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Bazaruto Marlin Season mid October report by Captain Duarte Rato

Bazaruto Marlin Season mid October report by Captain Duarte Rato

Bazaruto has been shining again this year as a premiere giant black marlin fishing destination. With three encounters this past week, and a bunch of fish in the 900lb range, just about anytime you have a line in at Baza in season like this, you have a chance at a grander fish (1000lb’s plus).

An estimated 1200lb marlin was sharked on Pulsator during this years Bazaruto Marlin Season
An estimated 1200lb marlin was sharked on Pulsator during last weeks Bazaruto Marlin Season bite.

Captain Duarte Rato has been in the thick of the action and has compiled and entertaining report which is published on http://fishbazaruto.com – click the link to read all about it…

Duarte’s photography skills have been honed by years of skippering whilst chasing fish, and taking these amazing shots as it’s all going down.

Enjoy!

http://fishbazaruto.com for more reports from the past 7 seasons of the fishing for marlin off Bazaruto Island.

Bazaruto Marlin Season

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EPIC start to the Bazaruto Marlin Season by Duarte Rato

Duarte Rato Bazaruto

EPIC start to the Bazaruto Marlin Season by Duarte Rato

Even though we only really starting the Marlin Season of the Bazaruto archipelago on the third week of September, we had our good friend and loyal client Carl Jankowitz come up with his family during the last week of August to have an early go. August is a windy month and this year was no exception and we only fished 2 days over the course of the week, but they were EPIC to say the least, especially this early. On the first day and after catching some game fish on light tackle we hooked a Marlin about 250 lbs on a #30 pound stick and a TLD 25. Unfortunately it broke off 55 minutes later. We set the konas on the heavy gear and got some yellowfin tuna and just before lines in had a crash strike on the short corner lure followed by a sizzling run. Carl got in the chair and brought in a frisky 250 lbs Black Marlin for a release. The next we caught some serious size wahoo, yellowfin and then missed a Marlin mid morning. We persisted and just before noon we hooked a 300 + pounder that gave us some awesome jumps and a really hard time. It took us just under an hour to get it alongside the boat for a release. 2 Marlin out of 4 for Carl Jankowitz in two days this early in the season is really encouraging and we cannot wait to get out there come late September!!!

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GT´s stand for GIANT Kingfish…

Can you just imagine the sound of the line being ripped off the reel here? (C) Rato
Can you just imagine the sound of the line being ripped off the reel here? (C) Rato

The boys were well under gunned for most of the GT´s we encountered. The tackle they brought was way to light to stop those fish from reefing us and all of the really big Giant Kingfish we hooked were just to strong to stop!!! The boys did however release some decent fish up to about 12 kg on poppers and stick baits as well as some other species.

The pick handle...(c) Duarte Rato
The pick handle…(c) Duarte Rato
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