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We are now listed on tripadvisor. Pls feel free to post any photos of trips made together, and any reviews would be welcome. On tripadvisor we are called "game fishing koh tao"
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Summer is well and truly upon us. Early starts help us to beat the heat, and hopfully enjoy a decent early morning bite. Most fishing this season is at the pinnacles or fads. Standard day is a mix of trolling and livebaiting, approx 4 hours of each. Pls contact me directly for more info or to schedule a booking. Price is still 5,000B per day. 6am-2pm max 2 persons.
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Email/pics recieved this week from satisfied customer R.L. in the UK.
Had 2 fantastic days out with Marc off Koh Tao, one in early January when we caught Travelly and a King Mackerel and again late March when we caught Dolphin fish. On both days other boats in area failed to catch. Having been fishing off Koh Toa before on other boats and had to endure other non anglers on boat, inferior and poorly maintained tackle that failed when big fish hooked it was pleasing to find Marc's tackle of quality and well maintained and clutches set correctly. We had different rods set for different conditions and if a change was required to tackle in use it was done promptly. The depth finder proved what a few meters off a mark and bites cease. To be honest if we had failed to catch it would not have been Marc's fault and at least I would have felt we gave it our best effort and enjoyed my day fishing which is more than I can say from trips in the past. Can not wait to return!
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Weather and fishing have been excellent so far this season. Mahi are here in huge numbers and also bigger than average size, mackerel are coming on the bite, but a bit hit and miss. One day will be biting very quickly while the next day with identical conditions may not even give a single bite. Marlin have been biting at the FADs, and also inshore nearby sandbanks and Nangyuan, sometimes even at the pinnacles. Adam caught this lovely little black marlin a few days ago with a trolled rapala just outside Nangyuan island. It was the second hit of the day with the first fish enjoying an early release.
Boat is up on dry dock being repaired. Hoping to be back in Koh Tao by the 28th March touch wood. I can arrange for customers to use an alternative boat for the meantime, pls contact me as usual.
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Many apologies to bookings in the 2nd half of march. I must take the boat out of the water tomorrow as it has sprung a serious leak. Expect to be back in business before the end of the month. I can arrange for a friend to take you fishing, or you can book up with the group tours until my boat is repaired.
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Many apologies again for no updates in such a long time. We moved office back into central Maehaad. Its on the uphill road from the main pier. So walk past 7/11 at the bottom of the road and about 60 meters up opposite a pharmacy. Office name AdventureCenter2 still, you will see fishing posters outside.
So, fishing has been very good. There was no NE monsoon this year so water is still very clear. Mackerel still biting offshore and a few sailfish and small marlin too. Billfish have been a bit dissapoining this season. Smaller size than usual and less of them. I can't ever remember catching mackerel in early december before so thats a bonus. Lots of small tuna around now so trolling has been fun. Most days fishing 7-10 miles offshore. Today, fishing with Atte from Finland we came across a big school of queenfish. Landed 19 and lost a fair few too.
Pls email me with any q's or to arrange booking.
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Old office on Seatran pier road is closed, we have moved to a new office on the main road from Maehaad to Chalok at the Ao Luek junction. Lek is in there every day, shop is easy to find with the fishing posters outside. Weather has been good, fishing has been very hit and miss. Some days the mackerel have been biting as fast as you can get the bait in the water. The next day you might not have a hit all day. Frustrating at times, although thats fishing.
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Apologies for no updates for a while.
Fishing has been good since last report, although with virtually no customers I have been only targetting mackerel, mainly at Chumpon pinnacles. Most days its possible to catch a few, sizes as usual between 6 and 10kg. Picture was taken last week, James and Suzy with a few of their 7 mackerel from that morning. It was a rare day when we could catch them of live baits, dead baits and jigs. Next week I have a few days charter and we will be looking for marlin/sails in a different area, so hopefully will have some news to report next month.
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I have been having trouble accessing email for the last 8 days, and have seen no new messages in that time. Pls call me direct on 0848440700 for any bookings until I can fix the email problem. Apologies to any enquiries or bookings that I may have missed. Fishing has been fantastic recently. Lots of mackerel at teh pinnacles and mahi a bit further out.
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Since the commercial fishing ban started on 15th Feb, action has picked up. Mackerel have started biting well at the pinnacles, and some mahi around further offshore. Fishing should remain good until at least 15th May when the netters and trawlers will start fishing again. GoongHeng2 from Sweden is back for his spring fishing break. Heres 2 mackerel caught on the morning of the 25th.9kg and 6kg. I have lots of free days this month, pls contact me for more info.
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After a month of windy weather and almost no chance to go fishing, the monsoon is finally winding down. Yesterday we got out and had a great day trolling near Nangyuan. Tobias from Sweden landed this nice marlin. It was his 10th trip or thereabouts so it was nice to see him catch something worthwhile after so many days of snapping rods, losing fish, and catching 6 inch snappers.
I have some available days before 17th January. Contact me to make any reservations.
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The NE monsoon hasn't arrived yet. Most days calm and sunny, although water visibility is quite poor. I have reluctantly given up chasing mackerel out at the pinnacles and am putting the time towards sailfish. Most catches are inshore, either trolling surface lures, or livebaiting at anchor. There are lots of sails in the bay now, and the netters are still busy catching crabs, its the new fashion and long may it continue. If we have a season where the sailfish go unmolested it may put Koh Tao on the worldwide sailfishing map along with Rompin, SE Florida and central America. Here we have good numbers of sails and black marlin in a concentrated area but usually they get netted at night. So far so good this season. Martyn caught this mid-sized sailfish this morning on a blue/white imitation squid trolled along the Maehaad dropoff. I think we had been fishing almost 2 minutes when she hit the bait on the outrigger. Nice!
I am available every day until Christmas and some days after, pls email me with any booking enquiries.
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As expected this time of year sailfish are showing in the bay, more than a few marlin also present. Yesterday we were very quickly spooled fishing at sandbank by a medium sized marlin. Lots of small marlin at Chumpon pinnacle unfortunately taking livebaits meant for the late season mackerel. SW pinnacle also fishing very well although its being long-lined almost every day by a taxi boat. Very clever! Homemade outrigger working very well and will be doing more trolling inshore this year, primarily targetting sailfish. So average monsoon fishing day would be an hour or 2 trolling lures, anchoring and deploying livebaits at NaBaan pinnacle , and same at sandbanks. If the weather seems settled enough I'm happy to run out to some Fads although its hard to see the advantage in doing so. Mahi and mackerel will become scarce until February.
Henry from Finland landed this very nice sailfish early morning trolling close-by Nangyuan island. One of 2 hits from sails we had that day, unfortunately the lure was quite damaged from the first fish and 2nd strike was a miss.
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Sailfish have started showing up in the bay already. We caught the first one in a while trolling lures near Nangyuan island last week. Offshore there are lots of small black marlin. Both sails and marlin should become easier to catch throughout the month. Mackerel fishing has been a bit slow. Still lots of fish here but the longliners haven't been helping the bite much. Drew and Emma, down from Beijing caught a couple of nice ones around 10kg at the end of August fishing around the Chumpon pinnacle area.
Pls email me with any booking enquiries. I have lots of available days this month.
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Great fishing continues. Mackerel still on the bite almost every day. I have been fishing at Chumpon pinnacle as its relatively close and we can still catch a few most mornings without too much trouble. Boats running further to Samran pinnacle are usually suitably rewarded. Mahi swarms still around and feeding most days. There are a good few billfish showing up as expected as we move into Autumn months. Mainly offshore, and I didnt see any at the ususal inshore marks but will start to put more time into NaBaan pinnacle and sandbanks. Its difficult to decide on the best tackle for general game fishing here, and I invariably use 30lb test mono which is perfect for mackerel of any size although a big undergunned for most billfish, but due to their small average size 20-30kg still possible to catch most fish. Problem comes when dealing with fish bigger than the norm, most of which are lost. Most, but not all.... On the 12th of August, Angelmeister Mike from Germany landed an absolute cracker of a marlin. Sad to say the picture doesnt do true justice to this beast of a fish. Landed after a 3 hour fight using a Penn Jigmaster, 30lb mono line and 2 size 13 hooks !! Weight estimated at just over 60kg although it could have been a fair bit over that. Either way, fantastic job landing that fish and I will admit to being more than a bit surprised when it was finally boatside. The odds of landing it were very slim.
After the rough weighing of the fish, it was clearly heavier than the previous record holder (sorry Bill H.!) I will try to post some more pics that show the size more clearly. Its fair to say this was the biggest fish I ever saw landed on this boat, and the biggest legitimate fish I have ever seen landed on rod and line in Koh Tao. Legitimate because the sadly departed bull sharks of chumpon pinnacle weighed more but there was no skill involved in catching them (most likely the reason why they are so seldom seen these days). I am almost fully booked this August but can try and squeeze in another day if needed. Lots of days free for September. Pls email me with any booking enquiry.
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Fishing has been quite excellent even though the weather has been almost constantly windy since last update. Mackerel are here in record numbers, this year is certainly the best mackerel fishing I can remember over the last 10 years. I have been fishing at Chumpon pinnacle at every opportunity and the mackerels have been running around the 7kg average, so slightly bigger than normal. In order not to be greedy, and also for fun I like to limit the catch to 3 or 4 fish. There have been quite a few days where this was achieved in only an hour or so. Dissapointing to see longliners targetting the pinnacles this year. It is starting with just a few boats (including 1 or 2 that really should know better, as they do daily fishing charters when they are not longlining!). Hopefully this will be stopped although I can't see how. It would only take a few boats doing this daily and there will be no more game-fishing.If for no other reason that it will be impossible to physically get a line out with dozens of bouys and markers covering the area. Fingers crossed this problem slowly goes away.
On a brighter note, one of this months champions was Hanoi from Cuba. Probably the best Cuban fisherman I ever have seen, and after an epic battle with lots of running around the bow he landed this 9kg fish. Nice job! and thanks for sending the pic.
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So after all the heavy rain and storms in March which affected the fishing badly, we are now enjoying great fishing. Mackerel are biting freely around the offshore pinnacles and Fads. No monsters but average sizes 5 -8 kilos. Around the pinnacle there are some much bigger fish up to 13kg. Some mahi are returning but not feeding so aggresively. Tobias and Catherina from Germany had some mackerel action fishing around the Chumpon pinnacle area landing 3 nice fish in the morning.
Please contact me with any booking enquiries.
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Game fishing season is in full swing. Water has become very clear and the king mackerel bite continues to improve. Mahi are around offshore in crazy numbers although average size is still small. GoongHeng2 has arrived on his spring holiday and had a good couple of days out fishing, losing sailfish and catching mackerel and mahi. This was a nice 6.5kg mackerel caught at TaJam wreck earlier this week.
Its possible that there will be a game fishing competition on Koh Tao later this month. Dates should be 20th and 21st. Contact me for more details.
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Conditions are improving by the day. Weather is calm and sunny and water visibility has become much clearer. That, together with the commercial fishing ban that seems to have stopped one or 2 boats from their netting and trawling has resulted in more fish around locally. We just finished a 5 day charter with Mr.Haki. 2 days were very quiet. Other days we had some nice catches of marlin, sailfish and mackerel. Lots of mahi are around offshore but we were concentrating on bigger stuff. Here are 2 pics taken during the last 5 days. Sailfish at the house reef, and a nice 8kg mackerel from Chumpon pinnacle.
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After a quiet January, fishing has finally picked up. 2 days ago we caught marlin, sailfish and mahi making for a very nice trip and have seen plenty of mahi just arriving in the last few days. As usual there is a commercial fishing ban that started on 14th Feb and ends mid may so lots more baitfish available already and the game fishing action should improve through march and april. Will post some pics when I have the chance.
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