Wave Dancer Fishing Charters

Chris and The Striped Marlin

2010-11-09T22:02:00.000-08:00

Chris came all the way from America to target species. His target for this day fishing from St. Lucia Estuary, iSimangaliso Wetlands, was a Black Marlin, but Chris knew that nature cannot be prescribed and his anticipation was greatly rewarded when he got a hook on Wave Dancer with Barend as the Captain for this day.

Barend has been fishing St. Lucia and Mozambique waters since he was a youngster and did his surf launching hours on the Whale Watching boats of St. Lucia, launching up to four times a day returning safely every day with happy customers. Since he became an independent operator he raked up many successful fishing trips with many happy customers.

This story is about one of these customers and the excitement of encountering a Striped Marlin in waters where he did not expect to rank up such a specimen on his specie list. The Hook up was done in front of First Rocks at about 200 meter with a water temperature of 25.9 C.

The fight did not last very long but was never the less a grueling one. 20 Minutes later this magnificent creature was carefully landed by the team (Chris and Barend).

Chris was clearly satisfied with the outcome and after a brief photo session the Marlin was tagged and released. This type of wishing reaches its ultimate goal once a fish is re caught and the angler of the tag is informed of his fish still adding Fun Factor millage for other anglers. How cool must it be if your son can re land this fish 5 years down the line ... that would be the ultimate Dad Son bonding experience ...

The Tackle used was a Brand New Tigra 80W Shimano with 80lb IGFA line on a BG 80 Blue Water Purglass Rod. Williamson's Pulsator Lure (softy Marlin Magnet) Blue and White was what caught this avid hunters eye.

Barend and his Team will surely bring more stories to us over the next couple of months.

Fighting a Stripe Marlin vol # 1

2010-11-09T10:17:00.000-08:00

Awaiting the full story from Barend since he is occupied we will run the full story as soon as we get all the details

There is more photo's to come as well. Watch this space ...

April 2009 deep sea fishing

2009-04-14T12:20:00.001-07:00

2th April 2009

Ladies are always welcome to catch on Wave Dancer, usually they catch the most and biggest fishes for the day.

4th April 2009

Winter is on its way we can feel the cold in the mornings. Winter is the best season to catch Rockods, witch is very tasty Reef fish as well as many other species

6th April2009

This is the time of the year for Queen Mackerel (Natal Snoek) one of the best tasty game fish in our oceans This is one of our most difficult species to catch but once they start feeding the lines dont stop running, at times catching between 2 and 20 a day.

Join us for some real fishing and not stories about "THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY"

Barend Verster

Wave Dancer Fishing Charters

Tel: 0846281162

Email: wavedancer@kznweb.com