CATCH
REPORTS 2010
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18th
May 2010
Kyle
and Amy (with SGU friends) endured a prett wet fishing day
today. We went offshore at first and although we had 2 sailfish
strikes neither hooked up. We then came south to reindeer
shoal and fished this back to Grenada. The big wahoo took
a depp trolled ballyhoo and gave Kyle a good 10 minute fight
before coming aboard. At first lookI thought that tjhis
fish might beat our boat record of 61lb but its stomach
was empty and it weighed 60lb exactly back on the dock -
still an excellent fish and a just reward for enduring the
rain (amd mal der mere!).
16th
May 2010
Roy
Bowman and son Phillip who is getting married in Grenada this
week took a fishing trip today with friends and had an exciting
trip. First off we hooked a big tuna that ran off 400yds of
line before spitting the hook, then several hours fishing
around porpoise before another strike - this time Phillip
got the tuna to the boat in about half an hour - 130lb - nice.
Coming back up towards the island we missed a dorado strike,
caught a barracuda and then had 2 hook ups on dorado - one
came off but Phillips Dad Roy caught the other - 17lbs. Apparently
the wedding feast will include fresh BBQ tuna !!
14th
May 2010
Malcom
Bacon celebrated his 60th birthday by tagging and releasing
this 60lb sailfish today! This was the first rainy day we
have experienced for a long time (Grenada has had a drought
starting end last year). This afternoon we nearly repeated
this morninf for Voler Stevin & Zublin personell but the
fish managed to spit the hook...
13th
May 2010
Previous
customers Antonio and Adrian were joined by newcomers Richard
and Debrielle this morning. Slow start with no strikes at
the half way point but then birds led us to the first double
header of dorado. Working back in from there another set of
dorado were encountered and another double header hooked up
- this time including a 24lb fish for Antonio. Good fun and
good eating!
7th
May 2010
Peggy
and Todd Allred tried their luck again today and came up
trumps with 2 dorado (double header) of 22 and 28 lbs. After
that we saw yellowfin tunas jumping but had no strikes from
them. Later we did hook a billfish briefly but the hook
pulled out after the fish had run 50 yds.
Last
trip out saw several tricky sailfish strikes and one marlin
hooked and then lost........
30th
April 2010
Peggy
and Todd Allred told me they were lucky at fishing and proved
it today - firstly with a double header of dorado (20 &
25lb) and followed it up with our biggest yellowfin so far
this year - 149 lb.
24th
April 2010
Ryan
McKenna organised a group of vet students from SGU today and
was rewarded with the largest fish for himself - a 50lb sailfish
release! However this was just icing on the cake because we
had already boated 19 blackfin tuna a false albacore and 3
barracudas (more were released) so planty of illets for the
barbeque!
17th
April 2010
Virgin
Airways flight/cabin crew (stuck in Grenada because of the
Icelandic volcano situation) took advantage of their free
time and managed to catch this 27lb wahoo as well as blackfin
tuna and barracuda today. They ate the fish that evening at
the Victory Bar & Grill, Port Louis Marina.
14th
April 2010
Had
an exciting half day trip this morning with people from Caribbean
Princess cruise ship - started out by watching whales blowing
and then got close to a pod of pilot whales. After that worked
an area around a tide line and got rewarded with this double
header of dorado. Working back in to shore we again followed
the signs and hooked up in the last minutes of the trip on
a 300lb blue marlin. This fish jumped once and then screamed
off and after backing up proved too slow we spun around and
chased it forwards to get tjhe fish to stop its run with very
little line left on the spool. Lots of reeling in followed
as we again backed up hard for 2 miles before getting the
fish close to the boat. With the leader literally inches from
the mates hand we tried to force the fish within tagging range
(thier cruise ship was departing after lunch so we had no
time to play with!) and popped the swivel knot with the fish
clearly in sight - almost but not quite a release....
13th
April 2010
Took
friends Joe and Kim out today - got lucky with a very pretty
long bill spearfish which we tagged and released for Joe -
our first positively identified catch of one! After that saw
plenty of yellowfins feeding but could not get a bite from
them and had a couple of sailfish knockdowns.
8th
April 2010
Short
trip today due to "mal de mer" but still within
2 hours we caught 8 fish including this 15lb dorado for young
Max plus we lost another dorado at the boat....
7th
April 2010
13
year old Louis Gerard went to town on the barracuda, blackfin
tuna, little tunny and king mackerel today - catching 13
in all!
Recent
trips offshore have seen quite a few sailfish - we hooked
up 2 - one jumped off after 3 jumps and the other after
at least 5 ! We also had a marlin strike that did not hook
up. Seas are blue again
26th
March 2010
Full
day for Larry Hawkins today - followed birds to 14 miles -
porpoises - no tunas evident, followed more birds to 20 miles
- dorado - had 3 strikes in all hooked 2 - 1 came off quickly
the other boated at 17lb. After that found some bluer water
(most areas green of late) and saw birds on tuna but no strikes
and no fish sighted to know what type was there.
18th
March 2010
Slow
fishing this morning only seeing spinner dolphins until we
spotted some birds and caught these 2 dorado to 15lb for Bob
& Bonnie Lorash. Yesterday we had a brief hook up on a
sailfish but it spat the hook.
12th
March 2010
We
lost a nice dorado early this morning but followed up with
a 250lb blue marlin release boatside for David (no tag placed
as hook point broke off releasing the fish while we held the
leader), this afternoon newly weds Sam and Rachel Hudson both
scored tag & releases on 50lb sailfish - not a bad days
fishing
10th
March 2010
Mark
Wilkins achieved an ambition today - he caught a 140lb blue
marlin on his first try at big game fishing! Not only that
his son was unlucky to lose a bigger marlin about 2 hours
later when the fish spat the hook after taking 400 yds on
its first acrobatic run...
We
finished off with some smaller fish - blackfin tuna and
false albacore for dinner.
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;
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