Mike Laubscher

We ended last year with a record size 20Kg Bull Dorado for our charters and then had some damage to our boat after the floods when we got a swimming pool net wrapped around our props damaging both props and snapping one shaft, This is all sorted and am recovering from the set back.

The new year started well and we caught a lot of Yellowfin Tuna well above the average size, some good Wahoo and a lot of Dorado.

We got a 500lb Blue Marlin, and we even got another smaller Black Marlin recently in the middle of Winter.

Our new game fish season is just starting and we have already faired well with some good Yellowfin Tuna, there are a lot of Whales and Dolphins about and we have started seeing the return of flying fish which tells me that the Striped Marlin should also be around or will be soon.

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Blue Marlin caught off Durban
Blue Marlin caught off Durban

Good Wahoo caught off Durban
Good Wahoo caught off Durban


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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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