Panzy Island in the Inhambane Estuary is surrounded by starfish of all colours, shapes and sizes.
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More wind…in Inhambane…
Casa de Comer
Huge Umzimkulu Rock Salmon
Huge Umzimkulu Rock Salmon
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I was going through some older posts and found this highly relevant shot of Matt Defillipi hoisting a proper Rock Salmon, back in 2012.
This must be one of the BIGGEST Rock Salmon/Mangrove Jack caught at the Umzimkulu Marina…shot DEFLAPPERS! That will take plenty of beating…
These wily fighters love the Umzimkulu River and have been seemingly thriving lately. Speculation is that the river has finally cleaned up after it was so abused by the sugar industry during the seventies. The sugar farmers were told to double their sugar production in a very short space of time, and they used all sorts of wierd and terrible chemicals, and the fastest cheapest ways of planting new cane.
These chemicals jumped the erosion taxi right into the river and for 20 years and longer, traces of some very bad poisons were to be found in the mud.
The degrading time of these chemicals was said to be thirty years, and now, thirty years later, we seem to have a functioning estuary again.
We even have sharks!
Rock Salmon!
Winter time is here in Inhambane and a few fish are still around…Charl Mikkers took this pic of a local dude in the Tofo market – with his catch of the day – must have gone 7 or 8 kg’s. Caught out the front on one of the close reefs in a howling SW and 3m swell. And yes, on a two man row boat.
The wind and sea have been mightily upset this last week, and aside for a flathead on fly – we had nothing to report fishing the estuary really. So much baitfish in the water still. The netters are pulling in some massive Potter’s Squid aswell – some look about 4kgs!
Deep-sea we have been dragging a live yellowfin around for days now, which will have increased our chances, according to the maths…otherwise an assortment of gamefish are appearing on the fish tables, the row-boat crew launch in bad weather no problem…and their persistence rewards them with cobia, kingies, the odd snoek, some awesome rockcod and rock salmon, speckled snapper…many of the boats are rowing out deeper and targeting bottomfish more intensely since the water has gone cold and dirty again. 23 degrees and 8m visibility if you are lucky.
