Sports anglers usually target particular species, then go after the biggest they can find, often on lighter tackle when they are looking to catch records. The most prestigious prize is a billfish, and of these the rarest is the broadbill swordfish. Broadbill are usually fished for at night, as they are deep dwellers during the […]

The Watamu Fly540 Festival was fished last weekend, and despite the fishing being slow five teams found marlin the first day. Instedda, with Imran, Moosa and Ali al Harazi had a striped marlin and a sail, plus some small fish putting them ahead of Kipapa and Snark who shared second, both with a marlin and a […]

The team on Simba, Paul Worthington, Mtawali Zia and skipper Mark Allen, who won this event last year, were leading the field after the first day in the Weetabix sponsored Kilifi Classic, fished over two days last weekend at Kilifi. They had two striped marlin tagged, caught by Mtawali Zia and Paul Worthington, and were […]

The fishing remains slow, and the story of the week must be the sighting of a pod of five killer whales, or orca, the colourful large member of the dolphin family, by a party of anglers out with skipper Rob Hellier in Unreel. With their high dorsal fins and white patches on belly and round […]

Captain Andy’s has added a link to Buoyweather to their web site – for the latest marine forecast.    

Rain in February is rare at the Coast, but last Wednesday it was overcast all day, and while at Watamu we only measured 4mm, it was much heavier elsewhere. But it was also raining twenty miles out in the Rips, which served to bring the fish up, supporting those skippers who say the fish are […]

It had been a long day. On board the big game boat White Mischief the crew had waited patiently, drifting slowly with the winds and the current forty kilometres offshore, a single rod standing with it’s line vertically down, drifting a bait along the bottom, over 500 metres down in the abyssal depths of the […]