Totals 2000
Sailfish: 15
White Marlin: 3
Blue Marlin 3
Yellowfin Tuna 3
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28th DECEMBER 2000
Taylor Robertshaw, David Hall were 0 for 2 on sails then a 175lb blue marlin ate the moldcraft std wide range with bird (pink/white). David released it in 35m on 50lb test.
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7th & 8th DECEMBER 2000
Bob & Lisa Seward booked their 2 day trip after seeing our advert in Marlin magazine. Day 1 they went 4 for about 12 on sailfish!!.
Lots of small groups of birds feeding - all on sails - hooked 8 or 9 but this was back in the days before circle hooks so we lost a lot...
Day 2 - Not quite as active as yesterday but still tagged 2 sailfish and a white marlin! Great trip overall releasing 7 billfish..
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24th NOVEMBER 2000
Werlberger & McCannon had a slow day overall going 1 for 5 on sailfish
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9th NOVEMBER 2000
Scott Nearon & co went 1 for 2 on sailfish plus got 2 dorado. Clients from spice of life villa
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8th NOVEMBER 2000
Leon Barwell (Chairman Northampton Saints Rugby Club) and Nick Beal (Saints and ex England Rugby player) went out with us along with 2 other boats all organised by Allan Lamb. Nothing much then we were circling a log going down towards hole - tuna took purple/black wide range on left rigger.
Took 3.75 hours to bring to gaff at 3rd attempt on leader - 156lb - biggest fish landed that day by the fleet. (Sad to note Leon passed away in 2013 RIP)
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4th NOVEMBER 2000
Marcus, J&B Stelly Slow start - went to hole - double header on sails - one cut the other off, tagged the other fish. Ended up 1 for 6
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27th OCTOBER 2000
Andrew & Camille Bratcove had an unseen sail strike before a 250lb blue marlin came on the shotgun pink white bird/std wide range combo.
Took a full hour to get this fish to the boat but did not get a tag in it as leader popped whilst George holding it.
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26th OCTOBER 2000
Edward Kimber struggled for 30 minutes to bring in a 94lb yellowfin tuna.
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31st OCTOBER 2000
Coombe & Scurvin had plenty of action on reef catching a 50lb wahoo onlead head, rapala caught a lot, lost another big wahoo too
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11th APRIL 2000
Zimbabwe cricket team caught a 25lb dorado today and missed a sailfish bite
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29th MARCH 2000
Mark Zottola & family went 1 for 3 on sailfish even though the sea was green. Client was getting married 1 hour after we got back!!!
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2nd MARCH 2000
Max,Adrian &Kate Thomas - found 3 whales and fished them for a while without a strike .Then went 1 for 2 on sailfish
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1st MARCH 2000
Susan & Marty Connell, Richard Park - Susan managed to release a sailfish then we had at least 3 dorado strikes simultaneously - hooked up on one but lost it on the leader.
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8th FEBRUARY 2000
Tony & Steve had a slow start with a few good sailfish chances missed due to soft baits. Eventually (2.45pm) got a 126lb yellowfin on bigbird/joe yee super chugger combo on 50lb shotgun rig. took 30mins for Steve to get in
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7th FEBRUARY 2000
Tony & Steve had a good start with a 180lb blue caught on 30lb test on ballyhoo flat line 4 miles out. took 30mins to tag. Then went further out and released a nice sail on 50lb test est 60lb .
then 4 sails came up at once - hooked 1 briefly but threw it. 1 for 1 on blues 1 for 7 on sails
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4th FEBRUARY 2000
Tony &Steve went 1 for 6 on sailfish.
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31st JANUARY 2000
Colin Haywood released a sailfish around birds 3 miles off moliniere. Then saw a big blue marlin thrashing surface - very large bill! Next saw whale and 2 schools of yellowfins.
Finally saw birds working feeding sail fish and had a lot of finicky strikes which could not hook up.
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25th JANUARY 2000
Alan Thom, Phil Raised a sail but no hook up, then released a white marlin which took 20 mins to land on 30lb test. 1 for 1 on whites 0 for 2 on sails
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19th JANUARY 2000
Routledge, Yeardley had a nice blue marlin hit the purple/black wide range, hook pulled after 2 mins. Then released a white marlin.
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