Fished 3 days on 3 different boats as french team with my buddies antoine drochon and laurent laferre. we boated two blues, a 350 and a 400 pounder, out of 5 bites. unfortunatly these two young fish got tailwrapped during the fight, and couldn't be revived. the bite was pretty good for the 11 boats fishing the competiton, a total of 30 blue was rai

06/09/12 trying to get the igfa woman 16 pound record for bluefin tuna. the fish hooked up this morning was way big enough. 5 miles and one and a half hour later, the leader was getting closer.... then we just heard bang..!! rod broken , then the line did the same. that sucks . at least we released a 150 pounder at the end of the afternoon, on 80 p

Just back from a 7 days trip in mindelo - here are most of the game boats -nobody's fishing right now, season's gonna start in two month - water is about 22 degres , and wind's blowing pretty much every days - the fish market is full of wahoo up to 90 pounds, plus yellowfins, a few marlin and some broadbills.

Bluefin tuna bite's red hot in front of rhône river , south of france. fished 5 days on a 40 footer gamefisherman, with capt. d. lopuzansky, dead baiting, we had 12 bites releasing 12, all under 100 kg. biggest 80 kg. some boats had more luck gaffing some nice one during the martigues tournament , a 123 kg, a 150, a 160 kg and a 195 kg were killed

From the 2nd to to 10th of december, i fished out of abidjan - ivory coast, with my friends jean paul, pierre and rahim. the boat was a 25 footer bertram powered by a cummins 200 hp inboard engine. during these 9 days, we targeted blue marlin, and only raised 4 decent fish on our live baits. the first one broke the 130 # line, because of a mistake

During a 2 month stay in guadeloupe-fwi, i fished 7 days on two charter boats, giving a hand to the captains on the west (lee) side of the island. during these 7 days, lure fishing, we had 10 bites of blue marlin. three of them were gaffed- the same day-, the biggest about 400 pound. the average size of blues here is about 150 pound during the wint

Gladius season 2011 in june, we did 17 days and raised raised 8 blue marlin out of morocco. conventional fishing, we gaffed a 532 and a 585, released a 600, a 400 pulled the hook, a 800 + missed the pitch, and we had another bite. a 600 refused the fly 20 # in july, we did 7 days off gran canaria, canaria island, and only raised a 150 who refused t

Back from cape verde , crewed 12 days on the hooker with capt. clay hensley and 1st mate wilson yamedor and 1 day on the happy hooker 2 with capt. simon bracey. 1st week with our canarians guest was slow. we released only 1 fish about 300 pound on a pitch bait. we raised about a fish a day, and on the pitch, our guest missed a few blues, and also a