Lampuki Season 2011

[skip]

Not sure Alex, though 70 is a nice amount for a club, so hats off to the Bugibba club.

A typical professional line can extend (some of the guys will confirm) 70nm offshore and they lay them quite often so over 100 for sure

[Granitu]

guys there are lampuki ...... change the method of fishing. Lampuki from the early start are not very much interested in lures. Bait fish has increased a lot in recent years. Try learning more the way of fishing lampuki with baits instead of artificials ... you will surely catch more

can you describe in more detail, exactly how you were catching them ?
what bait?, with what rig?, did you use a surface float ? where did you catch them ? did you drift ?
id love to try it, but its not enough info.

use calamaretti as bait and troll at 0.5-1knot and you will see results.

I say this today after catching around 45 puki fresh bait trolling. I might be out also this afternoon too

my opinion - ignore fads this year they are useless

[geekorgy]

guys there are lampuki ...... change the method of fishing. Lampuki from the early start are not very much interested in lures. Bait fish has increased a lot in recent years. Try learning more the way of fishing lampuki with baits instead of artificials ... you will surely catch more

can you describe in more detail, exactly how you were catching them ?
what bait?, with what rig?, did you use a surface float ? where did you catch them ? did you drift ?
id love to try it, but its not enough info.

use calamaretti as bait and troll at 0.5-1knot and you will see results.

I say this today after catching around 45 puki fresh bait trolling. I might be out also this afternoon too

my opinion - ignore fads this year they are useless

great! where are you trolling if not around the fad's ?

[robby017]

great! where are you trolling if not around the fad's ?

i suppose he was trolling in open waters.... 

[ganni]

wow freedive...is that a lampuka in your avatar???

[skip]

Well i trolled open water from around 20nm NE of Comino, 4.7knots and got no strikes whatsoever. At times I would speed up and cover a few miles at 25 knots to reduce the time to get home, and a couple of times saw some nice surface action but by the time we got there, stopped infront not to spook them, I found they kept going back under.

I always keep saying to myself to keep some chum handy and I never do, so I guess only myself to blame!!

[Granitu]

today i caught only 7 but again, ignoring the fads is ideal. Unfortunately when the fish was biting a shoal of dolphins came around.

I caught 3 near the awrat pens outside st thomas bay

the rest was caught trolling at 0.5-1.5knots and chumming with fresh caught kavalli/calamaretti

If you want the exact position, I was between line no 2 and no 3 at the 5th cima level. the fads where far away and again, yes fads are not productive at the moment, especially when professional fisherman are circling them..... (i withnessed this in the morning while fishing kavalli)

no hits near cimi, what I am doing is carefully using my eyesight for any splashes and  good use of the fishfinder.
Going far out seems not the way at the moment in my opinion. I spoke with people who fished the 10-15mile areas and they got very few puki today.

What I can definately notice is that most of lampuki is staying deep and hunting deep. (10-20m)

A very huge tuna shoal monitored by the afm patrol boat is in the 10 mile range, eathing everyting edible.

hope it helps.

[skip]

Nice write-up

The huge tuna shoal, are these Tunagg or big Blue's? If Tunagg I can understand the AFM shadowing.

[baghira]

Woke up early this morning for some live bait fishing.
At 4am at sea and we got a couple of clamari to rig with.
No strikes apart from the usuall entangling with some ropes etc on the bottom.

At about 10am we decided to change fishing method and go trolling lighter and not on the bottom (midwater) with lighter weight for some AJ.
We had no strikes at all..and we were tolling with whole  clamari fresh from the morning.
We headed in and on the way we noticed that someone threw some FAD close to the shore and we went past.... and had a hit on both rods.... Two nice sized lampuki 500g 700g range..... wow we were astonished.........not the usuall fish to target so close to shore (100 meters), and with whole clamari, and in mid water.!!!

Nice new experiance.

[cityfish]

Any help how to catch kavalli and clamaretti. This weekend I tried for the clamaretti with the light and normal squid rig but just three small squids came near the boat in the surface and no strikes in the bottom.

[Granitu]

Nice write-up

The huge tuna shoal, are these Tunagg or big Blue's? If Tunagg I can understand the AFM shadowing.

big blues skip in the 100-150kg range

[Granitu]

Any help how to catch kavalli and clamaretti. This weekend I tried for the clamaretti with the light and normal squid rig but just three small squids came near the boat in the surface and no strikes in the bottom.

well, kamalaretti you buy them. You catch squid not kamalaretti but they are equally productive. fresh squid is better though.

kavalli - wake up at 2 am in the morning or earlier, find a good reef with a nice drop off, a very strong light spot under water - like calamari but if you have something brighter the better.

a paternoster rig with luminous beads and shiny silver hooks. when kavalli comes up you fish in the 1-5 metre range either light jig movement or else leaving it stilll waiting for a bite.

sometimes you can also fish calamari with a rod at the same time (having someone else doing it)

[skip]

big blues skip in the 100-150kg range

Interesting that the AFM are shadowing those probably to stop the commercial guys from illegally landing them after their quota has been used up and season closed. I believe we are still entitled to fish for them catch and release, and those 18 guys with a permit are entitled to still try and land one up to 100kgs!! I think their permit expires at the end of October if I'm not mistaken?

[cityfish]

Any help how to catch kavalli and clamaretti. This weekend I tried for the clamaretti with the light and normal squid rig but just three small squids came near the boat in the surface and no strikes in the bottom.

Thanks...Mela a sabiki rig would be ok?

well, kamalaretti you buy them. You catch squid not kamalaretti but they are equally productive. fresh squid is better though.

kavalli - wake up at 2 am in the morning or earlier, find a good reef with a nice drop off, a very strong light spot under water - like calamari but if you have something brighter the better.

a paternoster rig with luminous beads and shiny silver hooks. when kavalli comes up you fish in the 1-5 metre range either light jig movement or else leaving it stilll waiting for a bite.

sometimes you can also fish calamari with a rod at the same time (having someone else doing it)

[Granitu]

sabiki are better i gave you a low cost option which is productive