Author Topic: Blue Water Charters - Fishing Reports from Fat Girl (Read 91144 times)

Bwana · « **Reply #20 on:** January 23, 2015, 10:49:07 AM »

Congrats on all the great catches including Theresa, welcome back to UA and looking forward to your trip reports and catches

jaenswart · « **Reply #21 on:** January 23, 2015, 10:49:27 AM »

welcome back Mike

Capt. Hook · « **Reply #22 on:** January 23, 2015, 11:41:37 AM »

Am blessed with 2 boys and they both hooked on Fishing, Jesse even comes along and helps on my charters

Capt. Hook · « **Reply #23 on:** January 23, 2015, 11:42:11 AM »

Thank you for all the warm welcomes

deepblu · « **Reply #24 on:** January 23, 2015, 12:56:21 PM »

and welcome back looking forward to more reports

Toppie · « **Reply #25 on:** January 23, 2015, 03:56:26 PM »

Welcome back Mike, seems you had a good and productive year.

Congratulations on the keeper!

Mal Hannes · « **Reply #26 on:** January 23, 2015, 04:21:53 PM »

Fantastic to have you back.

Congrats well done! No tagging and releasing of your keeper.

Capt. Hook · « **Reply #27 on:** January 23, 2015, 04:56:49 PM »

Quote from: Mal Hannes on January 23, 2015, 04:21:53 PM

Fantastic to have you back.

Congrats well done! No tagging and releasing of your keeper.

No Hannes, am definitely not releasing this one, I did however put a tag on the finger

Capt. Hook · « **Reply #28 on:** January 30, 2015, 09:42:39 PM »

OFFSHORE FISHING REPORT - 30th January 2015 - Durban
We launched at 05h00 today to look for a Marlin, within a few miles we hit some heavy rain and decided to push through and after a getting soaked we got to the other side of the weather with some nice conditions. I really struggled to find good water and the water temp was changing all the time, the thermocline was really strange as it was up and down all the time and not consistent, water clarity was also not consistent with pockets of purple water in between green water. Eventually we did find some good purple water. We got one Marlin strike and he pulled about 300m of line and then came off before we could even get the rod into the chair. By the time we found the good water the East wind was pumping and we managed 2 Yellowfin Tuna for all our efforts. The first one was a strange fight as the fish took hard a peeled a lot of line and then suddenly gave up the fight and was like it was taken by a shark, but it was not. Once at the boat the fish was already dead only to find that the hook had ripped its gills out on the one side. There was a screaming S-N current and no life in the water except a logger head turtle that we saw.

Capt. Hook · « **Reply #29 on:** February 06, 2015, 12:46:15 PM »

OFFSHORE FISHING REPORT - 6th February 2015 - Durban
What a fantastic day today, water inshore was crystal clear, just under 24deg.C, bait fish were everywhere and going wild. We launched at 05h00 and were back at 10h00. We could do nothing... wrong today, the Yellowfin Tuna were just hitting our lures, within minutes of setting our spread we had the first Tuna on and after that we could not get all our lines out and our guest could not even get out of the chair because we had 10 hits in a row landing 7 Tuna one after the other after the other. It was even more fun because we were fishing light tackle today and the Tuna were all decent sizes.

Chigger · « **Reply #30 on:** February 06, 2015, 12:51:24 PM »

Good to hear -

thanks for sharing.

SAfish · « **Reply #31 on:** February 06, 2015, 01:12:07 PM »

Good one, Mike.

AQUAFAN · « **Reply #32 on:** February 06, 2015, 03:42:36 PM »

Well done Mike. That is encouraging news - thanks.

Capt. Hook · « **Reply #33 on:** February 07, 2015, 06:40:10 PM »

OFFSHORE FISHING REPORT - 7th February 2015 - Durban
When I went to bed last night I was thinking that fishing today would be similar to yesterday, and then late last night we had a hectic storm with very heavy rain, the thunder was so hard the windows in my house were humming and when I saw the lightning I knew today would be different. When I woke up at 03h00 it was still raining lightly and there was no wind, the bay was full of rubbish and the water chocolate brown. With all this I had to really change my tactics planned and once out the harbour saw all the bad weather up North and decided to head South. After a while I saw a debris line and a little deeper out I found a current line with cobolt blue 25deg.C water and so we ran some rappies on light tackle very slowly along the line and we landed a Wahoo, 2 Dorado and a Yellowfin Tuna.
Then the fun began when one of the reels screamed off like mad and after about an intense 40minute fight we lost a black plastic bucket about 10m from the boat.
Things were about to get better for us when we got spooled when one of our lines snagged a drum line with what I assume was a very large shark attached to it. I tried to chase but could not keep up and the drum was making a serious bow wave and a wake we wanted to get the drum line and release the poor shark but were not able to do so. I find it sad that people are still drum lining sharks.

Rory mundy · « **Reply #34 on:** February 07, 2015, 07:01:17 PM »

are you not supposed to fly game fish flags when the fish is over 20kg

Capt. Hook · « **Reply #35 on:** February 07, 2015, 07:07:47 PM »

Quote from: Rory mundy on February 07, 2015, 07:01:17 PM

are you not supposed to fly game fish flags when the fish is over 20kg

At the marina it is common practice with all the boats and exciting for the clients

Capt. Hook · « **Reply #36 on:** February 08, 2015, 11:45:34 PM »

Dorado Fishing with Blue Water Charters

Dorado (Mahi-mahi) Fishing with Blue Water Charters - Durban

Nooduck · « **Reply #37 on:** February 09, 2015, 07:42:41 AM »

Nice video Capt. Hook

Capt. Hook · « **Reply #38 on:** February 14, 2015, 08:56:56 AM »

OFFSHORE FISHING REPORT - Durban - 13th February 2015
With a stiff NE wind and a strong N-S current making for choppy seas we made our way out of port just as the sun was popping it's head over the horizon. Within minutes of dropping our lines we had 2 small Bonnies on deck. After that things were quiet until we hit the 100m depth line when we had a Sailfish jump onto on of our lines and after 2 jumps before we could even get the rod out the gunnel it was gone. On our way back going over the same spot we had the exact same thing happen on the same rod and lure, I am sure that it was the same Sailfish. We also managed to land 2 nice Yellowfin and a Wahoo. We lost a 2nd Wahoo at the boat just before lines up when it bit through the leader (No Steel).

Bwana · « **Reply #39 on:** February 14, 2015, 09:16:57 AM »

Nice going Mike looks like a succesful day on the water. Pity about the

falling off. What lures did you get the 'hoo strikes on?