Fishing in St Lazarus Banks in Mozambique

St Lazarus Banks is situated in the Mozambique channel about 100 nautical miles east of the northern Mozambique coast. St Lazarus Bank is rated one of the best fishing locations in the world and offer some of the most amazing salt-water fishing opportunities for anglers.

However, just because it’s rated one of the best fishing locations in the world, doesn’t mean it’s by any means a commercial fishing destination, on the contrary, it’s more of a unfished waters destination and if you do get the wonderful privilege of ever fishing in these waters, you can prepare yourself for a for a fishing trip of a lifetime.

So what’s the catch?

St Lazarus Bank is in fact a shallow seamount that is approximately 30km long and 20km wide, converging almost 600 square kilometres. That’s a huge area to fish and unlike commercial fishing destinations you’ll have plenty of room to cast your fishing rod in just about any direction you fancy.

You will be spoiled for choice, as there are a huge variety of species of fish that you can catch in these waters, on top of that, the fish swimming in these waters are monstrous. Just search for catching fish in Mozambique to see what we talking about, or why not do yourself a favour and come fish for yourself.    

Here’s but a short list of the large varieties of fish you can expect to catch: such as  snappers, jacks manta rays, sharks, whale sharks, barracuda, king fish, red snappers, green and

For the days you not feeling up for catching anything and maybe you fancy to go for a dive, you will most likely be visited by hawksbill turtles, humpback dolphins and humpbacked whales.

If you looking for something completely out of this world; a fishing adventure of a lifetime, then fishing in St Lazarus banks will be your ticket. It should be on every hardcore fisherman’s list.

To book a Holiday in Mozambique, contact Mozambique Yacht Charters, they have a fully equipped fishing charter waiting to take you on your fishing adventure. 

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