The excellent fishing is continuing in the Pemba Channel with not only lots of striped marlin but some nice black marlin starting to move in now. There are still big groups being seen and on Saturday 16 February KAMARA reported seeing a school of in excess of 20 marlin finning on the surface. Before they could get across the school they hooked up with a very aggressive striped marlin, which was tagged.
Notable catches include a fine 262-lb black marlin taken on just 30- lb line by Mervyn Hinton from the UK in just 10 minutes. This fish jumped like crazy and put on a wonderful spectacle. Mervyn also tagged and released 2 striped marlin the same day.
A regular visitor for us from Botswana, John Carr-Hartley tagged an estimated 150-lb striped marlin on 20-lb line, a really fine effort and an excellent fish.
On Saturday 16 KAMARA fished by three anglers from Holland released two striped marlin and then caught a broadbill swordfish night fishing.
Although the marlin have not always been too co-operative there have been huge numbers seen, mostly in the area close to Pemba Island. Two Belgian guests are going to be doing a week’s safari to Pemba Island next week so the potential for them is very good. With the fish where they are they should be in the prime fishing grounds an hour before any of the boats from Shimoni. (more…)
