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!
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 […]
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!
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 […]
Best Bull ever for Mike!!!
Mike is a long standing and regular client aboard “Gavito” and yesterday we left the marina at 10.00 a.m. for an 8 hour Big Game Fishing trip. At about 12.00 we saw a Blue Marlin approach the spread and started to knock the Port side Outrigger lure. This lasted for about 10 – 15 seconds […]
“Gavito” grabs a Grander!
Yesterday the 22nd July “Gavito” set out from Calheta Marina for a full days Big Game Fishing with 3 clients. We headed East towards Funchal with a full spread of 5 lures behind. We ran a 9” Moldcraft purple and black on the shotgun, Moldcaft Wide Range lures in purple and silver, blue and white […]
“Gavito” starts the season with a bang!!!!
Our 4 English clients booked a day Big Game Fishing via Fishingbooker.com and the day before decided to change to a full day of mixed fishing. So we left the marina at Calheta, Madeira at 1000 hrs and trolled for a couple of hours towards Ponta do Pargo on the West end of the Island. […]
Surprise for the kids comes good
We had a party of 4, mother, daughter, son and father with us yesterday the 2nd January 2019 and we left Calheta Marina at 0800 hrs for a ful day of mixed fishing. We travelled down to the West End of the Island and could not believe our eyes when we saw that there was […]
4 hours of fun and fish!!!
On the 22nd December we left Calheta Marina at 0915 hrs and travelled to the West end of the Island. We were lucky enough to be able to get round the corner at Ponte do Pargo to grounds which are rarely fished due to shitty seas. We drifted over the grounds and started catching immediately […]
A great 1/2 day trip bottom fishing
We left Calheta Marina at 0945 and headed West. The weather was fine and the sea was reasonably calm with a wide 3 meter swell. We reached Ponto Do Pargo and decided to look round the point to see if it was feasible to go round and fish. The sea at the point is normally […]
Novice anglers enjoy a great 1/2 day on
Mike and his wife Corolla booked Gavito for their first ever Big Game Fishing trip. We left Calheta at 10.00 a.m. and trolled a spread of 5 lines with a 6” Wiliamson rainbow lure on the shotgun which we set at around 90 yards back from the boat. The 2 outriggers were set with Islander […]
One of 3 good Barred Hogfish
Ron, his wife and 2 children booked a 1/2 day bottom fishing trip on Gavito and we set off from Calheta Marina at 1330 hrs and proceeded to the West end of the Island. Having turned the corner, the sea became a little choppy, but not enough to deter us from fishing. I put out […]
Great trigger fish
Anders from Sweden booked for 4 hours bottom fishing and 4 hours trolling. We left Calheta Marina at 10.00 a.m. and motored to the West end of the Island and anchored off the Western cliffs. The sea was a little choppy as we had Westerly winds and a strong Northerly current flowing However we commenced […]
Baby Blue!
Simon booked a full day Big Game Fishing on Gavito and we left Calheta Marina at 10.00 a.m. and headed for Ponte do Pargo via Jardim do Mar and Paul do Mar. We stayed around 3 miles from the shore in about 2,000 metres of water and ran a spread of 5 lines with a […]
Full day Mixed Fishing
We left Calheta at 10.00 a.m. and immediately headed for the West end of the Island and then turned North to an area that is seldom fished or accessible due to the normal sea state being confused and very choppy. We settled on the anchor about 1/2 way between Ponta do Pargo and Porto Moniz […]
Great day bottom fishing
Yesterday we travelled to the West end of the Island and managed to get round the corner between Ponto do Pargo and Porto Moniz (an area that is accessible for only about 15/20 days per year) and anchored in about 35 metres of water on a very rocky bottom to bait fish. There were 3 […]
A perfect end to the day
Yesterday we went our trolling 5 lines with the view to targeting White Marlin, which is on Mikes bucket list. We ran Moldcraft, Williamsons and copy Islanders. After 7 hours of nothing but seeing good Tuna marks we noted a bait ball close in to shore with a lot of bird and fish activity, so […]
Full day Mixed Fishing
Alan chose to take a full day Mixed Fishing (part trolling for Marlin and part bottom fishing for dinner. We left Calheta Marina at 10.00 a.m. and trolled until 2.00 p.m. without success ourselves. However another boat about 200 metres away on our port side hooked up around 20 minutes from port and the result […]
Another great day jigging
Terry Smith of Jigabite.co.uk had a second day exploring the possibilities for jigging in Madeira. We fished for 4 hours on the flood tide and Terry had 4 hits, landing one of them. A medium sized Red Snapper. We were hoping to hook up on Amberjacks and Grouper, but that was not to be. That’s […]
Barred Hogfish Day
Mike wanted to go our and try various techniques for drift fishing and fishing on the anchor. We took 15 kgs of mackerel for chum and fed this out over the 4 hour period. Using a light 215/30 lbs class boat stick Mike added a small piece of shrimp as a tempter and immediately started […]
1/2 day Big Game Fishing
On the 29th May we had a 4 hour trip with a single client for Big Game Fishing. We headed out at 1000 hrs and headed for Funchal to avoid really choppy seas off the point at Ponta do Pargo. After about 1.5 hours trolling at 7,5 knots we had a strike on the shotgun […]
Wahooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our first trip out for 2018 on a beautiful sunny day and we landed a nice Wahoo 36kg.
Nice long billed spear fish
We caught and released a nice long billed spear fish 25lbs on Tuesday 29th August.