Captain
Antonio Lamarque

Member since June 2014 Le Morne, Mauritius
Background
The Maranatha team is comprised of three local anglers, fluent in both English and French. Skipper Antonio Lamarque and his two crew members, France Labonne and Luciano Lamarque, are passionate anglers, highly professional and with an intimate deep sea fishing knowledge acquired over the years. It’s always a pleasure for them to help visiting anglers discover the charms of traditional big game fishing, as it is practiced in Mauritius.

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Le Morne, Mauritius
Background
The Maranatha team is comprised of three local anglers, fluent in both English and French. Skipper Antonio Lamarque and his two crew members, France Labonne and Luciano Lamarque, are passionate anglers, highly professional and with an intimate deep sea fishing knowledge acquired over the years. It’s always a pleasure for them to help visiting anglers discover the charms of traditional big game fishing, as it is practiced in Mauritius.
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Maranatha Sport Fishing

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Caught a big tuna, a dorado and a skipja
Caught a big tuna, a dorado and a skipja
Jan 24, 2020 Le Morne
We went out at 7a.m the weather was cloudy and it was raining. After an hour out we started seeing some schools of fish even the visibility was not good. We met a school of skipjack and hook one. After catching it we continued trolling and bang the short rigger line was running out fast we took all the lines in and started the fight after 20minutes the tuna was near the boat. We caught it and put the lines out once more. We then went through a school of dorado having 2 of them chasing the lures. We hooked one of them and were back at 1p.m.
Caught a blue marlin and a shark
Caught a blue marlin and a shark
Jan 21, 2020 Le Morne
We went out at 7a.m. The weather was cloudy and raining sometimes. After an hour we saw a first school of fish. It was a school of yellofin tuna but no sucess as the fish went down when we approach. We then saw a school of bonito. We manage to catch them. As we caught first 2 bonito we used them as live bait. After 1 hour we had a strike it was a shark. We kept the 2nd bonito alive. After catching the shark we went again with live bait and after approximately 45 mins bang...a mskin was on the line. We were back with a nice shark and a blue marlin
Caught 2 dorado at the end of the day
Caught 2 dorado at the end of the day
Jan 20, 2020 Le Morne
We started at 7a.m. the fishing was a bit slow for us. No bonito at the surface during the whole morning. But we saw 2 to 3 boat hooking Marlins not far from us. We were waiting for our turn but nothing. So we decided to go to the south. We encountered big schools of yellow fin tuna but no bit. We finally had a strike on the long corner line and the the elastic broke on the long rigger. It was two nice dorado that we caught after a nice action. We were back in the lagoon at 5p.m
175 pounds bullshark and 4 bonito
175 pounds bullshark and 4 bonito
Jan 15, 2020 Le Morne
We went out for a half day trip. After some minutes out we heard on the vhf radio that bonito were bitting. So we headed to this location. We hooked few bonito and lost some. We then choose 2 of them to use as live bait. After setting the big lines for marlin and shark, one of the lines went down ...the 2nd one went down too. We manage to hook the fish. We hooked one and on the second line the line which fix the bonito to the hook was cut. We fight for about 30 mins and the bull shark was at the back. After catching it we came back at 10a.m with a shark and 4 bonito
5 skipjack and a nice wahoo
5 skipjack and a nice wahoo
Jan 8, 2020 Le Morne
We went out at 7a.m for a full day trip. The sea was calm and flat like oil with some debris at the surface due to the heavy rain we had the days before. No sign of birds at all. After few hours we saw a first school of skipjack near a FAD and were lucky to hook 2 skipjacks that we took some minutes to take out as they were good fighters. The school then dived. We continued trolling and found another school hooked few skipjacks lost some and caught 3 more. On the way back we caught an 18 pounds wahoo and were back in the lagoon of Le Morne with 5 skipjack and a wahoo
Hammerhead shark
Hammerhead shark
Jan 5, 2020 Le Morne
We went out for a half day fishing. On special demand of the customer we started at 6a.m instead of 7. After few minutes out we caught 2 mackerel bonito. We went some distance more and caught some blue bonito. We immediately prepared them for live bait. As we put the first bonito and fixed the line we had a strike. We gave the fish the time to swallow the bait and then hooked it. After 1 and a half hour of fight the shark was behind the boat. It died during the fight. We then went for 2 more bonito and use them as live bait. No big fish came . We were back at 11 with a 275 pounds hammerhead and 6 bonito

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VERIFIED   NEW  5 Hour Trip (AM) on January 23, 2022
Great value for money. Excellent experience with fishing, nice looking boat and equipment, good talk with the crew who are...
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Mauritius
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First time out on a half day in November

VERIFIED   4 Hour Trip (PM) on November 4, 2021
A great day out with Captain Antonio and Luciano. This was our first day and we were extremely pleased with the warm reception...
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Port Louis, PL
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VERIFIED   8 Hour Trip on December 6, 2021
Made it possible to cath my first blue marlin! Bote guys did an incredible job. Once more, thx a lot!!!
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November fishing trip

VERIFIED   4hrs morning trip on November 24, 2021
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Fishing with Antonio

VERIFIED   5 Hour Trip (PM) on October 31, 2021
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