Captain
Jakes Van Den Berg

Member since June 2014 Durban, South Africa
Background
Captain Jakes Van Den Berg has over three decades of fishing experience, which have gained him a vast knowledge and an impressive reputation. Jakes is a professional skipper who especially enjoys deep sea fishing and introducing his clients and friends to it. One of Jakes' favorite species of fish is Geelbek.
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Hey, I'm Captain Jakes Van Den Berg

Durban, South Africa
Background
Captain Jakes Van Den Berg has over three decades of fishing experience, which have gained him a vast knowledge and an impressive reputation. Jakes is a professional skipper who especially enjoys deep sea fishing and introducing his clients and friends to it. One of Jakes' favorite species of fish is Geelbek.
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Simply The Best Fishing Charters

Excellent
5.0 / 5
(9 reviews)
Durban
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Fishing Reports

Night trip being very productive with ge
Night trip being very productive with ge
Sep 12, 2021 Durban
Our salmon season has started producing properly.
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10 hour Deepsea day trip
10 hour Deepsea day trip
Sep 9, 2021 Durban
We had a very good day trip with really big captain fine rocords, slinger, soldiers, englismen and cave bass.
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Day trip 10 hours bottem fishing
Day trip 10 hours bottem fishing
Jun 1, 2019 Durban
Today we started urly at 05h00 went strait for geelbek fishing then general bottem fishing. Exelent fight on the geelbek salmon. For the last 15 trips we been getting geelbek constantly. One of the best fighting bottem fish around. The two boys fished with our electric reels witch made it very easy for them.
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Night fishing for cracker
Night fishing for cracker
May 30, 2019 Durban
30 may night fishing, great time with Richard Fourie and Antony Andrews. 2 mussel crackers, 15,4kg and 18,3kg, one GT 15,7kg,catface rocords two of 5kg. Excellent night
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Geelbek in full swing now
Geelbek in full swing now
May 11, 2019 Durban
For the last 14 outing we been hitting the geelbek salmon. Very nice eating fish. Urly morning and late afternoon in to the night, one of the best bottom fish to catch in my opinion.
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Great half day trip deepsea
Great half day trip deepsea
Dec 4, 2018 Durban
We launched at 06h00 this morning after fishing for live bait, we set a spread out with the big guns targeting game fish. With in 30min we had a Dubble on with a bull Dorado and a female. After setting the line it wasn't long and another Dorado. With in an hour we had 4 Dorado. We started heading out to deeper water and picked up a yellowfin tuna, as I was setting the line out I saw the bill coming up to the one I was setting out. I teased it up ot the short and boom bang it took off, came out of the water and came down like a block of flats.. What a day. Clients happy, job done
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Customer reviews

Rating summary
Excellent
5.0 / 5
out of 5 stars from 9 reviews
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Boat
Excellent
5.0 / 5
Crew
Excellent
5.0 / 5
Experience
Excellent
5.0 / 5
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March fishing trip
Best fishing trip ever
Best fishing trip ever
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Good experience
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Friendly captain
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Recommend this charter
67%
Appropriate for children
100%
Satisfied with the boat
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Caught fish
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DENNIS C.
Excellent
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Best fishing trip ever

VERIFIED   5 hour bottem reef fishing on December 12, 2023
Please do yourself a favour and book a trip with Simply the best charters. The skipper (Jakes) has vast knowledge of all facets...
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Alex B.
Excellent
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March fishing trip

VERIFIED   NEW  5 Hr Trip โ€“ Backline (AM) on March 30, 2024
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Barney K.
Excellent
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Awesome fishing experience!

VERIFIED   5 Hr Trip Game/Tuna/Deep Sea (AM) on October 6, 2023
We had an amazing experience fishing with Capitan Jaked. He knew exactly when and where we need to be to catch the fish.
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Jason B.
Excellent
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Fishing with Jakes

VERIFIED   5 hour bottem reef fishing on December 24, 2023
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Ryan B.
Durban, South Africa
Excellent
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Absolutely amazing

VERIFIED   5 Hr Trip โ€“ Backline (AM) on October 8, 2022
Captain Jake was absolutely amazing on our trip, he and his crew Michael went out of their way to make the experience a truly...
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