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A plethora of Marlin Bells!

20th Jan

Unreel with David Bird, Terry Pendry and Phil Revett had 2 Striped marlin and a sail tagged and released and some bottom fish.

  21st JanUnreel with Paul Janaway caught 1 Striped marlin and a sail, both tagged and released.White Bear fished by Marcel and Annick Prot had 1 Striped marlin on fly.

Seastorm with Simon Rickarby got 2 Striped marlin.

  22nd Jan

B's Nest with Gordon and Susan Mason got 2 Striped marlin.

Ol-jogi with Peter Fox had 1 Striped marlin.

Sea Storm with Roger Ireland and John and Val Aveyard; first time anglers, got 1 Stripey each. Marlin bells were rung, congratulations!

Tega with Mark and Connor Mountfield had 2 Striped marlin while Unreel with David Bird and Phil Revett got 1 Striped marlin, also tagged and released.

  23rd Jan

White Bear with Richard Baudry and Eddie Bulley had 1 sail on fly.

Ol-jogi fished by Peter Fox had a fantastic day with 6 Striped marlin and  2 sails. Congratulations Peter!

Wwhile Tega with Rose, Anna, Zyg  and Zenia Gregorek had 3 Striped marlin and  2 sails.

Instedda with Imraan Moosa and Ali Harazi got 1 Stripy on fly and  1 sail all tagged and released.

  24th Jan

Instedda with Imraan Moosa and Ali Al Harazi got 5 Striped marlin and 1 sail.

Ol-jogi fished by John Evans and Joss Leighton had 1 Striped marlin and  2 sails ( John's first marlin - congratulations John!) 

Simba with Tina Allen caught 1 Blue marlin 60kgs, 1 Striped marlin and  2 sails.

B's Nest with Gordon Mason got 2 Striped marlins and  4 sails.

White Bear with Richard Baudry and Eddie Bulley had 1 Stripy and 1 sail on fly.

White Dove with Mike Hatter got 1 sail.

Unreel with David Bird, Clive Norman and John Brice had 7 Striped marlin, 2 sails and a Red snapper 24kgs for a superb day out, with John Brice getting his first marlin, a nice estimated at 70Kg Stripey.  Congratulations John!

Tega with Joe Drury, Zyg Gregorek, and Andy Butts closed the day with 1 Blue marlin 60kgs and 6 Stripey all tagged and released.

  25th Jan

B's Nest with Julian Mills, Robin Minter - Kemp and Jonathan Lowe caught a Black tip Shark 80kgs which they fought for over 2 hours and then tagged and released.

Ol-jogi with Jeremy Block got 2 Stripey and 1 sail all on fly.

Gai Cullen on Simba with Richard Baudry also keen on fly fishing had 1 Striped marlin 30kgsand  2 sails on fly. The Stripey which was tagged by Gai being the first Marlin ever tagged on fly by a lady in East Africa. White Bear with Peter Fox got 1 Stripey.

Seastorm with Joss Leighton and John Evans had 1 Striped marlin 65kgs and  3 sails (this being Joss's first ever marlin caught for another marlin bell). 

Other boats out were Pussy Cat skippered by Andy Adams and fished by Bernd Ragotzky who caught 2 Stripeys.

Tega with Zyg and Zenia Gregorek who got 2 Striped and a sail.

Blue Eyes reported 5 Stripeys, 3 sails and  1 short bill spearfish in 3 days fishing.

Peter Danborough on Alleycat got 1 Blue, 8 Stripeys, 4 sails and Callum Looman on Tarka reported 2 Blacks and 20 Stripeys over the week.

 



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