Captain's Log

Explore the best South African fish recipes for hake, kob, red roman, and silvers. Discover how catching and cooking your own fresh fish enhances flavour and enjoyment.

We’re delving deep into the urgent message our planet is sending us and exploring how we, as anglers, can respond effectively through sustainable fishing.

With fishing comes a responsibility to ensure the ethical treatment of the creatures we encounter. This is why we’ve written this guide, to emphasise the importance of ethical handling, particularly when it comes to often-overlooked species, like stingrays.

Before we launch into our own reasons, just read 5 glowing reviews from our guests, who blow our trumpet for us. We are very proud of our 5-star Google review rating as giving our guests the best possible boat fishing charters Mossel Bay is our main goal…

Salt Life Fishing Charters collaborates with local shark researchers from the Shark Research Unit to tag sharks and rays. We catch sharks as bycatch, and use the opportunity to tag and release them as part of the Cooperative Fish Tagging Project.

Fishing, an activity that intertwines skill, patience, and the unpredictability of nature, has cultivated a rich tapestry of superstitions and folklore among anglers for centuries. The Mossel Bay fishing community is certainly not immune to these superstitions.

Mossel Bay is a coastal town renowned for its diverse bird species. If you're an outdoor enthusiast, environmentalist, or photographer, you'll be thrilled to explore the pelagic birds that call this place home.

As a sea fisher for 30 years in the Garden Route, and a deep sea fishing charter skipper for the last 10 years, I can honestly say that Mossel Bay provides one of the best recreational angling opportunities along the coast.

Our go-to adventure is fishing, but for other thrills, Mossel Bay and other Garden Route coastal towns offer a plethora of exhilarating activities for the adventurouss soul.

Mossel Bay is home to yellowbelly rockcod and cat-faced rockcod. It’s pretty easy to distinguish between the two since the yellowbelly lives up to its namesake, sporting a bright yellow belly and chin. Catface, on the other hand, are light brown, with lots of dark spots and no yellow.

We’ve caught a few surprise silver kob (known locally as kabeljou) on our deep sea fishing trips this winter, so we wanted to share some interesting facts about the species.