The Ferte family from Saint Malo in France (Dad and two sons) aboard the Dimeu with Steve Webb, Sammy Yongo and Ja

1st day: 17/07, direction Santo Antão, nothing

2nd day: on the NW bank, 2 marlins caught (750lbs and 450 lbs)

3rd day: caught a grander (more than 1000lbs) lost (dead) after 4 hours and a half of good fighting, Lionel Ferte and the crew are obviously very disappointed

4th day: 2 marlins caught and a yellow tuna of 80 kgs

5th day: on the return in the canal, 1 marlin caught (300lbs)

6th day: always in the canal, 1 marlin (150lbs) and a tuna (80 kgs).

The customers left Cape Verde happy, they will come back next year.

Aboard the Dimeu with Ahmed Didi and Steve Webb as skipper

1st day, Tuesday 5th July: in São Pedro, nothing

2nd day: 2 yellow tuna (yellowfine)

3rd day: 1 blue marlin caught (300lbs), direction Santo Antão 1 super grander Blue Marlin 907 lbs and a shark hammer 140kgs.

4th day: to the northwest, 1 marlin caught (300lbs), 1 wahoo, 2 yellowfine

5th day: back to São Vicente, 1 sailfish 60lbs and 3 small yellowfine

6th day: in São Pedro, 2 yellowfine (85 kgs), 1 sailfish, 1 wahoo

The customer left happy with his beak of blue marlin (that of 907 lbs)

It was James Allan's turn to take his place on the Bertram 33' with Stuart Simpson as skipper and Ryan Williamson as liner.

1st day, 26th June: in São Pedro seen 4, 1 fished (600 lbs)

2nd day: 1 fished, second broken line

3rd day: broken line, nothing

4th day: 1 fished

5th day: 1 fished (small, 140 lbs)

The Du Plessis team aboard the Bertram 33ft with Stuart Simpson as skipper and Ryan Williamson as liner.

1st day: June 11, North of São Vicente, 2 contacts, a marlin caught.

2nd day: 1 marlin caught

3rd day: seen 1 marlin, 1 caught in the North

4th day: 2 contacts in the North

5th day: direction Santo Antão, 1 marlin fishing, 1 contact

6th day: seen 1 marlin, 1 marlin caught

7th day: nothing

8th day: nothing

Jerry Cobb as customer on the Dimeu, accompanied by Patrick Haussy

1st day: June 04th 1 marlin seen, no caught

2nd day: 3 contacts, 2 marlins caught

3rd day: 3 contacts, 1 marlin 700 lbs fished

4th day: a combo with a marlin for Patrick in stand-up and one for Jerry at the seat (400 lbs)

For a first marlin fishing experience, Jerry has left very happy.

NHA CRETCHEU customers ROB FOX and a friend.

1st day: 28/05 São Pedro no marlin caught, only one contact.

2nd day: direction São Nicolau, nothing

3rd day: 1 marlin seen, 1 marlin caught

4th day: North São Vicente, 1 marlin caught (348 kgs)

5th day: 3 marlins seen, 2 marlins caught in the North of São Vicente

6th day: 3 marlins seen, 1 marlin fished in Santo Antão

7th day: Santo Antão, nothing

SCHWARZ FAMILY with Stev on DIMEU

1st day: Sunday 14 May in São Pedro, 1 contact

2nd day: at North of São Vicente then São Pedro, nothing

3rd day: direction São Nicolau, 1 contact, 1 marlin fished in Raso

4th day: Tarrafal bench, 1 contact, 1 marlin caught

Day 5: Tarrafal Bench, nothing

6th day: return to São Vicente, nothing

Steve Webb with Dimeu for PENN CHALLENGE

1st day: 07/05/2017, in São Pedro, 3 contacts of marlin, no marlin caught

2nd day: in São Pedro, 3 contacts, 2 marlins caught

3rd day: in São Pedro, 3 contacts, 1 marlin caught

4th day: in Santo Antão, 2 contacts, 1 marlin caught then in the channel, 1 marlin caught, then in São Pedro a double, 2 marlins caught, with a total of 4 marlins caught for the day

5th day: Nothing, 1 contact

Steve is very happy with his second position in the PENN CHALLENGE ranking, he won a 70lbs reel

Lasseron Team (french) with Nha Cretcheu

1st day (1st of May): direction São Nicolau, 1 contact, 1 marlin caught in Raso Island, beautiful 700 lbs fish with Pelagic Pulsator Lures

2nd day: at the bench of Tarrafal, 2 seen, nothing caught

3rd day: 4 seen, nothing fished (bad destination São Nicolau)

4th day: seen two marlins, two caught

5th day: 1 marlin caught on the bench, then back to São Vicente

6th day: in São Pedro, 1 contact but nothing fished !!!

4 marlins for 6 days, the customers are not very happy: 3 years ago, they had caught 17 marlins !!!

Doray team aboard the Dimeu with Steve Webb as skipper, Sammy Yongo as Liner and JA as a sailor:

Day 1: April 23 in São Pedro: nothing

2nd day: in São Pedro, nothing

3rd day: direction Monte Trigo Santo Antão nothing, direction São Nicolau and arrival at 21 hours.

4th day: at the bench of Tarrafal, São Nicolau, 5 marlins seen, 3 marlins caught

5th day: 2 seen, 1 marlin caught

6th day: 1 marlin caught

7th day: return to São Vicente, nothing

Guests are disappointed, not enough fish

On board of the Nha Cretcheu with Stuart Simpson, Ryan Williamson and Fabio, we welcome the McGee team

1st day 07/04/2017: North São Vicente 4 blue marlins seen, 1 caught (400lbs)

2nd day: Direction São Nicolau, nothing

3rd day: 6 contacts nearTarrafal, 1 caught (250lbs)

4th day: 3 contacts, 2 marlins caught, 320lbs and 350 lbs

5th day: 2 marlins fished, 600 lbs and 400 lbs

6th day: 1 marlin caught 450 lbs and 1 unhooked, about 700 lbs

7th day: back to São Vicente, nothing.

Satisfied customers, they will come back next year.

On board of Dimeu, with Steve Webb as skipper, Sammy Yongo as Liner and JA as sailor, we welcome Benoît Chenu and Patrice Cadenet.

1st day (2 April): 2 contacts 200 lbs, 1 off the pitch twice

2nd day: 3 contacts, 1 pitch socket 250lbs

3rd day: 6 contacts, 5 hooked to the lures / 1 marlin 300 lbs twice to the pitch, dropped

4th day 2 contacts, 2 marlins caught in pitch 250lbs, Patrice fished his one in stand-up.

5th day 2 contacts, 1 off-hook at pitch 250lbs

The customers left Cape Verde satisfied.

Mr. Cuvelier and Mr. Fonroques from June 6 to June 10 on our Bertram, Stuart Simpson was the skipper.

June 6: north of Sao Vicente, 6 marlins seen, 3 caught (200, 80 & 150 kgs)

June 7: 4 views, 1 marlin lost after 18 minutes of fighting

June 8: with Steeve Webb as skipper, at Sao Pedro, 4 views, 1 marlin caught (180 kgs)

June 9: 4 views, 1 double, 1 marlin lost and 1 marlin caught (200 kgs)

June 10: 6 views, 1 marlin caught

Total 7 blue marlins caught, the customers are happy.

Schwarz family (father, son and daughter) on the Pacemaker 40', with Tara Thompson as skipper, Fabio and Ja as liner, from 23 May to 27.

First day: in São Pedro, 3 fishes seen, 1 marlin caught

Second day: 3 fishes seen, 1 marlin caught (450 lbs)

Third day: 2 fishes seen, 2 fish from the pitch (400 lbs and 320 lbs)

Fourth day: 1 fish seen, not caught marlin

Fifth day: 3 marlins seen 1 marlin caught

Total: 5 blue marlin caught, 11 seen, customers went away happy.

Fishing trip Cabo Verde May 2016

Rick Zeedijk and I left to Lisbon on Thursday 12th May, where we stayed one night. The next day we flew to Sao Vicente to start our 6 days fishing for Blue Marlin.

Initially the first day, we planned to go fishing with Randy Das on Cal Rai, was on Sunday but after talking to him we decided to reschedule to Saturday. The waters around São Vicente were green, so we decided to go further towards Santo Antao. It took us three hours to sail to the good spots, which left us with only five hours for fishing. With the catch of 2 blue marlins we can say we had a good start of our fishing trip: 2/2.

Sunday we were free and on Monday we had a seven hours trip to get to Sao Nicolau with the Nha Cretcheu and captain Stuart Simpson. We agreed to fish there for 5 days. It turned out to be fantastic fishing days with 4 and 3 marlins on the last two days. Catch with Stuart in 5 days: 12/19.

In total we caught 14 marlins and a wahoo. Wednesday the 18th of May, I caught my 100th billfish and with 8 marlin in 6 days it became my most successful Big game trip ever.

Many thanks to Didier Jeanne from family hotel Alto Fortim and captains Randy Das and Stuart Simpson and their crew Daddy Das, Steven and Jacko.

I'm already looking forward to our next trip to Cabo Verde. This is planned for the 2nd week of May 2017. The Penn Challenge tournament will be organized from Mindelo on Sao Vicente as part of the open Dutch EFSA Big gameChampionships. If you are interested to join these Championships, please contact me as soon as possible, phone nr: 0031633150610 or send an email to fransvanoss@upcmail.nl.

Frans van Oss

Dominique and Michel regular curtomers, with the Bertram and Stuart Simpson as skipper.

First day in Sao Pedro, 2 blue marlin caught (800 lbs and 600 lbs)

The second day, they changed to fish in Santo Antao (green water in Sao Pedro): 1 marlin caught

On the third day, still in Santo Antao: 2 marlins caught

The fourth day: 1 marlin caught.

The fifth day: 2 blue marlin caught

The sixth day: nothing, only tracking a fish and back to Mindelo

The seventh day: back in Sao Pedro, nothing, it was strange because there were many birds, many dolphins, many detections in sonar, but nothing.

Anyway Dominique and Michel were satisfied with 8 fishes. They will come back next year.

Dimeu just finished a 4 day trip fishing with Fred and Mitchell from Belgium fishing off of San Pedro bank.

The first day started out great with a wahoo caught in the shallows of the banks. Taking full advantage of the fantastic 15 knot flat calm sea, we decide to head out to draper water. We saw a blue marlin tailing on the surface and began fishing with 2 skip baits and a Pakula lure down the center. Our first bite came and we had a 250lb blue marlin, and a 130lb caught on the center line. 15 minutes later, we came on a 300 lb blue marlin that ate the pitch lure. We went inshore as wind picked up and in the afternoon we headed back off shore where we found another blue around 500 lb that came in on our skipping tuna.

The next day the wind picked up a bit so we fished closer to shore having a quiet morning, we found our blues off the Big Rock again, catching a nice 400lb blue on the 50lb pitch bait soon followed by a healthy 350lb caught on the short rigger.

The next day, sea became a bit rougher with the wind increasing and the swells, we went back to the bank and caught a 500lb blue on the Center line. An amazing four days tip with being lucky enough to catch Mitchell's dream fish, not just once but 4 times!!!!

Theo Daly and Rudolf Muller, with Bertram Stuart Simpson, 6 days in Santo Antao: 22 blue marlin seen for 10 caught to Pitch bait, satisfied customers, they have already booked for next year.

Dimeu went 1-1 today !!!!

Congratulations to PESCA GROSSA & crew in Madeira for their 652 lb blue marlin the winner of the 2015 World Cup. 

It was the only fish boated with 150 teams fishing around the world. 

Angler was Anthony Johnson. 

Captain Duart Nuno Goncalves with crew Frothy de Silva

For the past three weeks we have continued to have good fishing here in Cape Verde. On average during this time of year, numbers start to slow down and more bigger fish turn up. That has certainly been the case this year.

Three weeks ago we fished wseith Danie Louw and his two boys. We did a five day trip to Soa Nicola. The water and weather was beautiful and so was the fishing. The main bank was full of frigate mackerel jumping everywhere, and plenty marlin were feeding on them. On our first day there we released 3 blue marlin, a great way to start the trip. The remaining days continued to produce good numbers. There was so much bait we even tried living baiting, we did not catch any marlin using this method but lots of fun was had by all. After a good four days, the trip home was even productive, catching one nice marlin and seeing another four. The one fished we raised in Santa Lucia channel was a good one, however did not switch, but everyone got a good look at it.

We then had a few days break and started fishing with Jim and Jill Robertson. Jim is a long time friend of ours and a very experienced marlin fisherman. We had two days fishing pre before the 4 th July marlin World Cup. On both days we raised one small fish, but had no luck on getting them to the boat. Jim was running his big fish spread. Everyone was very excited for the 4th July as lots of big fish had been seen. Big Oh caught a 1247lb the day before a Mystic Blue a 900lb. So there big girls where around. However the 4th produced very slow fishing for all Cape Verde boats. Maybe even the slowest day of the season, just typical! But that's fishing for you.

After the 4th we did some staggered days fishing with Chris and Wendy from the Uk. They both managed to catch blue marlin. Wendy's was extra special as it was her first blue marlin. A great achievement and she did a excellent job on heavy tackle in the fighting chair. Not huge numbers of fishing but still good fun.

Overall it's a great season, and we would like to thank all your clients/friends for coming along to fish with us. It's not as electric as last year, but it's still great fishing. No two years are the same that's fishing, but we wait in anticipation. Hope to see you all soon in the near future, please see our special offer. Tight lines and stay safe.

The Pacemaker with three Ukrainian customers.

June 24: going to Santo Antao, 2 contacts, no marlin caught.

June 25: at the NW, 4 contacts, two marlins caught + 3 wahoos.

June 26: 5 contacts, 2 marlins + 2 wahoos.

June 27: going back to São Vicente, nothing.

Dutch customers aboard the Bertram 33 in Sao Pedro

17-06: two marlins seen, no contact

18-06: 7 marlins seen, 1 marlin 1 (450 lbs )

19-06: 3 marlins seen, 2 caught including one 580 lbs

20-06: 2 marlins seen, no fishing.

Jac and Gerardus, two Dutch friends aboard our Pacemaker 40 ' with Pulsator and G-Force lures.

07-06: In São Pedro, 4 contacts, 2 marlins fished

08-06: 6 contacts, 2 marlins caught

09-06: 2 contacts, 1 marlin caught

10-06: 4 contacts, 2 marlin vaught, including one 850 lbs after 45 minutes of great fight.

11-06: 5 contacts, one 550 lbs marlin caught

Customers are happy, they will come back next year

Team Meyer on the Pacemaker 40:

25-05: São Pedro, 2 contacts, 1 marlin fished with a G-Force lure 

26-05: 2 contacts, nothing

27-05: 4 contacts, 2 marlins fished with Pulsator lure and G-Force lure

28-05: 1 contact, nothing

29-05: 2 contacts, nothing

Team Meyer a little disappointed, but that's fishing, hight tide and low tide, they will come back next year for another adventure

Hello from Mindelo, Cape Verde. Over the past six days we have had some very good fishing. Fishing with Bob and Andy from England. The weather has also been very nice and calm. On the first day the fishing was on fire, in the deep water off San Pedro, with fish showing up in good numbers.

We started the day off by catching a double header off 250lb blue marlin. The luck continued and eventually we finished the day catching 6 from 8 bites. The biggest was a 500lb fish on the way home to top the day off. The second day we also fished the same area however not as many fish where being seen, we still had a lot of fun catching two nice blue marlin.

On the third day we decided to have a change of scene and headed over to Santo Antao in search of nice calm blue water. The first afternoon was a bit slow, but showed good signs with lots of bait, birds and blue water. The next morning we got up early and struck gold, catching a 500lb not long after putting the lines in. The fish came up on the long teasers and came all the way to the boat to eat a pitch bait. A very hot fun fish. We also caught two more great fish that day releasing a 400lb and 600lb. All the fish did some incredible jumping and lots of fun was had by all. A few beers were drank that night to celebrate the good day.

The over the next two final days we continued to have some good fishing in the calm water, releasing 1 from 3 bites. The last afternoon we fish San Pedro bank, where we saw two fish free swimming however did not manage to get a bite from them.

Great 6 days fishing with Bob and Andy, who both did great jobs fighting all the fish. We caught 12 fish over the 6 days. That's good fishing!

We go fishing with two English guests, Andy and his son Bob, aboard the Bertram with Stuart Simpson as skipper.

The 17-05: São Pedro, 8 contacts, 6 marlins caught and released (250 lbs to 500 lbs)

The 18-05: São Pedro, two contacts for two marlin caught.

The 19-05: In São Pedro, but nothing, Stuart decided to return to Mindelo to make diesel and go to Santo Antao where they caught nothing, bad day.

The 20-05: As soon as we launched the lines, we caught a first fish (500 lbs), then a 400 lbs and a 600 lbs.

The 21-05 3 contacts for one marlin caught, then in direction to São Pedro, two contacts.

The 22-05: São Pedro, 1 contact.

Satisfied customers who fished 12 marlins in 6 days with lots of emotions.

All fish have been caught with lures PULSATOR

Pacemaker 40' Skipper Lionel Duffy

Russian customers.

May 1: Sao Pedro, 1 contact, 2 marlins caught (650 lbs)

May 2: 2 contacts, 1 very large marlin (850 lbs to 900 lbs) dropped to the boat

May 3: North of Sao Vicente, 1 contact, 1 marlin caught (330 lbs). In Jig, 3 yellowtail (the largest 25lbs) 1 bonito.

May 4: at Sao Pedro, 3 contacts, 1 marlin caught (350 lbs), one more beautiful marlin lost, after have broken the hook.

Dominique and Michel, two clients regulars.

On April 23rd: 1 contact, 1 marlin fished

On April 24th: 2 contacts

On April 27th: 1 contact, 1 marlin (180 kgs)

On April 28th: 6 contacts, 3 marlins fished (150-280-240 kgs)

On April 29th: 2 contacts at the same time, 2 marlins fished (150-220 kgs), 1 fish with the pitch, a fish with the lure + 1 Mako shark.

On April 30th: 2 contacts at the same time, 2 marlins fished (180-230 kgs), 1 fish with the pitch, a fish with the lure.

On May 1st: no contact.

Happy customers, for the first time Dominique caught two marlins in stand-up.

Our participation in Penn Challenge 2015:

18-04 Nha Cretcheu (BERTRAM 33 '): Nothing
Dimeu 18-04 (PACEMAKER 40 '): 1 contact

19-04 Nha Cretcheu: nothing
19-04 Dimeu 5 contacts, 1 marlin 180 kgs (Luring Red G-FORCE)

20-04 Nha Cretcheu, 3 contacts, no catch
20-04 Dimeu: 1 contact, 1 180 kgs marlin (Luring Red G-FORCE)

21-04 Nha Cretcheu: 4 contacts, 3 marlins fished with a 780 lbs (Lures Pulsator)
21-04 Dimeu: 1 contact, 1 marlin lost (700 lbs)

22-04 Nha Cretcheu: 1 contact, 1 marlin caught 500 lbs (Pulsator Lure)
22-04 Dimeu 6 contacts caught 4 marlin (3 Pulsator Lures and Lure Red G-Force)

Second day with São Nicolau, any marlin blue, a double contact of Spearfish, one spearfish fished (40kgs) and released.

Third day, initially in São Nicolau (nothing), then return on São Vicente: 3 contacts in São Pedro, 2 marlins caught and released (110 kgs and 280 kgs), a beautiful combat.