December 2023 Captain’s Log – Local Fishing News Out Of Hout Bay

Well good day all From the CAPITAL of TUNA FISHING - HOUT BAY - CAPE TOWN - SOUTH AFRICA. It’s been a WILD RIDE with plenty of BIG TUNA (YELLOWFIN, BIG EYE, and Big LONGFIN) and although it arrived a bit later than usual it certainly hasn’t disappointed. Our ATLANTIC BOAT CLUB, TUCKERS TACKLE TUNA [...]

By |2023-11-29T14:13:45+00:00November 29th, 2023|Categories: Blog, The Captains Log|

October 2023 Captain’s Log – Local Fishing News Out Of Hout Bay

ITS TUNA TIME! It’s been a late and slow start to our traditional TUNA SEASON BUT they are finally here. We have managed to JAM a few YELLOWS and several LONGFINS, it’s a start I’m sure once the weather settles and the water blues up those BIG ones will make an appearance. The weather [...]

By |2023-10-27T09:38:11+00:00October 27th, 2023|Categories: Blog, The Captains Log|

September 2023 Captain’s Log – Local Fishing News Out Of Hout Bay

Good Day All With a week to go till the end of SEPTEMBER, WINTER just won’t let up. With some of the biggest STORMS seen in 2 decades and howling winds, it seems the weather patterns are battling to get on track. We have, however, managed to get out 10-12 trips a month during [...]

By |2023-09-25T09:50:52+00:00September 25th, 2023|Categories: Blog, The Captains Log|

August – September 2023 Captain’s Log – Local Fishing News Out Of Hout Bay

With SPRING about to SPRONG... Our WINTER has been nice and busy in between the COLD FRONTS and WILD WINTER SWELL. We have had some very good INSHORE CHARTERS targeting YELLOWTAIL, SNOEK, ATLANTIC BONITO, and SLENDER TUNA. We have also done a number of PELAGIC BIRDING TRIPS with some very good” LIFERS” allowing our [...]

By |2023-08-24T07:13:32+00:00August 22nd, 2023|Categories: Blog, The Captains Log|

June 2023 Captain’s Log – Local Winter Fishing News Out Of Hout Bay

Well Good Day All With our WINTER COLD FRONTS in FULL SWING, I think I can safely say WINTER is upon us, However, there are still a few QUALITY FISH around BIG LONGFIN, YELLOWFIN, BIG EYE and even SOUTHERN BLUE FIN BUT their days are numbered. We have again had a CRACKER of MAY [...]

By |2023-05-31T12:32:26+00:00May 31st, 2023|Categories: Blog, The Captains Log|

May 2023 Captain’s Log – Local Fishing News Out Of Cape Town

Well Good Day All From the admiral’s cabin and “Screaming Reels” there have been TUNA A PLENTY. Typical of this time of year with back-to-back charters and many of our handpicked associates booked through us as well. The fish are on the move and have moved into the WEST allowing us to fish alone [...]

By |2023-05-09T10:13:36+00:00May 9th, 2023|Categories: Blog, The Captains Log|

April 2023 Captain’s Log – Local Fishing News Out Of Cape Town

Well Good Day ALL From a very busy CAPTAIN'S CABIN, since we last spoke, plenty of TUNA ACTION with sizes from 25kgs to 80kgs and everything in between. Some nice class YELLOWTAIL on the current line and a few LONGFINS just to add species to our normal day. This is set to continue through [...]

By |2023-04-01T10:10:48+00:00March 31st, 2023|Categories: Blog, The Captains Log|

March 2023 Captain’s Log – Local Fishing News From The Best In The Cape

Well GOOD DAY ALL Who would have thought that we would have such a good FEBRUARY with great catches of TUNA, YELLOWTAIL and DORADO, very unseasonal but never impossible in these waters as this is usually MARLIN time. On those days that the wind has kept us inshore some good REEF FISHING and the [...]

By |2023-03-01T14:52:05+00:00March 1st, 2023|Categories: Blog, The Captains Log|

January 2023 Captain’s Log

So Good Day All Compliments of the season to you all may 2023 be filled with HEALTH, HAPPINESS and Financial well-being. Often it's good to reflect on what we have achieved at HOOKED ON AFRICA during 2022 and what to look forward to in 2023. After the COVID LOCKDOWN in MARCH, we repowered EXTRAVAGENCE [...]

By |2023-01-06T07:36:33+00:00January 6th, 2023|Categories: The Captains Log|

December 2022 Captain’s Log

Well Good Day All It’s been a FRENETIC NOVEMBER with FISH a PLENTY, from TUNA to YELLOWTAIL and even SNOEK in between. On the DEEP SEA, OFFSHORE, TUNA side lots of YELLOWFIN, LONGFIN, and even BIG EYE TUNA with the winning fish during our TUNA DERBY being that of 104kgs and we managed amongst [...]

By |2022-12-01T14:20:31+00:00December 1st, 2022|Categories: The Captains Log|
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