Mike Laubscher

We have been so busy the past season, and I have not even had a chance to put a report together as we have been fishing every day and mostly 2 trips a day, I am very tired and am going to enjoy resting over the next two days with bad weather and then we start next week running again with several bookings and two trips a day.

I would like to wish everyone for 2014, and may you prosper and find peace and joy.

The fishing has been hard, with the early part of the holidays having some choppy seas, then the sea went flat and the water went green and eventually brown, and then the warm blue water started coming in from the deep.

The Wahoo fishing this season has been phenomenal and we have caught more Wahoo than Dorado which is normally not the case, we lost a massive Wahoo estimated at over 25Kg to a Shark, much to the dismay of our clients, we also lost a lot of Tuna to the Sharks which is very frustrating. We also dropped 2 Marlin, one on light tackle that took a feather and we ran out of line on the reel, and another that had its bill wrapped on the leader and never got the hook.

We did well with Dorado even though we got a lot of Wahoo, with a stunning 18Kg Bull being the best Dorado for the season thus far. The Tuna are still around and we virtually get them on every trip.

The water is starting to look awesome now and I think the next 2 months will bring us some good Game Fish and Marlin.

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Durban Bull Dorado (Mahi Mahi)
Durban Bull Dorado (Mahi Mahi)

Nice Durban Wahoo
Nice Durban Wahoo


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Mike Laubscher

About The Author: Mike Laubscher

Company: Blue Water Charters - Durban

Area Reporting: Durban. KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

Bio: I have been fishing since I was 5 years old in Durban and have fished many places around the world and in South Africa, but Durban is my home waters. I fished competitive for many years and I have been running my own charters since 2008 with 2 companies and 2 boats, fish a variety of styles and target a variety of fish species in both Salt and Fresh water, have many published articles in several magazines on fishing. Love nature and outdoors, Am very conservation minded and have a passion for birds. I am crazy about big Tuna, Marlin Fishing and Game Fishing, and also love light tackle spinning, am a total lure junkie. Represented my province in fly fishing for many years and am also pro staff for Rapala/Shimano. I want to write a book on fishing one day. 3 items left on my fishing bucket list, guess then a new bucket list will be in order. As a writer I have my own quote: \"I love taking people fishing because it releases their inner child, and in doing so keeps my inner child alive.\"

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