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…)