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stanleybell
07-02-2005, 22:26
I will shortly be shore fishing during a holiday in Lanzarote. I will only have a light telescopic rod with me. Can anyone offer any advice on methods and baits???
blueskip
08-02-2005, 10:54
As you are limited by your tackle I suggest you take some small bubble floats & some size 16 trebles. if you cast out a piece of bread flake with a small treble in it it will bring loads of tiny fish up to nibble at it, then suddenly the water will explode as something big comes up to grab the bread before the tiny ones eat it all.
You can do the same sub-surface with a piece of shrimp or a sliver of squid, but I have found the best fun to be a surface fished bread flake, the last hour of daylight & dusk being your best time (you wont be going on the booze before 10 anyway). My best fish on bread flake 3.1Kg Black Bream, El Torro, Majorca, 1999, tight lines!
blueskip
hi stanleybell first what part of lanzarote are u going to
i use to live in costa teguise were i did my fishing from the enclosed beach there from the rocks fishing on the outside i used raw chicken to catch my live baits i think they are called lobina or something like that i then used these free line and caught barracuda and garfish best barracuda was 8.6kg and best gar was about 3kg good luck
tight lines
skippy
The baitfish are called Bogue´s, the Lubina is our Sea Bass. I used to fish in Teguise and Play Blanca a fair bit myself and think the way Skippy suggests using livebait is great fun.If you ledger them on the sand patches on a foot and half trasce youll get the odd Ray too.
Light float tackle using ccoked prawn on the hook will get you mullet,bass,breams,umbrine,small wrasse and damsels.
FishingCouple
01-02-2007, 19:14
hello, i don't suppose this idea of fishing flak bread will work in Sardinia ?? we are off there in may and have aleady found out its just £30 to take the fishing rods in a bazooka tube so well happy lol
That should work around most of the Med, definately in the Balearics and Spain.
iv'e had some nice lizard fish and bream by gently nudging a small strip of squid along the sea bed, an inch at a time, also, if you fish playa blanca, try to get down to the lighthouse end, good big fish here to tradition ledgering, the locals catch wrasse like fish on dried crab, remember you need a licence, seems to be overlooked for tourists, but you do need one officially.
oh, and try to fish with some height, the fish are masters at diving into the volcanic rocks and staying there.:blink:
Hello, I'm new to the forum - and new to sea fishing - and new to Lanzarote (spotting a pattern here :) ). I've been pondering on taking it up, not an entirely new to fishing though, I used to do a lot of coarse fishing when I was younger. Anyway, bottom line is that on a whim today I bought myself a rod and reel today and joined this forum in the hope that perhaps I could get a few tips.
I live in Playa Blanca, and as was suggested here was thinking of going down to the lighthouse area.
The things I could realy use some help with is:
What are the best methods here - and were might I find some information on what tackle to buy and how to set it up?
What are the best baits?
I wasn't aware of the need for a licence... So where would I get one and how much?
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!
alangnw, check the previous posts about Lanzarote and Fuerteventura with the surch tool. The answers to all your questions are there.
hi alan, all i can say is you lucky ######, if you live there then the licence is easy, you have to go to arricife, or maybe yaza admin offices with passport photos, ni number and a small amount of cash, as vlad says, check out the search for lanzarote.
i would fish the lighthouse differently to the more 'beachy' areas, most important would be a smallish wire trace to the hook, as some of those atlantic fish are toothy critters, as you know, there is a significant tide rise and fall, i think the best is to target high water, and look for some water with a rip in it, use fish or squid baits to a normal running ledger, if you have a big rip, use fixed wire weights, there is a good tackle shop in pb, looks like a hardware shop, just up the main road before the shipyard.
had some nice bream to 5lb at matargorda using squid heads and bubble floats, cast over the black volcanic rocks, fish the float deep with a stop about 12 ft, anyway, give you a shout when i am over, some time in late april, cheers, woodsy.
Thanks - I'll take a look...
Thanks Woodsy. Was talking to a local shop owner who hires out tackle (he also sells bait from what looks like a card shop next to Alfie Moon's pub in Punta Limones) about the licence. Apparently you have to go to the Cabildo in Arrecife, with €12 in your pocket - and this place being the way it is it'll take the best part of half a day being messed around. But hey, its a small price to pay isn't it :). It was suggested to me that VERY few residents here have them.
The shop you mentioned is Ferracur (sp?), which indeed does just look like a hardware store - but has a pretty good selection of kit in the back, bought my stuff from there. There's also a shop just down from the post office that sells just about everything including tackle.
Do, as you suggested, give me a shout when you come over....
First time out for me tomorrow. I got some light float gear for starters and figure if I'm catching with that I'll try a live or dead bait afterwards.
keep in touch with your reports and observations, cheers, woodsy.
I'll be here for a while woodsy. Seems I have much to learn.
Went out for the first time on Sunday for a couple of hours down by the harbour. Got nothing using a float and squid for bait... However - it is serving its purpose, getting me out and away from work. Made me remember just why I used to love coarse fishing so much (not much of that to be had here!:) ). How could I live somewhere like this and not fish!
Any suggestions for other spots or methods in Playa Blanca? Maybe next time I'll get one - won't be this week though I busted my knee up last night - and will be a few days before I'll be clambering over rocks again!
alangnw, I am comming to Lanzarote on the 8 March for a week.
I'll be staying at Costa Teguise but I'll have a car and can come to see you in PB.
Send me your telephone number on:
vgtrans@blueyonder.co.uk
I'll show you how to catch more fish than you can eat :-)
Just take me to a local Tackle shop so I can buy bait and speack to the shopkeeper.
Vlad, would love to take you up on the offer - would be great to learn a few tricks Will send you my email address and number via email. If you're bring the Mrs on holiday - bring her down with you and my Mrs can entetain her in PB...
4Fox Hake
16-02-2007, 12:57
Great thread this, which I'm watching with interest as I've got 2 weeks in Playa Blanca coming up soon, taking light and heavier gear for my first time fishing abroad (if you don't count Cornwall). Already staining my chair with excitement.
Haven't yet done the back-searching, but are there any particular dangers lurking out there that I could hook into? I've never handled a stinger or barracuda before!
Thanks all
:)
Weavers are the main one you could encounter when fishing over sand and are very commonYou may also get into some small stingray especially if using Mackerel or sardines,but doubtfull.
For the Weavers get as close as you dare and cut the line,dont mess about with them.
If you get a Stinger get it straight on its back, foot on its tail and unhook. Dont grab the tail as some do without a leather/gardening glove as the barb is saw like and the venom can attack through broken skin,it doesnt haveto "stab" you with the barb.
I caught this one yesterday evening and will be the average size you get where you are, although its a baby for here !!(excuse the photo,but youll get what i mean )
http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/7431/dscf2042nx0.jpg
This is me fighting one that i lost as it was being tailed(around50-60lb).The rod im using is designed for 120+ catfish so you can see the power of the fish putting the bend in it!
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/8485/dscf2029ch4.jpg
http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/5889/dscf2035pv2.jpg
i stung myself on a weaver recently in pb, very painfull, i astonished a group of sightseeing chinese by peeing on my hand for the sting, they didn't quite know what to make of it
whatch out for the wake from the ferries, it can come on you pretty quick if your around the rocks.
dont buy electrical goods from the indian shops unless you are absolutly confident in your product and price.
if you fish the deep south, around the lighthouse watch out for swells, this is oceano atlantico proper.
hope vlad and yourself have a great session or two, dont forget to tell us about it.
if you can capture and dry the small crabs, these make no 1 bait.
if you can buy the squid from supermarkets, a little tip, clean and cut into strips, then dry in the sun until hard( if you can keep the population of cats away), this helps to get through the damsel fish and pretty ones, it stays on the hook better.
there is a common little fish, bit like a silver mackerel, bogue i think?, if you can live bait these qver deepish ground you may get a big suprise, i fished the rocks at the end of the harbour at playa blanca, and put one on, unfortunatly i only had my little greys travel spinner and 7lb line, bit silly,:blink: , anyway, a great torpedo wake came towards my float and hit the thing like a hammer, it was huge whatever it was, gone in a blink.
have fun.
incidently, the little bogue mackeral like fish are extremely good for the table, treat the same as mackeral.
Woodsy, youre right on the Bogue, evil bait freelined or live baited on or near sandy patches. By the take it sounds like you was hit by a Medregal (Amberjack) or a Bluefish.
Do you fish for Rays out there much?
Woodsy, youre right on the Bogue, evil bait freelined or live baited on or near sandy patches. By the take it sounds like you was hit by a Medregal (Amberjack) or a Bluefish.
Do you fish for Rays out there much?
Or most likely a leerfish:
http://www.thejump.net/id/more-fish/leerfish.jpg
I'm gona get me one in March :-)))))
Couldve been Vlad.They do go mad,especially in the summer months.
Going back to the bait woodsy mentioned - and for anyone visiting this. Frozen squid is readily available in the supermarkets in PB. And there's a car park just opened under the new Hiper Dino. Gives you an hour free parking if you can find it - parking is often a problem in Playa Blanca - and thankfully most tourist don't find this one. To find it - as you're heading from the port to 'anchor island' bear right at the pharmacy, you'll see the entrance ahead of you.
The owner of the local shop I mentioned earlier told me he had caught a massive ray off a sandbank he knew of.. So they must be around here. I must make a point of going down and talking to him and get some advice to.
Hoping to get out again this weekend and break my sea fishing 'virginity'.. :-)
I was thinking maybe I'd try some spinning or plugs as used to do for pike quite successfully when I used to do coarse fishing. Seems like a good excuse to wander a bit and get to know the coastline.
Big public thank you to Vlad for coming down to see me and teach me a few things. And, yes I did actualy catch a couple of fish under his guidance! :-)
leesanderson60
22-05-2008, 22:11
hi all new to this site im off to costa teguise lanzarote next week noticed a few threads .Thinking of taking a fly rod to have ago from the beach has anyone tried this any advise please flies ,lures do i need a licence thanks lee
Hi leesanderson60!
I think you stand a good chance of catching the gar fish on the fly. Use a streamer and add along tail 3-4 inches made of lady's stockings.
The good spots in Costa Teguise are the harbour wall and the rocks north of the resort - sown in my report:
http://www.worldseafishing.com/forums/showthread.php?t=60492
The best place to fish on the island is Papagayo - the south/east corner of the island. It is rough ride down a dirt track to get there though. Do not take the children with you - it is the nudist area:-)
leesanderson60
23-05-2008, 17:02
The baitfish are called Bogue´s, the Lubina is our Sea Bass. I used to fish in Teguise and Play Blanca a fair bit myself and think the way Skippy suggests using livebait is great fun.If you ledger them on the sand patches on a foot and half trasce youll get the odd Ray too.
Light float tackle using ccoked prawn on the hook will get you mullet,bass,breams,umbrine,small wrasse and damsels.
hi i see you fished teguise have you ever tried fly fishing from the beach if so any tips ie flies lures ect would be gratefull as i am going next week
leesanderson60
23-05-2008, 17:18
Hi leesanderson60!
I think you stand a good chance of catching the gar fish on the fly. Use a streamer and add along tail 3-4 inches made of lady's stockings.
The good spots in Costa Teguise are the harbour wall and the rocks north of the resort - sown in my report:
http://www.worldseafishing.com/forums/showthread.php?t=60492
The best place to fish on the island is Papagayo - the south/east corner of the island. It is rough ride down a dirt track to get there though. Do not take the children with you - it is the nudist area:-)
hi vlad thanks for the info gars sonnd like fun i bet they come with teeth do i need trace or will heavy mono be ok
Hi leesanderson60!
Aram is wright! I caught gars in the Canaries only in March and October.
Answering you question about the leaders - this garfish was caught in Costa Teguise by my friend Dr Kolev, in March 2007, on a fly with 6lb fluorocarbon leader:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v649/HarryPHotter/StoikoGar-1.jpg
The same leader was bitten trough by this much bigger garfish in December 2007 by the rocks at Caleta de Fuste, Fuerteventura - caught on the float:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v649/HarryPHotter/?action=view¤t=Fuerte2Stoian559.flv
When the leader was changed to metal wire the big gars didn't stand a chance.
The bait though had to be a live boga:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v649/HarryPHotter/DSCF0303.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v649/HarryPHotter/DSCF0237.jpg
stevemej
14-10-2008, 16:44
Hi guys. I've just come back from a week in playa blanca.
I had spent months researching fishing, spent about £50 on extra gear and unfortunately didn't catche much though we went every day for a week.
First decent bite was I think a sea bream using light tackle and pretty light line. used a float with frozen squid for bait fishing about 5-6ft down (on rocks at back of harbour). The fish darting around like mad and eventually snapped my line and took my new float off into the sunset.
I then got my beachcaster out which i had bought especially for this trip. Again using squid for bait and a float got loads of little blue fish and the odd couple of little black (aquaraium-type) fish.
we tried up at the lighthouse but I think the tide must have been out because it was too shallow and rocky.
We walked back into town and tried several spots to no avail.
On other occasions we tried again at rocks at entrance of harbour (you were right about the ferry wakes) I spent half an hour setting up a fancy tripple crappy thing I got from the tackle shop in pb (Brilliant shop -thanks for the advice). Unfortunately it got snagged on the first cast and I lost it straight away. Later I tried using fancy lures i had researched on internet (floating divers) and to my surprise I caught a couple of small dogfish type fish.
On other occasions I did manage to catch a selection of different small fish including a puffer (don't know if its 'the' puffer but this fish defibately inflated itself whilst i was trying to remove it from my hook.
We didnt try fishing at dusk or dawn - will this make a great deal of difference??
Thanks for the other postings on the forum, we did find it useful.
Any other ideas for next year??
steve
nemosharktale
14-10-2008, 20:34
Hi guys. I've just come back from a week in playa blanca.
I had spent months researching fishing, spent about £50 on extra gear and unfortunately didn't catche much though we went every day for a week.
First decent bite was I think a sea bream using light tackle and pretty light line. used a float with frozen squid for bait fishing about 5-6ft down (on rocks at back of harbour). The fish darting around like mad and eventually snapped my line and took my new float off into the sunset.
I then got my beachcaster out which i had bought especially for this trip. Again using squid for bait and a float got loads of little blue fish and the odd couple of little black (aquaraium-type) fish.
we tried up at the lighthouse but I think the tide must have been out because it was too shallow and rocky.
We walked back into town and tried several spots to no avail.
On other occasions we tried again at rocks at entrance of harbour (you were right about the ferry wakes) I spent half an hour setting up a fancy tripple crappy thing I got from the tackle shop in pb (Brilliant shop -thanks for the advice). Unfortunately it got snagged on the first cast and I lost it straight away. Later I tried using fancy lures i had researched on internet (floating divers) and to my surprise I caught a couple of small dogfish type fish.
On other occasions I did manage to catch a selection of different small fish including a puffer (don't know if its 'the' puffer but this fish defibately inflated itself whilst i was trying to remove it from my hook.
We didnt try fishing at dusk or dawn - will this make a great deal of difference??
Thanks for the other postings on the forum, we did find it useful.
Any other ideas for next year??
steve
its good going at dusk for barracuda useing rapalas ill be giveing it ago this week and next but its best to use live bait to get good results thoe.
Hopeful Mark
17-10-2008, 09:17
Hi All
Firstly big thanks to the guys on the Fuerteventura (Part of the Canaries) - Shore Fishing Thread, excellent pics and info.
I fished matagorda Lanzarote last year with a light telescopic rod bottom and float. Only baits available frozen squid, prawn and bread with the prawn and bread working the best. Unfortunately only small fish caught.
So next month i am going back with the big guns beach caster and spining rod and plenty of tackle. So any advice would be greatful especialy what is around this time of year. I was intending to catch more of these small fish and use them as live baits but should i float them or bang them a distance out with a lead?
Mark
Hi Mark
Float for bluefish,Tuna,Barras,and monster Gars.
Bottom ,but you will lose a bit of gear for big rays and morays.A wire trace might be an idea.
Sorry to hear you had no luck mate but float fish bread 10 ft trace or prawn is by far the most productive and loose feed small amounts of mashed old bread with water and look out for the tail splashes as the bream start to hit it.
Good luck
stevemej
18-10-2008, 21:40
Thanks for your reply. I did try fishing with live bait. Firstly i tried hooking one through the top lip/snout and casting , then leaving it to free swim. Unfortunately this then hid in the rocks (or got eaten by an octapus) either way I got snagged on the rocks and had to abandon another 20ft of line. I then tried fishing with a live fish on maybe 6ft away from a float. At least this way I could see if the fish was coming back in (towards the rocks) I didnt catch anything this way either. After the event I wonder if i should had tried ledgering with a live fish. Maybe the larger fish are at the bottom??
By the way I think you are a lucky git living in pb.
Hopeful Mark
19-10-2008, 16:24
Hi Aram
Yes i know it's a different island been several times and loved it (and if i had found your thread earlier i think i would be going there again). I like refferencing it as i belive the fishing would be compairable. so how about some help?
Whats about at the moment?
neonitrix
08-07-2009, 23:41
going to puerto del carmen in less than two weeks - myself and a friend are bringing telescopic rods a couple of bubble floats with us - just looking for an evening or two fun.
I wont have a licence to fish but is there anywhere close to the old town puerto del carmen i could fish and get away with it. ie: old harbor on beech between old town and new town in evening?
or anywhere else i understand i wont be allowed to fish the old town harbour itself is that correct?
tks
Neonitrix
hi, have a nice time in pdc, i would not worry too much about the licence, however, try not to fish anywhere near swimmers or the harbours, or popular beaches.
my best mark in pdc is down the road in matagorda, the other side of the big beach, you will see a strip of rocks going out to sea, as the tide turns, a squid head on a sliding float as far out as you can cast, i have had several big bream here, about 5/6lb, big hard fights.
this does fish better on the big spring tides where the water is really shifting.
I am off to costa tequise in may. Are mackrel feathers much use
Mackerel feathers are useless in Costa Teguise and are illegal if they have more than 3 hooks!
finnmaccool
15-03-2010, 15:01
going to puerto del carmen in less than two weeks - myself and a friend are bringing telescopic rods a couple of bubble floats with us - just looking for an evening or two fun.
I wont have a licence to fish but is there anywhere close to the old town puerto del carmen i could fish and get away with it. ie: old harbor on beech between old town and new town in evening?
or anywhere else i understand i wont be allowed to fish the old town harbour itself is that correct?
tks
Neonitrix
If you don't buy a permit, you could be rumbled by the Seprona, Spain's environmental police. They can confiscate your tackle and if you're in possession of fish, do you big time for furtivismo, i.e. poaching. I have to buy a sea licence every year and it costs me less than 5 euros. The law is the law wherever you go in the world.
When I go to the UK, I respect UK law. I went piking on the Fens two years ago and got my sister to get me a day ticket from the post office a couple of days before. It's not that difficult...
michaelcrawford
13-04-2011, 23:39
going to fish these areas soon thanks a million for the info mick!
hi i will be in
Beatriz Playa & Spa Hotel C/ Mato s/n
Puerto del Carmen, 35510, Spain
on 02.11.11.-09.11.11. I wanted to ask. what kind of fish biting this time. thanks.
What king of fish are you after and what kind of fishing do you want to do(spinning,float ,bottom)?
Bream and mullet are usually always around,and as for spinning barracudas,bonito and bluefish.Type Lanzarote in the search ,you'll get loads of information.
Matagorda,the area of Carmen where your hotel is is in the newer part,good places are the old town harbour wall on the outside where the blocks are(the older section of the harbour wall) and the rocky outcrop on the right near Playa Chica where Safari Diving is near the Fariones Hotel,also the old town.
landielad
28-09-2011, 21:44
Me and my son have fished off the harbour at costa teguise
I brought a telescopic rod and bait in one of the local shps and we were catching these lovely coloured what i guess were some sort of wrasse.
The locals were baiting the harbour with what looked like bags of bread, i guess they were after mullet
MikeTheBass
28-09-2011, 21:52
Me and my son have fished off the harbour at costa teguise
I brought a telescopic rod and bait in one of the local shps and we were catching these lovely coloured what i guess were some sort of wrasse.
The locals were baiting the harbour with what looked like bags of bread, i guess they were after mullet
You need to fish on the outside of the harbour wall from the rocks, that's where the proper fish are not the tiddlers in the harbour.
Oh, and buy uncooked prawns in the supermarket for bait. Not the bottled stuff in the tourist tackle shops.
MikeTheBass
28-09-2011, 21:59
What king of fish are you after and what kind of fishing do you want to do(spinning,float ,bottom)?
Bream and mullet are usually always around,and as for spinning barracudas,bonito and bluefish.Type Lanzarote in the search ,you'll get loads of information.
Matagorda,the area of Carmen where your hotel is is in the newer part,good places are the old town harbour wall on the outside where the blocks are(the older section of the harbour wall) and the rocky outcrop on the right near Playa Chica where Safari Diving is near the Fariones Hotel,also the old town.
Jeroen is dead right for Carmen, unfortunately Carmen generally is not one of the best places for fishing but you should always catch a few and you never know, could get the big one!
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