Bush & Sea
Not much fishing or sea time this month, but we did have a great time in the bush…
Took some time off with the family and we had a road trip starting at Vilankulos and then spending a long weekend in Maputo sorting paper work but also enjoying good times with lots of cherished friends.
We then went to the bush in SA, to Ntsiri, a private game farm bordering the NW of the Kruger. Such a privilege, and so amazing to see game in such wild terrain – very few cars, no tar roads, no signage….what a treat, thank you so much Mike and Carol.
And, to top it off on the boys first bush trip we were so lucky with our sightings. Leopard kill, Wild dog kill, wild Dog Puppies, enclose on an 80 plus elephant herd and so much more. Basically, the only thing we did not see where Rhinos and Lions…next time!
I was very, very gutted not to take my camera and thus only have some half crap shoots taken with the phone!
Ohhh of course, by this stage we where all missing the beach & sea so we had a few nice days in tofo before heading back home 🙂
But back to sea…
Water slowly warming up at Baz, and the boys mostly doing game fish charters and nice to see a good number of Yellowfin tuna showing, along with skipjack, wahoo and a few dorado. As is usual in August good numbers of small Blacks around and a few days ago, the boys did connect to a nice size fish they estimated at just under #500. And yesterday Bruce went out deep and had a 400-pound Blue trying to eat a skipjack he was pulling on the spinning tackle!!!
There´s been some good size YFT and here Ricardo Pinduca with a good cuda of Santa Maria….
Water still in the high 23c but one can feel the weather heating up and now it’s down to getting ready for the heavy tackle Marlin Season which for us will start a tad later than usual, on the 13th of September. From then it’s back to back to early December.
Yup, big fish time is upon us @ Bazaruto…
Talking of which, August seen some big fish around!
It had been a sort of dry year for Grander´s thus far, with only two fish, one from the Cook island and another from Cape Verde reported. But, in the last month alone another two fish where weighted and one other that, given the measurements, would have certainly made where caught.
That makes it the 5th Grander for the year, all of which were Blues.
But, that should all change dramatically into the next few months. With the GBR and (hopefully) Bazaruto coming on line a good number of Blacks should get in there….
Christiaan will be running our second boat during the Bazaruto Marlin Season and he has still got two slots available right in the peak between October and November…. Anyone interested contact us at:
Cheers for now,
Duarte A. M. Rato
Fishbazaruto.com
Sportfishing Charters @ Vilankulos & Bazaruto Archipelago
Email: dudas7mares@gmail.com
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Phone: 00 258 84 639 0466 or 00 258 82 805 7160
