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WATAMU FESTIVAL Sat 1st – Sun 2nd March
WATAMU: FRIENDS of KENYA Wed 5th – Thu 6th Mar
MTWAPA: KILULU COMP. Sun 9th March
MOMBASA: TAMARIND COMPETITION Sun 16th March
Bruce Buckland and Reinhardt Stritter have been fishing for many years in the annual Malindi Billfish Tournament, but prospects seemed a bit bleak after the first day when they had teamed up on Seahorse. With nothing to their credit, they watched the other boats displaying marlin and sailfish flags galore, but their luck changed on the second day, when skipper Pete Ready tried live baiting around the Centre Mlima area, and they boated two good black marlin, a 144kg capture by Bruce and a 110 kg fish from Reinhardt, as well as tagging two sail. Both marlin were one of a double strike, showing there are plenty of black marlin around.
This gave them the points needed to better the two tagged marlin and four sail on Clueless, with Ian Fenton and Rob Duff fishing, to take the top award. Snowgoose was third, and 14 marlin and 41 sailfish was the total of the fourteen boats entered, while the biggest fish was a black marlin of 186 kgs on Neptune, a very nice fish indeed which sounds more impressive at 410 lbs!
With the current running south, there are fish both off Malindi and around the Watamu Banks all the way out to the Rips. Ol Jogi hit the jackpot, when they found a black marlin early fishing out towards the Rips, and another and a stripey while moving home, which together with three sailfish gave Peter Atterbury from UK a memorable day, The same day B's Nest tagged seven sail and White Bear five for Les Moxon who has had a terrific fishing holiday, with seven sail earlier then a 250 kg blue marlin tagged and released on the same boat with skipper Jackson Safari.
KILIFI CHAMPIONSHIP.
Mnarani Fishing Club has just completed its 17th Kilifi International Fishing Classic sponsored by Alastair Russell of DHL Worldwide Express who donated Shs. 100,000:00 for prizes together with shirts and caps for the anglers, and Ahsan Manji of the Breakfast Cereal Co. (Kenya) Ltd. who donated Shs. 20,000:00 cash to accompany the Weetabix Plate for the highest placed boat fishing out of Kilifi on both days together with Shs. 15,000:00 to purchase a fishing rod for the Light Line prize and an assortment of cereals for the anglers. Other sponsors included the Partridge Family, Phil Revett, Adrian Luckhurst of Balloon Safaris, Peter Frank of Finch Hattons, Pierre Oberson of Kijani House, Nils Korschen, Robert Duff, Howard Lawrence-Brown of Kenya Deep Sea Fishing, Julian Larby of the Driftwood Club, Brian Lees of Ocean Sports, Chris Wilson of Kilifi Plantations and Anne Taylor. The quality of the fishing was extremely good with a total of 3 black marlin, 4 striped marlin and 28 sailfish all tagged and released. The overall winner was Ken Rodwel's Delta fished by Gina Verey, her brother Malise Graham and his son in law Rob Phayre with 2633 points who caught 2 black marlin, 1 stripey and 3 sail having had a slam on the Saturday. A fantastic weekend's fishing for this crew.
1st in the Pro Boat stream was Johnny Hellier's Unreel, fished by Colin van Rooyen, Mike Mitchley and Arthur Stematis, who won the prize for the highest placed overseas angler - £100 sterling donated by Phil Revet. All came from South Africa with 2024 points having caught a black, a stripey and 5 sail. Arthur also won the prize for the most fish tagged by an individual in a 3-way tie with Phil Revett and Rob Phayre.
2nd in the Pro Boat stream was Tarka fished by Phil Revett, who won the Weetabix Light Line rod, Paul Avery and skipper Callum Loomen with 1461 points having caught a stripey and 4 sail.
3rd in the Pro Boat stream was Eclare fished by Graham Lee, who also caught the heaviest non-billfish - a 22.2kg yellowfin, Bruce Buckland (a well-known ex-Kenya angler) and Nick Conway with 926 points hav
ing caught 4 sailfish.
1st in the Amateur Boat stream was the Kilifi based Minerva fished by the owners, Anne Taylor, Andrew Buckoke and Terence Hopking, with 1109 points having tagged 5 sailfish. They also won the Partridge Trophy as the highest placed Kenya resident amateur boat. They also won the prize for the highest placed boat under 25ft.
2nd in the Amateur Boat stream was Bado fished by the owner, Bob Brenneisen, Danny Heller and Salim Ghalia with 1040 points having caught a striped marlin and a sailfish.
3rd in the amateur Boat stream was another Kilifi boat, Novita, fished by a Ladies Team consisting of Pam Walker-Munro, Jo Harris and local skipper William with 460 points with 2 sailfished tagged.
The Ladies Prize was won by Gina Verey who caught her first ever black marlin on Saturday and a second on Sunday.
The Ladies on Novita won the Weetabix Plate and Shs. 20,000:00 cash as the top boat fishing out of Kilifi on both days.
Brendan Bowles won a case of wine donated by Chris Wilson having won the fish:formula ratio prize.
Saturday 1st March sees the first day of the Watamu Festival, fantastic prizes sponsored again this year by Fly 540, the low cost airline, with the auction and draw at 7.30pm at the Pilipan Restaurant on Friday 29th February. And for those that want more, the two day and a night 'Friends of Kenya' from Hemingways follows a few days later on March 5th-6th.
A feast of fishing then, get away from it all at the Coast!
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