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Well done to Bonze. He's fishing well his first season skippering in a new location and there can't be anything better in the world than to have those fish coming to lures you made yourself. Great stuff. I can't believe it's been four years since we last met in Paihia in the Bay of Islands.

Good luck to all the skippers. What an awesome fishery Cape Verde is.

hi,

first to dave; only simon & me were and now bonze instead of me are tagging billfish in cape verde waters, we must have tagged some hundreds of fish during the last years. whenever you send the tag-cards back to the billfish foundation, you write the anglers and the captains name on it. but only the angler will be informed of a re-catch. so maybe some more fish were found again, but many of our clients just came here to catch one marlin for their lifetime, so i'm pretty sure those ones would not let me know if they got a re-catch report. we got so far only one client who sent me a copy of his recaught blue. we caught, tagged and released that estimated 120 kg blue on the 20th of may somewhen 3 or 4 years ago and that fish was caught again only 9 days later by a spanish longliner some 40 miles away from where we released it. as i allways said; most tagged fish will be caught again by longliners, but usually they don't send the tags in..............so i was really astonished to get that report from a longlining vessel !

strong winds again here, most boats fishing the lee of santo antao with quite some good success. up to 6 fish seen and up to 3 caught a day by some boats. 400 to 500 lbs seems to be the average size with some fish up to 800 lbs been faught but unluckily lost.

tight lines,

berno

the strong winds are gone, the sea looks with only little winds much calmer and the water is dark clean blue around sao vicente. and the marlin are here in good numbers, most fish seen yesterday on the american boat, a total of 11 but only 2 caught. simon went 3 for 4, bonze went 3 for 4 with one of them approx 750 lbs, zak went 3 for ? the winds shall stay calm for the next days, so let's hope the fishing will improve.

tight lines,

berno

an amazing fishing day out of San Pedro bank
today Bebiche had 4 blue Marlin and a Wahoo, HH1 with Capt. Bonze 4 blue Marlin, the french boat Powertool had 6 blue Marlin
but now the best Zak on the Amelia endet today with 15 blues from 23 strikes.
So don´t worst your money on other destinations .If you wanna catch blues-come over here fishing
and specialy for Reinhold -all fish on lures
TL wolfman

hi everybody,

and another fantastic fishing day yesterday. flat and calm seas at the south bank of sao vicente, the average on every boat were 4 blues caught but bonze on HAPPY HOOKER 1 caught 6 with one of 600 lbs........as you might imagine, our uk client jonathan tried for marlin the past 10 years and never caught one ! for the last 4 days he never stopped smiling............

today its even more calm, so far no wind at all !! one boat had to come back this morning after he left the harbour. he broke his shaft yesterday and "repaired" it, but it broke again on the way to the fishing grounds this morning..........

tight lines,

berno

See you in 9 days, Berno and Wolfgang.
May be we will have a phatastic marlin fishing like last year. Hope so.
Nine days can be soooo loooong!°

Rudi

hai rudi and all,

only 8 days to go...........

yesterday was the day of the americans, they ended up with 11 blues caught ! bonze caught 4, one 650 and one 550 lbs and two smaller ones, two pulled the hooks just before grabbing the leader. simon caught 1 of 750 lbs and missed another 3. zak caught 2 out of ?

tight lines,

berno

The TAP canceled the flight and know it seems that Christl and I will arrive at Wednesday afternoon too. From Praia.

See yuo all in Clube Nautico at night!

I hope there will be some Marlin left over for us.

Yepeeeehhhhhhh

Rudi

Mindelo harbour

27.04.08

Hello to all from Cape Verdes – A day to remember.
25. April. This is the info about our fishing with Neil and John. We caught 5 blues out of 8 strikes: 450lbs, on the Super Scugger, a 400 on the Hercules from Bonze Lures, two 300 lbs on the Wide Range, a 250 lbs on Super Plunger from Bart, and a 500 lbs on the Hooker. Total for their fishing was 13 blue marlins; - not bad for four days fishing. They will be back next year. Thanks to Neil and John.

26. April was the first day for Roger and Tom Bettle. We caught tree blues out off 8 bites:
600lbs caught on the Medium Plunger from Joe Yee, a 550lbs on the Hooker, and 350 on the Hercules from Bonze lures. In all a good start for our boys from England.

27. april. Breaking news! 15 blues caught out off 22 bites. All this fish was caught on lures.
300lbs, 500lbs, 250lbs, 400lbs, 300lbs, 550lbs, 425lbs, 400lbs, 250lbs, 350lbs, 300lbs, 175lbs, 250lbs, 450lbs, 300lbs. Four of this fish was caught on the Hooker from Mold Craft lures, two on the Medium Plunger from Joe Yee, one on the Pakula Lumo Sprocket, three on the Andromeda from Legend Lures, two on the Hercules from Bonze Lures and three on the Mini Chugger from Mold Craft lures.

I think that we probably are the first boat in the world to catch 15 fish in one days fishing on lures. The record is 20 or 21 fish in one single day caught some years a go from the Hooker on bait and switch. Captain at that time was Trevor Cookle. What a day!

Best regards to all and good fishing
Captain Zak Conde

hi,

and another great day in "marlin-paradise":

bonze 2 for 2, one of 750 lbs which came up dead so he tied her alongside and came back early, simon 1 for 21 !!!!!!!, calu 5 for 8 and the americans 4 for ?

tight lines,

berno

hi david,

yesterday the fleet had some less bites but all boats caught 3 blues an average. ferdy left this morning to sao nicolao, they catch fish over there and the wheather forecast for sunday and monday doesn't look very friendly, so they might have luck over there and fish in the lee. winds up to 8 beaufort shall apear and that is a lot ! we'll see........

tight lines,

berno

Hi guys,
Rudi is on the way to Cape Verde Islands.

Anybody heard something from Stephan and the Cup?

Charity Cup at Sao Nicolao
habe soeben mit Heiko tel. es wurden 20 blue marlin gefangen und 2 davon gewogen
Der Gewinner ist Heiko .Stephan ist heute morgen um 6:00 zurück nach SV .Im Moment ist hier noch starker Wind soll aber ab morgen besser werden . Somit dürften sich Rudi´s Anfütterrungen doch in Grenzen halten. Ab Freitag ist dann die Bayerische und Deutsch-Cabo Crew wieder 5 Tage im harten fight mit unseren blues.
TL wolfman