450 lbs Black Marlin for Aaron Atkins
Aaron Atkins and his son Andres come for a second visit to Bazaruto to fish with us. Their first visit three years ago produced 3 Black Marlin for Aaron in as many days. Given the conditions this time they did not get so many fish but amongst all the yellowfin, sharks, wahoo and other game fish Aaron did manage to release an estimated 450 lbs Black, his biggest Marlin to date….well done Aaron!!!
In from Captain Duarte Rato. Bazaruto.
Hey bru, hope all is well.
Here´s a few more reports from this last week.
MARLIN MADNESS
My charter this week did not want to fish for Marlin which was a real letdown as the fish finally starting to show in better numbers and some big fish have been caught recently including a 923 lbs Black that was the biggest on the CADSAS competition held at Inhassoro last week.
As I said my guests only wanted to do light tackle spinning, plugging and jigging for the week but on the afternoon of the first day I convince them to pull Marlin lures for a couple hours and we raised three only hooking one that pulled the hooks. They were really shy on the lures so when we got a Yellowfin tuna the next day I begged them to put it out as live bait just for half an hour and within 20 minutes we hooked up to this acrobatic fish which was Scott´s Brown first ever Marlin release.
That was it Marlin fishing for the week but we still had a few other encounters with them. One day we at 25 Mile Reef plugging for GT´s when we get a 300 pound fish come after the rooster popper in 15 meters of water and the yesterday we hooked one about 140 lbs on a bucktail jig while jigging in 28 meters of water out of III trees with light tackle…obviously it was a rather short encounter!!!
Wahooooooooo!!!
September is know for the arrival of many big wahoo around the Bazaruto archipelago and even tough we are certainly having a late start to the season and conditions have not been what we are used to this time of the year some of these fast speedster’s have showed up giving some great fun.
Biggest caught so far was 31kg and we have had a numerous fish pass the 25 kilo mark…
In from Captain Duarte Rato in Bazaruto waters…
On the 27 September we had a charter with a great bunch of guys from South Africa and on their first ever Marlin fishing experience they took gold not once but twice!!!
Just before noon we get a frisky Black Marlin estimated at just over 200 pounds take the long rigger lure on the #50 stand-up tackle and Tom was into a good sweat to bring his first ever billfish release.
A short while later we caught two small 5 kilo yellowfin that we quickly bridled as live bait and not even an hour later a hungry Black comes in for the kill on the short bait right at the transom. After a short drop back the 20/0 circle hook finds the corner and Douglas Gain jumps in the chair to also score his first ever billfish release on a fish we estimated at just under 200 pounds.
