Great day fishing everyone caught 2 or more fish of the 3 different species landed .the crew and captain were excellent .his cooking and hospitality wasn’t bad either. Would highly recommend and book again next time I am in Madeira
Dear Halford Hall, thank you for your comment, always our pleasure. See you next time.
Not catching any fish does happen to every fisherman out there, so that is not the main reason for my review. I would have expected more flexibility from the crew: if we do not catch any fish at one spot, well, then change the hook size, change the bait or change the spot! Instead, we drove around for some time (throttling) - no luck (okay, a bit out of the season for that), then went to this one place not far from the shore and stood there for hours. Three of us cought nothing, and there wasn’t any action either. Even the fishermen on the shore caught more (small) fish then us. A bit disappointing, especially for the price we paid. Fishing is about patience, but also about creativity, flexibility & knowledge of the waters you fish in. These were completely absent on my trip with “Our Mary”. Such a pitty.
Not catching any fish does happen to every fisherman out there, so that is not the main reason for my review. I would have expected more flexibility from the crew: if we do not catch any fish at one spot, well, then change the hook size, change the bait or change the spot! Instead, we drove around for some time (throttling) - no luck (okay, a bit out of the season for that), then went to this one place not far from the shore and stood there for hours. Three of us cought nothing, and there wasn’t... Mehr
Dear Mr Moldovan, we hereby informed captain about your expectations, and he himself says that everytime we go out for the Big Game Fishing we always try our best to concentrate on finding them because the ocean is quite vast. Even on the Bottom fishing, they tried to change baite each 15min, to try and get the big fish. So we also have some use of help with our sonars to locate the best spots. Although the season is still low for the Big Fish or even the smaller fish, we too also expect always trying our best, but as captain said there are days we catch and and days we don’t, but that how fishing goes. We always apreciate all our clients opinions and in future try to improve our preformance. Thanks best regards! Tight lines!
Dear Mr Moldovan, we hereby informed captain about your expectations, and he himself says that everytime we go out for the Big Game Fishing we always try our best to concentrate on finding them because the ocean is quite vast. Even on the Bottom fishing, they tried to change baite each 15min, to try and get the big fish. So we also have some use of help with our sonars to locate the best spots. Although the season is still low for the Big Fish or even the smaller fish, we too also expect always... Mehr
The captain sad the chance to catch a big fish is 50/50. My personal opinion that is was close to 0. Not a single bite for all the time. Waves were high (the captain warned us before we went fishing but… well we made all the way there in the morning and only at the place he told us the weather was not good). Before half-time trolling ran out the crew hide the tackle and offered us bottom fishing. Which was terrible. 70 meters bottom fishing for small red snappers? No thanks. We cut the whole day trip and had 3 hours of being on the boat overall. We payed 250 euros on the place for the 7 hours day and got 50 back.
The captain sad the chance to catch a big fish is 50/50. My personal opinion that is was close to 0. Not a single bite for all the time. Waves were high (the captain warned us before we went fishing but… well we made all the way there in the morning and only at the place he told us the weather was not good). Before half-time trolling ran out the crew hide the tackle and offered us bottom fishing. Which was terrible. 70 meters bottom fishing for small red snappers? No thanks. We cut the... Mehr
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Mrs Alice thank you for your review, we had a great time with you guys, hope to see you again.