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Sustainable Marine Conservation

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We use one of Kenya's oldest sea fishing family businesses, who we consider not only good friends but to be one of the best and most experienced on the African coast, as do many who understand big game sea fishing in the Indian Ocean.

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All the fishing boats we use, support and practice the ‘Tag & Release’ recording system for billfish, shark and many of the game fish, to enhance local ecotourism and maintain Sustainable Marine Conservation in the Indian Ocean.

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Kenya generally has all year-round offshore fishing with a short off season from April to June.

 

•    July, August and September

 

The Kusi, the south-east monsoon blows when good mixed bag can be taken with species coming inshore to feed:

 

Sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus)

Black Marlin (Istiompax indica)

Barracuda - Blackfin barracuda (Sphyraena qenie)

Giant Trevally (Caranx ignobilis)

Wahoo (Acanthocybium solandri)

Kingfish (King Mackerel - Scomberomorus cavalla)

Dorado (The Mahi-mahi / Dolphinfish - Coryphaena hippurus)

Yellowfin Tuna (Thunnus albacares) - some of the best bait fishing.

Sharks - often caught while fishing for other fish or while fighting a fish!

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•    October, November and December

 

The main Sailfish / billfish season, runs from the end of September, when sailfish populations increase to late March. Besides Sailfish, many of the above fish species and still in play...

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•    January, February and March

 

Around the end of the year, the winds from the north start to blow, the Kaskazi - this brings the Marlin and Broadbill Swordfish.

The seas are warmer and calmer during the Kaskazi months, December to March, and perfect months for the 'Slams' 1.

 

Striped Marlin (Kajikia audax)

Blue Marlin (Makaira mazara)

Black Marlin (Istiompax indica)

Sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus)

Swordfish (Xiphias gladius), also known as broadbills - tend to be more active in the upper layers at night.

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Sea Fishing & Safari

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Experience two of Kenya's most exciting and wildlife-rich wildernesses - the North Coast, Western Indian Ocean (WIO) and Tsavo East National Park.

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6~7 nights - 2 days Big Game Sea Fishing and 3 days Tsavo & Galana Safari...

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• Please see our Sea Fishing & Safari itinerary information. .PDF 

 

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'Sybarite Castaway Sea Safaris' 

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The ‘Sybarite Castaway Sea Safari’ is a unique, bespoke itinerary designed to cover some of the world’s best big game sea fishing waters, and experiencing the remote fishing lodges and renowned tropical beach camps of the East African coast.

 

Starting out from Watamu working our way to the northern end of the Lamu Archipelago, we navigate to parts of the north Kenya coastline only accessible by boat, and the Swahili sea fishing communities.

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The southern tip of the North Kenya Banks are forty miles straight off Malindi (slight north east of Watamu), a steep Bank, which rises up from very deep waters, that attract bait fish (Yellowfin Tuna etc..) and in-turn brings in the predators. This huge bank runs north from Malindi to the Lamu Archipelago and Kiwayu.

 

Situated on the southern end of an archipelago of islands running north towards Somalia, Lamu is surrounded by countless under water canyons, mountains and drop offs, it is also the closest point to the north end of the North Kenya Bank; many of the big marlin have been fought off this fascinating archipelago.

 

Kiwayu is a smaller island north of Lamu, in the remote Kiunga Marine Park. These virgin waters are rarely visited making fishing these areas a joy without other boats pushing the fish down.

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• Please see our 'Sybarite Castaway Sea Safari' itinerary information. .PDF 

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“You are killing me, fish,” the old man thought.

“But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful,

or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother.“

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                               - Ernest Hemingway, 'The Old Man and the Sea' (1952)

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Malindi Sea Fishing Club

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The Swahili coastal town of Malindi, is surrounded by warm sandy beaches, high sand dunes and a vibrant river ecosystem.

 

The town, founded around the 1st Century AD, has come under many influential forces; more recently, the 16th Century saw a Portuguese decree, while in the 17th Century, Malindi was ruled by the Sultan of Oman and Zanzibar for another 200 years before the scramble and partition of Africa, which saw the town alongside other parts of the country under the British rule in the 19th Century.

 

Malindi Sea Fishing Club is a famous institution, founded in 1959 for "the betterment and advancement of sea sports in the Malindi area with special reference to salt water fishing".

 

It’s a quaint old-fashioned club by the beach, set in a pretty garden, shaded by tall trees. The whitewashed walls and columns, are open without glass windows, and the low walls between the columns double as sitting space.

 

Through the entrance you are immediately graced with a great white shark baring its jaws, landed on the 16th June 1996 - the very day we first made our acquaintance with the club, when the original clubhouse was in use (1969-2010), behind the current clubhouse.

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