Lanzarote Fishing

Finally, we've had a good week's of fishing. Our colleagues at the Katfish have been fishing plenty of white trevally, with weights up to six kilos, and a couple of beautiful 20 kilo wahoos (an another one they lost) on thursday, but the real action has been on the Margarita Segundo as we became the first boat in Lanzarote to catch a marlin in 2009. We knew it wouldn't be long, as we've been having news about marlin catches on the eastern island since a month ago, and now we are fortunate to have the marlin here in the waters of Lanzarote.

Funnily enough, saturday began fishing for wahoo, motivated by the catches earlier in the week; but after a couple of unsuccessful hours, we changed to marlin lures and decided to head south east looking for the big one. Just before 2pm, about 10 miles away offshore, one of the reels screams out from a marlin strike, but unfortunatelly didn't take. Nevertheless, we were quite excited and we sticked around in the hope of getting a second chance. It didn't take long, ten minutes later we were hooked again, a marlin of about 220 kilos that puts up an excellent fight. In about forty minutes the marlin gives up, we put it on the side of the boat, bring it round, take off the hook and release it. Everyone is cheering up full of excitement; with a bit of luck, next week will be just as good.