All blog posts tagged with margarita segundo

Blue Marlin!!

Posted July 16, 2009

It took some time, but one month later luck was again on our side and we caught our second marlin this season.

We left Puerto del Carmen on the Margarita heading Southeast, and not even half an hour had gone by, when the sonda showed a huge shoal of (probably) mackerel. We hanged around the area fo…

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Summer has finally arrived to Lanzarote

Posted July 14, 2009

Fishing in June has been quite better than previous months, with our boat Margarita Segundo catching the very first blue marlin of the season in Lanzarote. There has only been another marlin catch since then, by a private boat last week, but surely marlin catches will be more frequent in July.



In th…

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Shark time!

Posted September 17, 2008

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 and prepared a small tuna on a wire rig ready to h…

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Puerto Calero Tournament - Review

Posted September 10, 2008

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 real shame as the weather was fantastic as the "Sep…

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Yet another bad week

Posted September 3, 2008

This last week has been pretty terrible on the Margarita Segundo, especially due to the northeast winds (called Alisios winds here) which have been particularly strong latelly. Luckily weather forecasts say that from today they are turning weaker, and hopefully will be the beginning of the so-called…

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A week to forget

Posted August 25, 2008

This last week has been pretty terrible on the Margarita Segundo, specially as our expectations were really high due to great fishing by the end of July and the first two weeks of August. The only days worth blogging about are tuesday, when we caught seven skipjack tuna that we released due to their…

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