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Africa/ Kenya/ North Coast/ Mtwapa 3/27/01

Author: Coastweek Mombasa
When six members of the Swedish DNG marketing organisation set out for a day's fishing in James Adcock's boat, Vuma, on Saturday, they asked if there was a chance of catching a marlin, and James replied that considering the poor fishing of this season there was very little. But hope keeps the boat afloat and Vuma went out in search of marlin. She was ranging the waves only about three nautical miles from shore when a fish took one of the baits, the reel sent out its siren wail, and the anglers' dreams had come true. It was a marlin on the line, its stripes bright in the morning light, and the anglers were so pleased that they took turns at handling the rod and soon brought the fish in. It was a striped marlin, it weighed sixty-three kilos, and the people who caught it took it home for dinner. Another marlin was encountered by Bob Brenneisen on Sunday, in his boat, Bado, but it did not stick on the hook, and it was the same story for a sailfish that also came and went. Yellowfin tuna continued to be the saving grace of the dying days of the season, the best one from Mtwapa waters being one of forty-one kilos, caught on Friday, a substantial fish that put a good bend in the rod of the fisherman, Alfred Fink, who had some heavy pulling to do to bring it up. Dorado were being caught in our waters too, and where there was a floating treetrunk, mass of seaweed, dining table or log raft with shipwrecked mariners aboard, there would be a boat trailing lines past it in hope of luring the dorado out from the shadow. Bob Brenneisen found one of these in the middle of the week, a log without mariners, about seven miles out from shore and he took Bado round and round, catching dorado all the way. Then a big one pulled so hard it took thirty-five minutes to get it anywhere near the boat, at which point it shook the hook and got free. The log was now out of sight and Bob couldn't find it, as there's no use taking a GPS reading on a drifting object and he didn't have any of James Adcock's makeshift waypoint markers, gaily coloured party balloons that drift with the current and can be seen from a distance, useful if there is not too much wind. But he found another log, caught a whole lot more dorado, the biggest one twelve kilos, released a shark of about twenty kilos, lost a sailfish, caught two yellowfin tuna, and that's plenty enough excitement for a second helping of log fishing, and hard work too. John and June Chatwin on Oona caught a dorado of eight kilos on Sunday, and there was another good sized one caught by someone identified only as Arif, half a name perhaps but he was doing better than his boat which had no name at all, being only half built, on its way down from Watamu, bound for somewhere else, a mystery, but one that could bring in the fish. Arif caught a barega too, one of those small kingfish with pretty markings of spots and dashes along the sides. Releasing dorado is unusual, although they're good at releasing themselves, but Len Fitzgerald and Neil Reed, fishing on Fanta, released three on Sunday, tiny fish of about one kilo each, and they kept one that was damaged. One of these fishermen was slightly damaged also, by a fish, earlier on. Fanta had gone south, into Mombasa water, mainly to avoid dark rainclouds and squalls, but it was a lucky direction as the yellowfin tuna were there, some of them leaping through the air still beating their tails, sending up the excitement levels on board. Then the fifty-pound rod bent down and the reel was screeching, and after the first long run Len put the stick to the fish, dominated it and brought it up in short time. When the gaff went in the fish lunged away and the rather shiny gaff handle slipped through Neil's grasp and out into the sea. Neil almost followed it as he had looped the lanyard of the gaff over his wrist and this cord now slid down and somehow snagged around the gloved middle finger of the gaffing hand, so that the man was stretched out with all the strength of the tuna pulling the joints of his finger apart and himself almost into the abyssal depths of the sea. This is a gaffing situation not much reccomended by fishing manuals and one wonders why a fellow would want to get himself into such a predicament. But he got hold of the cord, pulled in the gaff and put the fish in the boat, a yellowfin tuna that weighed twelve and a half kilos when gutted, probably would have been fourteen with all the mantis prawns it was eating. These two fishermen also caught two kawakawa of a couple of kilos each.

Bad Credit Credit Creditres The lovely white stretch Yamaha canoe, Smuggler, was fished again on Sunday by the owners, Mike Keates and James Knight. James had just returned from Florida and New York with visits to Captain Harry's and other emporiums of angling delight, and he is a man renowned for his skill with the credit card, piling huge catches of lures and gimcracks and gee-jaws into the boat with a mere flick of the signature. So with Smuggler's colourful Summer Collection now augmented by the Easter Collection with its Florida theme, great things were expected, particularly as there was a two-boat wager with Fanta. But it was not to be. The fact that Smuggler did not actually catch any fish at all that day was deftly explained away by the owners, who between them can weave such a web of words and illusions that they could sell snake oil to a Nobel Prize scientist. The Smuggler team, it seems, had adopted the tactic of Species Specific Fishing and, to avoid irritants such as almost being pulled overboard by tuna, or having to wind the handle of the reel quite a bit to bring in sailfish, or, even worse, having dorado leaping about in the boat like ballerinas doing the fire-walking dance, they chose this Sunday to be Great White Shark Day, chosing the species least likely to be caught. Fiendishly clever tactics by the Smuggler team, but they still had to pay up.

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