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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 emphasis on sailfish caught on regulation fly tackle, a sport that has it’s own strict rules.

But the sailfish have been hard to find, and while there are sail both at Watamu, mostly in the Sail Alley area close to shore, and in the Malindi area, wide spread from Malindi up to Ngomeni, they are very difficult to raise with only one or two lucky boats coming home each day with a single flag.

On Sunday, the first day, Stef de Beer was the lucky angler, fishing on B’s Nest, with a sail tagged and released, while the next day Gareth George on Instedda released a sail.

The next day was an official rest day but many of the anglers opted to venture out and try by more traditional means, and Ol Jogi returned with a striped marlin tagged and released by Francois du Plessis as well as a good catch of bottom fish from out in the Rips, while Bamara, with Garry Cullen and friends, had a busy time fishing deep with five grouper and over a hundred snappers, these latter in the two-three kg range.

The third day of the tournament saw both David Coutzer on Ol Jogi and Cornelius Vermeulen on Simba scoring with a fly caught sailfish, so it remains to be seen how it works out the last day, Thursday, tho’ no sail had been reported by the 10am callup.

Earlier, Mr Beugels had two days on B’s Nest with a pair of sail each day, and later tried on Blue Eyes and got another sail, so he had a better run, although it is much easier to find sailfish on traditional rods and reels than on the specialised fly tackle. Contagious had a pair of sail, and Castle Lager  also had sail, a pair of singles, while Tega released a black marlin, the only one of this species caught this week. A 77kg bull shark was released from Tarka, and most boats find a wahoo or two and some dorado, prevalent when there is a lot of weed in the water.

When fish are hard to come by on the surface, as is often the case when the wind does not get up at midday then fish deep is the answer, and Unreel came in with four giant trevally tagged as well as some bottom fish which points the maxim ‘fish for what is there, not what one hopes is there!’ With the wind now swinging north some days, we must wait for the north wind, the ‘kaskasi’ to blow properly to get the fishing going!

 

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With the boating season fast approaching have a lo With the boating season fast approaching have a look at our great pre-owned listings on offer. 

For more information please visit our website www.captainandyskenya.com
On the 13th March, Ambassador OKANIWA Ken visited On the 13th March, Ambassador OKANIWA Ken visited Captain Andy’s, manufacturer of boats & the authorised distributor for Yamaha Motor Co in Kenya. 

Through manufacturing, repair and maintenance and training, Captain Andy’s contributes to jobs, skills development, community and the blue economy in Kenya.

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The 4th & final leg of the 2022/2023 Captain Andy’s Super Series took place at the Watamu Fishing Festival hosted by WSFC at @oceansportskenya. 

Wind up fished by Danny Thomas & Tj haller won this leg of the series & the overall Watamu festival, catching 3 blue Marlin & 1 sailfish. Second place was the the team on Elusive with a blue & a black Marlin. In third place was Auspicious with a striped Marlin & a sailfish. 

The top diesel prize was won my the team on Eclare who caught 3 blue Marlin to win themselves a Yamaha 15hp! 

Huge congratulations to the team on Sea Skipper who took home the overall 2022/2023 series prize a Captain Andy’s W19 boat! 

A big thank you to all the boats who entered the 2022/2023 series and all of the clubs for the support in making the Yamaha Super Series a success. We have some exciting ideas in the pipeline for the 2023/2024 season. We look forward to seeing you all then!
Join us for the finale of the 2022-2023 Captain An Join us for the finale of the 2022-2023 Captain Andy’s Yamaha Super Series at the WSFC Fishing Festival hosted @oceansportskenya! Tight lines 🎣
We hope you are all geared up for the 3rd leg of t We hope you are all geared up for the 3rd leg of the Captain Andy’s Yamaha Super Series this weekend! Looking forward to seeing you all at the Kilifi Classic run by @mnaranifishingclub @kilifiboatyard!
The Captain Andy’s Powered by Yamaha Super Serie The Captain Andy’s Powered by Yamaha Super Series kicked off to a fantastic start at the WSFC Christmas Fishing Festival in December. The team on Reckless took home 1st place for the first leg of the series. Followed by Hooky Nooky in 2nd place & Billfish in 3rd place. 

We look forward to seeing you all this weekend at The Delamere Fishing Competition in Kilifi for Part 2 of the series. For more information on how to enter please contact Danny on  sales@captainandyskenya.com or +254 745 734424.
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