Assuming the winds calm down a bit we should be going fishing Thursday and Friday, morning/evening or even both we usually troll early morning and in the evening we troll till after sunset and bottom fish during the night. I have a 13ft boat with an 8hp outboard so it is easy to launch the boat from anywhere as it is on a trailer. Usually we launch from Xemxija however the last few times we went we were very unlucky so I thought of launching from somewhere else. :-\
I was wondering if any of you might be able to suggest where to launch from and how far out we should go.
Any replies would be greatly appreciated ::)
Thanks!
blackhawk first let us know what u are trolling for?
mainly lizz, unless you can recommend anything else at this time.....
if u launch at xemxija if u go up to the farms at st pauls, then along the east coast (sta Marija) and then at kemmuna u should be ok.
would not recommend going to senglea as the sea is not clean there being a port, but they are catching as well.
To be honest i think that Lizz are all over. Lazy buggers they expect the lure to be right infront of face to hit.
thanks for your help shanook. I was also thinking of going for tumbrell etc..... where do you think is best?
its a bit too late for tumbrell my friend :( hav'nt heard of any tumbrell catches for a long time.
thanks bigboy....although to be quite honest a week ago i did catch a small one myself (well...it surely looked like one) from St. Paul?s bay.
I am very new to trolling so if you can give me some ideas on what to troll for and how it would be great! :)
Could it have been a kavall ? right now you can troll for lizz, cervjol, kahli and as july approaches an occasional tunnagg.
Troll close to the shore in the early morning for lizz use either a rubber fish, for khali go to manoel island use kali lure light hook with small white feather and for cervojol use a spineer silver metal with a small white feather. dont use big lures as fish is not big at the moment and troll at around 4/4.5 knts. these are my metods tried and tested. if u dont have an extra motor dont go out too far take care always take a vhf. GOOD LUCK ;D
in a month time i think tumbrell bingins
i used o catch a lot of them on plastic klamari from birzebbuga, last year. by mid august, the big ones appear and it will be a lot of fun. we go quite often for them very relaxing. you might encounter a big strilja on the way which are quite common
Thanks guys...will let you know how we get on! At least the wind seems to on our side for once!!!
at the moment a few nice cerviol on drop offs and reefs up to 30mt barracudas everywhere you look a few sawrell and a lot of dentex good luck
Where are you seeing cudas close to shore?
I haven't even seen one yet!! :( can you give us any details where?
Last saturday I took my daughter fishing for vopi to cirkewwa and there were quite a few cuda chasing!
morning or afternoon benri? and which part of cirkewwa?
Evening- towards sunset. In the part to the left where the Gozo boat berths when it's rough.
places where i saw cudas gnejna, qammieh, rdum id delli, ahrax point, qawra, bugibba, bahar ic caghaq,
and most reefs
Thank you for the information guys.