Lanzarote Fishing

The last two trips on the Katfish have been quite entertaining, but not only for the fish caught, but due to the fact that the best catches on both days where caught by ladies! On wednesday it was a lovely polish(?) girl that caught a beautiful white trevally. Plenty of black sea bream, two more white trevallies, calm sea and plenty of sunshine made it an excellent day.  On friday, the day was even better: another three white trevallies, a barracuda and an atlantic bonito of more than three kilos, plus plenty of black sea bream and comber provided three great hours of fun while anchored in front of Punta Gorda. At the very last minute we also caught a small manta ray that we quicky put back into the sea.

Dates for the most important fishing tournaments in the Eastern Canary Islands for this year 2009 have already been confirmed.

The one that will kick-off the challenges is the XVII Big Game Fishing Tournament of Puerto Calero, that will take place the 3rd, 4th and 5th of September, and this year will be under the flag of the Spanish Fishing Federation branding the tournament as the XII King's Cup. Apparently there are talks about that the winner will be granted an entree into the Blue Marlin World Cup of 2010 (this is unconfirmed at the moment).

Next in line will be the XV International Open of Game Fishing of Gran Tarajal. This tournament, which year after year has 100 boats taking part, usually has very atractive prizes for the winners. It will take place on the 10th, 11th & 12th of September.

Finally, there's the IGFA Rolex Marina Rubicón Marlin Cup for Champions that will take place on the 17th, 18th & 19th of September, and as usual, the winner will be able to attend (al expenses paid) and participate on the IGFA Offshore Championship in Cabo San Lucas (México).

Should you have interest on chartering one of our boats to participate on any of these tournaments, do not hesitate to contact us.

Even though winter has not been very good overal for big game fishing, this week we've began to see some signs that indicate that things could change soon. Plenty of dolphin, pilot whales, lots of sardine and bird activity have been very encouraging, and even though we've only been out twice on the Margarita this week and catches have been scarce, we knew our luck may change soon.

And so, yesterday on the Katfish, after a couple of hours of unsuccessful bottom fishing (mainly due to strong winds and rain), we decided to spend the rest of the day trolling for bigger fish. After an hour, we arrived to the area were we had seen the signals on the Margarita on previous days, and soon after we were hooked and the battle began. Even though it was a intense fight, it didn't take very long to gaff a fabulous Albacore of 12 kilo. We kept trolling looking for more, but we only managed to catch two beautiful skipjack tunas.

Looking forward to next week.

Monday was another entertaining day on the Katfish. We began with the usual small fish (red bream, black sea bream..), but all of a sudden a german tourist was hooked with something big on one of the larger rods. We soon found out it was a manta ray of about 50 kilos that took a good 30 minute fight. Meanwhile, one of the rods with live bait was also hooked with what looked like a pretty big atlantic bonito, but we finally lost it. Within minutes another manta ray, but this time smaller, something like twenty kilos; just like the other one we released it. Once again, two more atlantic bonitos on live bait, once again we loose them. A shame, but people seemed to enjoy it all the same. The final catch was (yet again) another small manta ray caught by an british kid. Shame we didn't take the camera with us.

The anecdote of the day was a huge wahoo that kept visiting us while we were anchored but it never wanted to bite. However, it's good to know they're still around, perhaps next time it will be hungrier.