Author Topic: MPT Bay offshore - What's up (Read 354463 times)

TUNAMAN · « **Reply #180 on:** January 10, 2012, 09:28:36 AM »

Thanks Peterblace good info and great pics. The boat looks like a great fishing platform.

Prego · « **Reply #181 on:** January 10, 2012, 09:42:53 AM »

Wow that is a strange looking boat 1st time I have seen. Well done on streching your Trevala.

If that rig as been sitting at Poco for a while I can just imagine all the Dorado's sitting under it

John F · « **Reply #182 on:** January 11, 2012, 07:13:53 AM »

Went fishing yesterday....

Just for the pot and to build up my confidence... so we went after couta aboard Oba Oba

Miguel had called me the night before and wanted to slayer the couta... was also traumatized with the45 ft cat experience!

Manuel Junior and I were at the club at 7:07 and we only launched at 8:10... tractor driver was late... again!

I took the wheel and with the calm sea we were cruising at 24 knots, till we got to the Incomati shallows were after going through a small choppy area we had to reduce our speed to about 18-19 knots... sky was overcasted and the water was clean although large patches of plankton were seen...

Our plan was simple.... troll with rappies and halcos on the B1 area (18-30 m) and get as many couta as possible... we started fishing at 9:30 at the end of the day (14:00) we had 6 and dropped 2 (none taxed

!)... the fish were on the bite up till 11:00... we turned into my couta traces with mackerel and jap mack but interestingly not a single one was touched (not even by peckers!)... we called it a day at 14:00 and returned to base...

Manuel was the champion with 3, Miguel had 2 and I only got one!

Total distance was 74 nm and the fuel consumption about 100 L!

All in all a great day at sea! It was great to have a fish at the end of the line again!

John F · « **Reply #183 on:** January 11, 2012, 07:57:46 AM »

Another plus of the day for me: I caught the smallest fish ever on a lure (2.5 cm)!!!!

It was a small mackerel-like sprat on a Halco max...

All pics courtesy of Manuel Junior - danke bruder!

peterblace · « **Reply #184 on:** January 11, 2012, 09:27:12 AM »

congrats JohnF...on your smallest catch ever

John F · « **Reply #185 on:** January 11, 2012, 09:43:04 AM »

Shot bru... I think this is one record I'll battle to beat!

TUNAMAN · « **Reply #186 on:** January 11, 2012, 10:12:06 AM »

JOHNF I got some interesting feedback from some of the late December anglers on our North Coast. I have not experienced this before but the one chap claimed that most of the small Couta they caught on bait they had to strike!! They noticed the rod tips bobbing like bottom fishing and to their surprise it turned out to be runt/shoalie Couta. Check for this if you fish bait while the shoals are still out there. Might experience the same.

Weird occurrence.

John F · « **Reply #187 on:** January 11, 2012, 10:49:02 AM »

Thanks TM. In our case, the rod tips never moved!!! The baits were absolutely intact!!! I guess nobody was home! Will keep my eyes open, next time!

peterblace · « **Reply #188 on:** January 21, 2012, 11:07:29 PM »

heard of a Marlin release last week by Four Play...and some YFT, wahoo and dorado caught

also saw a picture taken by Four Play of the platform installed at Poço, one of Maputo's fishing grounds
the same platform we (JohnF and myself) saw 2 weks ago

whodat · « **Reply #189 on:** January 22, 2012, 07:30:33 AM »

What's the platform? Might end up as a solid FDA, how far is it from the poco waypoint?

Serra Moz · « **Reply #190 on:** January 22, 2012, 09:33:56 PM »

Anybody got the name of the Sonda (drill rig)?

whodat · « **Reply #191 on:** January 30, 2012, 02:09:17 AM »

Nice wahoos on the last few pages@

John F · « **Reply #192 on:** February 25, 2012, 05:05:04 PM »

Just got back from Clube Maritimo.

Mon Ami released 1 black marlin and 1 sailfish
Oliver released 2 sailies
Nakisai landed 1 blue marlin (210 kg)

Lots of small tuna and a few good wahoo.

17 boats fished the comp

peterblace · « **Reply #193 on:** March 26, 2012, 02:58:32 PM »

last Saturday it was the 2nd leg of the Clube Maritimo competition

I'm now committed with team MAXIMVS but as my skipper JohnF is away in JHB I was invited to go aboard Oba-Oba
we arrived at the Club at 5:00 for launching at 6:00...all set up...clear sky's, gentle breeze from South (with some gust predicted for the afternoon that didn't show up)...sea was quite choppy in the morning (from previous days gusts) but in the end not so bad when we got to the fishing grounds

we headed to the lighthouse (Inhaca) while the rest of the fleet headed North towards Poco and the surroundings
I believe around 18 boats launched

getting there in 1h20 we set up 7 lines...and kept them until 13:30 when we decided to call the day off and head home..without a single strike
we trolled from the lighthouse around Jeremias...towards the 200mt mark...and South towards Santa Maria and back to Jeremias

some dolphins were spotted and 2 turtles...and a few tunas that didn't commit to any of our lures

a lot of lost marlins were heard on the radio from Cormoran, Mon Ami, Nakisai, Four Play...and Bite Me who fought for 2h30 with one unlucky marlin who got tail wrapped and died fighting...weighted 98kg so no luck for the marlin (min wight is 150kg) neither for team Bite Me

biggest fish was a wahoo of 21kg caught by team Oliver (I believe)
quite a few other wahoo weighting between 18kg and 20kg were caught...1 dorado of 13kg and 1 YFT of 14,5kg and 3 GT's ranging the 15-18kgs

but in general all the fleet blanked (not as usual as there's always a few YFT and Dorados)

next leg is in April 21...looking forward

Prego · « **Reply #194 on:** March 26, 2012, 03:02:24 PM »

Eish

hard luck Pedro, thanks for letting us know whats happening your side.

Prego · « **Reply #195 on:** March 26, 2012, 03:04:53 PM »

BTW is that platform or rig still in the Poco area?

peterblace · « **Reply #196 on:** March 26, 2012, 03:08:39 PM »

Quote from: Prego on March 26, 2012, 03:04:53 PM

BTW is that platform or rig still in the Poco area?

I believe they moved it further North...we didn't spot it as we were way too South
but I have friends that mentioned that they could spot something different (and permanent) from Macaneta beach

John F · « **Reply #197 on:** March 26, 2012, 05:26:03 PM »

Heard of a black marlin that died on "Bite me" during last weekend's comp... any more news peter?

jaenswart · « **Reply #198 on:** March 26, 2012, 05:39:09 PM »

Did our old friend Tsutsuma fish?

Manuel Junior · « **Reply #199 on:** March 26, 2012, 10:42:49 PM »

:shre: :shre: PB

Author Topic: MPT Bay offshore - What's up (Read 354463 times)

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