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FishBazaruto.com news for 12 Nov 2017

Fishbazaruto.com checking in 12 Nov 2017

FishBazaruto.com news for 12 Nov 2017

FishBazaruto.com checking in with yet another post FULL of marlin. It’s time to stash the light tackle for whilst these denizens enjoy their annual holiday to Bazaruto waters. There are plenty smaller “models” as Duarte call them, available, courting the big ladies too. These smaller fish, presumably males, really put on a good show, even on the heavy tackle.

But it’s all about the big fish off Bazaruto right now. Four rods only. 80lb minimum. Everyone on alert!

The smaller fish make an excellent account of themselves either way

Read Duarte’s account of the second week of November. There are barely a handful of boats fishing out there at the moment – the weather has been terribly difficult still – but the amount of fish coming up is staggering!

Bazaruto early-mid November ´17 – Green water but big fish…

Read more about fishing Bazaruto waters at http://fishbazaruto.com.

Or check out The Sardine Trips and Travel section for options up and down the Eastern Seaboard of Southern Africa.

Or watch the latest Sardine News instalment on TV at:

The Sardine News and the Joker of Maputo

 

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So you wanna see a bait ball?

An amazing shot by Captain Duarte Rato (c) of a baitball off Bazaruto Island, Southern Mozambique

So you wanna see a bait ball?

So, you wanna see a bait ball?

Check this one out!

A bait ball and black tip shark captured by Captain Duarte Rato (c)Bazaruto Bait ball

When Captain Duarte Rato gets excited, so do I! He has been frothing over these amazing pics he lucked into whilst on a charter off Bazaruto two days ago. This one is a shark based bait ball, but many others were instituted by sailfish the same day. The bait balls are everywhere, even down here in Barra and Tofo.

And they are having the desired effect on the fishing.

The fishing off Bazaruto has been epic this last couple of weeks. Huge yellowfin, by inshore standards are being encountered. The ones that are coming out have been 40kg’s! The ones that have been getting away and there have been plenty, have been estimated at over 50!

Wahoo and couta have also been going mad, as they do, this time of the year, every year.

Sailfish are a bycatch of fishing for tuna, couta and wahoo really, and are almost as plentiful. There have been plenty sailfish all over lately. Targeting just sailies yields big numbers. Sometimes 5 or 10 a day. All released of course.

It’s just the big mommas, that are taking their time to appear. A few encounters with 800s, and a bunch of smaller fish, “rats”, as Duarte calls them, but a little quiter than last year.

Duarte is at sea right now…so stay tuned for more Bazaruto torture!

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