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Captain Allen's Weekly Fishing Report Archives |
July 2005
| July 10th -
O.K., I know what you are saying, “ What happened to last
week's report?” Well, it’s been crazy here at Mako Charters -
fishing everyday and boat & tackle repairs every night.
The big news, last week, was Sea Scorpion’s 712lb Blue Marlin that won the World Cup. This makes three years in a row for Bermuda! Congratulations to all of the Sea Scorpion crew - great job! Hey Steven, “No Rats”! De Mako kept to her usual of catching Marlins before and after the tournament. This week, true to form, we have released a Blue Marlin everyday, plus a fair amount of Whites, too, with our best fish of the week coming today - a 650lb Blue, released by Mr. Forgie. Congratulations and we are looking forward to fishing with you next year. This week is the Bermuda Big Game Classic, and Ricky is telling me that he is bringing out the lucky Goose! Maybe that will work! Good luck & good fishing to all the participants in the Classic. |
| July 25th -
Well, the Big Game Classic has come and gone and DeMako’s
tournament luck did not change. Congratulations to Southern Exposure &
Treasure Isle for their great performances. Southern Exposure took 1st place, with a 1023lbs Blue & 3 releases - now, that’s the way to win a tournament! Treasure Isle was a close 2nd with 3 releases and a 640lb catch by angler, Ricky Cox - nice job, guys! (nice shirts!) Well, back on De Mako. Woody, knowing how hot De Mako is after a tournament, booked two days and finished up with 4 Blue Marlin releases out of 8 fish on the line. Great fun! Maybe we should get Woody and his lucky hat to fish the tournament, next year! In the last few days, the Marlin bite has returned to a live bait bite. Trolling boats are just not getting the bites. Chumming and live bait fishing for Marlin is the way to go. Yes, chumming! "Gringo" was 1 for 3 on Blue’s, a few days ago, while chumming for Tunas. "Playmate," "Sheer Luck," "Knock Down" and "DeMako" have all had luck with live baits. You should give it a try. Just get a few Robins or Mackerel, or even a small Tuna, rig him up and move out to the deep, and standby. Beware: not only are the Tuna & Marlins eating these live bait, so are the Sharks. We released an 800lb Tiger Shark, on Saturday. Today, on DeMako, Mick released a 400lb Blue on a live Tuna, and he also released a 600lb Blue, on Saturday, on the Playmate. Congratulations, Mick, on two great catches! The Seahorse tournament is this week - I just hope that T.S. Franklin does not blow it out for the smaller boats. Well, good luck & good fishing to all! |
August 2005
| August 1st -
"DE MAKO" TAKES TOP HONORS IN THE SEAHORSE BILLFISH
TOURNAMENT "SOUTHERN EXPOSURE" CLINCHES 2005 BERMUDA TRIPLE CROWN CHAMPIONSHIP De Mako’s Tournament crew: Capt. Allen DeSilva; #1 Mate James Robinson; The one and only angler Ricky Sousa; and Cameraman / 2nd. Mate / 2nd. angler / Bar tender/ Boat cleaner, Steven “Straws “ Haycock. Team De Mako had fished the Bermuda Blast & Bermuda Big Game Classic with no luck and our standing in the Triple Crown was non-existent. Our last chance to make a showing was this week in the Seahorse Billfish tournament, the 3rd and final leg of the Triple Crown. Day one: Still a little breeze left over from T.S. Franklin (15-20), but still no change in Team De Mako’s luck - we missed a Blue and a White. There were a few fish released, but no real leader so far. Day Two: Nice calm seas and an improvement in the fishing. Gringo boated a 566lb Blue, early in the day. As Joey says, “ Catch a Blue and be home by 2.00,” but the day belonged to the Bermuda Banger with 3 Blues released, giving Capt. John and his team 1st place with 1500 points and one day’s fishing left! Oh yeah, De Mako managed to get on the scoreboard with a Blue Marlin released. (500 points) Day Three: Ricky shows up with the Grey Goose and some Bloody Mary mix. James came down the hill with some new lures out of his huge inventory. After the last two tournaments, with no results, Straws and I are ready for anything and we welcomed the changes. Lines in at 8.00am and, as usual, Triple Play & “Team Chicken ” start the day off - “Blue marlin released, angler Martin Estis”. They had released the first fish every day of this tournament (never count the Triple Play out!! Great team). At 10.13am., Team Grey Goose on De Mako gets their first bite. It’s just a White Marlin, but we’ll take it - it's 200 more points! (we’re starting to climb the ladder!) 1.00pm - we release a Blue, at 2.49pm. We release another Blue (Team Grey goose is hot!! (in more ways than one!). Can you believe it, at 3.18pm we release our third Blue Marlin for the day. There is so much excitement and noise in the cockpit that I have to call Tournament Control for our code one more time - don’t want to get the code wrong! Hey, forget climbing the ladder... we are at the top with 2200 points and only 42 minutes of fishing left. We were sitting on top, and get this, in 5th. place for the Triple Crown Championship. What an ending! Many thanks to Ricky for never giving up on us. Days best lines: Straws “ we’re in the 9th. Innings and we’re swinging for the fences!” Ricky, after releasing his 4th. Marlin of the day: “ I Love this game!!” |
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The Blue Marlin bite has heated up and, failing any more storms, the next few weeks should be hot fishing! DeMako caught Marlins everyday this week, except on Saturday. “Hey you guys, find out who is the jinks before your next trip!” Today was Julie’s “Mako Monday Marlin Mayhem trip”. We started the day with Beth releasing her first ever Blue, a 150 pounder. By the time we got to Argus bank, we had a double hookup with Julie’s fish jumping free and Rechelle releasing her first ever Blue, a 180 pounder. Now it was time for Julie to catch one. This turned out to be a difficult task, as Julie had caught Marlins with us before and had lost her beginner's luck. Fish on! Get in the chair! Oh no, he’s gone! Finally, on the way home, it was Julie’s time, fish on, and this time it was staying on - Julie releases a nice 250 pounder. De Mako’s final tally for the day is 3 releases for 8 Blues on the line - just a great day all around! It was a good bite for most boats out today, with De Mako finishing up 3-8, Fortuna 3-7, Playmate was 3-3 and Challenger was 1 – 5. That is 23 Blue Marlin bites for just four boats. It does not get much better than that! “Watch out next week!” |
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De Mako was red hot this week, with the Blue Marlins, releasing at least one everyday, expect Sunday. Final tally for the week: 19 Marlin attacks, resulting in 11 Blue Marlin released. Great job and congratulations to all of the lucky anglers. Although most fish were average size, 150-250lbs., on Thursday, John Guerin did manage to release a 500 pounder on a 50W Tuna rig, after an hour battle - not an easy task! It was also a good week for the ”Playmate”, “Reel Addiction” & “Over Proof” with all of them catching some Marlins and 100lbs class Yellowfins, plus a few Wahoos. Some people believe that August is a slow and hot month, but don’t count August short. It can be challenging and tricky to get the fish to bite, but August can be the best month for catching quality fish, if you are willing to put the time in. Next week, with the full moon coming and more and more bait showing up on the Banks, we should see the Tuna bite get better and better! Hope to see you out there! |
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Wahoo fishing remains slow with a few good catches here and there, but needs a lot of improvement before the Wahoo Tournament on the 11th. The good news is, the Tuna bite on the SE corner of Challenger. Although most of the fish being caught are in the small range (10-20lbs) there has been some nice size Allison’s (80-130lbs.) mixed in. On Thursday, on De Mako, we saw the Ricker brothers do battle for 1½ hours with a 129 pounder that ate in the chum. It was Chris Coelho’s turn, on Saturday, for some licks, catching a 120lb Allison on a 30lb outfit! We finished the week, on Sunday, with Henrik Schroder catching two big Yellowfins, back to back, weighing in at 91lbs. and 110lbs. Nice job you guys! Don’t miss the bite; it is time to get out there! |
September 2005
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September On Monday, we did manage to catch a few more of the big Yellowfin on the south-east side of Challenger, before the bait and action moved over to the north side. With the slow down in the Marlin and the Tuna bite, I decided to do our first Wahoo trip for the fall run on Friday. With Andrew Cook & company onboard, we managed a nice haul of 13 Wahoos, 1 Tuna & a 32lb Dolphin. It was good to see that the Wahoo’s have shown up, just in time for the Wahoo Tournament on the 11th. With good weather, this should be a big event. Good luck to all that participate! Remember, just because Labour Day is over and the kids are back in school, it’s no time to stop fishing. September & October can produce some of the years' best fishing days. So, keep on fishing - the best is yet to come! |
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September Although the water temperature is still high at 82 degrees, the Marlins, for the most part, seem to have bailed out on us. I am sure a few more will be seen before years end, just not enough to spend any time looking for. Sometime soon, we will see a drop in temperature and, with it, we should see the start of the fall Wahoo run, so stay tuned! |
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