Mixed day fishing – 100% success!
Marco from germany booked a Full Day Mixed Fishing in October this year. We started the trip doing bottom fishing wich resulted in some nice Pargo’s and Triggers. In the afternoon with rigged our new brand new Rupp Marine outriggers for Wahoo and Bigeye tuna and after a couple of hours we had a hit […]
Big Eye Tuna!
Big Eye Tuna
We left the marina at 1500hrs for a few hours of fishing before sundown. We set the spread targeting Wahoo but after a couple of hours Capt. Anders decided to switch the spread for tuna. We set the spread with all Iland lures, Black Holes and Sea Stars. After 20 minutes of trolling on 1800 […]
Best Bull ever for Mike!!!
Mike is a long standing and regular client aboard “Gavito” and yesterday we left the marina at 10.00 a.m. for an 8 hour Big Game Fishing trip. At about 12.00 we saw a Blue Marlin approach the spread and started to knock the Port side Outrigger lure. This lasted for about 10 – 15 seconds […]
“Gavito” grabs a Grander!
Yesterday the 22nd July “Gavito” set out from Calheta Marina for a full days Big Game Fishing with 3 clients. We headed East towards Funchal with a full spread of 5 lures behind. We ran a 9” Moldcraft purple and black on the shotgun, Moldcaft Wide Range lures in purple and silver, blue and white […]
“Gavito” starts the season with a bang!!!!
Our 4 English clients booked a day Big Game Fishing via Fishingbooker.com and the day before decided to change to a full day of mixed fishing. So we left the marina at Calheta, Madeira at 1000 hrs and trolled for a couple of hours towards Ponta do Pargo on the West end of the Island. […]
Novice anglers enjoy a great 1/2 day on
Mike and his wife Corolla booked Gavito for their first ever Big Game Fishing trip. We left Calheta at 10.00 a.m. and trolled a spread of 5 lines with a 6” Wiliamson rainbow lure on the shotgun which we set at around 90 yards back from the boat. The 2 outriggers were set with Islander […]
Baby Blue!
Simon booked a full day Big Game Fishing on Gavito and we left Calheta Marina at 10.00 a.m. and headed for Ponte do Pargo via Jardim do Mar and Paul do Mar. We stayed around 3 miles from the shore in about 2,000 metres of water and ran a spread of 5 lines with a […]
Full day Mixed Fishing
We left Calheta at 10.00 a.m. and immediately headed for the West end of the Island and then turned North to an area that is seldom fished or accessible due to the normal sea state being confused and very choppy. We settled on the anchor about 1/2 way between Ponta do Pargo and Porto Moniz […]
A perfect end to the day
Yesterday we went our trolling 5 lines with the view to targeting White Marlin, which is on Mikes bucket list. We ran Moldcraft, Williamsons and copy Islanders. After 7 hours of nothing but seeing good Tuna marks we noted a bait ball close in to shore with a lot of bird and fish activity, so […]
Full day Mixed Fishing
Alan chose to take a full day Mixed Fishing (part trolling for Marlin and part bottom fishing for dinner. We left Calheta Marina at 10.00 a.m. and trolled until 2.00 p.m. without success ourselves. However another boat about 200 metres away on our port side hooked up around 20 minutes from port and the result […]
1/2 day Big Game Fishing
On the 29th May we had a 4 hour trip with a single client for Big Game Fishing. We headed out at 1000 hrs and headed for Funchal to avoid really choppy seas off the point at Ponta do Pargo. After about 1.5 hours trolling at 7,5 knots we had a strike on the shotgun […]
Wahooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our first trip out for 2018 on a beautiful sunny day and we landed a nice Wahoo 36kg.
Nice long billed spear fish
We caught and released a nice long billed spear fish 25lbs on Tuesday 29th August.
What a whopper!!
We had the pleasure of having Magnus from Norway on the boat for his first ever Big Game Fishing experience. He booked a 4 hour trip, which by Big Game Fishing standards is extremely short. However after just 1 hour of trolling we had a huge hit on the shotgun lure (a Black Bart Hot […]