Charter Operator
Outrageous Fishing

Member since May 2014 Cape Town, South Africa
Background
Outrageous Fishing is owned and operated by Skipper Byron Ashington. Byron skippers the Depth Charge. His other charters are skippered by long-time captains and friends. All of our captains and crew are experienced and dedicated to providing a quality service. Byron has been fishing his entire life and has over 30 years of experience on the water, particularly when it comes to deep sea charters. Byron has been a skipper since 1986 and fishing off Cape Town since 1984, with a number of South African and All Africa records to his name, as well as a World Record. He started his own charter company in 1999. Byron says, "I was born into an angling family, and have been angling for over 40 years in the recreational, commercial, and charter sides of angling... Having reached my goals in competitive angling, I now get a thrill out of helping experienced and inexperienced anglers to catch their dream fish..."
Techniques
salt water boat based fishing

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Cape Town, South Africa
Background
Outrageous Fishing is owned and operated by Skipper Byron Ashington. Byron skippers the Depth Charge. His other charters are skippered by long-time captains and friends. All of our captains and crew are experienced and dedicated to providing a quality service. Byron has been fishing his entire life and has over 30 years of experience on the water, particularly when it comes to deep sea charters. Byron has been a skipper since 1986 and fishing off Cape Town since 1984, with a number of South African and All Africa records to his name, as well as a World Record. He started his own charter company in 1999. Byron says, "I was born into an angling family, and have been angling for over 40 years in the recreational, commercial, and charter sides of angling... Having reached my goals in competitive angling, I now get a thrill out of helping experienced and inexperienced anglers to catch their dream fish..."
Techniques
salt water boat based fishing
22
Reviews
10
Fishing Reports

My Charter Listings

Outrageous Fishing - Depth Charge

Excellent
4.4 / 5
(21 reviews)
Cape Town
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Trips from US $420

Outrageous Fishing โ€“ El Hombre

Cape Town
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Trips from US $1,037

Outrageous Fishing โ€“ El Capitan

Excellent
5.0 / 5
(1 review)
Cape Town
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Trips from US $617

Fishing Reports

Great fishing at the moment
Great fishing at the moment
Feb 8, 2025 Cape Town
Between our various trips over the past weekend we caught Tuna offshore on our larger vessels. Aboard our smaller inshore vessels we had great success with young yellowfin Tuna(seasonal), and yellowtail. With our reef fishing we had red Roman and good catches of Cape Bream
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Reef fishing with the Louw family
Reef fishing with the Louw family
Dec 22, 2020 Cape Town
This morning, we had the pleasure of hosting the Louw family for some light tackle reef fishing around the Atlantic seaboard. The two children had wonderful fun catching bronze bream and had a big sunfish come to swim by the boat. Unfortunately the young lady was a bit seasick, but the excitement made up for it. This is the perfect trip for the family to come and experience together
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Karlo and family day
Karlo and family day
Dec 21, 2020 Cape Town
This morning the Kuhn family joined Captain Kevin and Frans for a morning of light tackle reef fishing and reported back, saying that the family had a wonderful experience for the children and caught plenty bronze bream(hottentot). The children had a blast with regular catches during the morning. Tonight, they will be enjoying a feast of fresh fish
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Dad's and lads trip this morning
Dad's and lads trip this morning
Nov 30, 2020 Cape Town
This morning Capt Kevin and his assistant Frans had a fun dad's and lad's trip, with a mixture of yellowtail, red Roman and cape bream. The lads had so much fun. Young Connor and his dad return almost every to fish aboard "Depth Charge" Thanks for your support Carsten and we look forward to seeing you again next month. Don't Delay, come and book your fishing outing with us. These half day trips are ideal for the whole family to enjoy
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Red hot gamefish
Red hot gamefish
Nov 30, 2019 Cape Town
Saturday 30th November- Depth Charge, another beautiful morning at Cape Point, for our regular guests Kurt and his friendly, with good number of Atlantic Bonito and yellowtail, as well as some squid. Come and join us for your dream fishing trip this festive season..
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Inshore gamefishing
Inshore gamefishing
Nov 29, 2019 Cape Town
Friday 29th November- Depth Charge, our guests had an awesome day on the water with some good yellowtail and Atlantic bonito on light tackle at Cape Point, whilst enjoy the beautiful views of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans meeting. We are experiencing some very good fishing at the moment. So come and book your dream trip trip today.
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Customer reviews

Rating summary
Excellent
4.4 / 5
out of 5 stars from 22 reviews
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Boat
Excellent
4.0 / 5
Crew
Excellent
4.7 / 5
Experience
Excellent
4.5 / 5
Photos & videos by reviewers (33)
Full Day Tuna trip with Capt Byron and crew Monique, Marius and Francois
Full Day Tuna trip with Capt Byron and crew Monique, Marius and Francois
Full Day Tuna trip with Capt Byron and crew Monique, Marius and Francois
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Angler rating
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Anglers claimed
Good experience
92%
Friendly captain
100%
Recommend this charter
91%
Appropriate for children
88%
Satisfied with the boat
100%
Caught fish
85%
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Earl E.
Excellent
4.7 / 5
Experience:
Very good
4.0 / 5
Boat
Excellent
5.0 / 5
Crew
Excellent
5.0 / 5
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Fishing with Byron

VERIFIED   Half Day Trip - Reef (PM) on February 21, 2025
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Keanan N.
Very good
4.0 / 5
Experience:
Good
3.0 / 5
Boat
Very good
4.0 / 5
Crew
Excellent
5.0 / 5
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March fishing trip

VERIFIED   Full Day Trip - Inshore on March 20, 2025
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Kye B.
Cape Town, South Africa
Excellent
5.0 / 5
Experience:
Excellent
5.0 / 5
Boat
Excellent
5.0 / 5
Crew
Excellent
5.0 / 5
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Full day with captain Steven and deck hand Duncan.

Full Day Trip - Inshore on April 24, 2021
We were greeted by Steven and Duncan bright and early on Saturday the 24th of April. It was low tide so it was tough to get...
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Jamie G.
Cape Town, South Africa
Excellent
5.0 / 5
Experience:
Excellent
5.0 / 5
Boat
Excellent
5.0 / 5
Crew
Excellent
5.0 / 5
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Great afternoon of fishing

VERIFIED   Half Day Trip - Inshore (PM) on April 20, 2019
My wife, son (5), and I had a great half-day of fishing. The crew was great with my son and worked hard to make the trip enjoyable....
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David S.
Johannesburg, South Africa
Very good
3.3 / 5
Experience:
Bad
2.0 / 5
Boat
Very good
4.0 / 5
Crew
Very good
4.0 / 5
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Half day trip with Captain Kevin

VERIFIED   Half Day Trip - Reef (PM) on February 10, 2020
The boat was dissapointing and probably 50% of how it appeared it the online promotion.It was a bad fishing day although Kevin...
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