Gerhard
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When I moved to Dubai in September 2007 the last thing on my mind was fishing. Who cares about fishing in the desert???
Well after a couple of months of hard work and a lot of sweat I met a guy by the name of Gavin Haynes he just moved from South Africa with his family and it was not long before we started talking about fishing.
Gavin is a keen angler and he even brought his semi ridged inflatable with 2 x 40HP from South Africa.
Both of us are keen lure anglers and we decided to visit the east coast of the UAE to see what fish we could land with our 7 ft spinning tackle and plastic and buck tail jigs.
We had fun almost from the 1st cast and we caught a lot of fish.
Like Spotted Corral trout and Russell’s snapper to name but a few of the species.
The high light of the trip was when Gavin caught a nice 7kg King Mackerel (Cuta) from the rocks on a white buck tail jig.
Our next trip we planned to get out onto the water with his semi ridged.
Just out of the harbor we could see birds diving and feeding.
We moved closer and 1st Gavin and then I got stuck on our 1st Queen Fish.
These are really a lot of fun to catch on light tackle as the fight very hard to the end. With spectacular jumps in between they are one of my favorite species to target.
On the next trip I caught a fish I have always wanted to catch.
I was using a 8 ft spinning rod with a Shimano 4000 Stadic spinning reel loaded with 8 lbs fire line.
As the Maria Spoon hit the water the line went tight and a very angry Dorado jumped out of the water. This was one of the fish I always dreamed about catching and now that dream was coming true.
After a very enjoyable fight my 1st Dorado was taking a boat ride…
The water around the east coast of the UAE goes up to 33 degrees Celsius during the warm summer months. During these times we went out a couple of times and had lots of fun casting surface lures at 2kg class tuna’s.
When these little buggers start feeding on the surface of the sea it looks and sounds like a boiling pot of water.
Around October the water start cooling down to around 27 degrees C and the dorado start to move closer to shore.
Now we were really enjoying catching dorado’s. It was not strange to catch 10 to 15 fish for a morning’s outing.
They would bite on almost any lure we trolled or cast to them.
Sometimes we could get live bait
And that would really produce the true UAE gold.
And these guys are awesome to eat as well.
We also have a lot of fun during this time with good size Queen Fish
As I said before I was not thinking about fishing when I came to Dubai the 1st time but I really enjoyed fishing here and made some good friends along the way.
Who would have thought one could catch fish in the desert….?
Well after a couple of months of hard work and a lot of sweat I met a guy by the name of Gavin Haynes he just moved from South Africa with his family and it was not long before we started talking about fishing.
Gavin is a keen angler and he even brought his semi ridged inflatable with 2 x 40HP from South Africa.
Both of us are keen lure anglers and we decided to visit the east coast of the UAE to see what fish we could land with our 7 ft spinning tackle and plastic and buck tail jigs.
We had fun almost from the 1st cast and we caught a lot of fish.
Like Spotted Corral trout and Russell’s snapper to name but a few of the species.
The high light of the trip was when Gavin caught a nice 7kg King Mackerel (Cuta) from the rocks on a white buck tail jig.
Our next trip we planned to get out onto the water with his semi ridged.
Just out of the harbor we could see birds diving and feeding.
We moved closer and 1st Gavin and then I got stuck on our 1st Queen Fish.
These are really a lot of fun to catch on light tackle as the fight very hard to the end. With spectacular jumps in between they are one of my favorite species to target.
On the next trip I caught a fish I have always wanted to catch.
I was using a 8 ft spinning rod with a Shimano 4000 Stadic spinning reel loaded with 8 lbs fire line.
As the Maria Spoon hit the water the line went tight and a very angry Dorado jumped out of the water. This was one of the fish I always dreamed about catching and now that dream was coming true.
After a very enjoyable fight my 1st Dorado was taking a boat ride…
The water around the east coast of the UAE goes up to 33 degrees Celsius during the warm summer months. During these times we went out a couple of times and had lots of fun casting surface lures at 2kg class tuna’s.
When these little buggers start feeding on the surface of the sea it looks and sounds like a boiling pot of water.
Around October the water start cooling down to around 27 degrees C and the dorado start to move closer to shore.
Now we were really enjoying catching dorado’s. It was not strange to catch 10 to 15 fish for a morning’s outing.
They would bite on almost any lure we trolled or cast to them.
Sometimes we could get live bait
And that would really produce the true UAE gold.
And these guys are awesome to eat as well.
We also have a lot of fun during this time with good size Queen Fish
As I said before I was not thinking about fishing when I came to Dubai the 1st time but I really enjoyed fishing here and made some good friends along the way.
Who would have thought one could catch fish in the desert….?
We were stationed at the embassy in Riyadh during the late eighties. We would go the Gulf and fish the shoreline below Dharan. The prize catch in those days for us was a Hamour which we called a grouper but is actually a rock cod. Anyway, they were fabulous eating. Sadly, we did not have a boat.
