CAPE VERDE FISHING bonefish | trevally and big sea turtles 

It’s a beautiful place, arid on land, rich ocean wildlife

Hi Damon, you’ll find reef basically follows the shoreline about 40+ yards out. Use a bass setup … perfect. Casting metal jigs are good, .soft plastics like fiiish black minnow are perfect but they get destroyed by toothy species.. so take plenty of them. If your after jacks take some surface poppers.

Great thanks, I have a 10 to 30 g travel rod I use for pike and have some Savage gear surf seekers, a few poppers and some jigs. Are there any fish that would take a lure around the jetty in Santa Maria, I would imagine there are plenty of bait fish around there after the scraps washed in by the fisherman? @@theoccasionalangler6956

Fantastic, do you have contact details for the guy you went rock fishing with and what does he charge, I think this was on here somewhere but I can't find it now. @@theoccasionalangler6956

There are several operators on the pier in town… it was quite pricy… £100 for a few hours on a small boat inshore

Thanks Russell

Lovely, just around the corner from me…. Yes that bonefish was really unexpected…. I was really worried I had not turned the camera on!

@@theoccasionalangler6956 well long may fish make you a fumbling excited mess! Where about are you then? Any tips for fishing Ramsgate would be welcome. Is it worth chucking a lure in the evenings and are all the bass tiny schoolies?

@@Fishwish I live in whitstable (20 min drive. Yes Ramsgate is a very good bass mark from all accounts, your more likely to get a biggie rather than schoolies there. If you go to the weatherspoon pavilion, go left along the boardwalk heading out of town. About 600yrds along as you get to the undercliff there is a big bar /reef (think there is a marker in the sea) … surface poppers and stickbaits in the evening

@@theoccasionalangler6956 ahh…interesting. Perhaps I’ll get my backside out of bed tomorrow morning before we go home then. Welcome to join me. Tried last night with the fly rod but it was a complete disaster, so will probably grab a lure rod.

The side the hotels back on to …… I think the other side is quite wild and you will be fishing into the prevailing wind

@@theoccasionalangler6956 thx for quick reply! I dont mind fishing against the wind. Where there is big waves and wind, there is bigger fish usually. Will take some bigger lures, stickbaits and jigs, 3m rod up to 120gr. Lets see if i can get anything. How much was the "speedboat"?:) Assume the reef is at the pontado sino? Cheers, Pipo

Thanks mate, it’s worth contacting Jacopo Viola before you go. He is an Italian landbased fishing guide, reasonably priced and has heavier popping gear /lures to target GTs off the rocks. You can find him on Facebook.

@@theoccasionalangler6956 Fantastic thanks for your reply and recommendation, I'll look him up.

It was on the beach right behind the RUI Funana hotel

I was at the funana next door, that stretch and point outside the palace was where I was fishing. If I went back I think I would take a lite rock setup 15-90g and pack some bigger poppers

I had a morning out with Inshore Experience, drove up to the top of the Island. Had a dropped run on the Shark rod and lost a big fish just as they were about to land it, hook pull. Good bunch they are, highly recommended.

@@AndyK-qh4gs ah that’s annoying, they had a 90kg dusky shark off the beach infront of the palace when I was there!

Thanks for watching,No, you don’t need a license to fish there

Sebile stick shads worked well, metal casting jigs 20-40g and fish black minnows (small size) although the black minnows go shredded very quickly …. Find cheap alternatives!

@@theoccasionalangler6956 thanks mate

Mainly because there where 5ft + waves breaking in the dark, I put my safety first, but thanks for finding something negative to comment on!