Totals 2018
Sailfish: 128 (best ever year!)
White Marlin: 0
Blue Marlin 9
Yellowfin Tuna 25
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31st December 2018
Family and friends of Scott Porterfield went out this morning. Scott was first up with this nice dorado, we then went 3 for 5 on sailfish, in the afternoon we went out again and went 1 for 2 on sailfish.
We ended the year with our best ever tally of sailfish releases - 128 (previous best was 55...) |
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30th December 2018
Another choppy day saw us go 1 for 2 on sailfish for Sarah and Grant Reilly & family |
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28th December 2018
Julie Letwat organised friends and family off the Silohouette crusie ship this afternoon. Choppy seas were not to everyone's liking but we scraped out a sailfish at the last gasp to save the day |
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27th December 2018
Marc & Daniel (our first ever customers from the brand new Silver Sands resort) went out this morning and early on we got a big strike which we hooked up and soon a lively blue marlin was
stripping line of Daniels reel. He worked hard as we backed up hard and got the fish to boat side for a release - est 150lb. Later we had 3 sailfish strikes, hooked one but Marc was unlucky as the hook pulled after a few minutes. |
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26th December 2018
Mike & Paula tried their luck this morning and things were slow with just 1 missed sailfish strike around porpoise and yellowfin tuna. Things changed quickly on the way back though when a feisty blue marlin ate a lure after swiping at 2 baits. Mike battled
grimly to bring it to the boat in about 20 minutes. It was Mikes first ever saltwater gamefish so he started at the top! |
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25th December 2018
Christmas morning fishing trip saw Scott & Cheryl hook 2 salfish at the same time, Scott's came off but Cheryl released hers |
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24th December 2018
Miles got a fishing trip for his 14th birthday and came up trumps with this sailfish release, we were 1 for 2 on them. |
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23rd December 2018
Nelson Smither had a trip where a lot of barracudas were plaguing us but we did manage to release a sailfish |
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20th December 2018
Whilst fishing around yellowfin tuna that wouldnt bite we managed to hook up this sailfish for George Bowmans family, it made a great birthday present for his 14 year old son! |
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19th December 2018
Beth Nelson booked this family fishing trip mainly because her daughter Caroline wanted to catch a really big fish... well although plenty of big tuna were not biting she
ended up fighting this 250lb blue marlin for about half an hour before releasing it - beautiful fish.. |
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3rd December 2018
Sandals clients had an experience to remember this morning when we hooked a 119lb yellowfin tuna on a light tackle outfit...when we finally boated the fish we were 17 miles from shore
and sveral hours over the scheduled return to dock.. |
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30th November 2018
Robert Brewer joined a group from Sandals this morning and was both unlucky and lucky - his line got 2 hits from yellowfin tuna - both came off. On the way back it went again this time with a nice sailfish which we released |
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29th November 2018
James MacGregor only fished for a couple of hours this morning but we still went 3 for 4 on sailfish with a pretty hot bite going on... |
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28th November 2018
Desko wanted a blue marlin and we tried hard for that but instead raised 6 sailfish mostly on marlin lures and managed to release 3 of them |
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27th November 2018
Choppy 5ft seas this morning made things a bit challenging but we still managed to go 2 for 3 on sailfish for Sandals clients |
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19th November 2018
Parker Northrup had a memorable day where he fought two blue marlin to the boat - one pulled the hook at the very end whereas the other we successfully released |
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15th November 2018
Slow bite this morning but we managed to locate some bait on the sonar and sure enough a sailfish obliged... |
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10th November 2018
Mixture of students and friends today saw Brett release a sailfish early on the we tried tuna but they were not biting. On the way back we got a 2nd sailfish this one for Cait Moreland |
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3rd November 2018
Amanda guest at Sandals got to release her first billfish this afternoon - a near 200lb blue marlin which gave her a 15 minute work out on 80lb test. The fish was briefly hooked on a lure but
came off then ate a ballyhoo on the shotgun. We had been fishing around yellowfin tuna and porpoise for 2 hours without a bite when this fish came up |
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22nd October 2018
Wahoo bite was slow for SAndals clients but we did get this one and a kingmackerel |
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21st October 2018
Justin & Lenni chose to go for sailfish this morning and Lenni got to release one plus we missed another |
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19th October 2018
Chuck and Gina went 0 for 2 on wahoo, 1 for 2 on sailfish and 1 for 1 on yellowfin tuna this morning |
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14th October 2018
Andrea Markham organised a group of SGU students and they had a great trip today! First they enjoyed watching dolphins at the bow of the boat then they caught 2 nice wahoo and some blackfin tuna
and barracuda. A 3rd wahoo escaped |
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13th October 2018
Chris Wolden organised a group of fellow SGU students and released this sailfish himself (we were 1 for 3 on them and had another hooked up that managed to get away) |
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8th October 2018
First trip out for 3 weeks - we fished around yellowfins with porpoise but no bites then went 1 for 1 on sailfish coming back up.. |
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6th September 2018
Travis Craig guest at Sandals La Source was the lucky angler this afternoon as we only had one bite - a 31lb wahoo which gave him a good fight |
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11th August 2018
Divino D'Alessio, SGU student got a fish of a lifetime this morning when this est 300lb blue marlin ate a lure and gave him a 30 minute fight on 80 |
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8th August 2018
We went 1 for 2 on sailfish this morning with young Maggie being the lucky angler (her grandad caught one with us on August 6th see below) |
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6th August 2018
Chris Skarzynski (72) got this hyper active 60lb sailfish before we got all our lines in the water this morning! Later we had another tentative sail strike and also raised a 250 lb blue marlin that swiped at 2 lines before
departing the scene... |
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3rd August 2018
Brian Thomas booked the boat for himself for an afternoon half day. Early on we fished porpoise with big yellowfin tuna for 2 hours but only had one fish look at a lure but not take it.. We worked our way back to shore and
in the last minute of the trip hooked up a nice sailfish which everyone was very happy about! This was our 100th sailfish for 2018 |
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25th July 2018
Chris & Jen went out hoping for a sailfish this morning. Chris went 3 for 6 on them! Plus we lost 2 mahi right at the boat.The first sail ate the marlin lure before all lines were in the water..it was our 100 billfish and 97th
sailfish for 2018 |
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17th July 2018
Stanley Loftin had a slow trip where sargassum weed was making fishing very difficult before we headed closer to shore and got this boat record 65lb wahoo! |
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21st June 2018
Chandler Smith guest at Sandals La Source caught his biggest fish ever - a 136lb yellowfin tuna on a half day trip this morning. We had 2 strikes from them but only 1 hooked up |
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11th June 2018
Lisa and Fred Garber went out for a morning half day, we saw lots of porpoise and birds but no tuna, water was very green and dirty and I didnt rate our
chances of getting a billfish but low & behold a nice sailfish grabbed a Black Bart ProJet tuna lure 2 miles off the coast on the way back in! |
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8th June 2018
Sandals client Craig Scott decided to book the whole boat for himself hoping he would catch a marlin or a tuna... well he ended up losing a wahoo, raising a blue marlin, jumping off a sailfish and then
spending over 2 hours brining in an est 170lb yellowfin tuna that ate a sailfish bait on 50lb line..> |
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1st June 2018
Tom Duffy had one bite this morning - from a 180lb blue marlin that we released after a 15 minute fight on 80. Didnt get a good picture of it though due to photographer error (!).. |
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31st May 2018
Sandals client Greg decided to book the whole boat for himself hoping he would catch a sailfish... he succeeded and was unlucky to see another one jump and spit the hook |
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30th May 2018
Emily & Mike went on their first ever offshore fishing trip which saw them catch a blackfin tuna for dinner followed by a sailfish release for Emily. |
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29th May 2018
Sandals clients on a half day this morning were mostly dolphin watching until this 117lb yellowfin tuna.. Reza Tanha wound it in in 45 minutes. |
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21st May 2018
Tony Palombo and Nigel Hunter went out - we got one bite and Tony landed this 100lb yellowfin tuna.. |
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17th May 2018
Mike Barry booked the fishing trip but as usual his wife upstaged him and caught the only sailfish of the morning |
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16th May 2018
Todd Allred lost 2 tuna recently with us when hooks pulled but he made up for it today with two boated before 9am! He hooked 2 wahoo and we manage to boat one of them as a bonus. |
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13th May 2018
Mitch Ross and fellow med students from SGU ventured out and went 1 for 3 on sailfish |
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10th May 2018
Brandon, Ashley & John went out this morning but Ashley was the lucky one releasing a sailfish in the first 30 minutes but after that we lost another sailfish (1 for 4) and a blue marlin (0 for 1).. |
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9th May 2018
Austin Sneed went 1 for 4 today (we hooked 2 but one spat the hook). |
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8th May 2018
Todd went out again and got a double header of sailfish and saw many more swimming under birds that wouldnt bite.. |
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5th May 2018
Todd Allred got a sailfish release then spent 90 minutes attached to a yellowfin tuna which finally spat the hook close to the boat. |
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3rd May 2018
Sandals and Rex clients again but just one bite saw one sailfish released |
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2nd May 2018
Sandals and Rex clients this morning got a sailfish release and caught a mahi (2 more mahi escaped!) |
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27th April 2018
only one bite this morning but it did lead to another nice sailfish release |
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26th April 2018
Sandals clients this morning got a houndfish and a 34lb wahoo, back out again in the afternoon and went 1 for 3 on sailfish and saw another finning around. |
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14th April 2018
SGU students and friends today - found birds tuna and sailfish feeding on bait at 18 miles but they just wouldnt bite - then the birds moved 1 mile west and when we caught up to them we
got a double header of tuna straightway, 146 & 100lb!! |
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13th April 2018
The DeFelice family staying at the Calabash hotel went out this afternoon and straight away got a sailfish release. Slow bite after that though. |
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12th April 2018
Sandals clients again - they didnt have to wait long for 3 sailfish to bite at same time! We hooked and released 2 of them then spent a long time chasing tuna with porpoise but they were just teasing us - finally we did hook up
a nice dorado for a lovely lady on her honeymoon |
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11th April 2018
Sandals clients went 1 for 2 on sailfish this morning and also saw tuna with porpoise but no bites.. |
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9th April 2018
Shauna Nichols guest at Sandals La Source got this sailfish release this morning - we were 1 for 2 on them. We also saw yellowfin tuna but no bites were forthcoming. |
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5th April 2018
Canadian Rocky caught this cracking 136lb yellowfin this morning after we earlier had a missed sailfish strike. |
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3rd April 2018
Sandals clients got a wahoo (20lb) and a few barracuda this morning - another wahoo bite didnt hook up |
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31st March 2018
SGU vet student Emily got this lovely wahoo (36 lb) today |
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29th March 2018
Sandals client with a wahoo she caught this morning |
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28th March 2018
Kevin + sons Sam & Noah enjoyed catching 2 new species today - firstly a 55lb sailfish (1 for 3 on them) release then we went 5 for 6 on wahoo upto 33lb plus got some barracudas and blackfin tuna |
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25th March 2018
Another SGU related trip saw Tyler catch and release a nice sailfish - we were 1 for 3 on them today - we also had 2 tuna strikes that both missed the bait! |
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24th March 2018
SGU student Morgan Raynor booked a trip for her father whilst he was visiting her in Grenada, first timers they started well with a 50lb sailfish release and finished very strong with this
estimated 110lb yellowfin tuna!! |
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23rd March 2018
SGU students this morning blowing off steam after exams...Matt organised the trip and got a nice dorado for dinner and last minute Ryan got a sailfish release...good times |
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22nd March 2018
1 for 1 on a 150 lb blue marlin for Steve Hatch (well his wife caught it actually - he caught a dorado!) and we lost a sail (0 for 5 ....) Saw loads of tuna but couldnt get a bite from them. |
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16th March 2018
4 for 6 on sailfish this morning for Tamara's group on a work incentive winners vacation. Great action with 2 double headers - we got 6 bites hooked 5 released 4. |
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15th March 2018
3 for 5 on sails and 1 for 1 on 110 lb yellowfin tuna today! |
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13th March 2018
2 for 3 on sails today for the Cannon family from Canada. |
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12th March 2018
1 for 3 on sails today and saw yellowfins but they refused to bite.. |
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11th March 2018
Mixed crew of New Yorkers and Grenadians this morning. Was a slow bite but eventually Isiah caught this 110lb yellowfin tuna which gave him quite a work out.. |
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10th March 2018
Sandals clients this morning saw some porpoise but no tuna with them and then caught this sailfish - we were 1 for 1 on them. |
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9th March 2018
Steve Lineberry stepped off his cruise ship and caught his first ever sailfish this morning - we were 1 for 1 on them. |
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8th March 2018
Joe Spizzirri got to catch this 131lb yellowfin tuna after a flyingfish landed in our boat - we quickly rigged it up and the tuna ate it 10 minutes later! |
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4th March 2018
Sean Yaeger caught this 13lb yellowfin tuna and released a sailfish this morning. |
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4th March 2018
1 for 4 on sailfish (our 60th sailfish for 2018!) and 0 for 1 on a blue marlin that was briefly hooked this morning
;Also saw yellowfin tuna but no bites in the short time we were close to them |
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3rd March 2018
2 for 2 on sailfish today - bit of a slow bite though. Andrew Glass got the first one. |
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24th February 2018
Andy Windmill celebrated his birthday in style with this brace of yellowfin tuna plus he pulled hooks on a 3rd! Seas were rough, sargassum weed everywhere and rain all day but who cares the fish were biting ! |
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23rd February 2018
Steve Nadolski (guest at Sandals La Source) caught this 108lb yellowfin tuna this morning - others were seen but this was the only bite we could get in the half day trip. |
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22nd February 2018
Thomas Hobbs got this 111lb yellowfin tuna today - it took a long time on a sailfish hook and light leader. |
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20th February 2018
Slow bite this morning but we still got one sailfish release |
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19th February 2018
Bit of a tough day today - rough seas and tricky bites saw us go 2 for 7 on sailfish and 0 for 1 on blue marlin. |
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18th February 2018
crew off megayacht "Ace" went out this morning and went 3 for 6 on sailfish (we hooked 5 but 2 spit the hook) |
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14th February 2018
4 for 5 on sailfish and 1 for 1 on blue marlin today, 3 junior anglers each released a sailfish which was excellent |
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13th February 2018
Sandals clients this morning got to release 2 sailfish (2 for 2) |
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12th February 2018
Todd Keller's group off the Royal Caribbean Serenade of the Seas went 1 for 4 on sailfish and 0 for 2 on yellowfin tuna that both missed the bait (stupes!!)
Oh Well thats fishing.. |
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9th February 2018
Local residents & visitors onboard this morning - we went 1 for 2 on sailfish releasing one for Ryan |
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7th February 2018
SGU vet students organised by Josh Tollman went out this morning and again we saw big tunas but no bites... we did release a sailfish on the way back up though (1 for 1). |
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6th February 2018
Sandals clients saw yellowfin tuna with porpoise for a while but no bites, then went 2 for 5 on sailfish in choppy seas. |
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5th February 2018
Sailfish action still ongoing! 3 for 4 today on them! |
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2nd February 2018
Graham Lark & family hooked 5 sailfish from 5 bites and managed to release 4 of them this morning including a double header. Many more sailfish seen in the water too. |
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31st January 2018
Sandals clients on half day trip got to hook 3 from 3 sailfish but one dropped off when the leader was a yard from the boat - still a great mornings fishing. In total we released 32 sailfish in January
- our best result ever in 20 yearsfishing. |
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28th January 2018
No fish for us on the last day of the tournament but the 5 sailfish we caught on the first 2 days carried us (Gary, Shival Maharaj & Neal Brand) to 4th placed boat (of 55) and 3rd place angler (of 268). |
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26th January 2018
Second day of SIBT 2018 saw us release a sailfish in the first 2 minutes! but then our luck changed and we dropped 2 other sailfish later that day to end 1 for 4. Now 3rd place boat and first place angler. |
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25th January 2018
First day of the SIBT 2018 tournament saw us release 4 sailfish, lose one and miss another to finish first place boat and angler! Long way to go though.. |
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22nd January 2018
The Vanheusen family staying at Sandals La Source ventured out to sea this afternoon and released a 40lb sailfish before deciding discretion was the better part of valour and heading back in job done
This was our 25th sailfish of the year. |
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21st January 2018
Rough seas this morning but we still managed to release another sailfish, 1 for 2 on them |
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20th January 2018
Some tricky bites today saw us go 1 for 5 on sails and 0 for 1 on blue marlin (small one). We did boat a dorado though.. |
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19th January 2018
Michael Cusack's group went 2 for 5 on sailfish and also caught a 110lb yellowfin tuna which helped them provision their Sunsail yacht charter boat (they depart on it tomorrow). |
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18th January 2018
we were 3 for 4 on sailfish today and also saw a large group of sperm whales |
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15th January 2018
David Townend had a memorable trip today releasing 3 sailfish from 6 bites, boating a 95lb yellowfin tuna and also having a blue marlin in the spread for a few minutes. |
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14th January 2018
Douglas Kelly released a sailfish this morning but we earlier had a double header of them and both managed to spit the hooks! 1 for 3 overall |
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13th January 2018
Tony & Marcus Moutinho went out this morning and Marcus released a 50lb sailfish. We were 1 for 1 on them |
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9th January 2018
Schalk Wessels (jr) released this sailfish this morning after it ate an Island Express lure .. Slow bite though we were 1 for 1 |
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8th January 2018
Garry McMahon released 2 sailfish from 3 bites today |
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7th January 2018
Cedric & Cato tried again today and ended up releasing another 2 sailfish (2 for 2), catching a decent mahi for dinner (1 for 2) and watching a lot of yellowfin tuna jumping that would not look at our bait! |
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5th January 2018
3 for 3 on sailfish today (slow bite though) first was a 30lb fish for Mr Mimeles, followed by a double header of 50 & 55lb for Cedric & Cato Stonex |
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4th January 2018
John Livingstone had a slow trip overall but we still managed to be 1 for 1 on sailfish |
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3rd January 2018
David Smithwick took his son fishing and was rewarded with a triple header of dorado (aka mahi mahi) and later we got another one |
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2nd January 2018
Steve Petrovich took his 2 sons fishing this morning ang got to release 2 sailfish We had some tricky bites later in the day so ended up 2 for 5 on sails |
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1st January 2018
Phillip Schnell staying at True Blue Bay resort caught this 45 lb sailfish today - we hooked another one too but it got off so 1 for 2 |
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