Eight teams of anglers from the South African Deep Sea Angling Society, SADSAS, are competing in their Inter-Provincial Championships fishing out of Hemingways this week, and as their main target is sailfish, they were fortunate to find that the ‘sailies’ have really turned on and appeared in large numbers in the area off Malindi and […]

Fishing hit the jackpot at the annual Casino Malindi Billfish Open Challenge when fifteen boats scored a total of 26 marlin and 65 sailfish, and in a thrilling finish, only one point separated the two top teams. Overall winner was the team on Unreel, with skipper Rob Hellier, his wife Sandra and Vic Hawla tagging […]

While some marlin were seen around the New Year period, they have definitely increased as the month has moved on, and there have been plenty of sailfish all along, both in the Rips and off Malindi up north and in the Pemba Channel at Shimoni in the south. The Shimoni boats have been busy, with […]

The Watamu SFC Xmas tournament finished the second day with some surprises, when the tiny 18ft private boat Magoo, fished by Joss Taylor, Phil and Ross Valentine and Mr Pellizoli, tagged a black marlin, and once their points had been divided by the length of the boat as this competition rules, they jumped into second […]

Fishing has been good recently in the Watamu area, with sailfish active most days and marlin being caught in the Rips now, so it was nice to see a great start to the Watamu SFC Xmas tournament, sponsored by Captain Andy’s Fishing Supplies. The first day ended with the Seahorse team of anglers, Ayton, Griffiths […]

The Christmas holidays are in full swing now as the upcountry holiday makers arrive to fill every bed along the coast, many of them with boats towed behind their cars determined to have fun on the ocean. The clubs too arrange competitions for all, most with an emphasis on the smaller boats, and the Mtwapa […]

Sailfish usually arrive in Malindi waters early in November, and this year the season has been disappointing, with the fish hard to find around Malindi and north, while unusually there have been quite a few sail raised in the Boiling Pot area, nine miles east from Watamu, with boats catching three to four on a […]

The annual change in the monsoon wind is later than usual this year, and while the wind swung into the north-east for a few days it then went back south, with the resulting effect of turning the fish off. However for the past three days the wind reverted north, and with a couple of days […]

The wind swung into the north for the last few days of the Capt Morgan Rum tournament at Hemingways, Watamu, resulting in an immediate improvement in the fishing with thirty sail and a couple of marlin tagged and released on the final three days. Gilly Roberts, who tagged a blue marlin on Ol Jogi on […]