Author Topic: Angola 2016 with the H's - what a trip (Read 57522 times)

AndriesH · « **Reply #20 on:** May 19, 2016, 09:13:09 AM »

Fishies
Big leerie - Henri
Xavier releasing his leerie
Mrs H smacking another cobbie

AndriesH · « **Reply #21 on:** May 19, 2016, 09:17:45 AM »

Johans se leerie.

All packed and Ready to go.

Next stop, Tigres via die doodsakker.

AndriesH · « **Reply #22 on:** May 19, 2016, 09:19:34 AM »

Doodsakker.

You have 1 hour before low and one after low to get through.
The major danger is at the entrance where a rocky outcrop is sometimes washed free of sand leaving you no place to get over.

AndriesH · « **Reply #23 on:** May 19, 2016, 09:20:39 AM »

Made it

AndriesH · « **Reply #24 on:** May 19, 2016, 09:22:08 AM »

Finally, my miniature shad - huge by Durban standards but mostly the size of the bait up there.

AndriesH · « **Reply #25 on:** May 19, 2016, 09:24:24 AM »

SMASH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We ran into a bronzie smash - 18 bronze whalers in one afternoon with several others in between

AndriesH · « **Reply #26 on:** May 19, 2016, 09:30:16 AM »

Yolanda opens her Bronzie account with a small fish on 104cm.
She is now a career woman - wants to catch sharks for life - she LOVES it.

Me on the other hand went hanging three times on my own with bronzies.
1/ Pickup, strike, drop
2/ Pickup, VAS 30 minutes later dropped - steel trace fail
3/ Pickup, vas, 15 minutes later, SPOOLED- tighten up and leader knot failed.

Further to this, we were frequented by Black pylies.
Score = Black pylies about 7 vs fisherman -------------- 0
I participated in three of these battles and I can assure you that the short ones lasted only an hour before being spooled.
Longest was 2hr 30min when 0.71 Maxima parted with the fish on the sandbar - tail came up the thickness of a man's wrist.

AndriesH · « **Reply #27 on:** May 19, 2016, 09:33:13 AM »

She pulled them jaws to look like trunks - work work work, pull, drag, backwards, run and reel - work work work.

AndriesH · « **Reply #28 on:** May 19, 2016, 09:34:21 AM »

Monster - well done Mrs H - 142cm, about 40kg.

AndriesH · « **Reply #29 on:** May 19, 2016, 09:35:48 AM »

Smash !!!!!!!!!!!

AndriesH · « **Reply #30 on:** May 19, 2016, 09:36:57 AM »

Smash more and more

AndriesH · « **Reply #31 on:** May 19, 2016, 09:42:49 AM »

And so the days ended at Tigres

AndriesH · « **Reply #32 on:** May 19, 2016, 09:47:42 AM »

The legend - Oom Frans de Witt
Mrs H taking best lady angler and most species.

AndriesH · « **Reply #33 on:** May 19, 2016, 09:49:20 AM »

En route back to the states we got lost in Ovamboland and pitch camp in the bush - best night of the whole trip.

AndriesH · « **Reply #34 on:** May 19, 2016, 09:51:34 AM »

So, is this the end? - no, this is the beginning of preparations for next year.

I'll be posting some more pics as I get them. The guys and dolls are uploading to a dropbox, but it is coming in slowly.

Hope you enjoyed the trip with us.

REEFMAN · « **Reply #35 on:** May 19, 2016, 09:59:44 AM »

WOW!! Fantastic report Andries!! Seems like a trip of a lifetime! Congrats to Yolande for some spectacular fish! Awesome, well done!
Thanks for sharing this...

dugong · « **Reply #36 on:** May 19, 2016, 10:19:02 AM »

Brilliant report

CRANKMAN · « **Reply #37 on:** May 19, 2016, 10:36:32 AM »

Stunning report. Thanks for sharing it with us.

andrewpalang · « **Reply #38 on:** May 19, 2016, 10:37:19 AM »

Awesome report! Loved reading it all. Sounds like it was still an incredible trip!

Dewald Posthumus · « **Reply #39 on:** May 19, 2016, 10:37:29 AM »

Top3 on the bucket list, thanks for sharing!