The short rains seem to have started at the coast, and the fishing has improved, although the old adage ‘fishing is fun’ has to be stretched a bit when it rains all day out at sea! Pity the poor skipper who has to face the wind and rain as clients play their fish without having […]

The fishing seems to have gone very quiet along the whole coast, despite good weather with calmer waters, more gentle winds and what would appear to be good conditions for fishing. But fish are unpredictable creatures and often they turn on for no apparent reason, although one will hear as many explanations as there are […]

It was hard to raise the sailfish at Malindi last weekend and the twelve competing boats in the International Festival were all working a small area near the Leopard Reef where the best concentration of fish was to be found. At the end of the first day, the team on Tarka, Phil Revett, Paul Worthington […]

Captain Andy’s invites you   To The Captain Andy’s Open Day   Boats will be on display on Saturday 26th October 2013 10am to 4pm At Captain Andy’s Creek Marina, Nyali, Mombasa Entry by invitation & appointment only. Complimentary drinks and bitings provided all day   Please contact our Sales Team if you would like […]

It seems to be getting warmer and less windy, as one might expect at this time of year, but there are many other factors that affect the fishing, water colour and temperature and the currents and moon phases among them. While there are plenty of sailfish around Malindi waters, they have been difficult to catch, […]

In early 1959 a group of enthusiastic sea fishermen started the Malindi Sea Fishing Club, using a room and the veranda at Lawford’s Hotel as their premises and near the end of that year the first tournament was held and has been running annually ever since. The first competition of the season, this function will […]

Most of the fishing over the last two weeks has been concentrated around the Watamu banks, where good catches of wahoo and school yellowfin tuna have been recorded , particularly when the weather was right, as it had calmed down after the windy nights of ten days ago. Alleycat has had some busy mornings with […]

There have been very few fishing trips in this last week, when initially it was windy and rough, although the last two days have been calmer with better conditions. The windy weather creates dirty water, especially in the Malindi area and though a few trips have been made there, there was little to report in […]

There are not a lot of fishing trips being made at present. With a lull in the tourist presence in local hotels charter boats have not been busy but some of the private boat owners have started fishing, and both billfish and tuna are being caught. `       Contagious, a big catamaran built in South Africa, […]

Kenya Big Game Fishing Tournaments   2013 – 2014   18  October – Churchill Light Tackle – Malindi   19-20 October – Malindi International Festival  – Malindi & Herbie Paul Memorial Trophy   24 November – Charity Eye-Go Fishing – Mtwapa   15 December – Christmas Hamper/Open Boat – Mtwapa   26 December – Kids […]