We had a wonderful experience with Mike and his team. They are all very friendly and accommodating, and clearly love what they are doing. They are very knowledgeable and have tons of experience, and we never once doubted them. They know the waters well, which makes finding fish much easier. The boats and staff are well equipped, and can accommodate anyone from a novice to a pro fisherman. I will definitely call them next time I’m in Durban!

First class trip with Mike,Eric and curt, had 2 days marlin fishing going 4 for 6 on blacks along with tuna and tornado and 2 days of non stop bottom fishing action including some very large sharks.
Cannot recommend Mike and the boys enough

Lovely day! Experienced and helpful staff! Would definitely do it again and again! Caught so many fish!

I have been looking for Black Marlin for 40years:-

I jest not, the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth :

I contacted Mike Captain of Fat girl and smaller boat/s, last year and we decided this week was going to be great.

Kurt is his 1st Mate, and a highly talented all round sportsman.

Monday, the sea was gorgeous, but blank.

Wasn’t worried and Tuesday again left at round about 5am.

Went around 40-50kms out to Mozambique Channel, and temp of water was not around 24 degrees - perfect. No action for couple of hours and had a very strong hit on Beautiful Kona head ( we had 9 top class rods and reels , with about 1km of braided line , and half (on the top) another few hundred meters of Dacron. As the reel steamed off Marlin jumped and Kurt and I saw first first half body of this Black Marlin! It was enormous, and he took 700metrrs of line in about 20 seconds and nearly emptied spool of line on the gorgeous Reel ( Shimano Tiagra’s on all top of the range rods. Had put 12kgs drag on reel. He jumped again , and was violently shaking. Kurt put rod on shoulder, to help me. I wasn’t excited and focused on fight. I fought it for just under an knew would be few hours fight. Suddenly he turned at same take off speed towards boat and dropped the Kona. Guesstimates are around 350kgs. Obviously we were disappointed, but hooked my dream Fish after 40 years of trying.

My accomadation was kindly provided by Ed on his 1200hp outboards, and also absolute gentlemen like Deon . On way back hit two love yellow fin Tunas, filled by a bull and Queen Dorados.

My sincere thanks to all - Mike unreal and such high Integrity with Deon Ed and Kurt . If you want to contact me for verbal truth and absolute summary - 0711716149. O am not an agent for any bookings but above sums it!

Thank you for reading this!

Kind regards, Allan

Mike and his deckhand Kurt were extremely professional. It was the first time out to sea for most of our group and we all had a great time and look forward to coming back again. We left the bay at 6am to fish the backline but with the dredger busy in that area Mike knew it would be better to head further out to deeper water where we could secure some better fish. We picked up a lot of sand soldier which eventually became a nuisance so Mike moved us along to a better spot where we were rid of the peckers. I personally managed a good size rockcod, a personal best fish and a great fight on the light spinning gear we were using. Other good eating fish of size were a copper bream, englishman and slinger. We also got a few undersize fish off the reef which were released and lots of trigger fish, banana fish, lizard fish and other by catch which was some fun to reel in but unfortunately didn’t alllow us to keep our bait in the water for longer to give the bigger fish a chance to eat. Unfortunately despite the great conditions the bigger fish were just not interested in taking a chomp. All in all a great time and an excellent trip with excellent guidance by the crew, I highly recommend a trip with Mike and look forward to heading out with him again.