 before you have time to pull the anchor and give chase. Those 100 pounders as featured above, will leave you breathless and your reel smoking.

Your traces need to be 100%.

And this is where MYDO comes in. We make traces for these big fish. Sure, the same traces will also work on dumb small couta too. But these are rigged in a way that can handle the initial force and the overall strain of hooking and fighting a crocodile sized king mackerel.

5X Treble hooks are deployed and on the HD traces, double #7 wire is used to attach the hooks. In a rigid format that makes sure the hooks stay in the right place no matter what.

Choice of leader is left entirely up to you and the prevailing conditions. Sure, #6 wire is great for most sized fish and most water conditions. But when you put out a live bonito of about 2 or 3 kgs, you are asking for trouble with that flimsy wire. At MYDO, we recommend using very heavy fluorocarbon or hard nylon leader when fishing large live baits. Your strike rate when using nylon goes through the roof compared to resonating piano wire that makes a horrifying sound underwater. And the nylon line is so much stronger and durable during a fight. Sure, a couta at full speed will probably chop through 100lb in one slice. But when you move up to 200lb and then 400lb, those teeth become less effective. But if a marlin or gas bottle tuna grabs ahold, those hooks and that double wire ain’t letting go.

Ok, so order an HD couta trace on your next MYDO purchase, put your chosen leader on, add a big old live bonito, and hold on tight.

Big tackle necessary!

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