Christo who runs www.xtremefishing.blogspot.com has kindly offered to do a set of guest post about his fishing in South Africa. This is going to be a very exciting set of posts and it will give you some food for thought. Firstly an intro post.

Hi - I’m Christo. I live in a small coastal village called Great Brak River. It’s close to Mosselbay, South Africa.

Since I was young I enjoyed fishing with my father. I always had fun playing around with the small stuff around the rocky pools while dad fished. From there on I was hooked into fishing, always looking for something bigger and better to catch.

I use to fish for edibles a lot (mostly cob) That’s a bigger size of edible fish around here (can reach 75kilograms)

In 2000 and one I caught my personal best, a 61.5 kilogram cob from the beach here about a kilometer and a half away from my house.

The area I live in is great for fishing. Lots of nice estuaries to fly fish in, a few dams with bigmouth bass, small mouth in the rivers and excellent rock and surf opportunities

Lately I’m targeting bigger species (mostly big sharks) from the beach. I don’t fish to eat. I just fish for the fight. I strongly believe in catch and release the adrenaline rush you get from hooking a 200kg monster is just unbelievable. And the feeling seeing him swim away after you release him is better.

I have just found a couple of old photographs of my Best Lure caught Bass. I have written about the day here – Bass on plug. These photos were taken a few years ago before digital images and I have since had to scan them so the quality is poor, but so is the fashion sense!!!

Edit: since I added this photo I have had a call from a friend who suggested we look like the Hair bear bunch and someone who wants to know where my brother got the “delightful” jumper from!!! - no comment -