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2008 season - Faial, Azores

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Wednesday, August 27th 2008, 12:44pm

2008 season - Faial, Azores

I’ve recently received a couple of e-mails from Olaf ‘the Grimmel’ Grimkowski, who those of us who’ve fished Cape Verde (Andromeda), Ascension Island (Shy 3) or Croatia (Shy 2) might well have met.

It appears Olaf, together with Bonze and Marty (Bates) have de-camped, and are crewing on gameboats operating out of Horta on the island of Faial in the Azores. Any rate they’re now catching reasonable numbers of big Blues and reports (and excellent pictures) can be found on Olaf’s personal web site - http://www.marlin-web.com/ - against Acores, or on this blog - http://bluemarlin.skyrock.com/ or against the News section on Ian ‘the Yeti’ Carter’s site - http://www.azoresmarlin.com/.

I can recall fishing there initially back in 1986 and for several years it was THE place to fish. It then went through an extremely slow patch, perhaps the course of the Gulf Stream had slightly moved in that part of the world (?), before coming back now to its ‘former glory’. Interesting as well to see that the BIG fish are now also showing from Madeira in reasonable numbers. That was very much a characteristic of the two fisheries back in the late 80s/early 90s.
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Friday, September 5th 2008, 4:10pm

And now the actual catch-report from Olaf:

04.09.2008
We had an excellent day today !
We caught 4 out of six blue marlin today !
We started on the SE end of the Condorbank today and I just wanted to turn on a goodlooking baitball as we got our first bite on the hawaian breakfast (BlackBart)
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after a short fight Louis caught the 550 pounder.
An hour later at the same spot a simillar size fish eate the Krakatao (Legendlures)
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and gave us some scratches at the snooter.
The bait dissapeared and I went to the westend of the bank and the bait started looking really good hear Xacara hooked and released their 350 almost simultaniously with our
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200 pounder on Bonzes D.S.
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Very shortly after this we hooked another 550 pounder and caught it on
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Bonzes scorpion.
The lure came back in the water and within 5 minutes another nice size blue attacked it again but came off. As the lures were back in the water the hawaian breakfast got another strike with the same result.
Xacara went 1/2 and Mario lost a 500 pounder on the walkaround "Marlin"
03.09.2008
We caught 2/2 today all on Bonzes D.S. ! The first one was 850pounder that crashed the lure like a rocket
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The second fish was a250 pounder.
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Xacara caught 2/3 200 and300 pounds and the one they missed was a nice one.
Check www.marlin-web.com
for pictures and history


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