The strong winds have eased a lot in recent days, but the fishing continues slow, with billfish hard to catch – while the skippers mostly think there are plenty of fish around the Rips, they are not coming up, and when they do appear behind the lures they are reluctant feeders and difficult to hook. […]

The strong winds have eased a lot in recent days, but the fishing continues slow, with billfish hard to catch – while the skippers mostly think there are plenty of fish around the Rips, they are not coming up, and when they do appear behind the lures they are reluctant feeders and difficult to hook. […]

More black marlin are being caught than stripies at the moment, and while on one day good catches are recorded all round the next day just a few sailfish are found. The wind blows very strongly at midday, and when it has been blowing at night as well it makes for very rough conditions far […]

There are two entirely different methods of catching marlin. Most popular perhaps is trolling a selection of flashy lures at about eight knots usually far offshore, which results in strikes mainly from striped marlin or the rarer and bigger blue marlin, although some black marlin are hooked but these are often smaller fish. The other […]

Strong winds at night have made for some rough water recently, but this often has the effect of bringing the billfish up to the surface – perhaps to enjoy the extra oxygen in the churned-up layers? Marlin are being caught every day, and there seem plenty of sailfish as well, although some days these do […]

There seem to be plenty of billfish around, but not so easy to catch, while for sailfish the emphasis seems to have moved from the Rips to nearer waters in the Malindi and Watamu areas. The weather continues good, not too hot, still in the mornings and a good breeze getting up later. The sailfish […]

Twenty six boats and about 120 anglers set out at dawn on the first day of the Watamu Sea Fishing Club’s annual Christmas tournament, sponsored by Capt Andy’s, Zodiac and Yamaha. On a placid ocean with good fishing conditions tag cards for two black marlin, eight striped marlin and 73 sailfish were recorded at the […]

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The wind is often a crucial factor in fishing, and with hard blows from the north-east consistent now, the area we call the Rips is becoming more productive. Starting about sixteen nautical miles from the shore, these are a series of underwater mountain ridges, rising to under 170 metres from depths of 400 metres or […]

Striped marlin have moved into the Rips, good news for anglers as the sailfishing in the inshore areas has only been moderate, and better still, sailfish have also been showing far out as well in the last couple of days. The wind has been really unpredictable, swinging back to the south-east for a few days, […]