With plenty of young yellowtail at Blougansie it was an ideal time to give the young ones a chance to hone their angling skills and experience the power of these tenacious fighters.

Awesome Charters were off to the warm deep waters at the southern tip of Africa and the yellowtail did not disappoint!

The kids had a ball with a few fish being caught trolling lures while some of the young ones got coached in using the superb Jigstar jigging outfits on board. Pretty soon each of them had a fish or two on the boat with proud parents looking on, having more fun watching the kiddos enjoying their fishing than trying their own luck on the yellowtail.

It is summer in Struisbaai and it is also yellowtail fever time.

This delicious eating fish is also a superb adversary and a fish any angler love to catch. Fights are hard and furious with the fish using its strength and speed to try and rid himself of the hook.

The yellowtail schoals have arrived at Blougansie, the famous 12 Mile bank, Skipskop and the Alphards and anglers aboard Awesome Charters are having a whale of a time catcthing these fish on feathers, spoons, spinners and jigs.

With great weather predicted for most of the holidays and enough food on the banks we are looking forward to a super yellowtail season. With nice warm water moving onto the banks it should also not take too long before the first yellowfin tuna and skipjacks make an appearance.

Awesome went looking for fish behind the 12 mile bank and found some nice yellowfin tuna.

Everyone on board had their turn fighting these fast predatory fish on medium tackle. The kids and the lady on board had a super time as it was the first tunas they have ever caught.

There were plenty of very happy faces back at the harbour and the good news is that the fish should still be here for the Easter weekend.

During the past few weeks we have managed quite a few very nice tuna and some small dorado. Skipjacks could be caught anywhere in that area and still provides magnifecent fun on light tackle.

Some of the commercial boats also got tuna and during the night a few cape salmon was landed. This all bodes well for the week ahead.

It is for the fishing that a lot of people visit Struisbaai, and even though the weather did not play along so well this December we still had an awesome time fishing the Agulhas and Struisbaai fishing grounds.

The deep sea fishing bug bit a few of the junior anglers as well, and some excellent catches were made by them.

Here is a gallery of some of the fishing trips we did and a few of the excellent fish that were caught from Awesome Charters in Struisbaai.