Date added: March 12, 2010
PLENTY OF FISH
The last days the fishing here in Puerto Rico was Great.
Sure you wrote about the catch of our New Worldrecord Garrick or Leerfish, but of course we caught a lot more fish.
Tuesday the 9th we had Renee van Vliet with 3 friends and Anders Holgerson from Sweden, also with 3 friends , on board of the Cavalier.
They had a good day by catching some very good sized Atlantic Sierra Tuna's and some Barracuda's.
The news story about our Worldrecord fish, the Garrick or Leerfish of 27.5 kilo, which has been caught by Florian Hahn from Germany, you can read still in different English and Dutch news papers.
The story about this 'Super Catch' will be publised also in different fishing magazines.
FISH WITH THE BEST --- FISH WITH THE WINNERS
Also yesterday, both boats did great catches of Atlantic Bonito's.
Frode Enersen from Norway, and Truls Enersen fished both on the Exploramar.{photo here besides)
At the moment I have some problems to upload the photo's to the website, so hopefully this problem is fixed soon.
Hans
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Date added: March 11, 2010
NEW WORLD RECORD ?
The enormous 27.500 gramm fish, which has been caught yesterday on the boat Cavalier,seems to be a Lichia Amia.
This is the Latin name for the Leerfish or Garrick.
That means, when our dreams come true, the boat Cavalier has caught a New Worldrcord.
The Leerfish has been caught by a German Angler, trolling, on a 50 lb line.
The World Record for the Leerfish, is since October 2009, 22 kilo.
Directly when I have some more information for you, I will let you know in our Latest News.
Hans
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Date added: March 8, 2010
ATLANTIC SIERRA TUNA
On both boats the catches today were okay.
The Cavalier was chartered by two Finnish anglers and the crew fished with these clients on the Pasito Blanco Reef.
It were Hannu Mellahoo and Viho Vihavainen who caught some nice White Seabreams, 1 Baracuda and 3 Atlantic Sierra Tuna's.
Well done guys !!
The Exploramar fished this morning on the 55 meter reef and the fishermen here on board caught some good sized Red Snappers.
It was the Dutch fisher Jan Hengel who caught on this trip the heaviest one.
Congratulations Jan!
Hans
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Date added: March 5, 2010
BULL SHIT
There are Good and Bad fishing days.
Yesterday we had a very good day but today the catches were BULL SHIT
Sorry folks, but that's also fishing!
Hans
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Date added: March 4, 2010
AGAIN A TOP DAY
After a lot of windy days, both boats had again a very good fishing trip.
Also today, ALL the North Atlantic Bonito's has been caught on the boat Cavalier.
With thanks to crew Hafid and Abraham, light tackle specialists, of this boat.
Thanks also for Aleksi and Nillo Tiiti and Ville Holnmberg from Finland, Jens Brosig from Germany and Stephen Ellis from the United Kingdom.
This last fisher caught this morning also a 70 kilo Roughtail Stingray.
During this trip we spotted also an 80 kilo Hammerhead Shark besides of the boat.
Unfortunately but this shark was not interested in our baitfish.
Snapper specialist Billy of the boat Exploramar fished this morning with his clients on the 55 meter reef.
They caught this morning 19 Red Snappers and one Octopus.
On both boats the most anglers fished with light rods and reels.
Hans
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Date added: March 3, 2010
GREAT FISHING
Today was a really good day for the fish.
It was Andreas Jansson from Sweden, who fished today on the Cavalier, together with his sister Annika and his mother Lena.
Angler number 4 this morning was Christian Bach from Denmark.
These fishermen had a really good day.
They fished with light tackle and caught on live bait, 9 good sized Atlantic Bonito's, 1 Baracuda, 3 Sargo's and more than 50 smaller Seabreams.
Congratulations again and thanks for fishing on the Cavalier.
Hans
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Date added: March 2, 2010
FOLLOW US ON TWITTER
Since a few days you can follow us now also on Twitter.
So for the HOTTEST ONLINE FISHING NEWS from Gran Canaria !!!!
Our twitter name is: MARLINCHARTERS
Hans
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Date added: March 2, 2010
TOO WINDY
Since 1988, the year that I started here in Gran Canaria the fishing boat Blue Marlin 1, I can't remember me that we have so a lot of winday days as in the first 2 months of 2010.
Also today the crew of the Cavalier and the Exploramar dicided to cancel their fishing trips.
The Weather Forecast for tomorrow is still a lot better, so fingers crossed ?
Hans
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Date added: March 1, 2010
SKIPJACK TUNA
Today the boat Cavalier was trolling.
Some professional fishers, of the here about 150 kilometres away situated island Fuerteventura, reported yesterday catches of Albacore and even Bluefin Tuna's.
Crew Abraham and Hafid fished with their clients between 15 till 20 miles from the coast.
Here they found at 12 pm the first schools of feeding seagulls.
Unfortunately they could not find the Albacores here but the effort was nevertheless rewarded with the catch of 10 Skipjack Tuna's.
We thank Tony and Joane Caulton from the United Kingdom and Jukka and Eetu Laukkanen from Finland for a nice day fishing.
The Exploramar was today booked as a Part Charter.
Billy was trolling in the first 3 hours of this trip and fished the last 3 hours on the reef.
Kimmo Uusimaa from Finland caught on this trip a Skipjack Tuna and a Baracuda.
Hans
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Date added: February 28, 2010
NEW T-SHIRTS
Today we started the sale of our 'New T-Shirts' model B.
You can find the new t-shirts in our 'Online Shop' or on the 'Reservation Form'.
As well as 'model A' we will print these renewed T-shirts only in limited numbers.
Model A is still available though this is only a limited number of sizes.
Hans
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Date added: February 27, 2010
SEABREAMS
It was the boat Cavalier who left the harbor this morning with 2 Spanish, 1 Danish and 2 Dutch fishermen.
They went out fishing on the reef of Pasito Blanco.
The anglers onboard caught some Atlantic Sierra Tuna's and lots of Seabreams.
Hans
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Date added: February 26, 2010
8 RED SNAPPERS
Today, we followed a fishing trip on board of the boat Exploramar.
The crew Vicente and Pepe fished this morning on a small wreck, about 5 miles away of Puerto Rico.
The fishers on board didn't caught really big fish, but they enjoyed their trip.
There has been caught 8 Red Snappers.
The most with a weight between 1 and 3 lbs each.
Sander Martins from Holland (photo of the day) caught a good sized Atlantic Sierra Tuna.
Sure that our regular visitors know our Dutch client Daan Verhulst.
Daan, with his muscular body, better known as Mr Atlas caught on this trip 2 Octopus.
The Snappers has been caught today by Richard Verbiest, Roy Hudson and Seppo Rautio.
Hans
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Date added: February 25, 2010
330 LBS COMMON STINGRAY
With a 50 lbs rod and reel the fight took, this morning, 'only' 9 minutes!
It was John Marsh from the United Kingdom who's dream came true onboard of the boat Cavalier.
He caught the heaviest fish he had ever seen.
The weight of his Common Stingray has been estimated by the crew, Hafid and Abraham, on about 330 lbs / 150 kilo.(photo of the day)
Congratualations again John with the catch of your 'Super Wopler'.
But with this catch the trip wasn't finished.
The other fishermen onboard fished with 8 and 12 lb line and live bait for Baracuda's and Atlantic Sierra tUna's.
We congratulate also Trevor Jones and Dave Boyd from the United Kingdom, Vesa Laakso from Finland and the German angler Pahl Windtried who caught together: 6 Atlantic Sierra Tuna's, 2 Baracuda's and 1 Round Stingray.
Unfortuanately they lost also 8 till 10 hook ups.
Blue Marlin Charters thanks all fishermen and crew of the boat Cavalier for a great and successful fishing trip.
Hans
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Date added: February 24, 2010
ANGELSHARK and ATLANTIC SIERRA TUNA'S
Today we had a successful fishing day for both of our boats.
The fishermen on the Exploramar hooked in this morning with 6 Red Snappers, 3 Combers and 1 Octopus.
The Octopus was caught by our Dutch client Hans Voogt.
Jos Veelenturf, caught all 7 Red Snappers and Sander Martins hooked in with the 3 Combers.
It was Rob van der Pluym from Holland who caught on the Cavalier a 13 Kg Angelshark. (photo of the day)
Two Sierra Tunas has been caught by Keld Jeppesen from Denmark and Bjorn Astorp from Norway.
On this trip also lots of small reef fishes.
Hans
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Date added: February 23, 2010
RELAX CHARTER
This morning the Cavalier fished with the clients on a small reef, on a depth of 55 metres, in front of Puerto Rico.
Yesterday the boat Exploramar has been very successful on this reef, by catching lots of Red Snappers, so why not today?
Yes,why not.........???
Crew Abraham and Hafed tried everything for their cleints to catch a good sized fish, but unfortunately the snappers were not interested.
Henning Risbjerg from Denmark caught on this trip an Atlantic Bonito and Eddy Stocker caught a Barracuda and the only Red Snapper.
On the second trip of the Cavalier, the boat was booked as a Relax Charter.
This trip has been designed for everyone who like a few hours to relax.
On this 3 hours charter we take a maximum of only 4 persons.
On the Relax Charter it´s up to the client what he or she like to do!
They can decide to go for the reef fishing, with the possibility to catch some Red Snappers, Barracuda's or some good sized Stingrays.
But the clients can enjoy also some hours trolling with us for Blue or White Marlin, Tuna, Dorado or Wahoo.
What do you think about Jigging for Amberjacks or Fly fishing for Atlantic Bonito, Barracuda or maybe Dorado?
And if you don't like to fish ? Take a some sunshine on our sundeck.
Maybe you will see also some dolphins or whales or turtles, flying fish..............................
The Relax Charter is yours!
The Relax Charter Trip included one cola, fanta, beer or mineral water.
Cooled beverages are also available for a nice price.
We charge for this Relax Charter 300 euro.
Departures daily from 15.00 till 18.00 o’clock. Extra hours 100 euro
Thanks to Eero Alitalo and kids from Finland who had this afternoon 3 unforgateble hours on board of the Cavalier.
They enjoyed the sun, saw the dolphins and did also some fishing.
Hans
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Date added: February 22, 2010
GROUPER
Today a 'News Flash' of the boat Exploramar.
Billy fished this morning with his clients on the reef of Puerto Rico.
The fishermen caught here 11 good sized Red Snappers, 2 Atlantic Bonito's and one very big Grouper.
This 19 pounds Grouper is also our Photo of the Day and has been caught by the Dutch angler Sander Martens.
Also the German angler Wolfgang Kanemair was very succesfull.
Some of the pictures you will find back in our album: The Hall of Fame.
Hans
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Date added: February 20, 2010
SEABREAMS
On this cloudy Saturday the Cavalier fished this morning on one of their favorite reefs.
On a depth between 25 and 31 metres the clients caught plenty (216 pieces) different species of Seabreams.
Unfortunately there were not caught any big ones.
Thanks to Armando, Victor and Tota from Spain and Henning from Denmark.
With light rods they had a hard job today.
The weather isn't really like it ought to be and the weather forecast predicted again rainfall and a windy Sunday.
Hopefully they are wrong this time !
Hans
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Date added: February 19, 2010
REEF FISHING AFTER THE STORM
Yesterday we had waves with heights till 5 metres (latest news 18/02).
This morning the North Atlantic was calm again, so it was the Cavalier which boat went out for a day reef fishing.
Happy faces by 9 anglers who has been waiting 2 till 4 days for this trip.
The catches were sufficient but not overwhelming.
Our Photo of the Day is a Barracuda which has been caught this morning by the Dutch angler Gerard Bron.
There were caught by the other fishermen also 35 Seabreams.
Hans
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Date added: February 18, 2010
STORMY WIND
Last night and today till 2 pm, we had here in Gran Canaria a very strong wind.
With waves heights till 5 metres it was for many owners of business boats and restaurants a nervous day.
Lots of our clients were drinking last year, before or after their fishing trip, a cup of coffee or a cool drink in restaurant Olas Locas (means: Crazy Waves) in the harbour of Puerto Rico.
Today, the sea and waves has been, for the 3rd time in 6 years time, too strong for this lovely meeting point of many fishermen.
I and sure a lot of other anglers, wish the owners Begonia and her husband all the best with the rebuilding of their restaurant.
Hans
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