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Tag: Red snapper

Teh re Snapper is color pinkish red over entire body, whitish below, long triangular snout, anal fin is sharply pointed, no dark lateral spot, red eye.
Snappers will take dead bait, soft-bodied jigs, bucktails and spoons. Adult red snapper may live more than 20 years and attain 35 pounds or more.

Just some bottom fishing

  • Anders Ekstrand
  • 4th December 202129th November 2021
  • Blog post

A couple of pictures from this summer doing bottom fishing and some close to shore trolling.

bonito, Red snapper
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Great Family trip!

  • Anders Ekstrand
  • 15th April 202115th April 2021
  • Bottom Fishing, Fishing Reports

Lena and her family booked a 4 hour Bottom Fishing Trip as a birthday surprice for her boys. Besides having a lot of fun during the trip we also got blessed with 12 Trigger Fish as well as a very nice Red Snapper of 10lb. The trip was a success in all aspects!

Bottom fishing, Red snapper, Trigger fish
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Honeymoon and Amberjack

  • Anders Ekstrand
  • 6th November 20196th November 2019
  • Fishing Reports

Essi and her husband had booked a half day Sport Fishing on the Gavito. As it turns out they were spending their honeymoon in Madeira and what could be better than to spend some time with the Gavito crew fishing! We left Calheta Marina at 1500hrs. It was a bit windy and some swell coming […]

Amberjack, Red snapper, Trigger fish
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Great day Mixed Fishing on Gavito

  • Anders Ekstrand
  • 28th August 201928th August 2019
  • Bottom Fishing, Fishing Reports, Sport Fishing

Neil and his son were celebrating Matt’s 21st Birthday which was on the 11th. On the day he caught a 650 lbs Blue Marlin on Our Mary out of Funchal (Well done Josie) and on the 12th they joined Gavito for a full day of mixed fishing. We started out bottom fishing and caught plenty […]

Amberjack, Red snapper, Trigger fish
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Mixed Fishing

4 hours of fun and fish!!!

  • Hans Ekstrand
  • 22nd December 201814th March 2022
  • Bottom Fishing, Fishing Reports

On the 22nd December we left Calheta Marina at 0915 hrs and travelled to the West end of the Island. We were lucky enough to be able to get round the corner at Ponte do Pargo to grounds which are rarely fished due to shitty seas. We drifted over the grounds and started catching immediately […]

Barred Hogfish, Bottom fishing, Red snapper, Trigger fish
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A great 1/2 day trip bottom fishing

  • Hans Ekstrand
  • 23rd November 201814th March 2022
  • Bottom Fishing, Fishing Reports

We left Calheta Marina at 0945 and headed West. The weather was fine and the sea was reasonably calm with a wide 3 meter swell. We reached Ponto Do Pargo and decided to look round the point to see if it was feasible to go round and fish. The sea at the point is normally […]

Red snapper
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Full day Mixed Fishing

  • Anders Ekstrand
  • 14th July 201829th January 2019
  • Big Game Fishing, Bottom Fishing, Fishing Reports

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 […]

Grouper, Mixed Fishing, Red snapper, Trigger fish
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Full day Mixed Fishing

  • Anders Ekstrand
  • 2nd June 201829th January 2019
  • Big Game Fishing, Fishing Reports

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 […]

Barred Hogfish, Red snapper, Sea bream
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Red SNapper

Another great day jigging

  • Anders Ekstrand
  • 1st June 201814th March 2022
  • Fishing Reports, Sport Fishing

Terry Smith of Jigabite.co.uk had a second day exploring the possibilities for jigging in Madeira. We fished for 4 hours on the flood tide and Terry had 4 hits, landing one of them. A medium sized Red Snapper. We were hoping to hook up on Amberjacks and Grouper, but that was not to be. That’s […]

Jigging, Red snapper
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A good way to end the day!

  • Hans Ekstrand
  • 1st April 201714th March 2022
  • Fishing Reports, Sport Fishing

A nice 4 hours bottom fishing topped off with coming back to the house to enjoy the days catch with a beer and a glass of wine in the beautiful sunshine. Fish caught were Trigger fish, red snapper and cardinal wrasse. They were caught on shrimp in 50 / 60 meters of water.

Red snapper, Trigger fish
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