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Musandam Oman with Ocean Active
February 23, 2015, 02:20:30 PM
Been quite a long time since I posted any reports from Oman. We been busy at work getting our new website and online shop up and running www.oceanactive.com along with setting up some new boats for charters in Oman and UAE. A lot of exciting things happening but all the time we have still been catching some good fish especially in the Musandam with winter GTs, sailfish, kingfish and even a few marlin.
 
I will keep the reports coming under this topic for Musandam, really been operating over the winter and been one of the best seasons we have had in a long time.
 
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Nick

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Re: Musandam Oman with Ocean Active
February 23, 2015, 02:21:14 PM
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Caroline and Ian on the way up to the Musandam! Got to know you have married the right person to be able to go GT fishing on your anniversary!

Capt Anura at the helm! Very proud of this guy for how far he has come since he joined the team!
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Caroline hooked up and getting some help from Anura
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Caroline with her first GT!

Happy anniversary present!

Ian bending in big current

GT of FCL

Ian with a Musandam winter GT

Damon's fish on a Fisherman Delta

Happy captain........

Ian bending again!

Great black Musandam GT!

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Re: Musandam Oman with Ocean Active
February 23, 2015, 05:14:23 PM
Thanks for taking the time to post the report.

Awesome to see some nice Geet pics and as always a good read.
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Re: Musandam Oman with Ocean Active
February 23, 2015, 05:23:20 PM
Mr. Jones' smile says it all.

He's worked very hard for those fish.




Trev

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Re: Musandam Oman with Ocean Active
February 23, 2015, 11:09:23 PM
Craig will get a few more reports up in the coming days.

Trev I think the smile definitely says it all! What more can you ask for on your 10th anniversary!!

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Re: Musandam Oman with Ocean Active
February 27, 2015, 03:24:26 PM
Capt Damon and Eric went for a fish the plan was to try for the sailfish but they had lock jaw and didn't want to play ball so they decided to go drop a jig getting a double on 2 decent GTs one of 30kg and a 23kg fish and then landing a smaller MT (mini trevally) of 5kg. Eric got stuck into a 15kg king on a 15g halco twisty on light spinning gear, great day out for some winter GTs. Amazingly we picking up GTs in water around the 19-22 Degree mark!


Nice double up on jig

Erik bending on a king with light spinning gear and a 15gr Halco Twisty Spoon!

Big king on small spoon!

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Re: Musandam Oman with Ocean Active
March 06, 2015, 01:41:06 PM
Mark Cromar had a great trip out with us. Mark was staying at the Six Senses Resort in Dibba and wanted to get out and fish for GTs for a day as he had fished before in Fiji and keen to get a bit of action!
Mark got some great winter GTs on the Race Point and Siren Crazy Charlie. Mark went 3 out of 4 with the biggest 27kg.
Cheers,
Team Ocean

Mark bending on the RP in some big current

Nice black Musandam GT, always a beast to catch in the big currents!

Mark bending

Another Musandam GT

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Re: Musandam Oman with Ocean Active
March 06, 2015, 11:44:27 PM
Keep the reports coming Nick...we need to get out of the winter doldrums in the UK

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Re: Musandam Oman with Ocean Active
March 16, 2015, 12:54:15 AM
Hi Ivan, no probs we have a good few reports backed up fishing in the Musandam has been really good the last week so a few to come along with the Southern Oman reports, a few big fish starting to show up!

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Re: Musandam Oman with Ocean Active
March 16, 2015, 12:54:53 AM
Last week I had Tayfun Meric come and join me all the way from Turkey for a fish in the Musandam for a couple days , Tayfun had fished with us before and managed to get himself a MT Trevally (baby GT). He was back for round 2 in search of the big one. The first day we went out nice and early and went to one of the spots up at the top from the first drift Tayfun was in the action hooking into a 1,5m bull shark fish on weight to measurement table put the fish at 60kg fish was caught on a fisherman 10-110 stickbait, Tayfun was stoked with the catch but still after the GT. The next drift a good fish came up on the stick bait and tight after a good tussle Tayfun had the fish at the boat for myself to land fish was 32kg, a quick few photos and the fish was released and a happy man!  Next drift 4th cast bang tight again with a 27kg GT, a few pics and fish released. We did a few more drifts had a follow or 2 but no hook ups so we decided to put the long fisherman popper and first drift with the popper and bang tight with another good fish, Tayfun putting the gears on the fish and got it to the boat in no time landing a good 22kg GT.

Day 2

Fishing was a bit tough due to windy conditions but Tayfun got a nice GT of 28kg on the fisherman popper again and hooked up into either a marlin or a big sail on jig after a 1h 45min fight the hook pulled 10m under the boat was very unlucky.

Tayfun had a great trip and very happy with his new Fisherman lures working from our shop.

Its great that the fish are pulling in big time in the Musandam and such good healthy size fish and such good numbers.

Thanks Capt Damon


Bull shark

Heading up early morning into the Musandam

Bending

Good size Musandam GT

Bending again

Another decent fish

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Capt Brett figuring out where to go next!

Day 2 back in the action

Another good fish

Fisherman popper doing the job! Very happy client with his new lure from our shop!


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Re: Musandam Oman with Ocean Active
April 11, 2015, 03:05:37 PM
The Brazilian Crew were booked in to fish Hallaniyat Island Southern Oman with us but with bad weather coming and the guys wanting to catch GTs we moved their trip up to our Lodge in Musandam in the North as we had a gap and moved a few things around. We changed all there tickets and visa, thanks to some nifty work by Charmaine. The guys arrived into Dubai and went across to Musandam to start fishing! The guys ended up having a fantastic trip and rather than sitting on the mainland down South ended up catching some GTs.

Day one: The guys managed to land 5 gts with Edson landing a 38kg and Milton a 30kg.and then a couple small fish .

Day Two: They guys landed 3 small gts and a nice fat kingfish, missed one or 2 big fish just couldnt get connected to them.

Day Three; Fishing was tough ended up landing a queen and 2 small gts

Day Four; Another tough day with strong winds and a big dust storm made fishing hard guys landed a baby gt and a small king.

Day five; Today was the day that we wanted to get Bruno stuck into a big fish from day one he wanted big mamma after he had missed her 2 days prior we set off to one of our reefs , the sea was huge with a easy 2m swell with a 25knots of wind on it and current against it aswel on the first drift after a couple casts Bruno hooked up into a good fish and then bang Milton hooked up a double the guys did some great work and landing both fish Bruno with a 30kg and Milton with a 20kg.

What a great bunch of guys"The Crazy Brazilians" looking forward to taking them out again next season. Was great to have the guys around at the shop followed by a braai (BBQ) at our house in Dubai meeting up with Jeff Currier and Mike Lasota who were flying with us in Dubai for queenfish before heading to Sudan.

Cheers,
Team Ocean Active


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Re: Musandam Oman with Ocean Active
April 11, 2015, 03:07:19 PM
Great way to end off the trip with a Braai in Dubai!