Sailfish on fly – the hard way!
Fly fishing in salt water is not only a specialised sport, but has it’s own section of the international controlling body, the International Game Fishing Association, the IGFA, making the rules and it’s own set of records for different species caught under these rules. Fishing out of Hemingways Resort this week is the WildFly Billfish […]
Dirty water slows fishing
Rain upcountry has brought dirty water down the rivers and caused the sailfishing around Malindi to be very difficult, while the wind also has swung back into the south-east which also adds to the problem. The Captain Morgan Rum tournament at Hemingways, with ten teams of four anglers alternating on six boats, started well on […]
A fabulous w/e was had by all!
A fabulous weekend was had by all at the Yamaha Eye Go Fishing sponsored by Captain Andy’s and by Liaison Insurance Group last weekend. A record 22 boats set out early on Sunday morning to catch or tag and release sea creatures. Why? Well partly for fun and good sport, but mostly to fight the […]
WSFC Christmas competition
Captain Andy’s is sponsoring the Watamu Sea Fishing Club Christmas competiton and this year we welcome Imperial Bank on board as a co sponsor. We will have the usual “small boat handicap system” – last year Joss Taylor & his team mates caught a Black marlin on “Magoo” which gave them 1st place in the […]
Big black marlin around the Watamu Banks
The wind has been erratic this last week, normal for this time of year, with swings to north of east then back to a more southerly direction, but despite this some big black marlin have been seen and caught in the Canyon and Mountains area of the Banks. This is exciting news for serious anglers, […]
Sailfish still plentiful – but still hard to catch!
Most of the action this week seems to be at Malindi, where the story continues the same, plenty of sailfish in big packs but still very hard to catch. However a group of German anglers who do something different have arrived, with their accent on deep jigging – the boat drifts over the fish and […]
Sailfish plentiful, but why so hard to catch?
A big run of sailfish has arrived off Malindi, and these fish can be seen everywhere, often marshalling the small whitebait they feed on into balls of thousands of tiny fish circled by packs of thirty sailfish (known as balling the bait), which in turn attack the balls to feed. This is an amazing sight, […]
Changing wind augurs better fishing
Now that November is here, anglers look forward to the annual swing of the wind from south-east to north-east, and in the last couple of days there have been signs that this is close, with the weather much warmer and the wind in the east, with an off-shore breeze, the umande, in the early morning. […]
RYA Training – FAQs
Simon Hemphill has recently compiled a document answering some commonly asked questions and detailing all the RYA courses that we now offer at Indian Ocean Powerboat School (IOPS). To have a look at this update please click here
Sailfish difficult at Malindi Festival
While the winds have calmed down, this did not seem to turn the sailfish on at Malindi as might have been expected – but fishing is a very unpredictable sport! On Saturday, the first day of the Herbie Paul Memorial Tournament, very generously sponsored by Imperial Bank and Captain Andy’s Fishing Supply, plenty of sailfish […]
