Twenty-eight boats and over a hundred anglers fished the Watamu SFC Christmas tournament, sponsored by Capt Andy’s, with sixteen marlin and twenty-two sailfish caught, all released. Always one of the coast’s most popular events, it is specially biased to benefit small boats as the weight of the catch is divided by the length of the […]

Strong north winds have inspired the marlin fishing in both the Rips, off Watamu, and the Pemba Channel with good reports of fish most days, although there is still a shortage of clients among the charter boats, but with the Christmas holiday here private boats are taking to the water and making up the numbers. […]

Captain Andy’s is sponsoring the Watamu Sea Fishing Club Christmas Competiton again this year The auction & tournament briefing will be held at Ocean Sports on Friday 27th December. This is a 2 day tournament, fishing on both the Saturday & Sunday  Click here for the tournament entry form & rules. We hope to see […]

The north wind, the kaskazi, has blown hard during the day for the last three days, and billfish action has improved everywhere. Particularly interesting are packs of small blue marlin being raised, unusual most years and especially this early in the season. Combined with the poor sailfish catches so far, it might indicate a different […]

Fishing conditions are not yet ideal, with gentle easterly breezes and humid conditions, including some heavy rain storms but some big fish are being caught, a good sign for the next few months. And particularly on the rainy days, good catches of yellowfin tuna and wahoo can be made. The most interesting catch last week […]

The annual Eye Go Fishing tournament was held last weekend at Mtwapa, and was a great success, raising over half a million shillings for the Kwale Eye Centre. First was the team on Delta, Justin and Matthew Walters and Sean McGovern, which tagged two sailfish as well as landing a dorado, a kingfish and a […]

It has been very calm and hot with gentle breezes, but for the last three days the wind has been from the north-east which should augur well for an improvement in the sailfishing in the Malindi area. An annual tournament organized by the South African Wildfly travel and TV company was cancelled, so the two […]

As November ends we expect the wind to change and the north-east monsoon, the kaskazi, should start to blow, but as yet the wind is merely east and very gentle with hot, calm mornings. But already the sailfishing has started  to look up, with Wednesday seeing Eclare catch three, Seastorm and White Bear two each […]

Fishing action still seems slow along the whole coast, although some days the yellowfin tuna turn on their feeding mode and good catches have been made. Sailfish are still hard to find but there is still time as the peak of the sail season around the Malindi area is usually at the end of November, […]