off Luanda; Sacha and Xico fishing the Blues

Gutes Wasser, berichtet Sacha. Er war mit Dad Xico
Samstag zum Walegucken... nix da: Marlin, war die Wette.

Sacha hat mir gestattet seinen Bericht einzustellen.
Viel Spaß beim Schmökern.

So yesterday, was another good day of fishing. We went to do whale watching but of course, to do what we do best : FISHING!
We were 4 in the boat, Daddy, Guigui Eagle Eye, Tontine Dilma and I unfortunately Pargo Man, Tremosso and Colin couldn't join us.

Early at the morning we saw a lot of life and we could already say that today we would have a good fishing day. We saw whales, a lot of jamantas rays, sharks,... except what we like : the marlin. But that was in the morning and our feeling was good.We started at 8h30 and when we were starting we couldn't even put all rods because we had our 1st Dorado of the season that Guigui Eagle Eye fished in 2 minutes. Already a very good sign to see Dorados when the water is with 74,75,76 Fº. After this we started to try to find the deep lines to try to find our Marlin there. But nothing really good, except a lot of flying fish. I told my dad but the flying fish is a very good sign for the marlin and he was like "I don't really trust on that theory". So at 12h we decided to another good zone that we now well, and on the way the big moment arrives. I was on the controls and my dad was doing the rod watch. Suddenly my dad said that a flying fish went down to our spread. Strange factor and I started looking to the rods, and 5 seconds after daddies words, appears a marlin who ate our Diamond Williamson orange (gave us Lobito 2nd place with Jan's huge marlin) in the tiagra 50wlrs. Everybody working, my dad and Guigui eagle eye taking the rods and tontine Dilma trying to catch the fish doing his show : jumps after jumps. Hard with only 3 men on work, the fish was going too fast and finishing all the line (the other rods were not all really out of the water) I started closing the strike and even with that the marlin was really nervous and still taking line. So I told my dad lets follow the fish. He did it with full speed and then the situation was better controlled. After 15 minutes of fighting the fish was near the boat but what we didn't expect arrived. Daddy was ready to go to the lead and Guigui eagle eye ready to make his 1st tag on a Marlin (at 13 years old!). The fish was 1 meter near the boat, we could see him perfectly (estimated on 200kg) but when I was going to take the last 10 cm of line he turned the head and went out of the line . Such a disaster for me, and I was starting thinking that marlin fishing isn't for me. Had the support from the others in the boat and things went better.
On the way back we saw whale shows, jumping and reproducing too.

That was, our fishing day from yesterday. One more time we could see that the lines are really important on fishing and the fish (marlin) ALWAYS bites on the middle rigger! (yesterday,my 1st marlin, in lobito...). Another thing that we could learn is that were flying fish is,yes, it's a Marlin territory.

PS : All the teams are scared from Malta Da Kianda,that in one month already got 2 marlins hook-up! Manganga was asking all the questions he could to find our secret! haha

HATI,HATI
Malta da kiandaaa !

Der Commodore hat uns vergattert,
Samstag 09.Okt geht die "Malta da Kianda" zum Teamtraining.
Bericht folgt.

Wasser und Welle sehen gut aus.
Könnte was werden.
Der erste Marlin an dem Tag geht an Xico.
:thankyou:

Dave, thanks for your words.

I've already shared them with Sach's Dad Xico and proud mom Ginga, on the
occasion of a wonderful evening as homenage of the 20th Aniversary of the
German Reunification. Ambassador had us "German Community" rounded up
with all families and pomp and circumstance yesterday evening with
Bratwurst and Sauerkraut plus plenty of the Reinheitsgebot Juice.

Apparently, Aunty Dilma visiting from CH has given seagodess KIANDA the
approporiate stimulus to roll out all we've got in our waters:
- humpbacks' flying circus
- 1.000 dolphins at a time
- makos and hammerheads
- manta rays
- flying fish abundant
- marlin on the surface attacking Sacha's masterful spread
... and then Dilma filmed Sacha's maneouvre.
Apparently, adrenalin has been rushing through everybody's veins...

What makes me pretty proud rather than envious:
Sacha laid out a spread of 6 rods (all 80s stp) and a teaser daisy chain.
Ambitious, given the fact the experienced anglers are only him and
Dad Xico and then there is fast learner Guigui, who is underaged and
underweight to stand a fight with billfish, yet.
Sacha's choice of lures is very respectable. The 5kgs Dorado earlier
that morning (on a superchugger right behind the boat) gave him
confidence to change from dark colours black purple blue to bright
colours in dorado patterns. Eventually, the Marlin could'nt resist
that bright pattern and preferred it over the flying fish it was
pursueing at that time.
Chapeau Sacha.
:hutab:
You've got the instincts and all technical ability. Dad Xico said, you
were bossing him around while he was on the controlls! I loved that!

MoinMoin Sacha, while you sweat in your classroom at this moment,
I am downloading the program to view your video footage.
Proud Mom n Dad have shared with me the datafile.

One thing still intrigues me: You hand down instructions to Dad and
Guigui like a Pro. Everything is perfect, your spread choice is cool
and well thought. Speed and course, local etc: just perfect.
You're imitating Schwarzenegger?! Half the time you're fighting
the fish without harness...

Man, I am proud of being in your team! That being too much
schmooze: As soon as I ve sampled your videos I'll be back
with criticism.

//

Now I've seen the footage: Saaaaaaacha

The fish goes for full 2m40sec... you: Conan free hand and the
girl on the other end is mad as hell; one jump after the next!

The best display since we lost Colin's grander off Palmeirinhas.
Eventually, someone mercyful hands you the Accurate harness
after 5 looooong minutes wit a Blue Dynamite on the other end.

You still had 250m on the SHIMANO 50WLRS, when you first
managed to turn his head. No reason to hurry, but you did the
right thing keeping the brakes just under strike. At strike, the
fish would have torn the mono line due to the friction in the
water.

Critical moment again, when the fish almost crossed infront of
the bow with so much line out. Guigui is new onboard, so he
didnt read the situation well and only when Xico took over
was the situation manageable, but requiring too much "jeito".
Xico accelerated just a bit too much, so the line came slack
for a couple of seconds. Perhaps that was the foundation for
the hook to come out with the fish by the boat.

Thereafter, following the fish was good and you pant and pump
like the Austrian Governour in Conan 2, no 10 minutes into the
fight the topshot is back on the reel and the shirt comes off, in
style.

Drama by the boat:
15 minutes and the fish rolls out of the leader to drop the hook
no 5meters from the "Djamila2"... no reason for you to be sad,
Sacha, just the oposite.

You deserve praise: all prepaired for the tag, your team did almost
all to the manual and the tag stick was just out of reach. Had
Guigui touched the leader, under IGFA point of view it would have
counted as "subdued", meaning caught. You were sooooooo close.

Your message to us is well understood:

Shorten the fight as much as possible. Release, and try to tag the
formidable oponent for the creature to fight another day...
Chapeu once more, Sacha
:hutab: