CATCH
REPORTS 2010
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7th
March 2010
Barry
Hawkins last day today - could have been great - ended up
just being good - started with a sail tag & release
around 10am, then followed birds down to 2 miles - turned
N and raised another sail - missed. Came NE and found birds
on small tunas - whilst trying to approach them a large
tuna knocked down the right rigger and then camer back and
ate it - after 2 minutes the 50lb line popped with too much
drag applied,,,resset the limes and approached the birds
again - this time a large dorado ate the left rigger - was
coming to the boat nicely when it did jump number 5 and
spat the hook back at us...
Coming
back up we tagged ad released another sailfish to save the
day.
6th
March 2010
SGU
students today - this morning we saw large yellowfins jumping
and were getting close to them when porpoise moved in with
them and they all headed west at high speed! We did have a
billfish strike around there but no hook up. This afternoon
was better with a fine 32lb dorado coming to the boat early
on but no other strikes were forthcoming after that.
5th
March 2010
Vince
DeBari made his annual visit to grenada pretty special today
with a very large white marlin (we thought it was a small
blue at the time but the pictures show otherwise) followed
by a 2 hour fight on 50 test with a 147lb yellowfin that did
not want to give up! That fish was still trying to kill us
when it came in the boat. On the way back up we hooked another
white but pulled the hook when it was just yards from the
boat.
1st
March 2010
Barry
Hawkins went out again today and within 90 minutes we were
hooked up on an acrobatic small blue marlin - we tagged it
in about 10 minutes but that was the start of the fight !
The fish went crazy and came to the boat again about 5 times
before we were able to release it half an hour later! We then
followed birds out to 20 miles hoping to find yellowfins that
we had encounterer the day before - apart from a couple of
small dorado strikes - no luck but coming back up we found
sailfish and tunas feeding. They ignored all our baits so
eventually I put out a small lure designed more for wahoo
or skipjacks - it was inhaled by a 112lb yellowfin within
minutes - this fish also fought well taking about half an
hour to boat,
27th
Feb 2010
Started
out with local kids today - a chance for us to give a little
back to the community - hope they enjoyed catching 9 fish
including little tunny, barracudas and a nice 20lb wahoo.
This afternoon we ventured offshore again and found the right
place! Stacks of bait on the sonar, birds diving and fish
busting! First released a fine athletic 50lb sailfish for
Sarah Worley of SGU - turns out she took the next strike as
well....an hour and a half later we boated a 142 lb yellowfin
tuna for her !!! Planty of tuna steaks went back to True Blue
Campus tonight.....
26th
Feb 2010
Barry
Hawkins released this 50lb white marlin after only an hours
trolling today - 2 hours later we raised another which did
not get hooked. After that we saw 5 sperm whales but no more
fish....
19th
Feb 2010
Andy
Windmill managed to get a nice dorado of 27 lb from an area
which had sailfish and also a sei whale although we never
saw any tuna around it....
17th
Feb 2010
Celebrity
cruise ship passengers C.D.Wirth caught a 40lb sailfish today
- the only other action we saw was a small school of big yellowfin
tunas 2 of which jumped out in front of the boat (150lb +)
- however they only stayed up for a very short time and we
never got a strike from them...
15th
Feb 2010
This
morning saw two sailfish raised one hooked up for a nice tag
and release for Vidal Yann and a lost dorado by the boat...this
afternoon we boated 2 nice dorado of 32 and 27 lbs which were
hooked at the same time.
14th
Feb 2010
Andy
Windmill returned to Grenada again and tagged this 45lb sailfish
on a day when there were lots of sails around but for the
most part not biting. We also had 1 dorado strike which did
not hook up. Encouraging to see so many sails around.
5th
Feb 2010
The
luck of the Irish still going strong !! This time Conor Holmes
was in the lucky seat when this extimated 350 lb blue screamed
off on a 50lb outfit nearly spooling us at one stage. 30 minutes
later the tired fish came to the boat and was tagged, revived
and released. Not bad seeing we did not leave the dock until
after 2 pm !
2nd
Feb 2010
Team
Ireland went to town today - first up was Simon with a spectacular
strike and hook up on a 180lb blue marlin on the left rigger
- this fish was boatside and released in 15 minutes on 50lb
test. Next was Rob with a cracking 45lb dorado which gave
a good fight on 50 - surprisingly no other shoal members followed
this bull to the boat although they were certainly in the
area, Last up was Alex who was in the chair on a 50lb sailfish
which headed for the hrorizon as if it thought it was a blue
marlin! This fish was one of two raised simultaneously but
the other did not quite get hooked. Great days sport.
31st
Jan 2010
Peter
Cody's turn to shine - he started well with a hook up on
a lively 50lb blue marlin which came to the boat glowing
with blue stripes and swam off very healthy carrying a new
tag. Later on in the same area a 33lb dorado ate the right
rigger bait and Peter got the hook up - this fish featured
on the menu at Aquarium later that night and was enjoyed
by all !
Conditions
were much easier than yesterday.
30th
Jan 2010
Brian's
lucky run continued today when he tagged this fiesty 70lb
white marlin on a windy rough day where we only raised 2 billfish..
27th
Jan 2010
Sydney
and John fished the layday of the tournament and we managed
to release a 45lb white marlin for Sydney - his first ever
marlin after a lot of fishing. John was less fortunate as
we had one other strike (probably also a white) but it was
not hooked up - thats fishing......
26th
Jan 2010
Day
1 of SIBT 2010 was slow for Team Ireland - only one good billfish
strike which was missed. Day 2 was a little better with a
fine 47 lb boat record dorado for Brian and a missed blue
marlin strike. Lets hope day 3 is the magic number !!
23rd
Jan 2010
Practice
day for Team Ireland (Brian, Rob, Peter and Alex) started
extremely well with a release on a 200 lb blue for Brian.
Peter also hooked up on a sailfish later but it came off -
hope they get lucky in the Spice Island bIllfish tournamnet
which starts Monday!
21st
Jan 2010
Jack
Vance was itching to catch a marlin on a new lure he had trolled
behind a sailboat from St Lucia to Grenada. During the sail
the lure had raised 2 marlin which he did not catch. 5.5 hours
into a 6 hour trip it did the job again this time the 350+
lb blue was hooked and ran a lot of line off an 80 outfit
before coming to the boat in 30 minutes for a tag and release.
Jack kindly gave us one of the lures to use in next weeks
Spice Island Billfish Tournament so we are hoping it proves
to be a lucky omen!
9th
Jan 2010
Repeat
local customers Danny and Andrew allowed first timer Lerone
to have a 2 hour battle on 50lb test with this 140lb yellowfin
tuna today! Lerone was very tired but determined to see
it through. Darnel and Curlan watched and Marie was cheerleader!
We had followed birds for 4 miles to get 3 simultaneous
tuna strikes only this one hooked up....probably just as
well....everyone went home with a lot of tuna steak that
night and the captain enjoyed some fabulous sushi later
that evening...
7th
Jan 2010
Chuck
and Sally Morn went out today from Celebrity Millenium cruise
ship and managed to tag and release a nice white marlin about
45lb. We missed several other lightning fast strikes from
these pocket rockets! Sally wound in a barracuda as well.
6th
Jan 2010
This
38lb wahoo was a comiseration prize since we lost a blue marlin
after about 5 minutes ealier in the half day trip and we also
missed 4 sailfish which were playing with the baits....
1st
Jan 2010
Mark
Bedini caught and we released our first Billfish of 2010
- a 50lb sailfish which put on a very good show. We missed
another one beofre that and saw porpoises and 3 sperm whales.
A good start to the new year !!
Captain
Gary Clifford True Blue Sportfishing True
Blue
St. Georges
Grenada
West Indies
Phone/Fax: (473) 444-2048
Cell Phone: (473) 407-4688 E-mail:
grclifford@spiceisle.com Website;
www.yesaye.com
