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Magic Dolphin Atividades Maritimas Lda

Member since August 2014 Funchal, Portugal
Background
Madeira Marlin - Balancal is run by Magic Dolphin Atividades Maritimas Lda, specializing in excellent game fishing and incredible customer services. Their captains are experienced, passionate, and will do everything to provide their customers with an incredible fishing experience. Born in the Madeira, Captain Fabio Abreu grew up on the sea, surrounded with boats and fishing. He used to worked many years in Magic Dolphin Catamaran, but his heart was always in fishing. When opportunity came, we did not think twice about putting Fabio in charge of Balancal big game fishing. He is one of the top captains in the area, specializing in pelagics.
Techniques
Trolling, bottom fishing, live bait, spinning, popping.

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Funchal, Portugal
Background
Madeira Marlin - Balancal is run by Magic Dolphin Atividades Maritimas Lda, specializing in excellent game fishing and incredible customer services. Their captains are experienced, passionate, and will do everything to provide their customers with an incredible fishing experience. Born in the Madeira, Captain Fabio Abreu grew up on the sea, surrounded with boats and fishing. He used to worked many years in Magic Dolphin Catamaran, but his heart was always in fishing. When opportunity came, we did not think twice about putting Fabio in charge of Balancal big game fishing. He is one of the top captains in the area, specializing in pelagics.
Techniques
Trolling, bottom fishing, live bait, spinning, popping.
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Madeira Marlin Charters - Balancal

Excellent
4.8 / 5
(40 reviews)
Funchal
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Trips from US $818

No Reserve - Big Game Fishing

Just added to our fleet
Funchal
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Trips from US $1,169

Customer reviews

Rating summary
Excellent
4.8 / 5
out of 5 stars from 40 reviews
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Boat
Excellent
4.8 / 5
Crew
Excellent
4.9 / 5
Experience
Excellent
4.7 / 5
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Fun, easy going and also exciting day out!
Fun, easy going and also exciting day out!
No fish today but a lovely trip all the same
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Angler rating
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Anglers claimed
Good experience
91%
Friendly captain
97%
Recommend this charter
88%
Appropriate for children
72%
Satisfied with the boat
97%
Caught fish
50%
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Ariana H.
Excellent
5.0 / 5
Experience:
Excellent
5.0 / 5
Boat
Excellent
5.0 / 5
Crew
Excellent
5.0 / 5
Overall

Great time!

VERIFIED   NEW  Big Game Fishing 4h (AM) on June 25, 2025
The crew and boat really made this an awesome introduction to Madeira. Although we didnโ€™t catch any fish we still had a great...
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Francesca W.
Excellent
5.0 / 5
Experience:
Excellent
5.0 / 5
Boat
Excellent
5.0 / 5
Crew
Excellent
5.0 / 5
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No fish today but a lovely trip all the same

VERIFIED   Winter Big Game Fishing 4h (PM) on March 2, 2025
We unfortunately didnโ€™t catch anything, but we did see Bottlenose Dolphins, had wonderful scenery. Crew were friendly and...
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James C.
Excellent
4.7 / 5
Experience:
Very good
4.0 / 5
Boat
Excellent
5.0 / 5
Crew
Excellent
5.0 / 5
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Fun, easy going and also exciting day out!

VERIFIED   Bottom Fishing 4h (AM) on May 18, 2025
I caught a few fish and was able to eat a red snapper for the first time! Delicious - the team on the boat made the experience...
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Brian D. G.
Excellent
5.0 / 5
Experience:
Excellent
5.0 / 5
Boat
Excellent
5.0 / 5
Crew
Excellent
5.0 / 5
Overall

Fishing with Declan Dogac

VERIFIED   Winter Big Game Fishing 7h on March 23, 2025
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Jamie T.
Excellent
4.7 / 5
Experience:
Excellent
5.0 / 5
Boat
Excellent
5.0 / 5
Crew
Very good
4.0 / 5
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Fishing with Declan Dogac

VERIFIED   Winter Big Game Fishing 4h (PM) on March 6, 2025
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