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Africa/ Kenya/ North Coast/ Mtwapa 3/20/01

Author: Editor Coastweek Mombasa
Yellowfin tuna have caused plenty of excitement in Mtwapa waters over the past few days and some heavy sweating was done in the hot weather by anglers who had to put in the rod and reel work to bring these hard-fighting fish to the boat. The ever-tempramental tuna had their on days and off days, sometimes leaping out in shoals, as though competing in a distance-jumping competition, but not taking any lures, and other days when they bit any bait of any colour or shape that was put near them. Three German anglers, Christian Pfiel and Uwe and Alfred Fink went out three times during the week in James Adcock's boat, Vuma, and caught some good-sized tuna on Wednesday, one of eighteen kilos, one of fifteen and a couple of smaller ones as well as two wahoo that weighed twenty-one kilos together. Thursday was their bad-luck day as a tuna of about eighteen kilos broke the thick nylon trace and got free, and then a bigger one, estimated at twenty-eight kilos put Christian's rod into a heavy curve and he spent the next hour working hard to pull up this incredibly strong fish and had the job almost done when the hook pulled out. An experienced Swedish fisherman, Tommy Andersson, who has caught bluefin tuna of forty to fifty kilos off Madeira, was surprised at the power of the yellowfin tuna here, saying that even the smaller ones pulled with amazing strength compared to the bluefins. Tommy fished with his father, Algot in James Adcock's Sesse canoe, Samvuke, and they caught two yellowfin tuna and a dorado on Saturday then went fishing again on Monday of this week and reversed those figures with a catch of two dorado and one tuna. They also saw a sailfish free-jumping near the entrance to the creek, quite a rare experience in this strange year, but it did not come to the baits. However, Bob Brenneisen had the honour of actually catching a sailfish on Monday of this week, when he headed north in Bado, looking for the yellowfin tuna. He did not find them but caught six dorado, of which he released four, and then the sailfish came along, a good big one that he eventually tagged and released. Bob's frequent fishing partner, Fritz Kaestli, also caught a sailfish during the week, although he was not fishing in home waters but off Shimoni, in one of the Sea Adventures boats, and it was a nice fish of about thirty-five kilos. On Sunday Bob had had a lot of muscle work to do, harder than working out with weights, bringing in ten yellowfin tuna and twelve skipjack tuna, with a total estimated weight of one hundred and ten kilos, and that is some serious sashimi. Sunday was the day to have the wasabi mixed and ready as the yellowfin came leaping towards the boats like dolphins coming to play. For the Yamaha canoe, Fanta, fished by Len and Paul Fitzgerald and Neil Reed, the first shoal of fish came boiling into the wake right behind the propellors and the rods bent down but only one tuna stayed hooked and it was brought in by Len, a fish of about six kilos. These three fishermen brought back four similar-sized tuna, having lost a couple at the boat, a fun day for them, which also included missing a sailfish at the baits and executing the graceful manoever of runng across the long line being trailed by Samvuke. James Adcock and Rob Jessop, fishing on that boat, got their lure and their dignity back intact and went on to catch five tuna and two dorado with a total weight of thirty-five kilos. One that they didn't bring in was one in a tightly packed shoal that was heading north, big fish showing gold as they turned on their sides and the stripes silvery, flashing, and Rob cast his lead spoon into them, with a light line and casting rod, and the fish took the spoon and kept on going north, kept right on, going Kilifi way.  Seeing the boats coming in with fish, John Webb and Karl Jennings grabbed some tackle, jumped into Flycatcher and headed for the horizon at four in the afternoon.  The tuna were taking anything that came near them, jigs, Rapalas, Honolulus, Hawaiian Eyes, grass skirts, Christmas decorations, confetti, Swiss watches, one even swallowed the entire Mormon Tabernacle Choir that happened to be passing by. So John and Karl had a busy two hours, losing a lot of fish on their makeshift tackle, having all four rods bending down and sending up their tuna-pain moan for a lot of the time, and coming back with six tuna of about seven kilos each and one dorado, fun fishing. There were a number of boats from other ports shoaling in our waters on Sunday, attracted by the tuna, and they all seemed to be doing well, so well that at one point Elegio Battaia of Inca was even seen to leave the flying bridge to sort out the aftermath of a multiple strike. As one or two other boats nearby were without helmsmen at the same time for the same reason there was the possibility of an interesting situation developing, but everyone got clear without mishap. It was a fine sight to see the boats with their antennae-like outriggers, and the white birds dropping into the water as the tuna roiled the surface or leapt with amazing power in long, reaching arcs through the air, some of them as fat as barrels, fish of forty kilos sometimes, flying through the air. Humans, birds, fish were there in a pyramid food-chain with the humble mantis-prawn at the bottom, and who knows what they were eating, algae or plankton probably. Most of the tuna caught were full of mantis prawns, although some of the bigger ones were eating small bonito, and it has been one of the unusual features of this season that these prawns with horizontally flattened bodies have stayed with us throughout the season, and if the sailfish have hardly been seen at all at least the prawns have kept the tuna here, breaking their normal seasonal pattern.

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Bad Consolidation Credit Debt Tuna were the winning catch in the Tamarind competition in Mombasa on Saturday, sixty-three tuna caught by one boat, but no Mtwapa boats entered, partly because for the second year running there was no pubicity in Mtwapa and, well, it might be in the calendar but fishing folks is still folks and they needs some reminding. Another failure in arrangements left James Adcock with the bleak prospect of having dry bread for lunch on Sunday as his original fishing partner on his busman's holiday was to have been John Webb and they had made an unusual agreement, the kind that Fate loves to mess with, like putting lines in a terrible tangle. How this comes about one wonders, but James agreed to provide the bread for the sandwiches for both of them and John was to bring the filling: sandwich spread, cold chicken, smoked sailfish, Parma ham, chopped olives stuffed with anchovies, thinly sliced beef, Chinese thousand-year-eggs diced with truffle-flavoured olive oil, smoked mushroom pate, just the normal sort of thing. Trouble was, John did not turn up, and James was left holding the bread. Whether Rob had enough sandwiches to go round or whether they took some wasabi and soy sauce along and had instant sashimi, or whether James munched dry slice, nobody has yet found out.

Part of the Globetrotter Travel Series, this work is suitable for the needs of tourists who are new Kenya. In addition to the main map of Kenya, it includes Town Plans of Mombasa, Mombasa Old Town, Nairobi; and covers areas of Lamu and Manda Islands, North Coast, South Coast, various National Parks and Nature Reserves. 2007

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