Early morning live bait fishing
And it’s pitch dark!
Massive bait ball!
Or the Loch Ness Monster?
Lines in!
9am July 4. Blue Marlin Word Cup 2021! Lines in!
Trigger day
In October we had some good fishing for trigger fish. Mathew caught a good one!
Sunset
Just enjoying fishing in the sunset. That’s all.
Finally!
Some new equipment to be installed.
Just some bottom fishing
A couple of pictures from this summer doing bottom fishing and some close to shore trolling.
Wahoo madness
This is the Wahoo madness team on who participated in the Wahoo madness tournament 2021.
New lures
Thanks to Azores lures for these beautiful Wahoo and Tuna lures!
New live well on Gavito
Now we are equipped with a good live well. It pumps 500 GPH in order to keep the bait in good condition.
Gavito in the Blue Marlin World Cup Championship 2021!
Team Gavito will participate in the World Cup this year. Mark July 4 in your calendar and follow us on Facebook this day!
Great Family trip!
Lena and her family booked a 4 hour Bottom Fishing Trip as a birthday surprice for her boys. Besides having a lot of fun during the trip we also got blessed with 12 Trigger Fish as well as a very nice Red Snapper of 10lb. The trip was a success in all aspects!
Power to the Gavito
The Gavito has been equipped with a new power bank from Optima. Low maintenance AGM super batteries!
Not exactly what we expected on the hook….
Sometimes the birds show a lot of interest in our lures. Especially the young ones… not very intelligent. But, this one “got off the hook” and flew away.
Mixed day fishing – 100% success!
Marco from germany booked a Full Day Mixed Fishing in October this year. We started the trip doing bottom fishing wich resulted in some nice Pargo’s and Triggers. In the afternoon with rigged our new brand new Rupp Marine outriggers for Wahoo and Bigeye tuna and after a couple of hours we had a hit […]
New reels for bottom fishing!
We do a lot of bottom fishing on the Gavito. So, we decided to invest in 5 new Penn Battle II reels for the upcoming season. The model is brand new and has lot of improvements compared to previous models. We are so excited to see our clients working theses reels!
New swim platform on the Gavito!
We have equipped the Gavito with a new platform on the transom. It provides easy access embarking and debarking the Gavito. It also provides us an easy way to bring back tuna to the marina. And it looks good!
Sun protection!
The Gavito has now been upgraded with a new bimini arch! We are looking forward to next season when we don’t need to peel off skin from our ears because of sunburn….
Another upgrade to the Gavito
The Gavito has been blessed with new Isiteek flooring. No more “slippery when wet” during fishing, And, it looks realy nice on the Gavito!
Big Eye Tuna!
Big Eye Tuna
We left the marina at 1500hrs for a few hours of fishing before sundown. We set the spread targeting Wahoo but after a couple of hours Capt. Anders decided to switch the spread for tuna. We set the spread with all Iland lures, Black Holes and Sea Stars. After 20 minutes of trolling on 1800 […]
Girl power!
Luke and his family booked a 4 hour Bottom Fishing trip with us. As it turned out, Emelie had a great talent for fishing and was the clear winner of this trip!We all had a great day fishing along the south coast of Maderia Island.
Barracuda in action
Getting the fish into the boat!
Triggers for the kids!
We had a great day Bottom fishing with this nice family. Good results and good fun!
Barracuda!
Trolling close to the coastline this day resulted in a nice Barracuda!
Big Game Fishing – 2020!
Join us on the Gavito for a great fishing experience in Madeira, Summer 2020. Blue Marlin season is starting up and we are ready to go! As the government of Madeira Island has handled the COVID-19 situation in a very good way, Madeira Island is now opening for tourism again. As we are a local […]
Nice Mahi Mahi for Michael
We left Calheta Marina at 0800hrs with Michael and his girlfriend on board. The targeted species for this trip was Amberjack so we started trolling close to the shore on 5-20 meters depth. The water was nice and clear and the tide was coming in so our chances looked very promising. After 30 minutes of […]
Honeymoon and Amberjack
Essi and her husband had booked a half day Sport Fishing on the Gavito. As it turns out they were spending their honeymoon in Madeira and what could be better than to spend some time with the Gavito crew fishing! We left Calheta Marina at 1500hrs. It was a bit windy and some swell coming […]
David draws an Amberjack
David and his son Matt chose a 1/2 day bottom fishing trip with Gavito. We left the marina a 1130 hrs. to catch the incoming tide. We motored to the West end of the Island and started to fish some of our favourite spots but the fish were a bit scarce and not very big. […]
Great day Mixed Fishing on Gavito
Neil and his son were celebrating Matt’s 21st Birthday which was on the 11th. On the day he caught a 650 lbs Blue Marlin on Our Mary out of Funchal (Well done Josie) and on the 12th they joined Gavito for a full day of mixed fishing. We started out bottom fishing and caught plenty […]