Blue Marlin Courtesy Hemingways Resort - Watamu, Kenya

Dear Dianne,

Hope all is well with you.  Just thought I’d send in the following bit of info for you.

In the last week the fishing at Hemingways has started to trend towards the bigger fish.  We’ve had two large Blues on the line – one estimated at around 700 pounds and yesterday one that broke the line with the greatest of ease was estimated at a thousand pounds.  Both anglers are back out on the ocean today looking for a blue with a slightly sore mouth…

Overall the fishing is excellent with 53 Sail and 14 marlin tagged and released in the last 7 days; with two anglers succeeding in catching their first ever marlins.

We’ve got the Watamu Festival Competition this weekend and then on the 9th & 10th March we have the Friends of Kenya comp where the anglers head out for a straight 36 hours of fishing; 2 days and 1 night with extra points scored for the nighttime Broadbill.  Tight lines gentlemen!

Best regards,

Melinda

Melinda Rees
General Manager
Hemingways Resort
P. O. Box 120
Watamu, Kenya
Tel: 254-42-2332624

In this podcast we talk to Garry Cullen from Hemingways Resort in Watamu, Kenya. One of the only places in the world where you can catch and release 5 different types of bill fish all in one day, they have every thing from Blue Marlin to Yellow Fin Tuna and on to Ruby Snapper, the sheer variety of game fish off Kenya is spectacular!  Garry tells us all about the experience you can have at Hemingways, whether you want to crank on some marlin or go on a safari adventure they’ve got what you’ve been looking for, listen in and learn what kind of experience you can have at Hemingways Resort in Watamu, Kenya.

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276 Billfish Caught on 22 Boats in 9 Days

January 16th – 24th, 2010 – The Kenyan waters are red hot at the moment with all three marlin species plus loads of sail being caught every day. Striped marlin in particular are around in large numbers but we are also seeing plenty of Blue and Blacks. Even the delicate task of catching billfish on fly is coming up trumps at the moment with several specialist fly fishermen catching a marlin on fly. Gai Cullen just became the first African female angler to catch a marlin on fly. Congratulations Gai!

News and photo provided by Melinda Rees of the Hemingway Resort in Kenya,  “At Hemingways Hotel here in Kenya, East Africa, we have a large big game fishing department and we are, we believe, a fantastic fishing destination.  We have had over 200 marlin tagged and released in the 7 days in this area and last Feb/March we had two confirmed Fantasy Slams – with two anglers being credited with a broadbill, sail, black, blue and
striped marlin in a single 24 hour period.”