I don’t even know where to start… Summary: this was an amazing fishing trip with the best crew!
After browsing through several offers for fishing trips, I decided to go for this crew because of the reviews from other people. And they did not exaggerate. These guys absolutely know their business! We met just before 6 AM at the Funchal marina. I was still pretty sleepy, but the wake-up call came pretty quickly. After a short drive, we stopped and caught roughly 20 mackerel as baitfish. Then a longer ride through the dark, leaving Funchal’s lights behind us.
The crew knows their spots, so they quickly found a cloud of baitfish and some promising echoes. And it didn’t take long before I caught 2 beautiful red snappers. Already happy, they told me that this was just a warm-up. And boy, they weren’t kidding!
Not long after, I had something really heavy on the hook. What followed was just unreal and not what I had expected. After an absolutely exhausting 20 minutes, I had a roughly 20 kg greater amberjack on my lap. I just couldn’t believe how draining it was to drill such a fish. But thanks to the directions of the crew, I felt confident at every moment of the fight.
Still shaky and with adrenaline rushing through my veins, they were already taking the boat to the next spot. And again it didn’t take long before I hooked onto another good fish. This time the fight was shorter, but still amazing, and it took my last energy reserves to get that superb-looking amberjack on board.
So if you want to go on a fishing trip with a crew that knows exactly what to do, I highly recommend you do it with these guys. And besides their expertise, they are really funny, and we had a few good laughs. Just don’t be sensitive to Portuguese swear words 😂
Thanks again, guys, these memories will last a lifetime!
