After 10 days without any charters it was a relief to get back out to sea and it was lucky for us that the fishing had not been too good then. But, this past week there has been some incredible fishing with one party getting 17 billfish in 3 days including 5 marlin and 3 sail in just one day’s fishing. At the beginning of the week there were some big marlin around as well and now there are loads of sailfish out in the deep coming up in big packs. The oil exploration survey ships appear to have competed their work in our waters and have now moved up off Kilifi and Watamu to harass the fishermen there. May be all their banging from their air guns will chase the fish back our way! (more…)

Unfortunately our boats were only out on one occasion during the entire week, and that was for a half day. However, White Otter was out most days apart from 26th January. No marlin were caught during the week with very few even seen. They had sailfish most days with three on Monday 23rd but it appears to have been pretty hard work. (more…)

The good fishing continued in to the first few days of this period but thereafter it has dropped off a bit. There were some big marlin raised although unfortunately none of them were caught. Some oil exploration survey work has begun in the area so we have to dodge these ships. Some prime fishing slots have become available so check out the other article that I have posted today. (more…)

Fishing report to 3^rd to 9^th January 2012

The good fishing in the Pemba Channel has continued throughout this period with plenty of sailfish and some good marlin too. Broadbill recorded a Grand Slam and Kamara II tagged another good size blue marlin. The wind has been blowing consistently from the right direction and although the water colour may not be perfect there are loads of flying fish. All in all it has been a pretty good week for the Sea Adventures boats. It was very rough during the first half of the week most likely associated with the tropical storm down near Madagascar. By Friday it was moving away south and the seas making much less rough. (more…)

Fishing report to 2^nd January 2012

We’d like to wish you all a very good new year, which hopefully will bring us all prosperity and happiness as well as good fishing, of course. Apologies for not sending out a report earlier but I went up to Nairobi for Christmas with Tina and then went on safari with the family. There have been a lot of sailfish in the Pemba Channel since before Christmas and now the marlin are beginning to show up. Kamara II has had a great start to the New Year with my son, Chris catching a fantastic 600-lb blue marlin on 50-lb line as part of a Grand Slam. There was also a very big cobia caught from Broadbill. And the day before there was also a mixed pack attack from striped marlin and sailfish so plenty of excitement. (more…)

Although there have not been many boats going out the fishing is good and the wind is still blowing as it ought from the NE. There are big numbers of sailfish in the region between Funzi and Chale Pt together with schools of longtail, skipjack and yellowfin tunas. With this wind blowing like this the striped marlin will be there for sure and we hope for some really good fishing this season. It is always really exciting with the anticipation of things to come, wondering whether it might be another of those outstanding marlin years. And, always the blues and blacks are also there with the stripes with a few really big fish to test anglers, crew and tackle alike.

Only those days on which there was a boat out are reported below: (more…)