Author Archives: Lanzarote Fishing

Skipjack Day

By Lanzarote Fishing | April 26, 2011

skipjacks

04/04/2011
The day dawned with grey skies and clouds, indicating that we could have a few drops of rain as we bottom fishing along the coast of Lanzarote. With typical northwest winds we set sail in search of a desirable catch by eager anglers, with ei…

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First Red Tuna of the Season

By Lanzarote Fishing | April 26, 2011

Tuna

Friday 1st April 2011Another day and the Katfish sets sail from port full of fisherman of various nationalities, Dutch, Norwegian, English, German and a friendly Russian, everyone on board with one aim, to have a great day’s bottom and trolling i…

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Bottom Fishing in Papagayo

By Lanzarote Fishing | April 6, 2011

16th March 2011After a week of bad weather, seeing both heavy wind and rain, it looked like there would be a truce and a good day of bottom and trolling along the coast, so we set sail from port leaving behind a threatening cloud. The rods were put out…

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Atlantic Bonitos

By Lanzarote Fishing | March 10, 2011

Saturday 5th march 2011After the strong winds on the island subsided and the island turned its sights on preparing for carnival, the Katfish set sale this time trolling as every saturday  we run our Big Game Fishing trip.
With new fisherman aboar…

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Waiting for better weather..

By Lanzarote Fishing | February 17, 2011

Barracudas

February 11th 2011These last couple of weeks the weather on the island had been very variable with the fishing. Yet the Katfish sailed daily looking for fish.We had days with clouds and sunny spells but the mood was good and the fisherman had great cou…

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Fishing Wahoo in January

By Lanzarote Fishing | February 17, 2011

Wahoo

January 28th 2011After a few days of no fishing due to bad water and weather conditions, the desire to fish, if possible, was clear on the faces of all the fisherman. The day dawned with more clouds than clear skies as the KATFISH sailed from port in s…

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A New Year’s Fishing

By Lanzarote Fishing | February 17, 2011

January 24th 2011Last Tuesday a sunny day with calm sea and the fisherman anxious for their first catch, expectations were more than good as the day before more than a dozen atlantic bonito were sighted.Shortly after we began trolling we had our first …

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Marlin fishing continues!

By Lanzarote Fishing | July 23, 2010

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After wednesday’s catch, we were really enthusiastic about going fishing today, especially as we didn’t have the chance to go yesterday; and just as we thought, marlin season has began here in Lanzarote, as we’ve had two strikes today, and we know that…

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First Blue Marlin of the season!

By Lanzarote Fishing | July 21, 2010

This year took longer than last year, but finally today we caught the 1st blue marlin of the season. It was almost three o’clock and we were approaching the harbour of Puerto del Carmen when all of a sudden one of the 80lb reels began screaming. We soo…

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Bottom fishing in Lanzarote

By Lanzarote Fishing | January 7, 2010

Amberjack Lanzarote

This december has seen the Katfish fishing the biggest amberjack of the last 10 years. An incredible catch of more than 40 kilos! Funnily enough we began the day with another amberjack of 14 kilos, but everyone was amazed at the size of the second one….

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