2014

11.8.8.4

04.02.2014

We started at noon today and first had a bite from a 400 pound blue on the Abaco Prowler. In the afternoon a 450 pound blue eate the Moyes Bushmaster and Kent caught it.

In the evening we caught 6 small yellowfins a few sharks and jacks.

10.6.6.3

03.02.2014

slow day 1 bite of a wahoo

9.6.6.3

02.02.2014

We pulled the hook on a 500 pound blue that first swiped the puertorican Prowler and than the Moyes BCK.

8.5.5.3

01.02.2014

Another good day for Hendrik. We started at noon caught a 500 pound blue on the Bonze Violator again and caught a

nice yellowfin

some galapagos sharks and a

big sixgill.

We lost a big tuna on a jig as well.

7.4.4.2

31.01.2014

Hendrik had a good start ! We had a bite of a spearfish on the Grimmel in the morning and caught a 850 pound blue on the Bonze Violator in English Bay again. The fish tied a nice half hitch around his bill while he was shaking the hook of.

29-30.01.2014

No Fishing

6.3.3.1

28.01.2014

Just a dorado today

5.3.3.1

27.01.2014

We finally managed to catch a 550 pound blue on the ASI projet and lost a nice tuna on the mooring.

4.2.2.0

26.01.2014

We had a bite from a decent blue on the Ascension Projet (Blackbart) but pulled the hook imidiately. We also lost a sail and my brandnew medium pipe bomb by another fish biting the line... we caught Dorados...

3.1.1.0

25.01.2014

We caught a sailfish and some dorados in the SW today.

2.1.1.0

24.01.2014

We had 4 or 5 bites from sailfish and caught some dorados today.

1.1.1.0

23.01.2014

On our first day on Harmattan ( Ascension Island ) we pulled the hook on a 350 pound blue that had a go with the Abaco prowler from Black Bart.We also had a doubleheader of sailfish (Bonze Grimmel and Moyes BCK) but unfotunately with the same result . We caught plenty of Amberjacks and grouper for dinner at least .

2013

06.03.2013

We caught a 450 pounder today on the Bonze Behemoth.

05.03.2013

We had a bite of a blue on the Bonze Spellbound

03.03.2013

We raised a 800 pound blue marlin but no bite.

01.03.2013

We caught 2 nice size yellowfins in the morning

and had a bite of a 600 pound blue marlin on the Bonze Spellbound. we also raised 2 sails and caught a dorado.

Swampdog caught a yellowfin as well.

24.02.2013

We caught 3 bigeyetuna between 200 and 225 pounds today with a Fox travelstanduprod in 3hours.

We caught some nice yellowfins and 3 sailfish and dorados in the last days.

18.02.2013

We had a pretty slow season until now when it comes to marlinfishing but it seems to be true that when you have a long hard time you are saving up for something special. Well we had our special day today . Phil Riley (co owner in the Harmattan) and his friend Kevin Gardener went out with us for another day of trolling the deep. We fished the south west side of the island and around 1.30pm a massive fish hit the short left. In the distance we saw her lunging and she looked promissing. After 3 surface runs she went a bit deeper and for the last 90 minutes Kevin fought her on sunset.

Emil Ruud had to let go the leader 4 times (wiring his first marlin ever) until the fish was controlable .After 3 hours the fish was pretty finished and we brought her in.

The scalemaster said 1320 pounds

The shortlenght of the fish was 149 inches

The girth was 83 inches and a touch less on the analfin but only 19.5 inches around the tail

The fish was caught on the Black Bart abaco prowler

2012

26.02.2012

24.16.15.9

We did 4 hours of marlinfishing today and Jhon caught his first blue marlin ( a 600 pounder ) on the Bonze Mongrel Dog again

25.-24.02.2012

No fishing

23.02.2012

Andy caught a 500 pounder on the Bonze Grimmel today.

23.15.14.8

21-22.02.2012

Mainly inshorefishing

20.02.2012

22.14.13.7

We had a bite of a 4-500 pounder on the Bonze Grimmel today but it came off imidiately.

19.02.2011

21.13.12.7

We started marlinfishing at noon again and had two bites on the Bonze Mogrel Dog. The first one was a 800 plus that jumped like crazy after the bite and shook the hook. 1 minute later a 450 came to the same lure and got stuck. Andy caught the fish quickly.

18.02.2011

21.11.10.6

a couple of hours inshore fishing in the afternoon we had a bite of a blue that I didnīt see.

17.02.2010

20.10.9.6

We had a bite of a sailfish today.

16.02.2012

19.10.9.6

After a couple of quiet days we did inshore fishing for a couple of hours and went marlinfishing at noon. It was very quiet until 3.30 when a very big fish eate the Bonze Mongrel Dog.

At first she didnīt take any line but as she felt pressure she started racing off. Unfortunately she didnīt do that on the surface so it was very difficult to keep up with her. After two minutes of hard backing down over the corner we had 800 yards of line out and I was getting very worried. The angle of the line came up a bit and I had to take the chance to turn the boat. Phil Riley finally gained slowly on her.After 1 hour colin got the leader and patiently got her closer. Finally the hook pulled out of the bill.We could have gaffed her even after we pulled the hook but she turned over quickly and swam off upright.If I wouldnīt have seen the 1093 from two weeks ago I would have called that a 950+ but it was easy the size of the weighed one so I call that one 1100+

If you want to call me a liar or bullshitter fair enough but thatīs the way I saw that fish.

marlinfishing in ascension is tough but it blows my mind when it happens !

14-15.02.2012

18.9.8.5

We did half inshore and half marlin fishing and caught wahoos ...nothing offshore accept for one sailfishbite.

13.02.2012

In half a day inshorefishing we caught wahoo, dorados and tunas.

11-12.02.2012

No fishing

10.02.2012

17.9.8.5

We pulled the hookon a blue today that eate the Bonze Mongrel dog.

09.02.2012

16.8.7.5

We finally managed to catch a nice one again !Peter caught his biggest fish on standup with a Fox 50/80 Standup rod on the Bonze Mongrel Dog in english bay after spending the whole morning catching tunas and dorados in the SW. The fish did some nice jumps and ran downseas wich made it fairly easy to chace her down and finally release her in good condition.

1.02.-08.02.2012

15.7.6.4

We had a pretty slow week when it comes to marlin fishing we had one bite on the Bonze Angel but pulled the hook and saw a big one in the SW that just cruised on the surface. We caught quiet a lot of sailfish on spinning gear , some decent tuna,bigeye and yellowfin,dorados, wahoos...

31.01.2012

12.6.5.4

We had a couple of sailfish knocks in the morning for the rest it was very quiet today.

30.01.2012

11.6.5.4

Hendrk and Kent arrived today and we caught two sailfish and some dorados.

29.01.2012

10.6.5.4

On Mikes last day we only had a couple of bites from sailfish.

28.01.2012

9.6.5.4

We fished in english bay again and in the afternoon it started to look very good bait everywhere some spearfish knockdowns and at 3.30 we had a nice bite on the Blackbart Abaco Prowler. The fish took a lot of line and I chaced her for 3 miles on the surface until we came close and saw her and decided to take her in. Michael fought the fish for 35 minutes until it was gaffed and secured. The final weight was 1093 pounds.

27.01.2012

8.5.4.3

We had a bite of a blue today on the Blackbart Abaco Prowler but pulled the hook in the first run we caught some dorados.

26.01.2012

7.4.3.3

We caught a wahoo today lots of skippies around.

25.01.2012

6.4.3.3

I saw another nice tailer in english bay north east of ascension today not quiet as big as yesterdays but the 750 pounder was hungry and eate the legendlure Andromeda and we caught it.

24.01.2012

5.3.2.2

Michael caught a 700 pound blue marlin around 11 o clock on the Black Bart 1656 A in english bay today

and in the afternoon we saw an absolute monster tailing on the surface but it didnīt react at all to the boat or lures.

23.01.2012

4.2.1.1

We had a couple of bites from sailfish today and caught dorados in the SW

22.01.2012

3.2.1.1

Michael caught his first ascension blue today the 450 pounder eate the Bonze Behemoth. We raised another blue in the SW around 400 pounds but it faded off.

21.01.2012

2000

Nothing in the SE today just dorados.

20.01.2012

1000

Today was our first day of the 2012 ascension season and Michael caught 1 sailfish out of two bites and raised one more. We saw lots of skippies and yellowfins as well in the SW

02.03.2011

We raised 5 sailfish and saw a few freejumping. We had 2 knockdowns of them and caught 2 dorados.

01.03.2011

Half day Nada

28.02.2011

Burkhard arrived and caught a 600 pounder on the Bonze Submission.

27.02.2011

Half a day marlin Nada lost a Tuna in the evening.

26.02.2011

Steffen started fishing today and caught his first two blue marlin on the Bonze Grimmel (250lbs) and on the Andromeda (300lbs)




25.02.2011

Today the current changed and I went to the north east side and we hooked a very big fish on the Blue Breakfast by Black Bart. Mark faught her for an hour before Colin had her on the leader. She was one of these 950 pounders .







A bit later phil caught a 650pounder on the Behemoth.




24.02.2011

Andy got another 20 pound blue marlin on the Behemoth.

23.02.2011

Phil caught a 200 pounder on the Drakula today.

22.02.2011

Andy caught a small blue on the Bonze Behemoth today.

21.02.2011

Today Mark caught a 750 pound blue marlin




and Phil caught a 200 pounder on his birthday .

Happy Birthday !!!

20.02.2011

Andy caught a 250 pounder on the Bonze Grimmel today .




We had another bite from a small billfish probably sailfish.

19.02.2011

Phil caught a nice 800 pounder on the legendlure Dracula today.




We also raised a sailfish.

18.02.2011

After a very slow week mark finally caught his first 300 pound blue marlin on the Bonze Behemoth.




We raised a very large one before that didn´t bite. We also found a 300 pound broadbill swordfish that had just been killed by a mako and put it in the freezer .








Tail and bill were missing and it was still bleeding.

10.02.-17.02.2011









We caught two sailfish and wahoos ,dorados jacks …. but no sign of marlin.

09.02.2011

Cliff pulled the hook on a 300 pounder today.

08.02.2011

Andy caught a 800 pound blue marlin on his waverunner lure by Fox.

07.02.2011

We caught a couple amberjacks and had a bite of a big wahoo.

06.01.2011

Our first day fishing again with Andy Little and Chris Fox everything works fine and Chris catches his biggest blue marlin of about 500 pounds on the Black Bart Blue breakfast !

28.01.2011-05.02.2011

Lots of fiberglasswork and bending and welding changing Shaft ,Prop,cuttlessbearing... until we got back in the water on friday. I don´t like walesharks anymore ! By the way the shark didn´t even bleed !

27.01.2011

A waleshark breaks our rudder and bends shaft and propeller with its tail . Crack in the hull making lots of water running for the crane.

24.01.2011-26.01.2011

We raised one blue and a couple of sail and spearfish and caught a couple of dorados ans wahoo.

23.01.2011

We raised two small billfish today not shure what it was probably white marlin. One knocked the Grim mel down a couple times. We caught a 50 pound wahoo and a dorado.

22.01.2011

We saw two blues today one was arround 500 pounds and the otherone was big . They showed up just seconds after each other and none of them touched anything. We had a knockdown from a sail or spearfish and raised anotherone of these.

21.01.2011

We did our first seatrial today and saw 3 blue marlin !

First we raised one about 700 pounds that didn´t bite.

One hour later Miles Caught a 300 pounder on the Bonze Grimmel






and at 5.30 he caught one about 750pounds.





Good Start.

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16.12.2010

Michael caught a 300 pound blue marlin today.

15.12.2010

We missed a decent blue

14.12.2010

We had a bite of a small blue and saw a big tailing fish today.

13.12.2010

We caught two blue marlin today !

First Kevin got a 200 pounder and a bit later






Michael caught a 400 pounder.








12.12.2010

We had a bite from some kind of billfish we couldn´t tell.

11.12.2010

We pulled the hook on a spearfish.

10.12.2010

We caught a 300 pound mako and pulled the hook on a decent size blue marlin.

09.12.2010

We had a bite of a blue in the morning.

08.12.2010

We had a bite of a 300 pounder in the morning raised a 600 and jason saw a similar size fish next to the boat.

07.12.2010

We had another bite from a nice blue marlin but pulled the hook again.

06.12.2010

Michael lost a 500 pounder today . We had the fish very close already.

05.12.2010

We raised 3 blues today of wich two bit and of wich Kevin caught a 700 pounder .


Photo by Michael Villong

The fish bit in the last minute of our fishing time and put up a great show !

I feel !


sorry for Donovan who fead us with all kinds of delicatessys for the last week. You left too early

04.12.2010

Kevin caught a spearfish today.

03.12.2010

We raised a very big fish today Jason was the only one who saw it and called it minimum 1200

pounds. It turned around the shortbait for a second and left us.

02.12.2010

Nada

01.12.2010

We caught a blue marlin today and had a bite from a 600 pound blue in the morning.

27.11-30.11.2010

Just Dorados.

26.11.2010

We raised a 600 pound blue marlin and had a bite from a spearfish today and caught some dorados.

25.11.2010

Only Dorados today.

24.11.2010

We finally caught a 450 pound blue marlin again and had another bite of a smaller one and raised one more.










23.11.2010

one dorado.

22.11.2010

We caught a Makoshark around 200 pounds today.

21.11.2010

Park caught a sailfish and a spearfish today.

18.11.2010-20.11.2010

We caught a spearfish and a white marlin and a couple of dorados in these days.

17.11.2010

We had a bite of a 500 pound blue marlin today on the „Andromeda“ by legendlures and had a decent tuna miss our lure as well.

16.11.2010

We had bites of whitemarlin and dorados.

15.11.2010

Nada.

14.11.2010

We caught a wahoo and dorados today.

13.11.2010

We caught a white marlin in the morning and had a bite of a blue marlin in the evening.

12.11.2010

We caught a 120 pound yellowfin today .

11.11.2010

We caught a Hammerhead and a galapagosshark on livebaits and lost a 200 plus tuna.

10.11.2010

Nada

09.11.2010

We caught a white marlin today.

08.11.2010

Pat caught a spearfish today and lost a 200+ pound yellowfin.

07.11.2010

Nada

06.11.2010

Half day fishing nada.

05.11.2010

We caught a glapagosshark on a livebait.

04.11.2010

Jason saw a big splash ahead of the boat and we raised a spearfish that´s it.

03.11.2010

JP caught his first white marlin today and Tim caught a sailfish and a couple tunas around 80 pounds. In the night we caught Robsen Green a sixer .

02.11.2010

We had a bite of a small blue and had a packattack of big YFT wich all missed the lures.

01.11.2010

Only 1 Dorado for us today !

Widawake pulled the hook on a 300 pounder for Robsen Green.

31.10.2010

J.P. caught a 251 pound Yellowfintuna on a livebait today.




30.10.2010

We had knockdowns from 3 Blues today 1 was around 400 pounds and the rest was small.We also lost another spearfish.




29.10.2010

We raised a 900 pound blue today that didn´t bite and had a bite of a 600 pounder that came off after a couple of seconds.

28.10.2010

We raised a mako and had a bite of a sailfish today.

27.10.2010

Just a dorado today.

26.10.2010

No Billfish today just a 40 pound Wahoo and a couple of bites of small tunas on the swivels .

25.10.2010

Robin caught a 250pounder today out of a doubleheader. The other fish was around 400 pounds.We had another bite of a blue in the morning that seemed to be a better size one but pulled the hook. We also caught 2 Spearfish today.

24.10.2010

We had a mysteriesly scratched leader when we brought the lures in in the evening.

Nobody saw anything everything stayed in the clips !?

23.10.2010

On our first official fishingday we had two lazy knockdowns and raised 1 fish that didn´t touch anything. The fish were between 400 and 500 pounds. All that happened on the eastside of the island.

22.10.2010

preparation work

21.10.2010

We did our first seatrial in the east today and ascension showed its potetial once more .We hooked a nice one well over 800 pounds close to Boatswainbird Island but pulled the hook after half an hour.We didn´t get a very good look at the fish but the girth and the splashes it created were impressive. We will be fishing for around 50 days now and my website will be updated daily.

 

20.10.2010

I´m back on the island to fish with Jason Holtz and Bryan T. from Hawai for the next two months.We are preparing the boat at the moment and should be fishing on saturday.

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23.03.2010

Today was our last day for this season and Roland caught 3 sailfish.

22.03.2010

We caught a 350 pound blue marlin on the Bonze Submission today and had some sailfishbites.

21.03.2010

We pulled the hook on a decent blue again.

20.03.2010

We pulled the hook on a 550 pound blue today and had a couple of sailfishbites.

19.03.2010

Late start and just raised 3 sails and caught dorados today.

18.03.2010

We had two bites from 500 pound blues on ascension projet and andromeda and raised anotherone but no luck.

17.03.2010

We finally caught a nice blue marlin again 650 pounds. Roland also got a sail on spinninggear.

16.03.2010

We caught nothing trolling just a couple inshorefish.

15.03.2010

We had two bites of sailfish today.

14.03.2010

Nada

13.03.2010

Roland caught a sailfish dorados, amberjacks ...

12.03.2010

Maintananceday

11.03.2010

We waisted a lot of time today trying to catch tiny sharks and only fished 3 hours for marlin where we had a bite of a 600 pound blue on the Andromeda that went deep probably failhooked and pulled the hook after 20 minutes.

10.03.2010

We started late and caught dorados and tunas and a 60 pound wahoo.

09.03.2010

We had a bite of a 300 pound blue today that pulled a couple of meters on the Andromeda and than came back and hit the Grimmel but came off again.

08.03.2010

We pulled the hook on a 250 pound blue that swiped the RPP and caught Dorados.

07.03.2010

We had 2 bites from sailfish today.

06.03.2010

I saw a 500 pounder in front of the boat besides that just some dorados today.

05.03.2010

We started 1.30pm and caught a sailfish a

400 pound blue marlin

on the Andromeda and some tunas in the evening !

04.03.2010

We had 3 bites of sailfish today and caught dorados ,wahoo and tuna.

03.03.2010

Nada !

02.03.2010

We caught 2 blue marlin today one about 400 pounds on the RPP and a 350pounder on the Bonze Submission.

01.03.2010

We raised a couple of sails and caught dorados.

28.02.2010

The fish are back !

We started at 1 pm and first had a bite of a white marlin a bit later we hooked a 700+ blue that came of after a 20 minute fight just 50 meters from the boat . After that Björn caught

a 350 pound blue

on the Andromeda Legendlure , the same lure that the other fish eate We raised a couple of sailfish as well and caught a 300 pound threshershark on the mooring.

27.02.2010

Just acouple Amberjacks and dorados today .

26.02.2010

We raised a sailfish and caught some dorados.

25.02.2010

We had a bite of a 400 pound blue in the morning ,caught a sailfish in the evening and some dorados.

24.02.2010

Morten caught a sailfish out of 3 bites today.

23.02.2010

We caught 2 small blue marlin today and had acouple of bites from sailfish and dorados.

22.02.2010

We had a quiet day until 5pm when we raised a 700 -800 pounder that didn´t seem excitet at all and faded off. Half an hour later a bigger fish came agressively to the RPP and I thought she had it allready when she suddenly shot off to the side and dissapeared She must have seen something more interesting. We also had a bite of a sailfish and caught dorados.

21.02.2010

Today we caught a 400 pound blue on Roddys Andromeda and a sail. We had a couple more knocks from sails.Blue Marlin number ten for Shaun and Andy ! Olaf Ascension

20.02.2010

Another excellent day in Ascension !

We caught 3 for 3 bites today !

The first one was a 250 pounder on the RPP. An hour later a big mama came up behind the Fox lure and after I spead the boat up two knots she eate it. Another long fast run on the surface and forward chasing followed until Colin finally got the leader on the totally green girl . He had a hard time to get her under control and finally the hook bend and freed her.

This fish was big and we called her "950" pounds !?

After that we caught another smalish marlin on the RPP and had a bite from a sailfish.

19.02.2010

Still marlin around !

Andy caught a 550 pounder on the Black Bart RPP that got hooked in the dorsal and gave a very hard fight.

Before we pulled the hook on a 400 pounder that took the Andromeda (Legendlures) We also had 4 bites of sailfish and caught two wahoos and a dorado.

18.02.2010

Shaun caught another blue today ! The 200 pounder eate the Black Bart RPP !

The usual dorados were there today as well !

17.02.2010

We had an excellent day today !!!

We caught 3 blues out of 4 bites !

The first one that we missed was a 200 pounder that knocked down the Grimmel by Bonze.

After that a big fish eate the same Fox lure that we caught the first fish on on monday. I chaced that fish 3 miles forward until we finally got close to her

Photo by Shaun McSpadden

Andy Little released his biggest Blue marlin so far with over 900 pounds.

Shortly after that Shaun caught a 400 pounder on the Andromeda by legendlures.

Photo By Andrew Little

And around 5pm Andy caught another 250pounder on his own lure.

Photo by Shaun McSpadden

We also caught some dorados.

16.02.2010

We missed two nice blue marlin today and raised a big one. At least they seem to be here now !

We caught some dorados and a nice wahoo !

15.02.2010

Andy and Shaun arrived today and we had a good start . Shaun caught a 600 pound blue on one of his Fox Lures wich he produces.

We also caught some dorados and Amberjacks.

13-14.02.2010

Maintanance

12.02.2010

We caught a couple of Dorados and had 3 bites of sailfish today.

11.02.2010

We finally had some marlin around again !

Andy caught a 250 pounder on the Bonze Grimmel and five minutes later we had a 500 pounder crashing the Blue Breakfast but it came off.

In the evening I saw another marlin chasing skipjack tunas.

10.02.2010

we caught dorados and raised some sails today.

09.02.2010

We had a bite from a sailfish and caught some Dorados.

08.02.2010

Phil caught another sailfish and we had another bite and we raised another marlin that didn´t eat !

07.02.2010

We caught a sailfish and a big blueshark on a livebait in the afternoon and in the evening we got yellowfin.

06.02.2010

We had a bite from a sailfish and caught a couple of dorados and Amberjacks.

05.02.2010

Phil caught his first atlantic sail today .

04.02.2010

We raised a nice blue again but it didn´t bite . We caught a wahoo and dorados later.

03.02.2010

We raised a 500 pound blue marlin but no bite.

02.02.2010

We saw a couple of sailfish today and had bite.

01.02.2010

We caught some tunas at night.

31.01.2010

We had a bite of a 400 pound blue on the Bonze Grimmel today wich shook the hooks of imidiately. We caught some dorados and a Wahoo on the way in.

30.01.2010

Nada

29.01.2010

We started a t 1 today and Kent caught a niceMako on the Black Bart Ascension Projet !

We also caught some yellowfins in the evening.

28.01.2010

Henrik and Kent arrived today and first we had a bite from a sailfish we also caught a couple of dorados and in the afternoon Henrik caught a 350pound blue marlin on the Bonze Hercules.

27.01.2010

Maintanance Day

26.01.2010

We saw three sailfish and got one bite of one and caught one 40 pound wahoo.

25.01.2010

We had a very quiet morning and in the afternoon we raised a very big blue marlin again that stayed deep under the lure for a second and than faded away.

24.01.2010

We spend the morning inshore fishing and snorkeling and caught dorados and jacks in the afternoon we raised a 300 pound blue that didn´t eat.

23.01.2010

We caught a nice wahoo and some dorados today.

22.01.2010

We started our day with 3 hours of inshore fishing and caught dorados ,jacks, rainbowrunners and grouper. Around noon we started trolling and after 2 hours we hooked a strong 700 pound blue on Black Barts Brasiliano Massimo caught that fish.

21.01.2010

We missed a small blue that eate the Bonze MDS and had a doublestrike from probably sailfish. We also caught the usual dorados.

20.01.2010

We saw nothing in the SE and trolled our way back to englishbay were we caught some dorados

and at 6 pm Alvy caught a 250 pound blue marlin on Roddys Krakatao.

19.01.2010

We fished the SW today and saw lots of small tunas hunting offshore. We caught one and a couple of dorados. We had one bite that I couldn´t identify.

18.01.2010

I´m back on ascension running the Harmattan together with Colin and we had our first fishingday today. We trolled for six hours and Stefano caught a 300 pounder on the Bonze Grimmel .

We also caught some Dorados and some jacks on spinninggear.

Not a bad start !

16.03.2009

Today was our last fishingday for this year !

Christian caught two nice sailfish we also missed a small blue and raised anotherone.

Thanks for reading

Olaf

15.03.2009

We had a very good day today !

First we missed a sailfish ,raised a couple more later and shortly after we pulled the hook on a 350 pound Marlin that eate the DS by Bonze .

Christian and Timmy (Thanks for all the help)

A bit later we saw a 700 tailing on the surface without taking notice of us. But then in the afternoon Christian from Norway caught

pictures by Kit

a 200 pound blue on the Grimmel.

In the evening he also caught a 205 pound yellowfintuna on the behemoth.

14.03.2009

Day off.

13.03.2009

We did half a day and missed a couple of sails.

This was Matthias and our dutch groups last day on ascension for this year !

I´ll do another two days fishing before I pack up.

12.03.2009

Just a dorado today.

11.03.2009

We caught 1 sailfish in the evening.

10.03.2009

We caught 5 sailfish and saw lots more on light tackle again and a dorado.

09.03.2009

We caught four sailfish and a yellowfin and saw lots more sails.

08.03.2009

We had quiet a few bites from sails a missed a small Blue as well.

07.03.2009

We caught 1 sailfish and had a couple more bites and raised two blues.

06.03.2009

We raised two blues one arround 500 and one arround 250.

05.03.2009

Our last day with team Italia

we raised loads of sailfish but no luck.

02-04.03.2009

Just some inshorefish.

01.03.2009

We had two bites of blues today one around 500 and one around 300 pounds. We raised another small billfish.

28.02.2009

We caught two blue marlin on the blue breakfast today and raised anotherone.

27.02.2009

Nada

26.02.2009

We started fishing again today and raised a 400 pound blue and a sailfish.

No fishing for the next two days.

23.02.2009

Phil caught a 800 pounder on the blue breakfast today on his and Andy´s last day.

Photo by Alan Marsh

Good finish !

Photo by Alan Marsh

22.02.2009

We raised 3 blues.

21.02.2009

We saw a freefeeding blue eating dorados.

15.-20.02.2009

Just a few sailfishbites.

14.02.2009

We had a bite of a small blue and a sailfish.

13.02.2009

We caught 1 sailfish today

and had a couple more bites.

12.02.2009

Finally a real good day marlinfishing again !

Phil and Andy arrived this morning and after 30 minutes Andy was on a beast already !

The 900 pounder took the blue breakfast and loads of line .

Finally after an exausting standupfight for Andy we released the lady !

After that we got 3 bites and raised 1 more all fish over 500 pounds and finally caught a 350 pounder for Phil on the Grimmel.

11.02.2009

We caught a sailfish had a couple more bites and raised a nice blue but...

10.02.2009

We caught a 220 pound bigeyetuna today

and raised some sails.

09.02.2009

Finally we caught another blue marlin !

The small fish eate the Grimmel a second one (doubleheader) fell of the DS after a minute.

A bit later we caught a sailfish and raised two more !

07.02.2009

Weraised a 400 pounder and saw a 600 swimming parallel to the boat. Apart from that only small yellowfins.

06.02.2009

Nada

05.02.2009

Day off.

04.02.2009

We raised a 600 pound blue today that didn´t bite !

03.02.2009

Still only wahoos and dorados.02.02.2009

We raised a sailfish and caught the usual wahoos and jacks.

01.02.2009

We caught wahoos and Dorados again.

31.01.2008

We raised a small billfish today and caught some wahoos.

30.01.2009

Day off

29.01.2009

Nada !

28.01.2009

Just two wahoos today !

27.01.2009

Day off

26.01.2009

We raised a small blue in the morning and another small billfish in the evening.

25.01.2009

We caught a 500 pound blue on the Bart Superplunger on our first tag out.

The fish performed some great jumps in still flat calm seas !

24.01.2009

We had one of the calmest days ever here in ascension and we pulled the hook on a 650 pounder that eate the grimmel. An hour later we caught a

250 pounder on the blue breakfast

23.01.2009

Just a few wahoos and dorados today.

22.01.2009

Heinz and Rolands last day of fishing brought us another nice result. We caught two blues on the Grimmel

one about 600 pounds for Roland

and one around 300 for Heinz.

21.01.2009

Heinz caught a nice 600 pound blue marlin on the blue breakfast. We had very nice calm weather. We raised a small blue on the Superplunger as well.

20.01.2009

Heinz caught a 300 pounder on the Behemoth today !

We had another bite on the puertorican prowler and raised one more fish.

19.01.2009

We saw 7 blue marlin today !

The water was like exchanged and full of live skipjacks and dorados everywhere.

We had two bites on the bonze "Grimmel" one about 300 pounds and one real small one.

We caught one about 300 pounds on the blue breakfast had another bite on it and raised one more small one on it. We raised two more small fish on the Bonze Bohe... ( No Idea)

18.01.2009

We caught one wahoo that was it !

17.01.2009

Nada !

16.01.2009

Much nicer weather today and finally also marlin. First we raised a 400 pounder in the SE and in the afternoon Heinz caught a small blue on the Bart Superplunger in english bay !

Foto by Heinz

15.01.2009

We raised a sailfish and caught a wahoo today .

14.01.2009

We caught a couple of small yellowfin and dorados inshore today. We only fished 3 hours for marlin and saw nothing interesting except very rough seas !

13.01.2009

Today I started fishing with Heinz and Roland. Matthias got stuck in the canaries and will probably arrive in the next days.

We raised a 500 pound blue marlin on the Bonze "Grimmel" but we couldn´t get a bite out of her. My website will be updated daily now until end of march !

28.11.2008

Today was our last day for this trip and we had a good finish ! Nice calm weather and a 750 pound blue on the braziliano for Clive finished off a nice week of fishing.

We also saw a small mako freefeeding on a jack.

We will be back in january !

27.11.2008

We only had a couple of doradoattacks today.

26.11.2008

Peter caught a 300 pounder today on the blue breakfast and we raised another fish around 400 that came behind a lure faded away and 30 seconds later it jumped twice 100 meters behind the spread not having touched anything !

25.11.2008

Clive caught one white marlin today on the bart superplunger and Matthias saw a big blue crossing the spread.

24.11.2008

Still unusually many blue marlin here for this time of the year !

We had two bites from blues wich were really agressive attacks but no hookups.One was around 300 ( Hawaian breakfast) and the otherone about 600 pounds (Bart Superplunger).Shortly after we had the bite of the 600 I saw an enormes dorsal and tail quit far behind the spread. We had another knockdown of a small billfish of wich I´m not certain what it was.

The wild hooker saw 8 blue marlin of wich they had 6 in their spread and got four bites .

They caught only one around 800 pounds. All their bites were crashbites too and they use double hooksets with taglines compared to our long singel hooks with a small dropback.

Both systhems have the same results.

23.11.2008

We only had 1 bite of a 500 pounder today and caught a wahoo.

Wild hooker missed two small blues.

22.11.2008

We caught 1 out 3 small blue marlin they all hit the hawaian breakfast.

We also saw some sails.

Wild Hooker caught two blues but nothing big.

21.11.2008

Today was our turn !

We caught a 200 pounder just after leaving the pierhead on the hawaian breakfast. In the afternoon we caught a 250 pounder on the same lure and in the evening we hooked a better fish on the hawaian breakfast again after it crashed the brasiliano and came off .

The 650 pounder finally fell of the hook 1 meter from me reaching the leader but we still enjoyed the show she put up.

The wild hooker only raised a 300 pounder and had a couple of sailfish up ( as we had as well by the way)

20.11.2008

Peter and Clive arrived today and we raised a very big blue in the evening but ...

The wild hooker had 4 bites of blues today ! The first one they pulled the hook on was according to Oskie "a very nice one " he was not willing to tell any size. After that they missed two rats and in the evening the finally caught a 850 to 900 pounder .

19.11.2008

we went out with the wild hooker and had a bite of a 600 pounder but it didn´t stay connected. We still had a great day with the boys !

Thank´s a bunch !!!

17.-18 11.2008

Days off

The wild hooker caught two a 550 and a 400.

16.11.2008

Miles Miller came fishing with us today and he caught his first 650 pound marlin on blackbarts ascension projet.

Wild hooker broke a nice fish off after it got tailwrapped very close to the boat.

15.11.2008

Day off

14.11.2008

We finally raised a nice blue of 800 + pounds but unfortunately no teasing or speeding up could get her to bite. Shortly after that we caught a doubleheader sailfish.

13.11.2008

No Marlin again but Eduardo caught a nice wahoo.

12.11.2008

Nada

11.11.2008

Today we caught some dorados again and raised a couple of white marlin got some knocks out of them but none stayed connected.

10.11.2008

Our first day fishing today and Eduardo caught some dorados and a yellowfin for the start.

November 2008

I´ll be fishing on Harmattan for the next weeks with Matthias Henningsen. A 1215 pound blue marlin was caught a couple of weeks ago by a new Mothership operation.

April 2008

Today was our last day of the season and we saw some action at last !

First Wolfgang pulled the hook on a 400 pounder that eate the blue breakfast.

We raised a simillar size fish two hours later but no bite.

In the afternoon Hermann caught a 300 pounder on the blue breakfast again and in the evening we had another bite on the chrome enki !

That was it for this year from here. Harmattan fishes another 2 weeks.

Thank´s for reading !

Next trip for me will be cape verde fishing for 4 weeks !

Cheers

Olaf

05.04.2008-09.04.2008

Unfortunately not much to report !

Very rough and very slow !

04.04.2008

Hermann caught a 170 pound yellowfin tuna on the blue breakfast today !

03.04.2008

Nada

02.04.2008

Nada

01.04.2008.

We raised a blue about 400 pounds that didn´t bite.

28.03.-31.03.2008

Days off

27.03.2008

On his last fishingday for this trip Ingo caught another blue marlin of about 200 pounds on the Krakatao. we raised a couple of sails as well and on the way in we caught a couple of small yellowfins on spinninggear.

So he nearly caught every interesting gamefish that you catch regular here !

I want to thank Albi for inviting my brother to fish on his boat and for a great week fishing !

Olaf

26.03.2008

We had a bite of a sailfish in the early afternoon and around five Ingo caught a 300 pound blue on the 22 chrome enki

25.03.2008

Ingo caught another species today !

A 185 pound bigeye tuna wich eate the blue breakfast !

Harmattan caught a 800 pound blue on a pitchbait.

24.03.2008

Ingo caught sailfish no 6 and we raised 3 more today . He also caught his first wahoo.

23.03.2008

We raised 2 blue marlin today of wich we got one bite of a small fish.

22.03.2008

And today Ingo caught a 700 pound blue marlin on the Krakatao again !

21.03.2008

Ingo caught another two sails today one on the Krakatao and one on a spinningreel with a gogleeye

20.03.2008

Today was Ingos´s first day of fishing and he caught his first three sailfish today !

Foto by Albi

He also caught amberjacks and a couple other new species for him jigging.

We raised a couple more sails but saw no marlin today.

19.03.2008

We raised 4 blues today of wich we got 1 bite of a 400 pounder on the Krakatao but ... . 1 of the raised fish was a nice one 700 or more.

18.03.2008

Today was simillar to yesterday with a little more luck.

First we raised a couple of sailfish and caught one.

Foto by Ingo Grimkowski

After that we got a bite of 300 pound marlin on the22 chrome enki , faught the fish for 15 minutes and pulled the hook just under the boat.

Than we caught another sail and a bit later we hooked a350 pounder on the Krakatao

Foto by Ingo Grimkowski

and finally Manfred caught his marlin for this trip. !

We raised two more blues that didn´t bite.

Harmattan caught one blue around 450 pounds.

17.03.2008

Very different to yesterday.

We saw our first blue around 11 but no bite. After that we saw some nice feedingfrenzy of 60 pound yellowfins and got one bite out of them . Naturally we pulled the hook even on a tuna !Then around noon we raised another small blue with the same result a few minutes later a decent fish jumped close to the 22 crome enki missed it and came back .Watching the dorsal of this potantial marlin it looked strangely round and I realised it was a 400 pound mako that finally bit the lure.Unfortunately Manfred also managed to get rid of this one very quickly.( Not his fault at all just kidding !!! )

We had lots of bites of sailfish and finally Manfred caught a 100 pound one on the hawaian breakfast.

In the evening we saw a 200 pounder freefeeding on a dorado or rainbowrunner and we could see him swallow his pray right next to our lures.

Then we got a bite of a 300 pounder on the Krakatao that also pulled off after 50 meters. Harmattan caught two small blues for 5 bites and raised one more and a sail .

16.03.2008

Nada

15.03.2008

Nada

14.03.2008

We raised 3 sailfish today

Matthias saw two blues that didn´t bite.

13.03.2008

We had two bites from blue marlin today.

Harmattan caught two for 5 bites.

12.03.2008

Manfred caught 1 sailfish today

11.03.2008

We had another good day of billfishimg .We first raised a fish around 300 pounds that didn´t bite. A bit later we had a bite of a similar size fish on the 22 Chrome Enki but it came off 3 times. Inbetween we had two doubleheaders of sailfish but non of them got stuck either. Than Harry caught his first blue marlin a 250 pounder that took the crome 22 Enki.

Foto by Kurt Lehr

After that Günther caught another small blue marlin on the hawaian breakfast.

Harmattan went 0/2 and raised two more.

10.03.2008

Still marlin around !

Around noon Matthias caught two blues within an hour (300 and 400)

An hour later we got a bit of a 500+ on the Krakatao but unfortunately the fish shook the hook of its bill just before we could get the leader.

A bit later we caught a 200 pounder on the abaco prowler.

09.03.2008

After a period of slow fishing we had a good day again !

We saw way more skippies then the last days today and at 3 pm we got a doubleheader of blue marlin on !

I couldn´t believe it after all these days of riding around .

One fish took the Krakatao but just after Manfred got to the chair the fish came off.

Now it was Franz´s time who grabed the rod with the hawaian breakfast and this 700 pound lady stayed connected and put up a great show of jumps !

Photo by Kurt Lehr (Happy Birthday !)

Franz sendet beste Grüße an "Fuggi" !

As we had the fish at the boat another marlin of simillar size followed it and stayed very close until we released her friend. For shure we had a lure out imidiately but no response.

In the evening we had another bite on the Hawaian breakfast but we never hooked the 500+ pound fish . After it´s second billswipe it followed the boat for a while but no more bites.

08.03.2008

We raised a sailfish and pulled the hook on a small blue that swiped the abaco prowler

07.03.2008

We started late and caught amberjacks and yellowfins

06.03.2008

Nada

05.03.2008

We saw Nothing trolling and caught some nice amberjacks jigging.

03.03.-04.03.2008

No fishing

02.03.2008

We fished half a day and pulled the hook on a 600 pounder that took the hawaian breakfast

24.02.2008-01.03.2008

No Fishing

We won´t be marlin fishing the next few days.

23.02.2008

We started early today and saw a 400 pound blue tailing next to the boat but no interest.In the afternoon we had a bite of a 350 that didn´t get hooked on the hawaian breakfast.

Harmattan caught a sailfish.

22.02.2008

Heinrich and Kurt each caught a sailfish today.

Harmattan had a bite of a blue in the evening.

21.02.2008

We saw nothing interesting today.

20.02.2008

After a late start Heinrich caught a 650 pound blue marlin on the Krakatao.

Foto by Kurt Lehr

A bit later Kurt caught his first white marlin on the hawaian breakfast.

Foto by Kurt Lehr

19.02.2008

We raised two small bilfish again.

18.02.2008

We raised two sailfish today that was it.

Matthias caught a 350 pound blue in the evening.

17.02.2008

Kurt caught a 450 pound blue marlin on the abaco prowler

Foto by Kurt Lehr

today and we had a bite of a small sailfish

Matthias caught a 200 pounder in the evening.

16.02.2008

We saw nothing trolling today exept some dorados.

In the evening we caught tunas and lost two sixgills.

15.02.2008

We had a early bite at 10am on the 1656angle of a small fish but it didn´t get hooked. In the afternoon it got very rough and we raised another small blue that missed the lure and started jumping like crazy without having touched a lure !?

We raised one sailfish as well.

Matthias had a bite of a sailfish.

14.02.2008

Heinrich caught his first blue marlin of around 150 pound at 1 pm . It bit the 1656angle.At around 4pm a 500 pounder hit the Krakatao and was quickly caught by Kurt.

After that we saw 400 pounder swimming parallel to the boat after a turn the fish came in the spread but faded of quickly.

Matthias had one bite and saw anoterone in front of the boat .

13.02.2008

Kurt and Heinrich arrived today and we went out just for the afternoon.

We started at 1 30 and Kurt caught a 500 pounderon the hawaian breakfast at 2 30.

We raised a smaller marlin in the evening that didn´t bite.

Matthias raised two blues before we went out and caught a 900 pounder in the evening.

12.02.2008

Day off

11.02.2008

Day Off

10.02.2008

We saw nothing today.

Harmattan went 2/3 and raised a sailfish.

09.02.2008

Day off

08.02.2008

We went 1 for two bites today . A very agressive small marlin tried to eat the hawaian breakfast 4 times but still never got hooked.

In the evening we caught a 650 pounder on our way home. I was just doing the last circle around a school of skipjacks when she hit the abaco prowler.

Matthias caught a 450 pounder and pulled the hook on a small one.

07.02.2008

We fished 6 hours today and got a bite of a 500 pound blue around 5 pm on the black 22baselisk but pulled the hook 2meters from reaching the leader.

06.02.2008

Day off

05.02.2008

Anotherone bites the hook !

On his last day Georg caught another nice size ascension blue marlin. The 700 pounder eate the hawaian breakfast around 1pm and was quickly caught after a surface fight with some nice jumps.

Matthias caught 2 around 300 pounds today and had two more bites of better size fish so it looks like there are some around now. Tommorrow nobody fishes.

04.02.2008

Finally we had a good day marlinfishing again !

We went out at 11 and after half an hour a 700 pound blue crashed the Krakatao (legendlures) and after a hard deep fight Georg finally caught his first ascension blue !

We kept on trolling in flat calm weather and at 1.30 pm we got another crashbite on the hawaian breakfast (Black Bart ) George also caught this 400 pound marlin

and we finished the day with some more yellowfins on the mooring !

03.02.2008

Nothing for us again except the bottomfish for dinner.

Matthias had 180 pound rat !

02.02.2008

We saw nothing trolling today and caught some amberjacks jigging.

Matthias caught a nice 700 pound marlin.

01.02.2008

We did a late start today and raised 1 blue about 500 pounds but no bite again !

In the evening we caught yellowfins on the mooring.

31.01.2008

Finally the wheather was normal again and we had a decent number of marlin in the area !

First Matthias raised a nice one around 11 we saw our first blue at 1pm but the 500+ fish was not in the mood and stayed deep under the blue breakfast ,faded off and came back after a turn . We tried to tease her but no chance.In the afternoon Matthias had bite also of a nice one and pulled him off again.

We saw one fish swimming parallel with the boat wich never came to the spread and raised anotherone wich almost tried to bite the Krakatao but then decided that this would be too much work ! It´s good to see them back here now they just have to change there behaviour !

30.01.2008

Still unusually calm and not much action here.

Matthias raised a nice blue again but no bite.

29.01.2008

We fished half a day for marlin but saw nothing interesting.

On the mooring we caught tuna , oilfish and two sixgills.

28.01.2008

We had a bite of a very small billfish (sail or spearfish) today and some attacks from dorados that was it .

Matthias pulled the hook on a 500 pound blue.

27.01.2008

We started late today and saw a couple of small tunas but no billfish.

On our mooring Henrik and Kent caught Yellowfins and amberjacks and lost three sixgills.

26.01.2008

We had a long boring day of marlinfishing today except for the last hour !!!

The wheather was great but we saw little action in the SE . As Matthias told us he raised a 700 in englishbay it was not difficult to turn around. On our way Henrik caught a 50 pound wahoo but also in englishbay we saw nothing interesting. 5 PM half asleep I finally saw what we where looking for a nice blue behind the Short Rigger.

She didn´t fool around and took roddys new Pro range lure (I forgot the name).

She took a lot of line but stayed on the surface so it took Kent about half an hour to finally release his 850 pound blue marlin.

Shy 3´s first for this season . Not a bad start !

Matthias only raised the above mentioned fish and ended up jigging.

Cheers

Olaf Grimkowski

25.01.2008

Our season in ascension started today with Kent and Henrik fishing for a week.

We trolled 7 hours around the island but only got two bites from sailfish. After that we caught some amberjacks speedjigging.

We saw lots of flyingfish and big skipjacks.

Matthias pulled the hook on a 500 pound blue marlin.

The last three days he raised another blue ,caught one sail and raised two more.

Olaf Grimkowski

12.04.2007

Today was our last fishingday of this season ! We trolled inshore most of the time and caught yellowfins,Rainbowrunners and skippies. So our final result is 36 blue marlin from 71 bites (51%)(average of the estimated weights 490 pounds) and raised 23 more that didn´t bite in about 48 days marlinfishing . We also caught around 15 sailfish on the marlinlures (not targeting them) We had two marlin defenetly 900+. I didn´t count yellowfins ,dorados, wahoos and all the other smaller species we caught but their are lots of them. Harmattan will fish another two weeks .They caught 29 blues so far. Thank´s for your interest and all your replys ! I hope to see you here next year !!! Olaf Grimkowski

11.04.2007

We didn´t fish for marlin today. We caught loads of jacks on poppers and yellowfin tuna trolling inshore. On the mooring we also caught yellowfin and a sixgill shark

10.04.2007

Our morning was quiet again. At 1 pm we got or first contact with a sailfish and it didn´t stick. We had a 400 poud blue coming up behind the 1656 angel but the fish was just to lazy to touch it. From now on we had two more bites of blue marlin ,1 small one on the 1656 and a 600 pounder on the blue breakfast wich was the only agressive bite today. It came from the side with an open mouth but still got the hook around the bill and shook it off, came back and knocked it one more time that was it. We also raised another two blues never even comming close to the lures. Harmattan caught a 150 pound blue marlin and pulled the hook on anotherone and also saw some sails.

09.04.2007

We started late today and raised one blue marlin that stayed for a minute behind different lures but no matter what I did this thing would come closer than 3 foot to the lures. In the evening we caught tuna,oilfish and an 800 pound sixgill shark.

08.04.2007

We saw one sailfish today that was it.Matthias raised a small blue and saw one swimming on the surface. Olaf Grimkowski

07.04.2007

After a quiet morning we fishing ascension s SE side we found the blue marlin in the late afternoon in english bay. At 3 30 we caught a 250 pounder on the 22 quickchange Baselisk.

After that we had a couple of sailfish up and two tried to eat our gogleeye pitchbait but didn´t get hooked. A bit Later we caught a 300 pound blue on the same lure and a quater to six we hooked a 400 pound bluemarlin on the orange Lava Ruckus.

After some nice jumps the fish was released quickly. Matthias caught 1 blue marlin and a sailfish and missed 1 more blue. Olaf Grimkowski

06.04.2007

We only raised two sailfish today.Matthias caught 1 small blue marlin.

05.04.2007

Lots of billfish around the island again.We were fishing ascension s SW and we had lots of knockdowns from sailfish and one got hooked for a short while . It took plenty of line on a 130 and until it jumped I thought it was a blue just like yesterday. At two we caught a 350 pound blue marlin on the 22 quickchange Baselisk . Matthias pulled the hook on a 300 pounder and raised anotherone.

04.04.2007

We found a way to drive around the marlin today without getting any contacts. We caught a nice size sailfish that took line like a marlin. It bit on the orange Lava Ruckus from Marlin Magic.

Matthias pulled the hooks on two blues and raised anotherone.

03.04.2007

We started early today but nothing until 10 . Then we caught a sailfish on the super projet and just before we wanted to go in we got a bite of a 600 pound marlin on the blue breakfast. The fish jumped imidiatly and shook the hook of.Olaf Grimkowski

02.04.2007

We just had two bites of sailfish today.TJ went 1 for 3 on small blues early in the morning.

01.04.2007

The sailfish were back in numbers and we caught one of them on the 16 quickchange Baselisk.

At noon we caughta wild 300 pounder on the same lure.

Matthias also caught a sail and a small blue as well as T.J. Hook did on the "Diving Frigate" Olaf Grimkowski

31.03.2007

Most of the sailfish had gone today and there were not as many marlin as the last 3 days but we still caught a 600 pounder on the Kona Projet (Blackbart).

Like the last days the fish was very strong for its size and made the angler sweat a lot.

We had one bite of a sailfish and saw a few. Harmattan pulled the hook on a blue marlin and a sailfish. olaf Grimkowski

30.03.2007

Another day of billfishaction today! We had lots of contacts to sailfish again and around 3pm a 600 pound blue came up on the 16 Baselisk and realy tried to eat it It grabed it but came off quickly. It still wanted it badly and windsceenwiped behind it so I tried to drop it in her mouth the same happend as before and the fish went to the Kona projet and eat that . We were connected for ten minutes before the hook came off close to the boat. Bad luck but very exiting to see.I think there was another blue marlin in the spread at the same time. After that we only had a few more bites of sailfish. Matthias caught a sailfish and a 300 pound blue simultaniusly and had two more bites from small blues and raised two more. Olaf Grimkowski

29.03.2007

There was still lots of aktion in the SW of ascension fishing from 10.30 the aktion only started at 1pm. That was when we saw the first group of sailfish but they were behaving like yesterday and hardly showed any interest. We raised a couple and had two knockdowns.Within the sails we got a bite of a small blue on the Hawaian Breakfast but no hookup. At 3.30 we hooked a 250 pounder on the 22Baselisk that put up an amasing fight I couldn´t believe it when I saw the size of it.The sailfish went down and at 5.30 we hooked another blue marlin on the 22 quickchange Baselisk .The fish took loads of line so a turned the boat on it. After another strong fight we released the 450 pounder.

I saw one more blue cruising infront of the boat.2/3 again. Matthias caught a 300 pounder and raised anotherone.

28.03.2007

We had a very nice day today ! There was life everywhere in the water dolfins,dorados,skippys,loads of sailfish and blue marlin ! We started at 11 and we hooked a 300 pound blue marlin on the Lava Baby Ruckus (Marlin Magic) very soon.

We caught that one and imidiatly after the first lure was in the water a sailfish tryed to eat it.

One hour later we caught a 250 pounder on the hawaian breakfast. We saw sailfish feeding on small gogleyes allmost all the time but most of them didn´t show any interest in our lures. Half an hour after the last marlin we raised one around 300 but it didn´t bite.We had one more bite of a blue on the baby Ruckus but it didn´t stick.We ended up with 2/3 blue marlin + 1 raised. We had about 5 knockdowns on sailfish and saw countless amounts of them. Matthias caught 2/5 on blue marlin (250)and (800) and one sailfish out of x ? Olaf Grimkowski

27.03.2007

We started at 10.30 today and had a bite of a sailfish at 2 pm .We raised another two and at 3 30 we raised a 800+ blue marlin . It showed up behind the "large Hardhead" (Marlin Magic) for a second and faded away.

A bit later we caught a 300 pound blue marlin on the same lure. At five we raised another blue arround 500 pounds. It showed its dorsal ,went away and came back after a turn but then faded off also.

Matthias had a 57 kg Amberjack today caught on a jig ! Olaf Grimkowski

26.03.2007

We did some inshore fishing today and caught lots of amberjacks jigging.In the evening we caught a sixgill and oilfish. There was lots of gogleeyes arround so I´m hoping for some good action the next days.Matthias raised 4 sailfish and caught dorados... inshore.

25.03.2007

We didn´t fish today but Matthias caught 1 blue marlin about 400 pounds and 2 sailfish. They saw arround 25 sails .

24.03.2007

Shy 3 fished the Sw again and we raised a 300 pound blue marlin that didn´t bite and had a bite of a sailfish.We raised another two sails. Matthias saw a tailing marlin infront of his boat and had a bite of something they didn´t see. Olaf Grimkowski

23.03.2007

We fished the SW of ascension in the morning and saw nothing in the late afternoon we raised a small blue on the Baselisk and got a bite from a sailfish later. In the evening we saw the first interesting tunafeed of this season. They were up to 100 pounds but we didn´t get any bites.

Matthias got a bite of a 500 pound blue marlin fishing close to the tuna and raised a sailfish. Olaf Grimkowski

22.03.2007

SHY III started fishing ascension s west at 11. At noon we got a bite of a sailfish on the hawaian breakfast. At 2.30 a small blue attacked the "large hard head" (marlinmagic) came off and tried the quickchange Baselisk 22 btu didn´t get hooked either .

At 4pm a 400 pound blue marlin crashed the quickchange Baselisk and stayed connected .It was not hooked but the hook stayed around the bill until we had the fish on the leader. Matthias caught one about 150 pounds and raised a nice one in the morning. Olaf Grimkowski

21.03.2007

Shy3 went out to the east side of ascension fishing marlin lures. We saw nothing but two enemies (wahoos) and one did some damage ( the otherone got damaged himselfe and ended as sushi on the dinnertable). Around noon we went to the SW and got one bite of a 300poundish blue that got billwrapped after attaking the quickchange 22 Baselisk from Roddy.It came off imidiatly. A bit later we had a knockdown of a sailfish. Matthias caught 1/2 on small blues. Olaf Grimkowski

20.03.2007

We spend the morning fixing the steeringsystem of SHY III and started fishing ascension s west side in the afternoon. We had a bite of a sailfish and raised one more. Matthias caught 1 out of two small blue marlin bites. Olaf Grimkowski

19.03.2007

We didn´t fish the last few days Harmattan caught 1 350 pounder yesterday.

16.03.2007

We fished The SW of the island again but we didn´t see any sailfish.At 1 30 we got a bite of a small blue marlin on the ST prowler but pulled the hook. I went to the westside and at 3 pm we caught a 250 pounder also on the ST prowler. At 5 oclock we got a bite on Hawaian Breakfast and the fish was on. It took a lot of line and went deep. After one hour we got her up and a very tired fish came along the boat. She was big and I took the measurements. As the formula said 970 pounds and the tailmeasurement was 20 inch we decided to weigh the fish. After a lot of trouble getting the fish up the pierhead without a crane (and ripping the gills out pulling it up) we organized a forklift to finaly get the weight of the leftovers. The scale showed 918 pounds.

15.03.2007

SHY 3 started fishing in the SW of ascension arround 10am and we saw lots of billfish again . First we caught a white marlin on the ST prowler. 10 minutes later a 600 pound blue marlin took the blue breakfast and we fought it for 15 minutes until the hook fell of him while the fish was slowly swimming 20 meters under the boat. After that we caught two nice size sailfish on the hawaian breakfast. and raised at least another 10 of them. Nearly a grand slam damn ! Matthias caught a sailfish out of lots of bites as well.

14.03.2007

Today Dietmar from austria arrived and we started fishing ascension s SW side around 11 am. We raised about 10 sailfish and had a few knockdowns on our marlin lures but non of the "sea turts" got stuck. At 5 pm we had an unexpected bite of an angry 750 pounder that took the blue breakfast on the short corner. The fish stayed on the surface and after just 10 minutes we had the fish on the leader and released it. Matthias caught two sailfish and also fishes on the mooring tonight.

11-13.03.2007

We didn´t do any big game fishing the last few days. we spend our time diving and inshore fishing with friends. Matthias caught a few sailfish.

10.03.2007

We caught 2 for 3 bites of sailfish both on the ST prowler and pulled the hook on a very small blue that took the hawaian breakfast.

09.03.2007

We first raised a 500 pound blue marlin that didn´t bite. Than we had a couple of sailfish up and caught one of the on the striper candy. A bit later we caught a 350 pounder on the blue breakfast.

Harmattan spend half a day marlin fishing and saw nothing the rest of the day they spend inshore.

08.03.2007

Today was totally different then yesterday it was very calm and we raised a doubleheader of sailfish in the morning. That was it.

Harmattan raised 3 sails and caught tuna and jacks on the mooring.

Not to forget we raised a 10000 pound whaleshark ha ha !

07.03.2007

Today was a very very very frustrating day for us.

The best about it is that the billfish are back in numbers again !

So we saw 11 billfish today and got 7 bites. Out of these bites 3 were defenetly blue marlin (700,500+?) and the rest might have been sailfish or tiny blues (wich I never saw here in numbers) so I guess at least the big majority of them were sails. The same with the raised fish.

It was extremely rough today and huge swells kept my attention for quiet some time so I´m not so shure . By the way we caught nothing,nada,niente or f…k all. I tell you I smoked a lot of cigarettes today !

Harmattan raised two small billfish? And had one knockdown they never saw.

06.03.2007

We saw nothing today . Harmattan caught a 100 pound mako shark !

05.03.2007

We had a day of today.

Harmattan pulled the hook on a 250 pounder.

04.03.2007

We caught 1 out of two bites for sailfish on the hawaian breakfast

and pulled the hook on a crazy 350pounder that jumped towards us for 20 seconds

picture by Oleg from St. Petersburg

directly after the bite on the prorange andromeda.

Harmattan Nada.

03.03.2007

We saw nothing but wahoos today.

Harmattan raised a sailfish and had a nice blue missing their lure.

02.03.2007

We had one bite on the ascension projet of a 300 pound fish but no hook up.

Harmattan raised one about 500 pounds that didn´t bite.

01.03.2007

We caught 1   450 pound blue marlin on the ascension projet today.

Harmattan  Nada.

28.02.2007

We went out for 3 hours in the afternoon and raised one blue around 500 pounds no bite.

Harmattan had one bite but pulled the hook.

27.02.2007

We didn´t fish the last two days but Harmattan pulled the hook on one yesterday (400) and lost two (400 and 600 pounds) today.

25.02.2007

I didn´t expect much today . It was raining all over the place and no wind (what normally doesn´t produce much here). In addition to that we only had time until 3 o clock pm because of Jo´s and Kurts flight today but it was enough.

Around 9 30 it started to clear up a bit and our normal wind came back . At 10 am a nice fish crashed the Blue Breakfast and was on .After some jumps the fish went deep and we got her slowly up to the surface .

The 700 pounder had the leader wrapped around her mouth and was very tired but after 10 minutes on the snooter it got back color and started kicking its tail again .

Very happy about the good last day result we thought our job was done but at noon another nice one first missed the Prorange Andromeda but in the second try she had it . Very unhappy the Lady broke the surface a couple of times and ran away on the surface. I turned the boat and came close pretty soon after 15 minutes we had the fish on the leader and managed to let her go.

I estimated her weight at around 900 pounds.

Not a bad day in Ascension Island !

Harmattan is still fishing and as long as  we had contact they pulled the hook on a 400 pounder and saw a 700 pounder free swimming in front of the boat.

 24.02.2007

Today we only saw 1  very small blue that knocked down the hawaian Breakfast.

Harmattan saw nothing and caught some wahoos later.

23.02.2007

We had a bite of a 500 pounder on the pro range Andromeda at 11 .

At 2.30 we hooked a 400 pounder on the hawaian breakfast and caught it quick.

Harmattan caught one about 600.

22.02.2007

We had a quiet morning today . We got our first knockdown at noon but the 400 pounder didn´t stick to the Hawaian Breakfast . At 3 oclock Kurt  caught a 350pounder on the same Lure. At 4.30 we had another bite knocking down two lures but no luck. 10 minutes later we hooked a nice one on the Andromeda (Ledgendlures) and we had a great fight with the 850 pounder After lots of jumps and runs close to the boat we released the fish .

Harmattan caught two around 300-350 pounds.

21.02.2007

We saw nothing interesting today offshore so we caught a couple of dorados and bottomfish for the pan.

Harmattan pulled the hooks on two small blue marlin.

20.02.2007

We went out at 12 today (Harmattan was already 1 for 3) and got the first bite of a 400 pound blue marlin half an hour later on the Big Rock Plunger by Bart but pulled the hook. One hour later we hooked a 500 pounder on the Super Plunger (Bart). The fish jumped in the line of the long rigger and got tangled up. Fortunately the fight with two rods was just for a few seconds and than we could fight the fish normally on the one that it was hooked on and released it.

After we changed the topshot we caught a 90 pound sailfish on the Big Rock Plunger.

In the evening we caught tunas on the mooring.

Harmattan went 2 for 5 . They caught 2 nice fish around 800 pounds and lost a 700 , a 350 and a small one.

19.02.2007

We had our first bite at 10 am on the pro Range Merlin and pulled the hook on the 3-400 pounder. 12.30 we caught a small blue on the andromeda .

At 4.30 we had a crashbite on the blue breakfast but the fish missed the lure and just grabbed the leader in front of it. The fish was 600+.

Harmattan pulled the hook on a 600 as well.

18.02.2007

We caught a 300 pound blue marlin on the Andromeda from Ledgendlures.

In the early afternoon we raised a fish around 500 pounds but no touch on any of the lures. A bit later we caught a sailfish on Roddys Prorange merlin .

Harmattan had 1 bite of a sailfish

17.02.2007

We had a knockdown of a small blue in the morning. One hour later we caught a 400 pound blue marlin on the Bart Superplunger. Nothing in the afternoon for us ; that was the time of Harmattan . They also started with a knockdown of a small one and a bit later they called a hookup on a nice one . 1 and a half hours later I got to see how nice !Matthias called the fish 950+ but because it was in good condition they released the fish !

Check the picture and find your own opinion about the size !

16.02.2007

We went out at 8 30 and had our first fish again at 9 30 . The 200 pounder took the Super projet and was caught quick.

The rest of the day we raised 3 more blues (600, 400 and small) of wich two didn´t even come close to a lure and one looked like he couldn´t keep the speed of the boat.

In the afternoon we caught a 70 pound sailfish also on the super projet.

Harmattan didn´t see anything.

15.02.2007

We went out at 9 am and had our first bite after 20 minutes .

The 600 pounder took the blue breakfast and put up a good fight with lots of jumps.

It had a crippled bill.

One hour later we had a bite of a small blue on the Ginky that jumped of after a few seconds.

In the afternoon we had another little guy that played with the Ginky and the super projet but it didn´t stick. I saw one more blue tailing on the surface but it never came in the spread.

Harmattan first pulled the hook on a small blue than caught one and in the afternoon they caught a 800 pounder.

14.02.2007

Our clients were too tired from the flight so we didn´t go out .

Harmattan caught two small blues and raised anotherone.

13.02.2007

We went inshorefishing today and caught tuna ,whahoo , dorado Jacks and loads of grouper for a friends freezer.

Harmattan caught Tuna and wahoo also and pulled the hook on a 500 pound blue marlin and raised a sailfish.

We will start proper fishing tomorrow again !

10.02.2007

We went out for three hours funfishing and caught a 250 pound blue marlin on Black Barts Blue Breakfast after half an hour fishing.

09.02.2007

Harmattan went out for half a day and had a bite of a 200 pound blue marlin .

We didn´t fish today !

06.02.2007

We saw nothing interesting today !

Harmattan caught a small blue marlin and had a bite of a sailfish.

We won´t be fishing for the next few days to do some maintainance !

05.02.2007

We had our first bite on the Bart Super Plunger at 11 and pulled the hook after a long run .

12 30 we raised a nice blue but not enough interest to strike A while later we raised another small billfish and a bit later we caught a 70 pound sailfish on Roddys cupfaced Iduna.

2 30 our magic hour at the moment we hooked a 550 blue on the Ascension Projet and caught it after some nice jumps.

Harmattan caught one blue of 500 pounds from 3 bites and raised anotherone !

04.02.2007

We started at 1 o clock today and raised 1 blue marlin about 600 pounds but it didn´t touch the lure.

We caught several tunas on the mooring.

Harmattan went 0/2 on blue marlin.

03.02.2007

We raised 1 small blue on the Superprojet and that was all for today.

Harmattan Nada.

02.02.2007

We started at noon today and caught a 300 pound blue marlin on the Bart Super Plunger.

In the evening we caught yellowfins on the mooring.

Harmattan went 1/1 as well with a 250 pounder.

01.02.2007

The fish were still her today .

After a quiet morning we pulled the hook on a 800 on the superprojet.

Five minutes later a 250 pounder crashed the Superplunger and we caught it quick.

10 minutes after that we hooked a 600pounder on the ST Thomas Prowler and released it after a nice fight .

Harmattan caught 1 Blue around 400 pounds and raised 1 more plus 1 sailfish.

31.01.2007

There was still lots of marlin in the SW . We got a bite of a 400 pounder at 2 30 and pulled the hook on the Superprojet. A short while later we saw a fish in front of the boat swimming slowly past the spread without noticing but then around 3 30  a hungry fish found the Superprojet and got hooked. After a strong fight we released a 700 pounder!

In the evening we caught Tunas on the mooring and 1 800 pound sixgillshark.

Harmattan went 1 for 2 250pounds and raised anotherone plus two raised sailfish.

30.01.2007

We saw 6 blue marlin today of wich 3 were sitting 10 foot behind the lure for a few seconds and faded away and the other three tried with one little knock to make me mad and they were suckcessfull. The biggest of them ;800 + got billwrapped for a few seconds and shook the Ginky of. We raised one sail also.

Harmattan saw 4 blues and was lucky enough to catch one of them.

29.11.2007

We started at 11 in the SW and had a quiet start.

At 2 30 we got a bite of a blue marlin about 500 pounds that took Barts Super Plunger .

The fish took some line but came off before the gear was cleared.

10 minutes later we hooked a 200 pounder on the blue breakfast and caught it .

We raised another blue about 400 on the Ginky but it didn´t bite and faded away

Harmattan caught wahoos and dorados inshore.

2007

Hi everybody !

I´m back on ascension and we did our first seatrial today !

It started well because we caught our first blue marlin before the first line was even in the outrigger ! It was not exactly a big one but it was the first blue of this season that took Roddys “Ginky”.

We caught a small yellowfin later and saw some promising birdaction in the north east.

Harmattan went inshorefishing and caught whahoos and tuna.

Statistics :

We fished about 25 days for marlin , had 27 bites and caught 16 blues since I have been here .

25.02.2006

Today was our last fishingday of the season !

We caught a small blue marlin in the SW in the morning . It took the Super Projet from Black Bart.

We moved to the SE and in the early afternoon we had a bite on the Bart Superplunger. It was a nice fish around 700 pounds but unfortunetly we pulled the hooks after 5 minutes.

Harmattan missed two blues before we left .

Thank´s for reading !

24.02.2002

Today we started at 1pm and got a bite 500 pound blue marlin on the Bart Superplunger but didn´t hookup.

In the evening we caught lots of tuna and a sixgillshark.

23.02.2006

Today we did a full marlinday again and had a bite on the Super Projet (Black Bart) but the fish didn´t get hooked.

Arround midday we raised a fish that knocked down three lures but it never got stuck either. There might have been a second fish involved in the confusion but we are not shure.

22.02.2006

We started late today and had a knockdown of a 500 pounder on the merlin but we never hooked it. In the evening we caught plenty of yellowfin !

21.02.2006

We didn´t fish the last 4 days but today we had an excellent day !

After half an hour trolling we hooked a 600 pounder on the Hot Breakfast of Black Bart and released it after a few minutes.

A bit later we hooked a very nice fish on Roddys blue glas Merlin !

It put up a great fight but after half an hour we released the 900 pounder !

In the afternoon we saw something freefeeding on the surface but we didn´t get a bite. Finally in the late afternoon we caught a 150pounder on the hot Breakfast again.

Harmattan had a bite of a small blue and raised a better one on a lifebait but it didn´t bite.

17.02.2006

We spent the last week fishing for tuna,shark, jacks… We didn’t do much marlinfishing and caught plenty of yellowfin and jacks a 1000pound sixgill and bottomfish.

Harmattan fished for marlin on the 16th  of February and caught a 1038 pound blue marlin !!!

Another grander in ascension !!!

01.02.2006

We fished in the SW again and got two bites of blue marlin on the Merlin (Ledgend Lures) but we didn´t hook the 300 pounder , neither the 600+.

The early afternoon was quiet except two nasty dorado attacks.

One hour before the end of Bas charter we hooked his 10th blue this trip

and it was a nice one that took the hot breakfast (Black Bart) .

Pictures by capt. Ian Carter

After some nice jumps the 750pounder was at the stern of SHY III .

Next week we don´t fish !

Have a nice week !

31.01.2006

We fished in the SW again and went ½ on sailfish and caught a small blue on the iduna we also caught a dorado and a small yellowfin.

30.01.2006

We started in englishbay where we caught the fish yesterday but the morning was completely dead. Arround noon we went to the SW and at 3 we get a bite on the ascension projet.The 200 pounder was quickly caught and released.

Half an hour later the Iduna gets eaten and a fish of similar size comes to the boat.

Not big but blue marlin !

Pictures by capt. Ian Carter

29.01.2006

We didn´t fish yesterday . Today we had some marlin action again !

It started with a bite on the 1656 wich was just a knock out of the clip at 9.30. At 12.30 a nice fish grabed the bridgeteaser and once that was gone it took Black Barts ascension projet .

We released the 550 pounder after some nice jumps.

At two we had another ring on the teaserdoor (abaco prowler Bart ) and the fish switched to the Andromeda (Legend Lures).

Pictures by capt.Ian Carter

We released this 350 pounder and a bit later we had a mystery knockdown wich nobody saw and it didn´t leave any marks on the lure or hookset ?!

27.01.2006

We did our roundtrip again and had 1 bite of a blue around 300 pounds on the 1656 from Bart Miller but we couldn´t stay connected.

26.01.2006

We went around the Island today .At 3 in the afternoon we were nearly at the SE corner where a small blue came up on the Abaco prowler (our bridgeteaser)

Ian managed to take it out before it grabed it and the fish went strait to the Andromeda and got hooked.

Photo by captn. Ian Carter

5 minutes after releasing this 250 pounder we hooked a 175 pounder on the Iduna and caught this one as well .

This was all the action for today. Photo by Capt. Ian Carter

25.01.2006

We started in the SW again and had a bite on Roddys Andromeda but the hookes pulled after a few meters.

We went to englishbay but saw nothing else.

24.01.2006

We had a really good day today !

We went back to the SW and had a bite of a 900+ blue on Black Barts Superplunger in the morning but it started jumping imidiatly and threw the hooks.

Later we had a bite on the ascension projet .The fish didn´t get hooked but it came back on Roddys Cupfaced Iduna and got stuck then.

Bas Kanters in action !

The 650 pounder put up a great show of multiple jumps and long fast surface runs before Bas got it to the boat.

At 3.30 we hooked a 500 pounder on the andromeda and we caught that fish quiet quick. After that we had a couple of knockdowns of a sail or spearfish but it never got hooked.

23.01.2006

We did a full marlinday in the SW and at around 2 we caught a 500 pounder on Roddys Andromeda !

Henriks first Blue marlin 500 pounds Photo by Kent Janer

22.01.2006

The last three days we only caught small fish like dorados, wahoos and jacks.

Today we did nightfishing on the mooring and we caught tuna , a 100 pound galapagosshark and an 800pound sixgill !

19.01.2006

We started late today and had one dorado trolling .On the mooring we caught 5 yellowfins and 1 sixgillshark of 1000+ pounds.

18.01.2006

Henrik Photo by Kent Janer

We did a full day marlintrolling today but no luck.

10.01.2006

We didn´t see a marlin again but caught some jacks inshore. We are not fishing for the next week.

 09.01.2006

We started late again and caught one wahoo trolling.

On the mooring we had 5 yellowfins and a sixgillshark well over a 1000 pounds.

08.01.2006

We started at 2 in the afternoon today and saw nothing trolling . On the mooring we caught some dorados ,6 yellowfins and one oilfish .

07.01.2006

The morning was totally dead and in the afternoon we found a piece of wood with some dorados and wahoos around.

We caught some on small gear but that was it for today.

06.01.2006

I´m back on the rock !

Ian Carter and me are the team on Shy III until march !

I jumped out of the plane together with our clients and started fishing at 10.30

We first caught a nice 25 pound dorado and then in the afternoon we caught a 350 pound blue marlin .

A bit later we raised a sailfish on Roddys Cupfaced Iduna but it was not able to even pull the line out of the clip.

After that we had a bite of a smaller blue but no hookup.

^ 2006 season ^

02.03.2005

On my last day of this season we raised two blue marlin of wich we pulled the hook on one and one sail or spearfish.

Harmattan caught 3 blue marlin out of 4 raised !

My next reports will be in april from cape verde !

Thank´s for reading !

Olaf

02.03.2005

We raised a 300 pound blue marlin that didn´t switch to the bait.

Harmattan pulled the hooks on a blue.

01.03.2005

We  (Dieter) caught a 250 pounder today

and saw one freejumping 30 meters behind the spread !!! We had some attacks from dorados as well.

Harmattan had the luck to catch a grand slam today . They caught a spearfish than a 200 pound blue marlin and finally a sailfish and missed anotherone.

God´s Favour raised two nice blues of wich the smaller one (500+) bit around 7 times but it didn´t stick.

28.02.2005

We (Dieter) caught a 400 pounder and missed a 350 pounder in half a day today . It looks like the fish are getting more agressive now and there is a better chance of hooking one.

God´s Favour caught a 325 pounder and missed two more in the evening.

27.02.2005

We ( Georg ) caught a 350 pounder in the morning .We raised another 3 blues of wich one bit the bait but pulled off again.

Harmattan caught a 400 pounder and a 80 pound sailfish and raised one of each as well.

26.02.2005

We caught a sailfish on 6 pound line today !!!

Harmattan caught a 400 pound blue marlin and a 120 pound sailfish and raised another sail.

God´s Favour missed a blue marlin.

25.02.2005

We raised another blue marlin today that didn´t switch.

In the evening we caught lot´s of tuna.

Harmattan raised 3 blue marlin of wich two bit and pulled off.

24.02.2005

We raised 4 billfish today. Two of them were defenetly blue marlin one was a sail and the otherone might have been a tiny blue or a sail but we could only get a small blue to bite our pitchbait and it speat it out again.

Harmattan caught a 250 pounder and pulled the hooks on one and also caught a sailfish. God´s Favour pulled the hooks on a blue and raised two sailfish.

23.02.2005

Yesterday we saw nothing marlintrolling.

God´s Favour caught a sailfish .Harmattan pulled the hooks on a 250 pounder and saw two more blues.

Today we did half a day and saw nothing trolling but caught tuna on the mooring.

God´s Favour pulled the hooks on a 650 pounder and Harmattan raised a sailfish.

21.02.2005

Yesterday we didn´t fish.

Today we had a bite of a 250 pound blue marlin in half a day fishing.

Harmattan raised 5 blue marlin between 400 and 500 pounds but only got 1 to bite their pitchbait and pulled him off.

God´s Favour raised 3 sailfish.

19.02.2005

We did half a day marlin trolling and caught a 250 pounder

In the evening we caught tunas an oilfish and a 1100 pound sixgillshark.

God´s Favour also caught a marlin about 650 pounds and lost another one around 500 pounds.

18.02.2005

We caught a spearfish today that was it !

17.02.2005

Today we raised two smaller blue marlin and got a knockdown out of one of them.

We also had a bite from a big dorado

16.02.2005

Yesterday we didn´t see anything interesting but God´s Favour raised a fish that Jody called well over a 1000 pounds but the fish didn´t bite.

The had a bite of a 500 pounder later but couldn´t stay connected.

Today we pulled the hooks on a marlin in the morning . I´m not shure about the size.

In the afternoon we caught a 200 pounder on the Andromeda and in the evening we unfortunately broke one fish off that bit on the Enki. Maybe the fish swam through the line?!

God´s Favour also missed one in the evening.

14.02.2005

In the morning we raised a sailfish and in the afternoon we had a bite on Roddys

new cupfaced Iduna but the blue pulled of after taking a bunch of line.

Harmattan went 1/2  with a 450 pounder

13.02.2005

We started late today and lost a 600 pounder after half an hour of trolling and 10 minutes later we hooked a 350 pounder wich we caught !!!

On the mooring we caught some nice yellowfins arround 80 pounds and missed a sixgill.

Harmattan saw a tailing marlin while they were chumming at their mooring !

12.02.2005

Harmattan had a bite of a 400 pounder today and two days ago they caught 2/3 blue marlin.

We didn´t see anything today

08.02.2005

We did a short day today because our clients are leaving and also everybody on board has caught a bad flew that Kent must have imported from the plane on the way here.

We still had two bites of a 400 and a 500pound blue marlin on the enki and the baselisk but we couldn´t stay connected .

God´s Favour also missed a blue marlin.

We are not fishing the next 3 days.

06.02.2005

We had a late start today and had a bite of a small billfish in the afternoon,

Probably a sailfish.

In the evening we caught tunas and lost some sixgills.

Harmattan also caught tuna and also 3 1000 pound plus sixgills

05.02.2005

Today we had a bite of another decent blue marlin but it eat the teaser first and then the Andromeda and we pulled the hook after a few seconds again.

In the afternoon we caught a 70 pound sailfish.

04.02.2005

We had a late start today and pulled the hooks on a 500 pounder again and had a mystery bite marlintrolling.

On the mooring we caught lots of tuna and a 900 pound sixgillshark.

Harmattan caught a sailfish and God´s Favour saw a small billfish infront of their boat.

03.02.2005

We didn´t fish yesterday but Harmattan had a bite of a blue marlin and God´s Favour

Caught one about 250 pounds.

Today we pulled the hooks on a 500 pound fish that jumped stait towards the boat after the bite.

There was a lot more birdaction then the last few weeks so I hope the billfishnumbers will increase as well.

01.02.2005

We did mostly inshorefishing today but Harmattan had two bites of Blue marlin and caught one about 250 pounds. They also caught a sailfish .

29.01.2005

God´s Favour raised a marlin in the morning.

We didn´t see anything except some yellowfins and skippies in the late afternoon.

31.01.2005

Yesterday we didn´t see anything special but God´s Favour raised another marlin.

Today we went far out and saw lot´s of skippies the first time for a while !

One Interesting thing is to mention Harmattan caught a sixgill we tagged in 2003 !

It didn´t grow much it was still around 1000lbs !

28.01.2005

We trolled the whole day for marlin but didn´t see anything but Harmattan had a bite of a 400pound blue marlin

27.01.2005

We did inshore and nightfishing again and caught dorado,jack,tuna and a fregattebird !

26.01.2005

Yesterday we caught lots of tuna on the mooring including a 57 pounder on fly !

Hermann Fehringer and his 57 pound Yellowfin on fly !

Today we did the same thing and caught  plenty again including a 30 pounder on fly and a 1000 pound sixgillshark on 80lbs gear.

23.01.2005

We started late today and trolled around the island in the calmest conditions you can get !

We caught a couple of dorados  before we went to our fishingmooring where we caught tunas up ton 100 pounds !

Cheers

Olaf

22.01.2005

The last two days we did mostly inshore fishing and tunafishing on the mooring with plenty of action with smaller fish.

Today we did half a day inshore and half a day marlintrolling and we hooked a nice 600 pounder on Roddy´s Baselisk but unfortunetly we pulled the hook after 15 minutes in a jump.

Cheers

Olaf

19.01.2005

Today we did our usual inshore start and caught a strange and painfull doubleheader.

We caught a rainbowrunner and as I wanted to take the hooks out of it it hooked me on the second treble hook of the lure.Ouuuutch !!!

We cut the hook and it was too deep to pull it out so we made a little stop at the hospital and kept on with marlinfishing but only caught a dorado.

As far as I know Harmattan and God´s Favour didn´t see billfish either just wahoo and dorado.

Cheers

Olaf

18.01.2005

We started late today and caught wahoos ,a bigeye and dorado inshore and did a nightdrift and caught a 100 pound Hammerheadshark and a wahoo.

Harmattan fished inshore for wahoos and on the mooring and caught tuna.

God´s Favour saw nothing but wahoo offshore.

Cheers

Olaf

17.01.2005

We did half a day inshore today with the usual wahoos and dorados + jacks and half a day marlintrolling and had one misterybite . It took 20 meters of line and pulled of but nobody saw anything.

Harmattan had a miterybite as well and God´s Favour caught some wahoos.

Cheers

Olaf

16.01.2005

We did mostly inshorefishing today and caught wahoo, dorado , yellowfin and jacks.

Harmattan went nightfishing on the mooring and caught yellowfins.

God´s Favour missed two blue marlin maybe three because one bite might have been a double header.

Cheers

Olaf

15.01.2005

We caught a wahoo today and had a bite of a very small billfish probably a sailfish.

Harmattan caught some wahoos and God´s Favour as well.

Cheers

Olaf

14.01.2005

Today we spend the whole day in English Bay because we raised a 450pound blue marlin that unfortunately didn´t switch to the bait. It was the perfect size for Pam´s

20pound recordfishing.

God´Favour pulled the hooks on a 900+ pound Blue !

Harmattan caught wahoos inshore.

Cheers

Olaf

13.01.2005

Today we had a bite of a small blue marlin but even after a few knockdowns it didn´t stick.

God´s Favour also had a bite and Harmattan is still fishing on the mooring.

Cheers

Olaf

12.01.2005

We trolled around the whole island and only saw a few schools of skippies.

The same for God´s Favour and Harmattan caught some wahoos inshore .

Cheers

Olaf

Hi !

Shy III is back in action !

Now with Ian Carter as captain and me as mate !

We fished Yesterday but only caught a dorado.

Today we saw quiet a few skippies and some dorados and had one bite of something wich we didn´t see maybe a blue ?

God´s Favour raised a small blue marlin and Harmattan caught a small Tuna.

Cheers

Olaf

2.01.05

Today was very similar to yesterday.

We didn´t see anything interesting in a few hours trolling and decided to try the night again.

It worked again !

We first caught a small fish but pulled the hook on the leader without having seen it but I´m convinced it was a baby broadbill. Anyway we got the next bite pretty soon but we only got a sliced bait back.

Than we hooked a fish and it behaved very much like yesterdays and it was a swordfish of around a hundred pounds. It had the same length but was much slimmer then yesterdays fish.

We had two more bites of wich one was defenetly an oilfish but the otherone might have been another samurai !

God´s Favour also tried for swordfish but only caught sharks.

Cheers

Olaf

1.01.05

The new year started well for us !

We only spent  a few hours trolling with seeing nothing before we decided to try nightfishing again later.

Squid and Makos are a good sign for swordfish normally and the were also today !

We only drifted for half an hour before we got a bite on our gogleeye.

It took about an hour to fight the fish on 50 pound standup gear and up came a nice 160 pound broadbill swordfish.

God´s Favour caught a sailfish and had another bite.

Cheers

Olaf

31.12.04

The last two days very very quiet and we caught nothing special and so didn´t god´s Favour.

Today the year ended with some action that I will never forget !

We got a bite of a 600 pound Makoshark and this thing went ballistic !

It jumped three times about 30feet high and then took a lot of line.

After we gained nearly all the line back the fish was on the surface waiting for us.

20 feet from the boat it bit the hooks of and came towards the boat and attacked the hull !

That was the first time I didn´t feel save on the flybridge with a fish !

God´s Favour caught a 375pound blue.

Cheers

Happy new Year !

Olaf

28.12.04

The marlin are back in ascension !

We went 1 for 3 in half a day .

We first had two lazy knockdowns from a 500 pounder and a 300 pounder

on the two longs and than finally found a hungry one that crashed the short corner.

It was on Roddy´s big cupface prorange lure (What ever it is called)

We caught the 700pounder quiet quick but it took a while to finally release her with just me and the angler on board.

The rest of the time we spend nightdrifting but only caught some squid !

God´s Favour had a bite and raised a nice marlin.

Cheers

Olaf  

Hi !

We went out Christmas day and had beautiful calm weather but saw nothing but plenty of dorados

27.12.04

Most of the marlin still seem to be on Christmas holidays God´s Favour had a bite of one but didn´t stay connected.

We caught 6 wahoos and  small yellowfins in  30 minutes and could have caught plenty more if we wanted to !

Christian and Nev with there catch !

Everytime we brought one in we had 3 or 4 following the hooked one !

Cheers

Olaf

24.12.04

Hi !

We got some nice presents at Christmas eve !

We caught a doubleheader yellowfins of wich the biggest one was 260 pounds !

The other one was around 220 pounds and we were just Christian and me on board so Christian had to catch all of them in a row !

We also caught a nice dorado of 20 pounds.

Yesterday we did inshorefishing and caught a couple of smaller yellowfins and some nice wahoos !

Merry Christmas

Olaf

18.12.04

Our last day for a while brought us no marlin but at least a dorado

and a nice 150 pound mako shark !!!

I´ll probably fish again on tuesday so don´t expect anything the next days.

Cheers

Olaf

17.12.04

Another day in paradise

but no fish here at the moment.

Nada,Nada !

Tomorrow everybody leaves me behind and I´m gonna have some time for Gina my girl ! (see picture)

Cheers

Olaf

16.12.04

We went around the whole island today but all we had was a dorado and a bite of a wahoo that destroyed Jeffs lunger.

God´s Favour saw nothing as well.

Cheers

Olaf

15.12.04

We did inshorefishing again and caught loads of Jack´s on fly a wahoo and plenty of grouper .

Tomorrow we do just marlinfishing for change !!!!

Cheers

Olaf

14.12.04

We spend a lot of time inshore flyfishing for dorados and hooked a couple but only caught one.

Marlinwise we saw nothing but very strong wind ,whitecaps everywhere and blue water.

Cheers

Olaf

13.12.04

Our new clients arrived late due to a late plane and we only fished half a day and saw nothing interesting.

12.12.04

The Marlin are back around ascension island !

We pulled the hooks on a 550 pounder around noon and caught a 600 pounder in the evening !

There was not too much action birdwise around the place but the marlin were there wich is more important for me !

Cheers

Olaf

Heikos 600 on the Andromeda

11.12.04

We fished half a day trolling only and raised a sailfish and had a bite of a 500 pound Blue marlin.

The rest of the time we spend on the anchor but didn´t catch anything special.

Cheers

Olaf

10.12.04

Still no blue marlin around today but we caught a180 pound tuna

and 100 pound galapagosshark.

I hope they are back tomorrow !

Cheers

Olaf

9.12.04

We caught a 150 pound yellowfin trolling and a wahoo and 2 dorados inshore !

Peter and the doradodance

God´s Favour caught a yellowfin also and a sailfish and missed a white marlin or spearfish.

Cheers

Olaf

8.12.04

We saw lot´s of birds, dolfins and very big waves today but had no bites trolling.

We caught some Groupers for Dinner in the evening.

God´s Favour lost a 400pound blue marlin and caught a yellowfin.

Cheers

Olaf

7.12.04

Today was very quiet !

Few birds and a big swell caused lots of greenwater around the island.

We had one mysterybite of something very small (maybe a wahoo) in the morning and caught a strange looking billfish wich was probably a white marlin but it had no dorsalfin ,long pointy pectoral fins and the colours of a sailfish !

I´ll put pictures on my website tomorrow and if someone has a suggestion what else it might have been it would be appreciated.

God´s Favour saw nothing interesting.

Cheers

Olaf

6.12.04

Santa clause brought us a nice fish today !

She was a 750pound blue marlin and she eat the Enki in a nice aggressive way  .

We saw lots of skippies and raised a sailfish.

God´s Favour had a bite in the morning, caught a 120lbs tuna and a 175 pound blue marlin in the evening.

Cheers

Olaf

5.12.04

We went out strait of the mooring today and as I´m putting the second rigger down Jeff tells me that we have got one on already !

The fish started jumping towards the bow and we stayed connected

The fight took a long time down deep and as the 550 pounder finally came up we saw that it was foulhooked in the back.

The rest of the day we saw lots of birds and bait but didn´t have any more bites.

God´s Favour went 1 for 4 on blue marlin (475) and caught a yellowfin.

Cheers

Olaf

4.12.04

We went to English bay today and saw lots of bait everywhere.

We had a misterybite in the afternoon that came of after a few minutes and caught a 270 pound !!! Yellowfin and a smaller one in the evening.

God´s Favour caught a 800lbs blue marlin and raised 3 more of wich two bit and came off.

Cheers

Olaf

3.12.04

Today we had a bite of a 500lbs marlin,raised a couple of sails and caught a 100lbs tuna in the evening.

God´s Favour missed a small blue and caught 2 tunas.

Cheers

Olaf

2.12.04

We had a late start today and had a bite of a lazy 350pounder wich slipped the hooks of his bill very quick.

We raised a couple of sails and had 2 knockdowns.

There was some good tuna action at the southside but we only caught a small 100pounder.

On the mooring we were destroyed by loads of Blackjacks and oilfish that made it impossible to catch something else.

Cheers

Olaf

1.12.04

Hi !

I was already thinking about the best way to describe nothing

as I saw some birds on the horizon .

They were feeding on babygroupers wich were brought up to the surface by some nice Yellowfins.

We did a couple of turns and caught the first one better then 200 pounds and shortly after that we hooked the next one and while we were fighting him a whaleshark came directly to the boat.

That was quiet nice to watch.

No Marlin today.

Cheers

Olaf

Todays 2 tuna

Jeff and his dinner !

30.11.04

We had a very short day today !

We went out at 7am caught a 450pound blue marlin around 8am

and came back to solve some technical problems.

The fish bit Roddy´s Enky again.

Cheers

Olaf

Albis 450lbs Blueand the Enky

A happy Albi

29.11.2004

Today we saw nothing but rough seas and loads of bait on the sounder.

God´s Favour saw one small tailing blue marlin.

Cheers

Olaf

28.11.04

Today was very similar to yesterday. We raised one late in the afternoon about 7-800lbs that did´t touch anything.

The funny thing is 10 seconds before that I marked her on the sounder and told jeff

There is a blue marlin in 20 meters” and shure enough she really came up.

We had one bite of a sail and raised one more.

There was some birdaction in the evening but it is getting less every day.

Gods Favour had a small blue in the morning and raised anotherone.

Cheers

Olaf

27.11.04

This morning we couldn´t find any birds so we kept on going towards the SE

On our way we caught a 70 lbs sailfish and as we trolled over the seamount of Pillar Bay I saw a blue marlin of about 500lbs swimming downseas next to the boat.

After some seconds I already wrote this fish of as not interested but he came up on the Enky and had a go with it.We were “hooked up “ for ten minutes before the totally damaged leader untangeled from it´s bill.

We raised another fish wich Jeff called 800+ but it didn´t bite .

After that we had another bite of a sail that didn´t stick and in the late evening we found the big schools of skippies and tunas again and missed one 200+pound yellowfin.

God´s Favour raised 2 sails and pulled the hooks on a small blue.

Cheers

Olaf

26.11.04

Today we started at 10:30 and went to the south west again.

Trevor saw 1 fish between 800 and 900 lbs and yesterday he ended up with seeing 6 Blues including 3 monsters !

We also raised a big fish around a school of big skippies and it was also around 900 and maybe bigger ? It did not bite came up on Roddys Enky but faded away after 20 seconds.

After that we caught a doubleheader 200lbs yellowfins and the afternoon was quiet.

Cheers

Olaf

1. Mate Jeff Thomas

2. Mate Phillip Hahn-Woernle

25.11.04

Hi !

Today was one of the days where you think your draging invisible lures.

Together with gods Favour we did a tour around the island and it was pretty much like yesterday .No interesting action anywhere except the SW but again here it was mindblowing. Tunas ,birds and skipjacks everywhere and they were all eating tiny little babygrouper (see picture).

We caught one 100lbs yellowfin but saw no billfish until we had to leave early because of Dieters and Ulis flight.God´s Favour had a “bit” more billfishaction later on.

First they had a bite half a mile from us from a marlin they couldn´t tell the size because they just saw the hole in the sea and it came off.

After that they hooked a big fish over 1000lbs faught it for one hour or so and pulled the hook close to the boat .A little while later they raised a blue that Trevor called “probably the biggest fish he has seen so far” but didn´t get a bite.(I´ve had that before)

And the last I heared before I left the boat that they lost anotherone around 800lbs

It was quiet for us but it was just exiting to hear what is around this rock at the moment !

Maybe tomorrow ?!

Olaf

My first 200+ Yellowfin (as an angler)

24.11.04

Hi !

The tunafeast was still going on today !

We had a look around the island to see if somewhere else are some marlin but we couldn´t find any live other then the one in the SW and it was massiv again but today we were in the right place at the right time and caught 3 tunas between 150 and 230lbs and one small one plus some more knockdowns.

God´s Favour missed 1 blue marlin and caught tuna also.

Cheers

Olaf

23.11.04

Hi !

Today we saw lots of tuna and big skippies  (25lbs) again !

We caught one yellowfin about 200lbs .

In the evening we went to the mooring and caught a 50lbs wahoo ,one oilfish and lost a sixgillshark just under the surface !

Cheers

Olaf

22.11.04

Hi !

We didn´t see a marlin today but thousands !!! of big yellowfins !

We were in the SE and Trevor called us to the SW because he saw  the biggest feedingfrency in his life so we ran over there and saw birds everywere . We caught a small tuna arround 60lbs and missed some bigger ones . We were a little to late . Trevor caught 3 Yellowfins and saw 2 Granders wich he called 1200 and a beast !?

They had one contact with the "beast" but it got tangeled in the leader and came of. The other one didn´t bite .

I known we will see one of these soon and I´m looking forward to that !

 

Cheers

 

Olaf 

The boys on Green Mountain

22.11.04

Hi !

Today we had a good day !

We started at 12 and caught a 350 pound blue marlin pretty soon.

We went towards the SW and caught a 198 pound yellowfin tuna and went to our mooring.

We caught lots of bullseye and a very big whalershark probably a bullshark.

Cheers

Olaf

Our first big yellowfin this season

Flying SHY III (+Jeff and Olaf !)

(Phillip had his flight with the Dingy !)

SHY III on it´s way to a new season !

Springseason 2004

10.04.04

Today we caught a nice 600lber on 50lb standup and it was a real good fight !

We raised another 300 but it didn´t bite !

Harmattan missed two blues one about 450 and one about 250 .

09.04.04

We caught 1 blue marlin a bout 300lbs on 30lb tackle today after that we had to go in because of a broken steering but everything is fixed for tommorow again !

08.04.04

Today we caught 1/1 blue marlin about 300lbs again and had a bite of a sail again.

Schools of small gogeleyes were on the pierhead and the Jacks had party !

Harmattan went 1/2 on blue marlin also arround 300lbs.

05.04.04

We missed a blue about 300 lbs that spit our circlehook in a jump and we raised a couple of sails of wich we got one to bite but it didn´t stick.

Harmattan had exactly the same result !

04.04.04

We caught two blues on 50lb line 1 was about 300 lb and the second one was 250lb.No Yellowfins arround today but some skippies. We raised two sails one of them tried to eat the bait but he was too lazy.

Harmattan caught 3 sails and raised a few more .They also raised two blues and they pulled the hook on one and the other one didn´t eat. Anotherone was tailing infront of their boat.

03.04.04

We saw a lot of action today !

First we caught a sail on 30 . Then the big yellowfins turned up and we got 3 bites on our teasers . After that we put a small tunalure in the back of our spread . We got one bite but pulled the hook.Then we pulled the hook on a 200 after a few minutes. We raised a nice fish about 450 wich wasn´t to keen on our gogeleye.

After that we got another bite on our tunalure and that one was hooked well. After 2 hours and 15 minutes we caught the 205lbs yellowfin on 50lb standup.Later we raised a couple sails wich didn´t come to the bait.

Harmattan caught 5 sails (while we were fighting our tuna) and a blue about 250.

They saw about 20 sails and raised another small blue.

02.04.04

The day started very quiet .

We had our first bite at 4.30 and lost the 300lber like we lost the second fish 15 minutes later !

We spend most of our time in the SE.

Harmattan stayed in the SW and they saw loads of sailfish over 20 and caught 4 they also lost a small blue and saw some 100lb yellowfins.

01.04.04

Shy is back in action !

Today we started at englishbay but it looked dead so we moved over to the SW and we started getting bites from sailfish .

At three o´clock we hooked a 300 and while clearing the gear another fish arround 200 followed a lure but didn´tn bite.

We ended up loosing our fish 20m from the boat.

Harmattan went 1/2 on blues (300)(small) and also had a couple of sailfishbites.

In the evening we saw lot´s of bird action and I think they were the first yellowfins !

23.03.04

We went 2/3 on blues today and raised anotherone that didn´t take the bait.

1 was a 250 on 30line and a 250 on 50 line-.

Harmattan went 1/3 caught a 200 and missed a 400 and a 200.



We have no clients for the next week so don´t expect reports until the 31st !

22.03.04

We fished half a day for marlin and caught a 275lber on 30lb line.

After that we went inshore and caught three nice wahoos on light tackle and lost two more.

Harmattan caught a wahoo in the morning but saw no billfish.

21.03.04

We started at 12 today and caught two small blue marlin pitchbaiting.

One on 50lb line and one on 30lb line.

In the evening we went to the mooring and hooked up on me tunas. One about 50lb took a fly on 20lb tippet and we fought him for two hours before the gaff rippet out and the tippet broke. Anotherone broke a 16lb rod and finally the line also.We had some more hookups on fly but they broke of very soon.One of these hookups was a 200lb mantaray !

Harmattan fished inshore until 12 and broke a flyrod !

After that they caught a marlin I think it was arround 200 and they broke this rod as well !!



Lot´s of damage but good fun !

20.03.04

Today we did pitchbaitfishing again and we caught two Blue Marlin of about 250lbs and the other one was a "shortbill blue" of about 200lbs.

We also missed 3 sails.

Harmattan caught 1 or two sails missed a couple and missed a small blue too.


19.03.04

We went 0/3 (150,350,400) !

Matthias couldn´t catch none out of a doubleheader either .He raised anotherone.

18.03.04

Today we did pitchbaiting and we teased a nice 450-500lber

to the boat it took the bait but spit it again.

We had 2 guys chumming today so we came in alittle early.

Harmattan raised a small blue and a sail until we left.

17.03.04

We went 1/3 today on fish arround 300 . I´ve seen a fish about 600 tailing downseas but it didn´t show any interest.

Harmattan went 2/2 on small fish pitchbaiting and raised another one.

16.03.04

We went tothe SW today and caught 1/2 Blue marlin about 300 (400) and 1 /3 sailfish.The marlin was caught(like yesterday ) on Roddys "Baselisk".

Harmattan went to englishbay and went 0/2 on blues and had a misterybite .

15.03.04

Today there was nothing in englishbay but we caught a250 in the SE and had a bite of a 400 in the SW.

Harmattan went 1/3 on blues and raised 3 sails.

14.03.04

A great day in Ascension !

We went 4 / 6 on blue marlin today !!!

We went back to were we saw our two fish yesterday in englishbay where nobody normaly fishes and it started with a 450 at 10.30.We caught our second fish about 350 at noon and half an hour later we had a doublestrike of wich we hooked one fish about 300 but pulled him of after a couple of minutes.Arround 3 we caught a small fish about 150 and at 5 we got the last about 175. Inbetween we had some dorados and saw a nice whaleshark swimming together with a mantaray.

So it was a great day and even the sea was quiet calm !

I wouldn´t mind more of this !

Harmattan didn´t fish (bad timimg !)

13.03.04

We went 1/2 on blues today and we caught the rat of maybe 120 and lost a nice 600 on 80 because of me running over the line.

The fish took a lot of line and we couldn´t gain in backing down. After a while of chasing the fish forward I lost the line for a short time and as I saw it again it was right under the boat in a very shallow angle and that was it ! (Not Happy!)

Harmattan caught a sail about 80 lbs .

12.03.04

We had a bite of a sailfish today .That was it.

Harmattan went 0/1 on a 400.

11.03.04

We went 0/1 on a400 again !

It took my bridgeteaser first and then went of with Roddys prorange Andromeda but he jumped of after two minutes .

We started at 1 pm and had some good tunafishing in the evening.

Harmattan went 0/2 on small fish and raised one on a livebait.

10.03.04

Today we missed a 200 and a sail !

Harmattan went 1/2 also on small fish !

I wonder when our normal size fish will be back !?

08.03.04

Today we started at 7am and it was very rough .

We went 1/3 on sailfish and didn´t see a marlin.

Harmattan had a bite of a 400 on a livebait but pulled the hook.

07.03.04

We went 1/1 on a 200 and raised a bigger one that didn´t bite 1/3 on sailfish.

Harmattan raised 1 blue about 300 and 2 sailfish but couldn´t catch nothing.

06.03.04

Today we pulled the hooks on a 300lb and we had a couple of sailfish knockdowns .

Harmattan went 0/2 on blues about 500 and 400 and saw another one.

Andromeda went out for a couple of hours with some Guys who help us all the time here on the island and they kicked our as .They caught a 150 blue and 1 out of 4 sails.

Not much caught but there was a lot more action then the week before.

05.03.04

Today we nearly had a doubleheader !

We hooked (and caught) a 250 and while we bring the lures in another fish about the same size comes on Roddy´s Zeus teaser but we couldn´t get him to take a lure.

Harmattan caught a 300 and raised a 400 wich bit on their teaser.

04.03.04

Today we went 0/1 on lures and 0/0,5 on a livebait.

We were ready to go back to lures and brought the bait in .I saw a marlin following and the bait had a bitemark but then the fish never touched the bait again and faded away.



Better luck tomorrow ?

03.03.04

Today we did half a day Marlintrolling without any success except a knockdown of something small but in the evening we had about 10 yellowfins from 50 - 80 lbs and an oilfish about 60. We lost two sixgills.

Harmattan caught a small blue and had a bite of a sail

02.03.04

We caught a 80lbs sailfish today and Harmattan

went 0/1 on blue marlin about 300 and had a sail attacking a skipping bonito.

02.03.04

Hi Everybody !

I´m back on the island and back online now !

I fished 3 days now on shy III and we caught 1 about 400lbs

out of 3 bites of blues and raised 3 sails.

We had some dorados and some yellowfins on the mooring.

I´ll put daily updates from now if I get the chance !

02.12.03

Andromedas last fishingday in this year. We started at 8 at the SW and 9.30 we got a nice 600 lber on a Merlin lure.

After that it went quiet for us and we got some dorados and a65lb wahoo .Shy started later and went to the SE after a couple of hours in the SW and in the afternoon the got a 600 as well wich was really strong in the fight they had to let go the leader twice before they could stop it.As far as I know Harmattan didn´catch anything.

01.12.03

Today was very quiet Marlinwise.Harmattan had abite of a 400 and shy raised a sailfish.We saw lots of skippies and some big Yellowfin in the SE eating krill but not our lures.

30.11.03

Marlin again !

Andromeda raised two one about 600 and the other one was according to our angler the same size because I never saw the fish on the truckteaser.

Shy had a really good day and went 2/3 850 and 700 and caught a spearfish.

Harmattan didn´t see anything.

29.11.03

We still had fish arround the SE today !

It started with Shy raising a nice blue wich didn´t bite.

A little later they hooked a fish wich went of like crazy and moved them 2 miles.In the end the fish died on them and they had to plan it up. After Shy boarded their fish we (Andromeda got a hookup on a 80 standup and after a couple of jumps the fish went down and also died We had to plan it up and it gave Dennis a hiding on his standupgear . Ones we got it on the surface we tryed to revive the fish but their was no chance. So we decided to way our two fish because they were dead anyways.

Shys fish wich was hooked in the tail ended up with 635lbs

(click to enlarge)

and ours was 575lbs .

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Harmattan pulled the hooks on a600 and caught a200+ yellowfin.

28.11.03

The marlin was still arround in the SE but that doesn´t mean that we had a good day ! We started at 10 and Harmattan was also changing from coastal to marlinfishing.At 12 they had a bite on lures and caught a 350.We were full of hope for a buisy day .Then a while later Shy raised a small blue wich didn´t want the pitchbait. Harmattan got abite of 200lb + Tuna but lost it .We were 2 miles west of them chasing some yellowfins for livebait but we went closer to the others . On our way we heard Harmattan hooking up on a live bait but the fish threw the bait in a jump it was arround 500 ones we arrived they got another bite on a livy but lost the 600lber again even with J hooks.We finally got 1 livebait and it started to look real good birds and skippies everywhere.We slowtrolled for 1 hour but were far from home and wanted to start trolling home wth lures .So Zac brought the bait in and I stopped the boat to make it easier. Zac undoes the bridle and lets the fish go .In the same splitsecond I see a 400lb blue 1meter from the transom lidup blue eating the bait as it hits the water.

While I´m throwing some bad words arround we put lures in the water but we never saw the fish again.

That´s what I call the peak of bad luck when it comes to marlinfishing.We are really looking after our fish we even give them free food.

Well we give it another try tommorrow but we keep our bait in the boat until we are running!!!

27.11.03

Today we saw some marlin again.

We (Andromeda) wanted to try the SE side today and we started at 12 .But when we went out Harmattan and Shy were already gone that way and we went to the SW again.

At 1.3o we got a bite of a400 lber and we stayed connected for 10 minutes before the fish jumped all over the place and shook the hook of.

That was it for our Marlinfishing. At 3pm Shy pulled the hooks on a 400 and a500 in 10 minutes but we were stuck in the Sw because we had to go to our mooring in the evening.

At 4 Shy had a bite ( Knockdown) from a fish well over 1000lb but it didn´t stick again but at least stayed with the lure some time and gave it a knock.

A little later they saw a 700 tailing and Harmattan had a visit of a 500 on their livebait but the yellowfin swam in panic under the boat and got tangeled in the Rudder.

At night we caught some nice bullseyes and an 80lb Oilfish but no tunas even not on live gogleeyes.

I will Go to the SE tommorrow and I bet the all the fish are gone or they are in the SW but I don´t care !

Send me some luck please !

26.11.03

I´m afraid there is not much to report today .

We saw some bigger Yellowfins but no sign of anything special for any of the boats .

It changes quick here but that also means that it can be great tommorow!!!

25.11.03

Today Was a busy day !!

Andromeda started of with raising anice sail wich didn´t bite. Than in the afternoon we found a spot far out at the SW were a line of green water lipped out in the sea and we got a bite of a 200lber .After some nice action we caught this one and after a few minutes we got the second bite of a 400lber wich pulled a few meters and came of. Half an hour later we hooked a nice one of at least 600 and it did some maneuvers on us .It took 600 meters of line and I nearly ran over the line as the fish started jumping in front of the boat and after it calmed down we brought her slowly back to the boat. 15 m from the leader without any special movment we pulled the hooks wich we didn´t like !!

Shy got unlucky too !First the pulled of a 500+ fish and they had a second fish biting their bridgeteaser.

Than in the evening they hooked a huge fish wich was very calm in the beginnig but than realised that it was hooked and it jumped ontoo the line and broke off !!

Harmattan Caught one of 450 in the same spot.

I hope the fish stay arround for a while now.

It was great to see all this action after the slow weeks befóre.

24.11.03

Today Andromeda had its day and we caught a 600lb Blue on a tiny little lure from Roddy and it was on 80.

In the end of the fight the fish went nuts and nearly jumped in the cockpit but we were lucky that it only hit the transom !

Shy saw two tailing marlin together one was very big and the other one around 400 may be male and female in love because non of them was interested .They also had a knockdown but don´t know what it was .

I didn´t hear anything from Harmattan .

23.11.03

All the boats did a late start today and only Andromeda and Harmattan did marlinfishing before the night.

We had a knockdown but didn´t see what it was.

Harmattan was the lucky one today and caught a800lber on 80 standup.All the boats caught lots of yellowfins at night.

22.11.03

Andromeada started at midday and we caught 2 wahoos and jacks and an oilfish at night.

Shy had a good day .They caught a 700 pound blue marlin on a Hydra from Legend Lures.

Harmattan did coastal and nightfishing as well and got some small stuff like us.

21.11.03

Today Andromeda saw some billfishaction again.

We had 3 bites of white marlin around 80lbs and saw two blues of wich one bit and we lost him after quiet a while .He was about 300 lbs .

Shy did not fish today and Harmattan missed a white marlin as well.

18.11.03

We did 4 hours of Marlintrolling and spend the rest inshore and caught some Groupers .Shy does a nighttrip again and had nothing until we left. Harmattan went 1/2 on blues and caught a300 pounder on a livebait !

15.11.03

Hello !

We didn´t fish yesterday and today we did a 6 hour trip and had one miterybite of something we never saw.

Shy and Harmattan did inshore fishing with some nightfishing later and caught wahoos and yellowfins so far.

Andromedas next fishingday will be on tuesday but I´ll inform you if the others catch something special.

13.11.03

Today Andromeda caught a 140lb yellowfin on a live skippie on the downrigger.

Shy went half a day inshorefishing and caught some wahoo ,Jacks and Gallapagossharks and so did Harmattan.

12.11.03

Hi !

We did nightfishing today and in the afternoon we trolled a bit for marlin. We raised a blue of about 700 but it was not interested again.

Shy had bites of very big tunas over 200lbs but they didn´t stick.Nightfishing we caught loads of yellowfin up to 50lbs and some bites on big baits that might have been swordfish.We also caught a 200lb hammerhead. Shy got some bites and caught some yellowfins as well .

11.11.03

Hi !

Yesterday Shy caught a white marlin and had 3 bites of broadbill and got some small yellowfins drifting.

We (Andromeda) pulled the hooks (again!!!) on a decent blue after pulling a lot of line.He bit an Andromeda (Roddy Lure) We also got a bite of a swordfish but couldn´t hook him.(We started at midday)

Today (11.11) Shy caught a small mako also on an Andromeda and we had some dorados.I don`t know about Harmattan.

09.11.03

Hello !

Today we went 0/2 on small blues .Shy got Dorados and a mystery bite .Harmattan went 0/2 one was a 400 on livebait.

08.11.03

Hello from the rock !

No Marlin caught today . We saw nothing and shy either but Harmattan went 0/2 on smaller fish.

In the evening we fished from our mooring and caught a 800lb sixgill and about 10 Yellowfins up to 50 lb.

Shy is still drifting in deep water and they caught 2 Makos about 150lbs and had a bite of a broadbill so far.

07.11.03

Hi people !

We saw no Marlin today caught two Wahoo in the shallows and that was it for us.

Shy saw 4 Blues and got 3 bites 550 and smaller and caught Nada!

Harmattan did coastal fishing and caught a bunsh of wahoo and Jacks.

Hi !

Still big fish in Ascencion but I can´t catch them !

We went out late and fished the south west again it was pretty quiet until we did a far offshore tag and finally we raised a huge fish !She came up in the middle of the spread lid up blue and moving fast but the she turned brown and slowly fell back behind the spread and dissapeared.

The fish was defenetly well over the 1000lbs mark and it is the fifth that showed exactly this behavior.

After stopping at our new mooring we caught yellowfins on light tackle some bottomfish and had a bite of a sixgillshark but he just took the bait and not the hooks.

Shy went 0/1 on a blue about 300 and Harmattan raised a 600.

Cheers and Somebody send me some luck!

06.11.03

Hello !

Today was a bad day for us !

We new we were low on fuel and we were soposed to fuel in the morning but it didn´t happen. So we fished on the limit and it didn´t work out . we lost one engine because of sucking air and tr olled back in . Just at the droppoff we got a bite of a blue at 6 knots and pulled the hooks. We caught a Dorado and livebaited two 30lber yellowfins for two hours without a bite.

Shy Caught a couple of wahoo and had a crashbite of a 400lb blue on their teaser wich never came back.

05.11.03

Hi !

Today we finally managed to catch our first marlin about 500lbs and Ian on Shy saw a very big tailing fish wich never came to the teasers,.They are still fishing for broadbill so we will know tommorrow !

04.11.03

Hello people !

Today we saw some billfish again !

We pulled the hooks on a 450lber and caught some nice Dorados.

Shy III missed 2 Blues (750 and small) and one small billfish whatever it was.

No Yellowfins around today but loads of skippies and we livebaited twice once we got a big tangle with some Gallapagossharks and the second time we slowtrolled for 2 hours with nothing.

02.11.03

Hi !

Sorry but we did night fishing yesterday and I stayed on board .

o we started at two o clock and did 3 hours marlintrolling but we didn´t see anything else then lots of skippies and small yellowfins .Then we fished on our mooring for two hours and caught some yellowfins and a sixgill around a 1000 lbs .After that we drifted for swordfish but only got one bite of something wich I think was a horseeyejack.

2.11.

A hole day marlintrolling in the ruffest conditions I had so far here. We saw skippies and a few yellowfins but couldn´t find them when we wanted them for livebaits.We saw no marlin today but had a doubleheader of Wahoo .

Hope to see the longnose one tomorrow

31.10.03

Hali Hallo !



Today we spend the whole day in the SW where we had our fish yesterday but we couldn´t find a marlin .

But the water looked much more alive then yesterday .

We saw lots of skippies and loads of midsice yellowfins mostly in the afternoon. We caught 1 about 80lb on one of Roddys new lures and a couple of 20-30pounders.

Harmattan is checking out the mooring for nightfishing and is still out there.

Asta luego

30.10.03

Hi Everybody !

First day fishing first big fish but not caught !

We were trolling around the whole island starting in English Bay around the SE towards the SW .Nothing happend until two oclock so we decided to go in shallow for some tunas.

We only got one about 30lb so we went back to Marlintrolling half an hour later we got a crashbite of a very nice Blue Marlin and it was on . It changed direction twice in seconds and then took the fastest run I ever heared on a 130! Suddenly the line went slack and as we brought it in we saw that the double line was cut right at the swivel.We think the the line got caught on the snap and broke like that!?

this fish was defenetly one that we wanted and I would have prepared the gaffs for it if we stayed connected.

Bad luck but at least we know that the big ones are here again.

25.10.03

Hello !

Just another workingday for us on Andromeda but there were a lot of lokals fishing. They caught mainly yellowfin around 50 to 100 lbs .What I found interesting was that there were some guys fishing from a small boat just of the pierhead and they caught nice scads on feathers and then used them as livebait.In a short time they caught a couple of nice 50 lb Amberjacks wich I have never seen here before.

We will try to do a bait mission tommorow night!

Just two more days before we start !

23.10.03

Hi Everybody !

After two weeks of hard work on Andromeda we did our first short seatrial but we couldn´t resist the birds we saw and we put a small lure in the water .After 20 seconds we hooked the first fish of our season ! It was a wahoo of 30 lbs.

Besides that everything was working fine and now we start rigging our Marlingear.

The water looks very alive with lots of birds even on the beaches and the lokals still catch tonnes of yellowfins up two 100 lbs. So we are looking forward to do our first day of real fishing !

Cheers



Olaf