Phil Baker and Steve & Charlie Hardman ventured offshore today and found themselves in an epic feeding frenzy with thousands of birds, flyingfish, porpoises, dolphins, dorado and yellowfin tunas !!

We started well catching 3 dorado from 5 strikes including an excellent 38lb bull, We then went a little further out where a huge group of porpoise and dolphines were feeding. We managed to get 3 yellowfin strikes of which only one hooked up. Young Charlie battled this fish upto the boat but we lost it on the gaff when the hook pulled out....

After that we raised at least 2 sailfish which we could not hook up.

Seems like the bait and fish have really arrived now !!

Paul Hodges has done some long range fishing out of San Diego but had never caught a white marlin.... We corrected that with a triple header for him this afternoon!

Amazingly we tagged and released all 3 of them and later had him hooked up on a sailfish as well but pulled the hook.

All the marlin were about 40 lb in weight

Richard Scott hoped to catch a big fish and get video and photos for use on internet fishing websites.

He succeeded in getting shots of a 150lb blue marlin (his first) that we tagged and released for him. We also raised 2 sailfish and caught 2 small dorado - one of which we also tagged and released.

Water was cobalt blue today, bait fish were scattered though - things should keep improving from here.

Chris, David and Peter spent a morning fishing today and were happy to get barracuda, blackfin and skipjack tuna, rainbow runner and Peter Ryan was very happy to get this 35lb wahoo!.

Once again fish is on the menu !

Zane Shaeffer celebrated his birthday with a few SGU friends and had a good time catching a 35 lb wahoo for himself whilst the others had a 25lb wahoo, 2 blackfin tuna and a barracuda.

Big BBQ planned for this evening !

Amy, Candice and Orelia made up a 3 lady team for a half day trip this morning. As usual ladies had the luck as all 5 rods went at the same time with small dorado - we boated 4. A while later Candice got a larger 10lb dorado. Further down the shoal we saw birds working and Amy had a 23lb wahoo that screamed line of the 30lb outfit for a while. 3 barracudas rounded out the catch.

Part of the catch was promptly delivered to expert chef Brian Benjamin at BB's Crabback restaurant where the ladies will be dining in style tonight!

Mark Miller tried again for a yellowfin and this time almost got more than he could handle with this magnificent 186 lb specimen - the 3rd biggest ever for us.

Mark beat the fish in 40 minutes on 80lb tackle but looked pretty beat himself afterwards! We also had a sailfish hit 3 baits without getting hooke and saw 1 dorado jumping.

Volker Stevin construction crew took a morning off to go a fishing today. After a slow start we started to spot big tunas feeding under small groups of working birds. This 126 lb yellowfin tuna came up close behind the boat and inhaled the left flat bird/ballyhoo combo. Angler Josh was new to big game fishing but did well to get it to the boat in 45 minutes. After that we saw more tuna but they were not biting.

Yesterday Mark Miller was unlucky that none of the 4 yellowfin tuna strikes we got as we passed through a pod of dolphins hooked properly. He was slightly mollified by a nice skipjack tuna but is coming back to try the yellowfins again.

Steve Rudge and Tony Saunders went out this afternoon and scored with a dozen blackfin tuna to 14lb and a 28lb wahoo for Steve.

Yesterday Emma and Michael went out and were unlucky not to catch a big dorado which escaped but went home with quite a few blackfin tunas.....

Dr Brian Jordan's 2nd day proved to be better than the first although conditions were quite choppy. We had to go 24 miles to find dorado - four strikes yielded 2 nice fish in the 24-27lb range. Coming back up from there we boated a fine 30lb wahoo and missed a couple of other strikes.

All in all not too shabby.

Gary Picton his son, and friend Tony from the goodship "Sea Princess" gambled the whole of their 1 day visit to Grenada out fishing. They won ! Big Time!

First up down the edge was a double header of blackfin tuna, followed by a brace of barracuda. Farther down Tony got warmed up with a nice 14lb dorado. Gary then got another blackfin. At this point I decided to leave the edge and go to the deep water. As we reached the 6,500 ft contour 17 miles off St George's a marlin came up - hit the left rigger ballyhoo then engulfed the left flat bird/lure combo. Tonys took the rod as the fish raced off then turned back and overtook the boat before running almost a complete circuit around us jumping as it went! To cut a long story short we used the full power of the 50 outfit to get the fish boatside in about 40 minutes for a helathy tag and release.

After that we missed another dorado strike before gettuing everyone back to the cruise ship on time.

Daniel Breland took in laws and friend fishing again today. Plenty of action with blackfin tunas, garfish, barracudas and a 35lb wahoo for Ricky proved that Daniels luck is still good.

US airforce personell organised by Mike Reilly went this afternoon and caught 6 blackfins and several barracudas. The tunas went to BB's Crabback restaurant where a 20 strong USAF contingent will enjoy some good dining!

Multi time repeat customer Eric and friend Brian from SGU scored a wahoo and 3 barracudas today. We came up the edge after missing 1 sailfish offshore and seeing several big yellowfins feeding - but as per the last trip the tunas were not interested in our baits or lures.

At last Eric has made it onto the website !!

Jeremy, Frances, Mark, Georgie & David staying at Mt Cinnamon ventured down the edge today - we caught 2 wahoo to 38lb and lost 2 more, then coming back up we also bagged a nice dorado which will be appearing on the dinner menu tonight at their hotel...Loads of birds feeding plus big leatherback turtles in evidence as well.

2 days later we saw a Humpback whale breach and tail slap close to the boat in the same area...awesome

Lance and son Adam Pickrell went offshore today and were eventually rewarded with this 135lb yellowfin tuna for Adam after a gruelling 2 hours 10 minute fisght on 50lb test. We found this tuna feeding between Sei whales 14 miles offshore.

We also lost a dorado at the boat 10 minutes after boating the tuna.

Bojan Bulic went out for 6 hours today and had his work cut out reeling in no less than seven dorado to 30 lbs (a quadruple hook up of 15lb fish and then later a triple hook up with 30lb fish - we managed to boat 5 altogether).

Seas were rough with a large northerly swell,

Carib Sushi chefs and waitress ventured offshore on a very rough morning today and were quickly rewarded with this fine brace of dorado of 30 and 20 lb.

Better get down there tonight for some very fresh sushi !!

Joe and Karyne Carey off the Celebrity Galaxy cruise ship enjoyed a dream half day this morning. We started close in and quickly spotted a pair of sperm whales - whilst circling them at a close distance we had a screaming run which proved to be a lively blue marlin of around 130 lb which we tagged and released for Joe. After that more birds led us to porpoises and another very large sperm whale but no more bites. Heading back in less than 2 miles offshore we hooked another small blue around 50lbs for Karyne which jumped all over the place before coming to the boat.

Back out again in the afternoon with SGU students we had more action but this time with a double header of 17 lb wahoo and dorado - another strike at the same time was not hooked. Coming back up from there we saw no less than 10 sperm whales.

All in all a very good days fishing.

SGU students and family went out on what was supposed to be a very windy day - we got a break early on with calm seas - 6 miles off a double strike yielded a hook up on this 110 lb yellowfin tuna which fought hard for 90 minutes and was caught just as it started to get tangled in a longline - phew!

The afternoon produced a 10 minute fight with a blue marlin before the hook pulled out.....

Ian Long and friends went offshore on a cloudy/rainy day today and managed a 55lb sailfish release and a 31lb dorado.

Not bad for the generally slow conditions.

Glen Pitzer and son (off the Caribbean Princess cruise ship) endured a rough half day trip this morning but were rewarded with a 10 lb barracuda.

Our afternoon trip was a complete contrast for German clients staying at La Source hotel - the seas had calmed down quite a bit and we were able to get out into some blue water at 12 miles - sure enough a nice blue marlin crashed our short left lure and was hooked - it put up a tough fight for 25 minutes before being tagged and released. 10 minutes later 2 more marlin hit 3 lines without getting properly hooked.

The old song "what a difference a day makes" in this case should be half a day!

Ocean Village clients ventured out today and although we did not catch the quality or amount of fish that we did yesterday Ralph still got the 12lb wahoo - the only 1 of 3 strikes that stayed on the hook.

They also caught some barracudas and saw lots of dolphins.

A half day trip this morning led us to some good action 15 miles down the edge of the Reindeer shoal. Lots of birds active and occasional glimpses of small tunas kept us working the area until a 42lb wahoo took the right rigger ballyhoo and laumched itself skywayds landing just behind the boat.! James Metcalf brought that one to the boat . Next strikes ran the line off simlarly then launched itslef in the air - not a wahoo but a small blue marlin! Unfortuantely that one was lost but next up was a 30lb wahoo for Emma Hughes. Plenty of barracudas and a blackfin tuna kept us going plus we lost 2 more wahoo when the hooks pulled out....

All in all a nice trip.....and the water is starting to look blue again.

Adam Jacque's group of SGU students just arrived from Newcastle UK ventured out today and were rewarded eventually with this fine 33lb wahoo plus 2 blackfin tunas and 2 barracudas.

The BBQ should be going well by now!

23rd January 2009

Well the last day of the tournament proved to be our best - we caught 2 nice dorado in the morning for Kev and Ziggy. Later Ferdinand hooked his first caribbean sailfish which we released to at least put ourselves on the scoreboard!

The tournament was won (again) by Hard Play II from Trinidad & Tobago - back to back victory for "Frothy" and his team - congrats guys!

Michael Ronayne tried his luck on the morning of the tournament layday - he was rewarded with a triple hook up of 22lb dorado and then followed up with 2 sailfish releases making a total of 5 sailfish that he caught in his 2 trips with us.

We plan to let Michael pick our next lottery ticket numbers!

As you can see from the pictures the sea was green but the fish are still biting...

Our tournament results have been best left unmentioned as our clients have missed a lot of strikes - both difficult and easy. So far only 1 wahoo came to the boat but maybe tomorrow will be our day.

Paul "Doc" Haycock went fishing today and kindly took a few guests with him - Steve Kilsby was glad he got the invite as he tagged and released a 40lb sailfish. We also lost another sail and had a further strike.

Hopefully this forebodes well for the Spice Island Billfish Tournament which starts tomorrow - see www.sibtgrenada.com for updates. 45 boats have entered - a great turnout.

Michael Ronayne said he was enjoying the fishing this morning - even though we were catching zip at that point - birds were working and flying fish taking to the air but apart from a couple of sailfish window shopping we had seen no action. That all changed at 2pm with Michaels first sailfish and in the next hour we caught 2 more and missed a few.

Irish eyes were smiling at the end of the trip!

Peter Abel caught this 25lb wahoo and had the hook pull on another at the same time. This was after 4 hours of zero offshore despite copious amounts of blue water and flying fish everywhere.

The trip was arranged by Peters sister Nicola who is a student at SGU.

Jim Kent and Steve Boucher tried their luck today and were rewarded with a 27lb dorado for Jim (we had 3 other strikes from them but only the one hooked up). After that we missed 2 tentative sailfish strikes and things went very dead.

Then 5 minutes from the end of the trip a marlin came up behind the left flat line but did not take, a few seconds later the right rigger line shot off with a decent marlin on the other end which proceeded to run off a lot of line. I stopped the boat while we started to clear other lines. I was a bit concerned that we were losing too much line so I put the boat in gear again to turn and chase, as I did so a second marlin crashed the left flat again and ran off!

To cut a long story short we lost the first bigger blue marlin when the hook pulled out, we tagged the 2nd one for Jim estimated 90 lb.

A dramatic end to the trip and our 3rd double header with blues inside the last month....

Giles Fraser tagged this 50lv sailfish and then had a double hook up of blue marlin! Unfortunately the first spat the hook after 10 minutes and the 2nd broke the 50lb line a short distance away from the boat. We also missed another sailfish bite...

In the afternoon we had young kids on board so went up the coast and caught htis 10lb wahoo a barracuda and played a sailfish for 3 minutes before the hook pulled.

There were certailnly some fish around for the new year....