Fishing in Santa Maria Mozambique

[AndreasV]

Good afternoon

I am going to Mozambique this June and I want to start preparing what I am taking with. I am mainly going to be fishing from the Incha side. Want fish can I expect that time of the year and what should I take with.

Any help would be appreciated

 

[dewalds]

Hi there,

Will you be fishing artificials or bait? Edibles, Inedibles?

 

[AndreasV]

Probably mostly artificials but thats why I am asking as well because if it is worth the effort I will try and get some bait. I would preferably target edibles and game(I heard there are trevally which would definitely be the prize fish). But wont be targeting sharks and rays etc.

 

[kitefisher]

If you can only take one type of bait,I would recommend Chokka. It's probably the easiest to 'maintain' and works fine for Kings,Stumpies and Bonefish alike. Bonefish being very good livebait for Kings. Never fished from Inhaca's side,but at a guess it cant be much more than 350-450 meters across from Santa Maria at Inhaca's southernmost tip. Pretty deep water in the channel where the tide rushes in and out between the landmasses. Pretty sure you'd be able to buy fresh fish as bait from the local fisherman,but then again this is going back a long time. Try a search on here in the search bar using ''Santa Maria' as catch-phrase..Tight lines.

 

[AndreasV]

Thank you for the replies.

Did some research and sounds like drop shot fishing is quite effective? I dont know the mozambiquean coast well so I dont really know what to look out for and where to fish. Any hints?

 

[AndreasV]

Oh sorry I got my locations wrong we are staying at Cabo beach villas which is not on the incaha side of hells gate. Is this better?

 

[AndreasV]

So after two days of no fish here I have come back for questions. We are staying on the mouth in hells gate. I have a few questions for the next week we still have here. Firstly around the mouth to the open sea I am unsure of what to throw and on google earth it looks like theres a fringing reef? Can you cast in the or are you just going to end up on the reef? And then other the just throwing at the mouth and in the channel where else is good? When fishing with bait where is the best place to fish? And any other tips to increase my chances of catching something.