Jason is an excellent
fisherman who, during his young age, had transformed his passion into his living, working for
several charter operators along the coast.
He now fishes for pleasure together with his wife and often assists
and gives consultancy to hotels or other ventures along the coast in any fishing related issue.
As the I.G.F.A. Representative for Tanzania tries to promote Sport Fishing in
Tanzania throughout magazines, videos and Fishing Clubs and has often assisted the Local Authorities in the
fight against illegal fishing.
He has also been several times the Fishing Secretary and Rear Commodore Power for the Dar es Salaam Yacht Club.
During his fishing experiences, he has fished extensively, all along the Tanzanian coast, getting to know all the
best fishing areas, from North to South, from the Pemba Channel down through to Kilwa, where he went and did a
survey to see if the area was suitable for fishing Tourism and later, for a "fishability study" for the owner of
the then Kilwa Ruins Lodge.
Apart from his general fishing skills, Jason has proven to be good at locating large Dogtooth Tuna, finding out
during the course of his experiences several spots which have provided the best and the largest Dogtooth Tuna in
Tanzania, with several 100 kg plus Dogtooth Tuna being caught on his boats.
The largest Dogtooth Tuna caught on our boat (and the largest ever caught in Tanzania)was a 107,6 Kg Dogtooth. The fish was
caught in 2015 by Jon Patten and it has been approved for the All Tackle World Record,
the largest one caught on our boats in 2014 was a 106,8 kgs caught Leopoldo Zapata (the fish qualified for the World Record in 130 lbs line),
the largest Dogtooth Tuna caught in 2008 and from our boats was a 95,22 kg fish,
the largest one caught in 2007 and from our boats was a 100.5 kg fish,
in 2003 a 103 kg one, always from our boats.
Thanks to his skills and the profuse knowledge of the area, he made achieve 7 Dogtooth
Tuna World Records to the boats he was fishing from (the latest one a 107,6 Kg Dogtooth
All Tackle World Record caught on our boats, on 130 lbs line).
Two of these Dogtooth Tuna Wolrd Record are held by himself.
1 All tackle World Record Giant Grouper (179.5 kg caught by Nelson Shayne), 1 All Tackle World Record White Tip Shark caught by Andrea
Pellegrini on jig, was recently approved in 2012 together with a 56.6 kg Giant Trevally on 50 lbs line caught by Matt Larsson in November
2011, and 1 Giant Trevally Line Class Lady World Record, were caught on our boats as well . (without counting the All Africa Records and
the Tanzanian Records).
Mady, is the skipper of the boat and she loves fishing as well whenever she has the chance to leave the steering.
(2 Line Class Dogtooth World Record Lady - 1 Line Class Giant Trevally World Record Lady)
Although Jason found these Dogtooth areas
more than 25 years ago, being well aware of the vulnerability of these critters and of the large commercial interest they create, he
limited himself to fish for Dogtooth Tuna only a few months a year.
Thanks to Jason and Mady extraordinary catches and Dogtooth Tuna records, the area of Latham, which was unknown to most,
has become very demanded and renown as being one of the best destinations in the World for big GT and Dogtooth
