Blue Marlin World Cup 2021!
July 04, 2021
Calheta
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Trip Summary
Trip Summary
Yesterday, Gavito was participating in the Blue Marlin World Cup tournament. Lines in is at 08:30hrs so we left the marina around 0745hrs to be able to start fishing the spot that we had selected. We used a spread with large lures in mixed colors to see what was right for the day.
11:32 we saw I fish coming into the spread, hitting the long corner. NO!! He missed! But then he returned for a second attempt and BANG! Fish on! Capt. Anders in the chair!
In less than a minute, he took 220 meters of line and went airborne. Unfortunately, he managed to pull the hook after 3 minutes, game over.
We made some changes in the spread going for more purple/black and continued fishing. We where in the right area as two other boats hook up close to us during the day.
In all, it was not Madeira’s year this year. We were one out of three boats that had blue on the hook. In total 12 boats from Madeira were in the tournament. One Blue Marlin was boated but it was a few pounds to light to qualify.
We will be back next year!
Capt. Anders