Fishing off Ghana

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I am off to Ghana on a work contract for 3 years, given I will be a short way away from the atlantic coastline I plan to get some kit for beach casting. I am a complete novice and was considering a 12 to 14 foot rod with a fixed spool reel maybe an okuma 80, and some heavier spinners or plugs (rigs and bait look far too complicated). Given that the predatory fish in this area have larger sharper teeth would I need to use some sort of wire trace to attach from the lure to the line on the spool?

i would appreciate any and all advice or tips.

Thanks

[PanamaJack]

A number of our Club members regularly fish Ghana offshore for Blue Marlin plus occasional Yellowfin and BigEye Tuna with a locally-based South African diplomat, Johan Zietsman. Johan might well be able to suggest places where and when to go beach fishing, the tackle required and species encountered. You can contact him through his web site - http://www.ghanabluemarlin.com/.

Hope that's of some help.
Dave
Sportfishing Club of the British Isles

[Moray]

I was working in Ghana over this winter based in a hotel at Labardi beach. Accra.
I didnt do any myself because of work commitments but the locals basically are plundering the beaches-catching and keeping anything that moves.
Daily they are netting all along the beaches with seine nets and apart from one small Stingray of about 4lbs.I didnt see anything bigger than a Sprat. They even kept Jellyfish and small Turtles too!
I did go further East beyond Temba for a day trip (name escapes me now but its something like Pemba-near the Volta estuary) A lot of the expats go there for the week end and fish/sail/drink! Its a sort of mangrove estuary but with access to the sea and a there were quite a lot of charter boats there too. We met up with a German who had been out in his own small boat and he had a large Barracuda of about 25 lbs which he Barbecued and shared with us. The big game fishing is apparently very good at certain times of the year although I didint actually see any results. You would need to take your own tackle though as there is nothing resembling a tackle shop anywhere.
If you are in Accra -go to Ryans bar. Ryan himself is usually there and he knows everyone and would be able to advise of skippers etc. He sails himself in the place we went and we saw him out on the water the day we were there.
Its a bit of a culture shock if you havent been to similar places before-but its strangely enjoyable in a primitive sort of way!