just a quick trip report from the bonanza that we fished last week
the drive up was uneventful and the border crossing was swift and had no issues with the dreaded mozambique cops
we left the wednesday before the comp to prep the boat and get a pre fish in which unfortunately did not happen has the weather turn out to quite foul with a large swell and high winds which stuck around till sunday.
the forecast for the comp turn out to be very good and all 5 days where fishable.
we arrived on the beach on monday to a washing machine bay with a massive side wash causing plenty wide eyed moments.
we are lucky enough to have a tractor that we leave up in moz (which gave us a fair amount of crap due to a dirty fuel tank),so we opted to delay our launch and help the other boats launch and avoid any mishaps and after pushing most of the boats in with the tractor we only launched at about 9am.
we fished for about a hour when we received a call from beach control asking us to assist with a jet ski that had dropped his keys into the ocean due to a double up on dorries causing havoc and the chap fell of the ski and lost keys in the process.
lines up and off we went finding the chap and towing him back to the beach and that was pretty much our day 1 done with little time to fish.
the rest of the week the surf settled and we had 4 awesome days at sea, fishing wise it was pretty slow mixing it up between sailfish spreads jigging a bit and some game fishing slow trolling baits.
we had a saily in the spread for a brief moment but sadly she had commitment issues
some pics
the view rather crap weather pre comp
improving weather
view from balcony with the large swell.....well for moz anyway
tackle ready to go
your most acceptable digs for the week
while building some walla traces kobus had a run in with 2 4 X owner trebles eina bliksem after a self extraction we treated the fingers with some hydrogen peroxide and 2 days later his fingers healed up nicely..........one tough oke i cringe just thinking about it at least we had a double up before the comp started
some more pics
towing the jetski back......still manage to put out 2 rappies for the ride back
some fish jigging think a black tip kingie and a bludger
also managed some yft and cuta on the jig.
we also got absolutely smoked twice once on a mh outfit and the other a heavy outfit can only think they were beeeeg
gonna have to tackle up next time
some couta on the slow troll
best way to get around in moz
your chariot awaits
as for the results the barthos did it again this time winning the boat with a 31kg gt they also lead the species comp the entire week
prize boat
winning fish
winner of the jet ski ricus bateman with a 21kg geet
till next year.......................
