3 from 5 on Black Marlin for Mike & Rylan Goch
Really great to have Mike Goch back fishing with us for Black Marlin during the Bazaruto Heavy Tackle Season. It had been two years since…
We were fishing together in Santa Maria in March 2021 when this pandemic hit us and have not been together since. Rylan, his son is with him and looking forward to spending four days in the water with them and hopefully catching a few.
Will be updating on a daily basis…
VAMIZI – 07.11.21
With Mike and Rylan we had also my little guy Duarte Jnr., who is now 8 and joined us on Vamizi for the day….always so cool to fish with him.
Pretty windy from the SE in the morning but then changed to the E and NE and calmed down real nicely.
Tried to get bait in the morning but it was pretty slow.
Eventually we got a dog-tooth tuna of about 8 kilos on the pinnacle normally find them north of 9 mile.
Never tried them for bait or on the plate so put it out as live bait but it only lasted about 45 mins so we put him on the boat and had a delicious dinner.
Put the lures out to work against wind and current and make it to the bottom where we being seeing most of the fish.
Its been pretty slow on the bait side and surface activity so it was good to see the Ocean boiling shallow of Giants with zillions of skipjack feeding.
Catching them was another story.
Think we tried every spoon and plug we have on the boat and eventually after 30 minutes we got one. But such hard work and then the bait got taxed pretty quickly.
We put the dead baits out.
15h05 we get a bite on the swim bait, Rylan gets in the chair and this fish just goes absolutely mental.
I mean it was only a fat rat but did every trick in the book and then proceeded to jump all round the boat and on leader. Almost cut him off when he sped ahead of me and turned into the bow…really wild stuff!
It was a great show and I was so happy for little Duarte to be on the boat and see it.
When we finally had him on the leader we realized why…the fish was lassoed around the body!
VAMIZI – 08.11.21
We decided to have a look north today and looked for bait for a while eventually getting a nice kawa kawa which we put out as live bait.
The water did not look so flashy up north and with a 2-knot current and northerly wind there was one way to go and we were doing 4 knots so in no time at all we were at Sailfish Bay.
Looked much better here and we got a bite from a little guy that started jumping immediately, all wrapped up on the leader and obviously come off.
The bait was still Ok after that but it eventually got sharked.
We put the dead baits and worked south.
Again, the inside of Giants was alive with massive schools of Yellowfin Tuna, Skipjack and bonnies all feeding together. Really cool to see.
They were pretty shallow and we got a skipjack in 48m bridle it and decided to put it out right there and as we letting the line out, we get a bite and a #300 Black Marlin starts jumping as we load up.
Really fast first run and we turn to chase as Mike picks up line. Then the fish went deep we put some heat and as we get an angle and as it come up we right on top of it but it jumps and through the bait, so obviously we never really hooked it.
O from 2, bad luck for the day but still pretty cool and active, we put the deasd baits for a couple more hours but nada.
It was the first day of the season where we got water past the 26c
VAMIZI – 09.11.21
it was wild with game fish outside V and VI mile with kawa´s and cuta in the early morning.
It went like clockwork…
Got the right size bait, put the bonnie in the tubes and put it out in 50 meters and worked south.
Had it out for maybe 20 minutes when we get a bite from a little one that jumped off.
The bait was still alive and the fish then proceeded to follow the bait for 12 minutes.
It missed another time but then third we got him and a pretty quick release for Mike.
Nice way to start the day but the wind shifted and the beast from the East blew for the rest of the day , current slacked off and worst green water moved and all bait disappeared.
So 1 for 1 on our third day in really hard conditions
Not so bad to have the big blow from the South tomorrow as things need to change and better water to move in…
Back at it on Thursday…
The wind was blowing really hard from the SE on the 10th so we decided to make it a Clube Naval day which is what we call a blowout here…
Let me tell you….more hardcore than being out there in the Maelstrom!
VAMIZI – 11.11.21
Beautiful day out there which was surprising after yesterday´s blow.
We got out there, put the bait rods caught a cuta and then a kawa which we put in the tubes and run out. Got to 55 meters put it out and 7 minutes later get a bite…
Hookup!
And Rylan gets in the chair and we release the first for the day!
This is easy…
Or so we thought!
Got back in for mare bait and pretty soon we get a 6kg Yellowfin tuna, a erfect bait in anyone´s book´s. Put it in the tubes run out and we work the bait to Giant´s.
High hopes, optimist was right up there!
But as we worked it to Giants then with the reverse current north time passed by and nothing.
Water looked average, lots of Yellowfin and skipjack at 9 mile and later at Nhangoose.
We run all the length of the Island, tacking in a few spots but 6 hours later we finally get the bait taxed!
Very slow, lucky to get that one early morning as other two boats did not see anything for the day.
Really hard conditions so we actually did not do bad…
Ended raising 6 fish for 5 bites, four hookup´s and three releases
For Mike and Ryan´s four day trip…
Looking forward to next year boys, always a pleasure to fish with you guys….
