Farquhar 2008 - King fish Quest

" Kings , Bump heads and Bones another Farquhar fairy tale "

Any Salt water fly fisherman's dream Welcome Notice

This was most probably the high light of the trip , a 90lb + Bump head parrot fish . Lu ( on the left )was casting at the school , about 6 fish feeding. After being smashed up twice , (the hook opened up completely ), Lu and the school of fish BUMPED into Dean.

Being the gentleman Lu always is he offered Dean a Velcro C , the fly was tied on, the cast was made and need less to say , the fish was hooked and landed. Well done Dean and Lu !!

Have a look at the video clip releasing the Bump head

On our fourth day wading the flats Ray and myself came across two Marble rays with pitch Black GT's . We casted our arms off , no takers, later walking right up to the fish and nearly lanced the with our rods. About 15 min later we spotted a nice fish moving , Ray put the fly on the spot , and after a PROPER pull landed a 93 cm ( measured , not estimated ) GT .

Both Andi ( The Fin ) and Duncan ( Hawk Eye ) also landed some really good fish. Duncan managed to land the most GT's on this trip he also could see them a mile away , hence the name.

He also manage to land a mother of a rock cod. This was done during our daily night fishing of the back of MV Illusions.

Andi "The Fin " nearly lost his rod after an epic battle with a huge GT in the "Straight of Goulette" . In a moment of rod rage , after the leader ( 130 lb ) broke , The Fin nearly send is rod into orbit . Halfway in this embarrassing moment he realized what he was busy doing and lucky for him could still grab hold of the fly line.

The next day he manage to hook and land 2 GT's in 4 casts , well done to "The Fin" what a great smile.

Andi also landed the biggest GT off the trip , unfortunately it did no count ( not on fly - must be honest ) , check this out!!Dean and Lu also had their fare share of NICE fish. Dean spend the one whole day on a Bommy ( rocky outcrop ) where he manage to land two really awesome GT's . He did get the biggest legal GT , a fish off well over a 100cm.

Dean's nick name is PH , if you are looking for a hunt off a lifetime , this is the man to talk to . Click on Hunt to go to his web site.

Rodney and Adrian Kretchzmar , father and son team also did their bit to give the GT's off Farquhar a decent dose of sore jaw. Rodney did spend a lot of time fishing for bones , while Adrian , on his third trip to Farquhar nailed a few GT's

We also had Bernard , our local popper expert on this trip. He manage to pop and land a fish the first morning , then some strange bug bit him and he fell ill for the remainder , a sad turn off events.

We even had our own Swimwear model along for this trip, have a look at the video clip.

She , I mean he also hooked and landed some awesome GT's , and he even looked after our guests.Thanks Lu.

Thank you guys for a awesome Farquhar experience, if any one else would like to find out a bit more you are more than welcome to get hold of me on ricko@flyfishers.co.za

Tight Loops