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 […]

Every November, the ‘Eye Go Fishing’ tournament is held at Mtwapa, to raise funds for the Kwale Eye Centre which does so much good work to help those with eye problems. This year the fish co-operated and twenty boats found plenty of sport over the weekend, in contrast to the poor fishing in previous weeks. […]

Captain Andy’s is delighted to be the sponsor of the Watamu Sea Fishing Club Christmas Competition, 2011. This tournament has a handicap system to encourage small boat entries and to give everyone a fair crack at the prizes. We look forward to seeing you all over the festive season! Click for entry form   

This week has seen the Wildfly tournament being fished out from Hemingways.  Wildfly are a South African company which specialises in fly fishing safaris, and makes a series of films widely shown on TV, seen in Kenya on Multichoice satellite TV, and they have brought six teams of anglers fishing four days with the scoring […]

The Driftwood Gamefish Extravaganza was fished out of Malindi last week with eight teams competing and fishing four days. This is the 17th year of this tournament organised by Basil Hill, with all the teams coming from South Africa except one team from Zimbabwe, and while the fishing was slower than one would expect at […]

2011 21 October – Churchill Light Tackle – Malindi 22 & 23 October – Herbie Paul Fishing Festival – Malindi 20 November – Eye-Go Fishing – Mtwapa 18 December – Christmas Hamper/Open Boat – Mtwapa 26 December – Ocean Sports Kids Christmas Competition – Watamu 27 December – Christmas Hamper Competition – Kilifi 28 & […]

There is always a lull in tourist activity after the busy August/September period and before the run up to the Christmas holidays, and this has been marked in the fishing business this year with few trips out in recent weeks. At present this is probably accentuated by inertia on the part of the fish themselves, […]

The boats started to go out again after a week of solid rain when about 350 mms, or fourteen inches, had fallen from Sunday to Sunday, with over eight inches on the heaviest day – not much fun fishing on a day like that! The end of the week also saw two power outages, the […]