There has been a bit of a change in the weather bringing some “kusi” or southeast winds for the past 3 days that has upset the fishing somewhat. However, it has not all been doom and gloom and some nice fish have been caught. There are a lot of bait fish out in the Pemba Channel with skipjack, yellowfin, frigate mackerel and loads of flying fish and as I always say you cannot have a good restaurant without patrons to feed in it! Broadbill has gone up to Kilifi to fish the Kilifi Classic Tournament, a long-standing and very popular competition. Kamara II departs tomorrow for the north for a safari so I thought that I should update you all before I leave, so here goes. The forecast is for the wind to swing back in to the NE tomorrow so let us hope that the fishing picks up again with it. (more…)

Monday 15th February – All 3 Shimoni boats out today, I had my future son-in-law Christopher, his brother Stephen and his dad Charlie out on Kamara II. They all 3 work together in the same contract farming business in Oxfordshire but none of them had done much, if any fishing before. Broadbill went round to Funzi Keys to pick up Phil Levett from the UK for a day’s fishing. (more…)

Apologies for not writing a fresh report earlier but the past couple weeks have been really hectic. My daughter, Lyndsay was married this past Thursday 18th here in Shimoni and anyone that has had to organize a wedding will appreciate the hard work and stress that goes in to making it all work. She has married a great guy, Christopher Baker from the UK and they will be living there. The wedding was held at the Shimoni Reef Lodge, a truly beautiful venue. (more…)

Not many pack attacks this week and it seems that there are now more bigger striped marlin coming in. There were also a few nice black marlin seen during the week and the conditions were generally calmer. Fishing was still good, regular angler from Holland Carlos Rivero fishing alone caught 1 black marlin, 6 striped marlin and 5 sailfish during his 6 days fishing. The black marlin that Carlos caught was a beauty as was the one lost by Mark. (more…)

Despite a slow start there has been some really exciting fishing culminating in a total of 2 black marlin, 39 striped marlin and 11 sailfish from just 4 boats in 11 days. There are packs of small striped marlin that make for some really crazy times. These fish are really aggressive in the strikes and once they arrive in to the spread take really hard. Not all the stripies are small, there are some better size ones too as well as a few decent blacks. Noticeable however has been the scarcity of dorado and other smaller game fishes but I’m sure they will come in soon. There were some nice dorado up to about 15-kg though. (more…)

This was rather a mixed week beginning with very rough conditions and difficult fishing but becoming calmer as the week wore on. The fishing also improved considerably and as well as there being a cohort of baby striped and blue marlin passing through there were also a few bigger black and blue marlin. Kamara II had two quadruple hook ups from striped marlin and there were even a few mixed strikes of stripey with either black or blue marlins. Other game fishes were really rather few and far between with a few more dorado towards the end of the week. (more…)