Mike Laubscher

Another rod got bent on a Nikao Fishing Adventures outing and this time it was a fine 8.0Kg speciman who really got the reel screaming. We were doing a slow troll on the outer edges of the reef when we noticed a lot of good showings on the sonar and stopped the boat to try some drop shot and we left the mackerel drifting on the rod as a trap stick. It was not very long and the reel was screaming and Chris got the turn to bring this fine Dorado to the boat. We also got some nice Rockod on the drop shot and when we put out the next drift bait on the trap stick we pulled in the biggest puffer fish I have ever seen which was estimated at around 3.0Kg.

Fish Species: Dorado aka - Dolphin Fish / Mahi Mahi
Bait Used: Mackerel
Tackle Used: Light Spinning & Trollong Tackle
Method Used: Drift / Slow Troll
Water Depth: 30m
Water Temperature: 25 deg C
Wind Direction: SW
Wind Speed: 10kts
Dorado caught on a Durban Charter Boat
Dorado caught on a Durban Charter Boat


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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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