Nikao Fishing Adventures - Boat and Equipment

“If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.”

- - Doug Larson

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Our boat was custom built specifically for our charters taking safety, comfort, fishing versatility, speed and economy into consideration.

The result is a well equipped state of the art fishing machine which is a spacious, modern, safe, fast, dry and comfortable.

The hull was built for us by Z-Craft in Empangeni who are known for their quality workmanship, service and superior design.

Z-Craft has been building boats for over 30 years and have the knowledge and experience to build the best design for our waters. www.z-craft.co.za

Comfortable seating, a carpeted deck, padded and upholstered gunnels and a large roof covering the cockpit all make for a vessel that will give you a good day out at sea.

· Model: Z-Craft Kingcat F200

· Licensed as a Category B surf launching ocean going vessel for 40Nm (76Km) for both day and night operations.

· Length: 20ft (6.15m)

· Beam: 8ft3 (2.55m)

· Capacity: 7 - Skipper + 6 passengers

· Powered by twin Yamaha 100hp outboard motors

· Cruising speed 20-24knots - Top Speed 32knots

· Forward Consul Helm

· Carpeted deck

· High Bow Rail with casting deck on bow

· Roof section over the cockpit.

· High gunnels which are padded and upholstered

· Built in floatation with over 80% buoyancy

· Self draining wet deck

· Full safety equipment

· Comfortable padded and upholstered seating

· Plenty storage with a small cabin and tackle drawers

· LED deck lighting

· 300l fuel capacity

· Safe, spacious, dry and comfortable

· Equipped with 2 x downriggers

· Equipped with 2 x outriggers + up-rigger

· 2 large fish hatches in the deck

· Flush mount gunnel rod holders and Scotty rod holders

· VHF Radio

· Radio/MP3 Player

· Navigation Lights

· Lowrance HDS5 Colour GPS / Fish finder

· Electronic charts

· Live bait well with pumps

· 2 x Luna tubes

· Battery operated sneaker motor

Our Boat at the Marina

Comfortable seating and padded gunnels

POWER - Twin Yamaha 100Hp Outboard Motors

The Cockpit

We take pride in our fishing tackle, and are one of the best equipped charter boats around, with our tackle being mostly Penn International & Penn with some Shimano, Abu Garcia & Daiwa. All our tackle is top range, comprehensive, current, in excellent condition and well maintained, we have received many compliments regarding this.

Obviously not all this tackle can be carried on the boat at one time, so it will depend on the booking of the day to what is on the boat.

We are equipped for Marlin Fishing, Big Game Fishing, Game Fishing, In-Shore Fishing, Reef Fishing, Estuary Fishing, Vertical Jigging, Spinning, Light Tackle, Tiger Fishing and Bass Fishing.

We have a huge selection of Lures.