A Sailfish and captor

1. OFFSHORE

Grenada is blessed with deep water close to shore so run outs are often only 15 minutes! In fact our record is a blue marlin hook up 20 minutes after leaving the dock! We generally troll skirted ballyhoo and various sizes of artificial lures when fishing deep water. Normally we run 5 lines and 2 teasers.

The main deep water species are:

Blue Marlin - boat record is 543lb* but we have tagged 2 x 600lb marlin.

White Marlin and Sailfish - both average around 40lb best around 60lb.

Yellowfin tuna - we have the Grenada record at 220lb.

Dorado - boat record is 44lb

Other species encountered include wahoo, skipjacks, blackfin tunas etc.

* Note we tag & release all billfish but this fish died during fight.

A Blue Marlin of 543lb

2. REEF EDGES

A Wahoo that came from the offshore reef

Grenada has many inshore (and some offshore) reefs and shoals the edges of which can provide good fishing with varied species of fish. In some cases the drop off goes from 80ft to 800 ft very quickly and these steep drops are normally the best spots for a wahoo or kingfish. We troll skirted ballyhoo and small artificials on wire leaders when fishing the reef edges. At least one line will be fished deeper - either on the downrigger or with trolling leads. Species are:

Barracuda - boat record is 30lb

King Mackerel - boat record is 33lb

Wahoo - boat record is 61lb

Other species often caught include Cero mackerel, rainbow runners, horse eye jacks, jack crevalle, black jacks, African pompano etc.

Occasionally we get surprised when a shark takes a small fish - we landed a 185lb bull shark in this way.. 

Bullshark of 185lb

Key

S* =Rare but we caught a 543lb Blue Marlin in August 2002

Note the above guide represents an average year - every year is slightly different - sometimes the fish run slightly earlier or later than indicated here.