TLDR; 5-star experience. Captain was nice and real expert. We caught fish, the food was good and had enough beverages. Highly recommended!
Trip review
11.7.2017, Budva, Weather: +38, white sea, minor wind
The day started at 9 am, from the marina of Budva. Captain was there with the foods and beverages right on time, and the boat left from the marina exactly on time. We started the day by getting some live baits (cuttlefish) from local fisher man.
Captain offered us the welcome drinks and we headed to offshore to catch some mackerels. Mackerels got caught from mid-water (depth was about 80m).ย After we got about a dozen (like in 10 mins!) we headed to the deeper waters.
After about one hour travel to the deeper seas (we were trolleying while moving) we got into fishing grounds and were able to try to get our first target fish: Dentex. The depth of the waters was around 100m now, and we hooked up the live baits. Captain told us that we have only one chance to get Dentex hooked, if we fail, the school of fish would run away and the spot will be ruined for the day. On the second cast, we already got something hooked!ย Obviously, our northern fishing techniques didnโt suit this deep waters and we failed to boat our first fish. We used โpump reelingโ, which is used on bigger fish here, and on that deep, it just caused the hook fell off from fish. So, donโt do that!
We changed a spot and about 15 min of travel time, we got into a second spot. The depth of water was t around 111 meters there, and on the first casts, we got the double strike (I got a fish and my dad got a fish hooked)! I thought my fish was a really big one, and it felt really heavy. It was only a 1kg dentex, but the weight we used there made it feel much much bigger. HOw ever, my father got a real giant, 120 cm Conger Eel. The eel was a real fighter and gave us really good time when fighting it.
At this point, we didnโt get anything else from that point. We changed a location and got few other Mediterranea -fish, but no dentex. Captain thought that the day has been a really bad for fishing and asked if we would have time for few more tries, as according to him, he wasnโt happy with our catch of the day! Of course, we had (at this point, we had used all that 6 hours which was on the deal). Captain get us for few other spots and we finally got couple nice Dentex (biggest one was 2.5-3kg). At that point we were exhausted but really happy.
We arrived to back to Marina around at 5 pm, instead of 3 pm.
We were able to choose the fish we would like to eat at a local restaurant ( โFeralโ ), where the cooks prepared our fish and made us a really great meal from them for a ridiculously low price of 5โฌ / person. We ate the mackerel, eel and the dentex. They were delicious.
Great ending for a really great day at the sea with the Captain Zoran.
TLDR; 5-star experience. Captain was nice and real expert. We caught fish, the food was good and had enough beverages. Highly...