Great Family trip!
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!
Triggers for the kids!
We had a great day Bottom fishing with this nice family. Good results and good fun!
Honeymoon and Amberjack
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 […]
Great day Mixed Fishing on Gavito
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 […]
Surprise for the kids comes good
We had a party of 4, mother, daughter, son and father with us yesterday the 2nd January 2019 and we left Calheta Marina at 0800 hrs for a ful day of mixed fishing. We travelled down to the West End of the Island and could not believe our eyes when we saw that there was […]
4 hours of fun and fish!!!
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 […]
Great trigger fish
Anders from Sweden booked for 4 hours bottom fishing and 4 hours trolling. We left Calheta Marina at 10.00 a.m. and motored to the West end of the Island and anchored off the Western cliffs. The sea was a little choppy as we had Westerly winds and a strong Northerly current flowing However we commenced […]
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 good way to end the day!
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.