Archive For September, 2008
Las week was quite poor on the Katfish with an atlantic bonito of four kilos as our biggest catch of the week. However this week could not begin better. Yesterday we caught an impressive spapper of almost seven kilo caught with live bait (a black sea b…
Luck seems to be on our side this week in the Margarita Segundo, as today we had another excelent wahoo catch. We were trolling in the same area as we hooked a double header the day before when all of a sudden we had a wahoo strike. We lost that one, b…
After a couple of boring days without good catches, today has been quite exciting on the Margarita Segundo. Soon after we left, we caught quite a few Dolphinfish and Frigate Tuna; as they were pretty small (around one kilo) we put them back into the se…
The fishing tournament of Marina Rubicon has become the most prestigious in Lanzarote in recent years, so we were really looking forward to it. However, marlin fishing has been really poor since mid-summer, and just like Puerto Calero tournament, the n…
Yesterday on the Katfish we had a great day of fishing. The main catch was a magnificent wahoo of more than 30 kilos caught by a very nice guy from London (arsenal supporter) after a great 35 minute fight. Later on, we caught a couple of barracudas of …
15/09/08
Today the Margarita Segundo was lucky to fish a Hammerhead Shark around 130kg . We were informed by another boat that there was a large hammerhead on the surface about a mile from where we were , so we quickly reeled in the lures for Marlin an…
Today I was meaning to post the photo of the Bluefish we caughton the Katfish last week, but I have to upload it right next to another of a Bluefish we caught yesterday! It could very well be a clon as they both weighted a good six kilos. Oddly enough,…
Very little to tell about the XV Puerto Calero Fishing tournament. Basically, it was as dissapointing as these last few weeks of marlin fishing; 40 boats taking part in the competition and only five blue marlin caught (and released) in three days.A rea…
Yesterday looked like it was going to be a very quiet day on the Katfish. We didn’t get a single bite while trolling and the first hour at bottom fishing wasn’t very encouraging neither, just the small everyday catches. But all of a sudden we had two r…
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