places

[clive]

when and where is the best places to go go marlin fishing during september. + price guide

[Anonymous]

venezuela! VENEZUELA! venezuela!

[Warren_Brantley]

For white marlin Venezuela out of Portofino near the Caraballeda Yacht Club is hard to beat. Prices are good and you should catch white marlin, with daily shots at small blues. I would fish 4 to 6 days and use local charter services (ex. Venezuela marlin safari) or others for best prices. The focus will be fishing as the country has issues that you can read about under the Venezuela Forum. I'll be there September 28th for a half month. Not unusual to see a half dozen whites hooked up at one time and normally no more than 10 to 15 boats out on a weekend and 1-3 during a weekday.

Kona is good for Pacific Blues that time of the year. Again the prices are quite good, the fishing is a half mile offshore and you can go to the online charter services and find boats from $300 plus. I like Keneka II with Captain Billy Dorr and just got back from there. Everything is convenient, safe, they speak English, and smaller blues seem abundant almost year around. Go to the Kona Charter Desk to see what's being caught or to set up a charter. They actually catch more than is posted but not everyone reports them. Troll small lures for a better chance on all sizes of Blues, the occasional stripie or a spearfish.

Cabo is good for striped marlin though they've had unseasonable cold waters this year and you have great and bad weeks. The air temperature can be in the 100s in September so you might need a boat with AC. Pisces, El Budster, Cabomagic (call Lori), or dockside captains have lots of charters to offer and you have a slight chance at a Pacific Blue. Cabo is a great town and the boats are quite affordable. Nice place to get striped marlin. There will be some sails in also.

Cairns is good for juvenile black marlin fishing inside the reef. Prices are higher than the places listed above. It is a bit of a long flight with a plane ticket from the states running $2000 plus and boats costing around $1700 AUS (plus or minus) a day. You'll have a mixture of sails and bye catch of just about everything.

In the states you will find nothing as productive as the places listed above. For the best boat price it actually is Kona. For the best ratio of days fished to number of fish caught it will be Venezuela with prices being sligtly higher. A 30 foot boat for La Placer offshore of Portofino, in front of the Caracas Airport, is plenty big as you are only fishing 2 to 10 miles offshore about 12 miles from the ************************. It will be in the low to mid 90s. Sunscreen and Gatorade Powder for the bottled water make a day more pleasant.

Some other places have sails and swords and some places are in the middle of their off seasons. It's also hurricane season for the Gulf and Florida. Ixtapa and Costa Rica and a handful of places are good for sails. Fort Lauderdale and Venezuela have swords. Read historical online catch reports for the past couple of years.

Good luck on your decision and have fun. Remember for best results fish 3 to 6 days. Optimally 6 to 8 days as this allows you to catch multiple species and more than one of each. And you'll probably get a discount on the charter price. Tight lines. Warren Brantley

[P_Watson]

Madeira! See latest fishing reports on http://www.madeira-tourist.com/fishing/madeirafishingreport.html starting from Aug 01, 2005

[David_West]

I think the observations regarding Venezuela hold true - certainly a good venue for numbers, albeit not necessarily size.

Traditionally St Thomas produced numbers of better quality Blues, particularly on the August and September full moons. Charter rates are likely to be somewhat higher though, at around 1000$US.

Having fished there for the first time this year though a venue easily accessable from East coast airports of the 'States is the Cape Verde Islands. The season runs from early May through to October. And Sao Vincente isn't all about numbers they get numbers of 'granders' virtually every year. Just to illustrate numbers the group I was fishing with released 8 Blues up to 500 on a 5 day charter. And an American member of our Club went somewhat better in mid-June releasing 19 fish from 37 strikes in an 8 day charter. The best fish was estimated at 800 plus. Charter rates for the perfectly adequate local charter boats are in the 600 to 750 Euro range - the Euros around about parity with the US Dollar. You'd find as well most of the crews speak at least some English.

If you want urls of appropriate web sites could I suggest you contact me by e-mail or look on our Club's web site.
Kindest regards
David West
Chairman - Sportfishing Club of the British Isles.
http://www.scbi.org.uk
PS Sao Vincente was where Stewart Campbell released over 20 Blues in one day back in the mid-ninties

[Michael_Wagner]

for any info check out www.mikes************************.info

our blue marlin season is going to end at the end of september and as far as i heard they come up more south like venezuela's area
we started here 2 wweks ago nice early with big schools of dorados which stay with us til end of spring
good luck
Mike