All blog posts from January 2009

Trolling for Albacore

Posted January 31, 2009

Even though winter has not been very good overal for big game fishing, this week we've began to see some signs that indicate that things could change soon. Plenty of dolphin, pilot whales, lots of sardine and bird activity have been very encouraging, and even though we've only been out twice on the

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A Beautiful Bonito

Posted January 22, 2009

These last few days there has not been any great catches. We are concentrating more on bottom fishing on the Katfish as trolling as not been very successfull lately. Even so, last wednesday we had a beautiful atlantic bonito of over four kilo and two more of three and thwo and a half kilo. The other…

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Manta day

Posted January 15, 2009

Monday was another entertaining day on the Katfish. We began with the usual small fish (red bream, black sea bream..), but all of a sudden a german tourist was hooked with something big on one of the larger rods. We soon found out it was a manta ray of about 50 kilos that took a good 30 minute fight…

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Fishing in the rain..

Posted January 10, 2009

Even though we've been having great weather since the begining of the year, yesterday was particularly cold and rainy, something quite unusual for Lanzarote, but even so, we had a good day's fishing on the Katfish.

We didn't have a single bite while trolling to our anchoring spot, but once there we …

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