Fernando Hi Bro. ONLY JIGGING & POPPING on this one!
Only troll when we're exhausted. Only shore-fish if someone is too ill to go on the boat.
Andre, Greg Kellerman and myself are at Hell's Gate from Thursday next week with Earl Strydom jigging & popping HARD for a week on the same reefs we will work in August. Lots of them. They will all be left alone until August... Hmmmm?
Resident species are there all year round. Seasonals are a bonus. Pre-"crap" weather season, so we SHOULD get every day out.
Obviously all of the Kingies (Caranx), and AJ's, Tropicals, are there - those are our targets for jigging. Others? Geez mate, ANYTHING from a hungry Sail to a selection of the "tuna" species, or Jobs - Rosy and Green, Cuda, Macks, hoo?
Earl is working his ass off already to ensure best possible results. No shite, Earl knows his stuff.
June fishing and August fishing is very similar - Autumn / Spring.
Earl Strydom is the MAN when it relates to Southern Mozambique - reiterate this.
There are OTHER BIG things with teeth as well.... we're hoping to resolve these questions next week.
Now - the REAL VALUE of this trip is the opportunity to spend an uninterupted week on the water and in the lodge with CW and Dobbie. To put it in perspective, I have learnt more in 5 days on Enchanter with these guys than probably in a big chunk of my fishing life!!!!!
Nobody is making any bucks out of this (just to clarify things up front) but we thought that there has never been this much jigging horsepower in SA - ever, and this teemed with Earl, his team and a flippen luxurius lodge? Sheeez... the guys who take J&P seriously? And enjoy the creature comforts?
Pretty much a 1st.......