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Posted on October 21, 2011October 21, 2011 by Sean Lange — Leave a comment

Stop Duarte! Stop! This is torture!

Sean,

Brother the fishing as been absolutely insane…here´s a few reports and pics for the sardine….just been to busy to send anything fishing everyday….blownout today big SA, but out there tomorrow again!!!

After having some insane light tackle fishing over the last two weeks of September when we caught ridiculous amounts of sailfish, yellowfin, wahoo, dorado and others we finally started fishing heavy tackle for Marlin in early October and with perfect conditions the fishing as been insane!!!

First group was Craig Edwards with a few mates and they choose to also fish mostly for game fish and we caught no less than 30 game fish every day including some pretty beefy wahoo and yellowfin in the 20 to 25 kilo range.

We also caught a good number of sailfish including three in a day and to top it off a small 200 pound Black Marlin…

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Sean Lange — Leave a comment

Collective Reporting

Yellowfin Tuna taken off Bazaruto (c) Duarte Rato

Duarte Rato at Bazaruto sent in this awesome photo of a yellowfin tuna…taken a few days ago…

These are what the big momma’s are here for!

It has been a little quiet, in town and at sea, for us in Tofo. But we have had the following launches:

Damian, Shane and Erlana

Shane was super stoked with his yellowfin on light tackle, seared and eaten still raw in the middle, with lemon juice and garlic butter. Wow!

But then Damiao got his first fish ever! A smallish sea pike – that he relished at Tofo Tofo Restaurant, where they prepared it beautifully.

Although the fishing was a bit slow, whale sharks, dolphins and whales made up for some action.

The Poker Club

Paul and I were sitting on the verandah at Bar Babalaza, wondering where our next customers were going to come from, when 8 Big Ous from Joey’s rocked up and turned our lives upside down. From partying at Fatima’s, to huge feeds at Barra Lodge and then a final assault on Freddie’s Bush Bar at Whitesands…

Lionel led the fishing charge but either he chose the wrong crew or bait – but it was not to be. We never saw a bird, and not one local rowboat fishing crew were out either. It’s about 1 in 6 trips that we score a duck like this – and no, they never let us live it down!

Double or quits next time pals!

Posted on October 1, 2011October 1, 2011 by Sean Lange — Leave a comment

Duarte again!

Hey senor Sean,

After the crazy SE that blew over last weekend we have had picture perfect weather, deep blue water an ocean full of life…and some pretty EPIC fishing.

Unfortunately despite such perfect conditions we have not been targeting Marlin on heavy tackle as with such a ridiculous amount of gamefish such as wahoo, dorado and yellowfin tuna as well as sailfish around, guests have preferred to tackle these on light tackle.

Tuesday and Wednesday we only went out for a couple hours and some pretty good fish and lost a bus yellowfin and a big GT we fought for 35 minutes. But yeah, there is so much Yellowfin it´s stupid!!!

Yesterday we fished in the morning and released a sailfish out of a double strike, missed two black Marlin and again got a whole bunch of yellowfin tuna.

Today was epic…we started with a sailfish pack attack and managed to hook 3 of the five bites and released two fish. We then got into a massive school of yellowfin and got 14 as well as two good wahoo. We had to be back at 1pm but still pulled lures for a while and finished the morning with a small Black Marlin around 100 pounds for Craig Edwards…it was everyone’s first billfish!!!

Looking good bru…can’t wait to start chasing the big ladies !!!

Cheers

Duarte

Posted on September 22, 2011September 22, 2011 by Sean Lange — Leave a comment

3 Hours with Duarte!

3 Hours with Duarte…a lifetime worth of fishing…!

Duarte reporting in on a trip they had last week…out of Baz.

“Cool man, nothing to do with this wind but brave it out there bru. To me this is good, the more it blows earlier in the season from the SE the more it pushes good water into the edge and the stronger the current. Every year there is a good number of SE in August to September we have a great season.

Did go out a few days ago with two nice girls from Zim, we only fished 3 hours and it was EPIC. We caught a bunch of school yellowfin tuna and bonito, two nice wahoo of 22 and a monster of 31 kilos and released 4 sailfish out of 7 bites. All in three hours work. The sailfish bite was awesome but the girls had enough and wanted to return home. AWESOME!!!”