Fishing in Kenya – reports from Sea Adventures

December 29, 2009

The Sailfish have come in in big numbers

Filed under: Fishing reports — Pat Hemphill @ 5:27 pm

The last few days have seen incredible numbers of sailfish move in, giving great sport to lucky anglers (more…)

December 17, 2009

Marlin in the Channel but no fishermen

Filed under: Fishing reports — simon @ 12:35 pm

Very few days have been fished in the Pemba Channel over the past fortnight but Pat was out on Thursday 26th November with Per Sand, a keen fly fisherman from Norway and Lars. Per and Lars had never tried anything like this before so it was all new and as an angler always nice to try something different. (more…)

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December 15, 2009

Massive sharks in Pemba Channel(Not any more)

Filed under: Fishing stories — Pat Hemphill @ 12:32 pm

Up until around 1990, it was common to see huge sharks of various types cruising on the surface, particularly on calm days. Large Tiger sharks, Makos and Hammerheads were often sighted.

In fact during the early days when it was the norm to fish with dead baits, these sharks were often a major problem to us.

One could sometimes spend several hours catching marlin bait, only to have a shark come after it as soon as you put it out ! We were primarily after marlin, so if these precious baits were taken by a shark, it meant one had to then head back inshore to try and catch more bait. Not an option we favoured ! (more…)