Pelagic fishing charters in Cape Town take you out of the harbour and into the open ocean – past the shelter of the coastline, beyond Cape Point, into deep blue water where yellowfin tuna, longfin, dorado and mako sharks hunt in the top layer of the sea.
“Pelagic” simply means the open water column itself, away from the shore and above the seabed, so a pelagic charter is not a trip to a reef or a wreck; it is a hunt across open water for fast, powerful fish that could be anywhere in it.
Cape Town happens to be one of the best places on earth to do this, because the nutrient-rich Benguela system and the deep water sitting close to the Cape Peninsula put world-class pelagic fishing grounds within a morning’s run of Hout Bay Harbour.