MarlinMoz
09-07-2007, 07:57
Greetings from this tiny lush covered speck of rock in West Africa,
We just finished our first charter for the Marlin season with angler Luc Van Puyenbroeck, from Belgium aboard the “Dorado”, a 32 ft Blackfin. Luc come back to Bom Bom for the 5th consecutive time to fish the 4th July Blue Marlin World Cup. Although its still early in the season, and the Big Girls the area is so well know for normally start showing up more consistently by mid to the end of July, Luc has seen some very big fish in his early July trips and believes there is no place on the planet that will give him a better chance.
Overall in our four days of fishing (2 full and 4 half days) we saw or raised 38 Blue Marlin, had 21 meaningful strikes, hookup on 11 fish and released 8. We also got a sailfish and a couple of good dorado. Most of the action actually took place within two days, has we spend the days before the World Cup exploring.
So, yes with had red hot action but the big girls did not show their faces and all of our fish run between the 250 to 450 pound range. Our hook up ratio was also quiet low, I guess it suffered due to the size lures we were using because of the World Cup in comparison to the average size of fish we encountered, fairly rough seas and because fish were taking mostly with their bills, getting bill wrapped, pulling a few yards and coming off.
On the 4th of July we choose to fish Gale and Sundi area, where we had found most action. These are the closest grounds to the Resort, a mere 10 minute ride away.
It took us some time to get into the thick of things and only at 10h38 did we have our first bite that never connected. From then on we had non stop action releasing two fish (300 and 350 lbs) out of 6 bites and running / pulling lures away from another six fish that were below the eligible weight, thus trying to maximize our fishing time. The only fish that would have just made it past the 500 lbs mark come on the SR Wide Range late afternoon, but missed the lure altogether.
Conditions are looking extremely good for the season ahead and we are seeing more and more bait and activity every day, with good fishing stretching from Sundi and Gale all the way east to Razza were we released 2 fish (350 and 500) out of 4 bites and another two fish raised in two hours of fishing a couple of days ago.
Tight lines,
Duarte
We just finished our first charter for the Marlin season with angler Luc Van Puyenbroeck, from Belgium aboard the “Dorado”, a 32 ft Blackfin. Luc come back to Bom Bom for the 5th consecutive time to fish the 4th July Blue Marlin World Cup. Although its still early in the season, and the Big Girls the area is so well know for normally start showing up more consistently by mid to the end of July, Luc has seen some very big fish in his early July trips and believes there is no place on the planet that will give him a better chance.
Overall in our four days of fishing (2 full and 4 half days) we saw or raised 38 Blue Marlin, had 21 meaningful strikes, hookup on 11 fish and released 8. We also got a sailfish and a couple of good dorado. Most of the action actually took place within two days, has we spend the days before the World Cup exploring.
So, yes with had red hot action but the big girls did not show their faces and all of our fish run between the 250 to 450 pound range. Our hook up ratio was also quiet low, I guess it suffered due to the size lures we were using because of the World Cup in comparison to the average size of fish we encountered, fairly rough seas and because fish were taking mostly with their bills, getting bill wrapped, pulling a few yards and coming off.
On the 4th of July we choose to fish Gale and Sundi area, where we had found most action. These are the closest grounds to the Resort, a mere 10 minute ride away.
It took us some time to get into the thick of things and only at 10h38 did we have our first bite that never connected. From then on we had non stop action releasing two fish (300 and 350 lbs) out of 6 bites and running / pulling lures away from another six fish that were below the eligible weight, thus trying to maximize our fishing time. The only fish that would have just made it past the 500 lbs mark come on the SR Wide Range late afternoon, but missed the lure altogether.
Conditions are looking extremely good for the season ahead and we are seeing more and more bait and activity every day, with good fishing stretching from Sundi and Gale all the way east to Razza were we released 2 fish (350 and 500) out of 4 bites and another two fish raised in two hours of fishing a couple of days ago.
Tight lines,
Duarte