KOB MASSACRE

[Pargo Man]

Ahoi Fedu,

FTF, what a fish! Brilliant!

Fedu, mais uma ves: excelente pesca e ainda melhor reportagem. Cumprimentos tambem para tua equipa. Voltaram com barco "pesado"!

Thanks for well written report and pics that say it all:

Angola is game anglers' heaven all year round.

Thanks for the FAO statistics in particular. I can recall a conversation with Mme. National Director of Fisheries (then) Dr.a. Antonia in 1994, who was convinced that the biomass productivity of Angolan waters would permit a sustained commercial fisheries harvesting a million tonnes each year, even with further research up to 2 million. The trend is visible for me: in 1990 we had lots of blank days, still in 2004. The "Carapau" horse makerel Moratorium (...not memorandum) installed by Fisheries Minister Dr. Salomao Xirimbimbi in 2004 brought the change. Yellowfin tuna, Sails and Marlin abound. The 35 sport fishermen teams up and down the coast around Luanda and the 5 or so in Lobito really are not the drop in the ocean in comparison and mean pretty little harm to the stocks. The Sailfish Classic in 2007 and 2008 prove it: every year significantly more bill's tagged and released.

First week of May we had a rough "Calema" collison front of Benguela and Guinea Currents move through the waters afront Luanda. Now surface temps have dropped 5 degrees and now one needs luck and experience (like BIG Fedu and his mates) to find the right spot and technique to catch just anything. The masters have produced.

The amateurs like myself will burn 250 liters for a couple of weekends without scoring anything but family fun whale watching...

Till November we have to hold out on our reefer dorados, so I am not shy to admit we bagged plenty during the outgoing season. Consider we feed 13 fish fans every day... thats never enough.

Mui cordialmente,

Jan

 

[FREE THE FIGHTER]

Thnks Fedu....sadly photography and me dont go. But thats a long story - will try my best but this is what normally happens....to the fury of my son who was holding this fish !!!! But will get a new camera before my Luanda trip ( ha ha ha !!!)

 

[fedu]

Pargo Man wrote:

Angola is game anglers' heaven all year round.

Thanks for the FAO statistics in particular. I can recall a conversation with Mme. National Director of Fisheries (then) Dr.a. Antonia in 1994, who was convinced that the biomass productivity of Angolan waters would permit a sustained commercial fisheries harvesting a million tonnes each year, even with further research up to 2 million. The trend is visible for me: in 1990 we had lots of blank days, still in 2004. The "Carapau" horse makerel memorandum installed by Fisheries Minister Dr. Salomao Xirimbimbi in 2004 brought the change. Yellowfin tuna, Sails and Marlin abound. The 35 sport fishermen up and down the coast around Luanda and the 5 or so in Lobito really are not the drop in the ocean in comparison and mean pretty little harm to the stocks. The Sailfish Classic in 2007 and 2008 prove it: every year significantly more bill's tagged and released.

First week of May we had a rough "Calema" collison front of Benguela and Guinea Currents move through the waters afront Luanda. Now surface temps have dropped 5 degrees and now one needs luck and experience (like BIG Fedu and his mates) to find the right spot and technique to catch just anything. The masters have produced.

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Mui cordialmente,

Jan

Thanks Jan,

as allway precise information from you.

For the next couple of weeks we will also be burning fuel looking for new productive spots.

P.S. - A int, will be looking for Block 6 (and after that Block 5) "old" oil wells.

 

[Pargo Man]

Ahoi Fedu,

"judge" Brandao should be o great help for the exact lat/long of those wells. He is chief geo physics consultant at SNGL and hords enormous quantity/quality of data on the sea bottom along the Angolan coast.

Still, the beauty of the structure of the sonar image of your "spot secret" is difficult to match. How can a small blow-out-preventer hold as much fish as the cliff in your picture?

 

Our "Djamila2" homework to solve before we can join the cold water fun and break sticks:

1. tank sludge/fuel/filters gremlins

2. sheared-off support of the sonar/GPS, that broke off in the heavy seas recently.

... and there remains the issue of range and single engine...

Mui cordialmente,

 

[fedu]

Pargo Man wrote:

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Our "Djamila2" homework to solve before we can join the cold water fun and break sticks:

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You just wrote the wrong words "break sticks", now Roy & Nepps are not going to sell you rods .

 

[royboy]

Goodness.........not again! Now Chris, Nepps and I will start having sleepless nights again!!!

 

[tremosso]

Pargo Man, isn't that cmd Kali in the pic?

 

[fedu]

tremosso wrote:

Pargo Man, isn't that cmd Kali in the pic?

No, it's Xico (Francisco).
Owner of the best bar that ever existed in Luanda "HAVANA", closed for a couple of years now.

We replaced the bars thing with the boats things and exchanged the nights out for the mornings fishing

Good old days.

P.S. - cmd Kali is more a hunter than a fisher...

 

[Pargo Man]

Ahoi Fedu and Tremosso,

indeed it's the U.N. Club Commodore "Xico" Ilunga, having turned the famous Havana into an internet cafe and ice factory recently.

A better picture here below, father and son, bloody decks included.

Xico, Junior-bosuns-mate Sacha and I want to test "Djamila2"s engine tomorrow. Hear you on channel 68!

Apparently, there is a 27°C warmcore eddy spiraling 25nm off Luanda bearing 300 compass...:ssswim:

Fedu, those new Suzies look handsom on your transom!! Mak'em roarrrrr!

Tight lines, screeming reels and  bloody decks this prolonged weekend!

Mui cordialmente, Pargo-Jan

 

[porkhead]

I want to catch 3 cob... so badly !!