We were greeted at the marina by Frasier who spotted us just as we spotted the boat, a smart 23 footer with a 200hp outboard, four boat rods and out-riggers. We had booked an in-shore trip purely as that is all our budget would stretch too.
Frasier took us to meet Pedro (captain) on a nearby boat who greeted us warmly as did Frasier. A nice strong Portuguese coffee later and we were off, we motored down the coast for a while and then Frasier deployed the rods for trawling with barracuda as one of the target species. Pedro explained about the fancy sonar equipment and enthusiastically filled us in on Sao Miguel’s history and geology responding to our many questions in excellent English.
We trawled for quite some time but the fish were clearly not hungry. Our fortune briefly appeared to change when one of the rod’s clutches started to slip and the first fish was on. My son faught it to the boat but lost it before we could identify the species.
We were offered the chance to head to deeper water where a friend of Pedro was into some big tuna.  We regrettably turned this down in the hope that bottom fishing would be more productive. We spent the rest of the trip doing just this and landed a few tiddlers, sea bream mainly but nothing to get too excited about.
However, the trip was great fun and our lovely hosts did everything they could to get into some decent fish but it was not our day.
With hindsight we should have taken the opportunity to go to deeper waters where the tuna were, hey-ho, we live and learn.
Highly recommended

Captain Pedro went above and beyond to try to catch a Tuna as part of the big game option and stayed a little extra long on the water because bait fish started jumping like crazy at the end of our trip. Highly recommend this trip. We had a blast even though we didn’t reel a big tuna!

I went fishing with Captain Pedro for three full days from Ponta Delgada. Brought my 80 year father and my sister. The boat is large, comfortable and clean with the latest sport fishing tackle and equipment. From the start, Pedro was welcoming and friendly, and he and his crew made us feel very comfortable. While we did not catch marlin, we caught some tuna, and Pedro and his crew used their best efforts devoting their full time and attention to fishing. I highly recommend captain Pedro!

Started out as a 4 hour costal fishing trip that turned into a 4 hour big game trip. Captain Jorge looked at wind and wave conditions as well as local fishing knowledge to put us on bigeye tuna. We managed to catch 3 tuna on our trip. Great day with Jorge and his mate.

The crew were excellent and really went out of their way to ensure we were comfortable. We chased the fish for 3 hours and just as it seemed it would be a blank day we hooked 2 at the same time! We couldn’t be happier. This was a bucket list day.Paul & Clare 😃