Cape Verde 2018

Another great season in the Blue Marlin Capital! Our 3 boats The HOOKER, SMOKER and SAMBO are getting prepared now for the 2019 season which runs from end of march to november.
Great fishing not only for Blue Marlin but also for other species such as tuna, wahoo and Amberjacks.
Check out our boats and available dates for 2019 and 2020!


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Cape Verde 2017

Another great season for our boats SMOKER and SAMBO! Again over 100 Blue Marlin for SMOKER in the season and we ares till fishing to end of october.
July to october is also great for big tuna, wahoo and Amberjacks.

SMOKER and SAMBO also caught  40 Blue Marlin between 450 and 900 pounds.

2018 we start again mid of march!

Thanks to all our anglers in 2017 !

Ascension Island November 2014

Great fishing on ASC for the last weeks. 200 lb plus yellowfin ever day and also good numbers of Blue Marlin with some grander size Blues in between.
Oskie Rice is fishing for a month now and had already seen and hooked a few Blues around the mark with one loosing that he called the biggest he has ever seen ( and he has already weighed a 1200 pounder).

HARMATTAN is out of the water and will be ready to fish form the end of november.

More coming soon.........

Cape Verde End of Season

Another great Season for the SMOKER Team!!!
We ended up with 166 Blue Marlin releases in 2.5 month of fishing. 25 Blue Marlin were over 500 pound , 2 of them 900 lb plus.
A big Thanks You to all our anglers and friends who make this happen!
Special thanks to our sponsors Pelagic, Black Bart Lures, Bluewater Lures,Makaira and Andy Moyes.
For next season we still have a couple of weeks available but 80% is already full.
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Capt. Matthias Henningsen

Cape Verde 18th May

Fishing is still great!! SMOKER has released 121 Blue Marlin so far in the season since end o march.
Thanks to everyone who fished with us!!

Cape Verde 8th May

Our season is great so far!! SMOKER and his anglers already released over 100 Blue Marlin

and we still have 6 weeks to go.

There are also plenty of good fish in between with 25 of the Marlin were over 450 pounds!

Thanks to all our anglers who made this happening!!

Cape Verde 13th April

The last 15 days SMOKER and his anglers released 29 Blue Marlin averaging 450 pounds. The biggest was 800 lb plus with several more fish between 500 and 800 pounds seen .

So far we fished most of the time out of Sao Vicente where we have nice blue water and a consistent bite at the moment,

Ascension Island 7th feburary

Our season has started end of jan on Ascension. HARMATTAN is seeing 1 Blue Marlin a day , average size over 500 lb. Tuna up to 230 pound has also caught , along with countless Jacks, wahoo and Dorados.
Biggest Marlin was 850 lb so far.
Right now our angeles from the UK are spending most time jigging and insure fishing catching big numbers of game fish up to 100 lb.

New Season 2014

Thanks to All our anglers! We had another great year of fishing on Cape Verde, Ascension Island and the Canaries.

Some of our results were.

- a 1320 lb Blue Marlin !!
- 114 Blue Marlin in 3 month !!
- Over 500 Tuna caught on Harmattan !!
- uncounted bycatch such as Wahoo and Jacks !!

For next year we still have some free weeks during the whole season on Ascension.
Cape Verde we still have a week in march and 2 weeks in october.
Canaries still some weeks for the summer season July and august.

Hope to see you next year again

TL
Capt. Matthias Henningsen

Cape Verde 5 th July End of season

Our last Customers were Morten and Hermann from Norway. They released 5 Blue Marlin and had a very good time on the SMOKER.

Dino from Mozambique fished the 4th of July World Cup with us , but no luck. The day before he caught a 200 plus big Eye tuna.

Our season is over now for 2013.
SMOKER , his anglers and crew managed to release 114 Blue Marlin in 98 days of fishing.

Thanks to all our anglers and crew.

Special thanks to Black Bart Lures, Makaira Pulling Lures , Andy Moyes and Pelagic Gear to rig us up with nice tackle.

For 2014 we still have 3 weeks available on CV. Please also check our results on Ascension Island and the Canaries.

TL
Capt. Matthias Henningsen

Ascension Island 15 th June

Kai Witt and his anglers from Germany had a great time at their first visit to Ascension Island. They caught a lot of different species, including countless tuna and amberjacks. The boys also got 4 tuna over 100 KG . They come back for sure as ASC is hard to beat for getting your rod bend.

Ascension Island 8th June

Great tuna fishing on Ascension. All the guys are catching nice tuna up to 250 lb. Average are tuna from 50 to 120 lb but there are quiet afew nice ones around. Apart from that countless jacks and grouper for our jiggers.

Cape Verde June 08

We had 5 days of very bad weather and slow fishing. Really unlucky for Clive, Dave and Rob who only caught 1 Blue and had another 3 bites. Terrible wind gave us now  chance to move and find some fish somewhere else.

After fishing and weather became better and Stefan Kreupel caught 6 Blues out of 13 bites. He raised another 5 fish which did not bite.

Cape Verde 30th May

Bjoern came back with his friends Max, Sally and John. Fishing was slow and weather terrible but at least they caught a 750 lb Blue during their 4 days and had 3 more bites.
It was Sallys first Blue Marlin ever!!

Cape Verde 26 May

Like every year we fished with our good friends Fita, Manolo and Pepe from the Canary Islands.
WE went to San Nicolau for 4 days and fished another 2 days in Mindelo.
We ended up with 10 Blue Marlin releases out of 14 bites.
Fita caught her first Blue Marlin stand up, pitching a Balyhoo to him.
Well done and see you next year!

May 22

We had Jens and Karl for 6 days on SMOKER and went to San Nicolau. Fishing was good for the first 4 days and we caught 16 Blues out of 32 bites. The last 2 days were slow and we only got one bite.

After Bob, Wade and Tom fished with us. This week was a bit slower but we still managed to release 6 Blue Marlin and 1 Yellowfin Tuna. For Tom it was his first Blue Marlin ever.

Cape Verde May 4th

Mike and John just finished their 2 week trip on SMOKER. We fished in San Nicolau, San Antao and Sao Vicente always trying to be on the top spot.
Mike and John managed to release 38 Blue Marlin out of 71 bites. An average of 5 Blue Marlin seen per day.
The biggest were 650 and 600 pound, most fish in the 250 to 350 range with a few 400 to 500 pounder.
Thank you Mike and John, see you next year again.

Cape Verde 21 april

We are fishing with Mike and John from Florida , some very keen Marlin fishermen. The first 4 days we went 4 for 9 . Fishing is on and off and tomorrow we go to San Antao where one boat had some great fishing today.

Cape Verde 12 april

SMOKER has been fishing San Nicolau the last 4 days and caught 11 Blue Marlin out of 20 bites. We raised another 4 Blue Marlin which did not bite.
Albi, Bjoern and Pat doing very well on the pitch bait. Weather is good and we are looking forward to go out tomorrow.

Cape Verde 31 March

Fisihing still is not real hot but there are a few around. San Nicolau has still green water , Sao vicente does not show a lot of bait and most fish are in Sao Antao at the moment. SMOKER fished 4 days in Sao Antao with our norwegian anglers and they released 5 Blue Marlin. That was their first Marlin experience so they went very happy.Thank you Robert, Niels, Arne and Rune for a great time.

Now we fish with our long time friends from Finnland . They brought around a new friend and caught today his first Blue Marlin ever, a 450 pounder!
Congrats to Ismo!