Greetings from Canada, Thunder Bay, Ontario. A tip for you on how to catch fish off your sailboat. You absolutely need a downrigger. No matter what type of boat is being used, once you’re moving, the lure or any other device will rise closer to the surface. That being said, your one lure has the capability to dive, some a little ways down and others will dive deep. The deep divers are indicated as such. But to get down deep enough to catch fish, you’ll need a downrigger to get you down to the proper depth. Without it, your lure or whatever you’re using for bait will be much too shallow of a depth. The downrigger has a depth counter so you’ll know how far down your line is. You probably will want to be down to 50 feet, depending on what you’re fishing for. Some fish will be a little closer to the surface while others will be even further down. But 50 feet is a good benchmark. I enjoy your episodes. All of the best to you. Robert
All important stuff i know about fishing, i learned from my grandpa. he used to do a lot of Trolling (and stationary fishing) of his Privateer 20 of the cost of the Netherlands and England. he was an insanely good fisherman and a good enough sailer haha . in his words: Its all about getting the attention of the fish , the right depth, good timing and a bit of luck. (Read Below for my suggestions) From what i can see there are two things missing, a "diver" and a "flasher (or teaser)", a simple rig looks like this: 1.Diver 2. Flasher 3. Lure 1.The Diver can have many shapes and everyone has there favorite, but in short most of them work like an underwater wing getting your line to the right depth. my only recommendation for one is, that it should be adjustable (most Divers are made for motorboats so a adjustable one is curial for sailing). changing the angel will couse it to go deeper or shallower. 2. The Flasher/Teaser: everyone will swear that their shape is the best! honestly they work all the same . its a big shiny thing that stirs up the water, to get the attention of the fish. the sea is vast and those things are very visible from far away. 3.the squid looking lures you got are fine, just put some small baitfish in them something oily like mackerel bits works wonders! fish can smell quite well and it will help you get more attention Awesome now you got a good rig and all the things you need to get some tasty fish hooked ! however here comes the part that is a bit of work/and experience but you get there ! 4. Timing: i can't stress this enough YOU NEED TO WATCH YOUR ROD! specially if there is no fish on it! learn how the rod looks like when there is no fish on the hook, the drag of your ring will drag on your rod, learn how it looks like if there is no fish on it, so you know when one is on! sometimes its very suttle and fish can unhook them selfs if you are to slow, so its important to get to your rod quickly and "set the hook" 5. Diver and Flasher can be very inexpensive around 20euro for both (when odered online) but also can be DIY'ed if you feel like it :) 6. Bonus: ask ten fishermen and you will get 10 different answers, what might work for one does not work for others. however the tipps above are pretty general and the cheapest setup i can think of for trolling. Good luck ! let us know if you get something ;)
Dan would rather make money by having video content instead of fishing because the best time to fish was while he was talking about fishing ! When it comes to fishing , Dan is a born loser !
Consider getting a 'Trolling diver' - which sits ten foot before the lure and uses the force of current to pull down deep. One of the problems with trolling behind a sailboat is you are going relativly fast and the lure ends up close to the surface. Not all fish you want hunt very close to the surface (where they are vulnerable to predation). A diver pulls it deep and you are fishing in entirely new terrain! Good luck.
To reel fish once on a hook, my experience on power boat sport fishing, always required “heaving to” to real it in, so as to not rip the hook out of its mouth. When distance sailing, this would be an unscheduled pointing into the wind, basically stopping while reeling it in. This may not be feasible with limited crew, but may be possible when motoring.
Fish are like cats, very picky eaters and very smart, with very good vision. This is the part most people get wrong. Everything from the color of your line vs the conditions , the speed of your lure, and the time of day are completely essential.
Once upon the time, a wise Crew of a tiny little Sailboat said: "There is no Reason to hurry. Never ever.'" You better should take this. Because this Crew and her tiny little Sailboat are sailing now for seven years the whole North Atlantic, from the very south up to the most north point on earth, you can reach without a diesel engine on board.
We have been living and cruising on our yacht since 2007. My go to trawling rig is a large hand reel with 30m of Para cord, large bullet game swivel, 10m 200lb mono, large snap swivel then 2m mono or multi strand stainless wire to the lure. My favourite is the 7" slayer with an 8/0 hook. Forget about using a rod when trawling, you are not doing it for fun, but for food. Save the rods for at anchor and just skull drag them in with the hand line. Oh and some shock cord as well. The boat is on the hard at present in Greece. Roll on 2023.
Hey guys, try getting a #3 planer from a tackle shop. That'll get the bait a lot lower in the water column (30ft lower). Also use a longer leader. 20 - 30ft of leader past the swivel. Also, get your gear a fair distance from the boat, you may be running it too close. One last suggestion is to try using smaller tackle too. Spoons are always good choices for that speed
I did not buy a couch but I did buy a leather recliner that is great for relaxing and watching your great videos. Thank you for sharing your adventures!
Dan and Kika. You need to add a Rapala Magnum to your trolling lures, (Green with black stripes). The lure you have need higher speed to attract fish. The Rapala Magnum is a deep diver with a lot of action. Don’t let the size fool you, small fish will attack big fish with out fear.
I would point the rods more towards the wake of the boat so the lures are in or close to the bubbles of the wake, about 4, but not more than 5 boat lengths behind. Strikes usually during sunrise and sunset and albacore, white tuna usually is in water more than 1000meter. Stick to the soft lures like you have, smaller is better, about 5 to7cm. I had luck with whites and blue, not necessarily shiny. You will get up to 8kg or so on a soft lure. Slow the boat down, Furl the headsail and point into wind. Take your time so you don't tear the hook from its mouth.
Thank you lovely people! Enjoyed it as always and wish we were there…and young again! The closest we got was on a cruise ship in the med…thankful for that. ⛵️🚢❤
This Summer I was sailing båten_båra in Norway. We fished a lot with the same line you have and I learned that you have to slow down a bit for the fish. I think the fastest we ever catched a fisch was around 3 knots. The most catches where just by drifting. Good luck!
i definitely know that problem with NOT catching fish off a sailboat in the med! sailing through the aegean for three weeks we only managed to be successfull three times. and every time we cought something, it was 1. a small tuna (or three), it 2ndly was at sundown times, and, 3rd, we played Barry White quit loudly on board. hope that info will help (dubt it though...) love your reports!!!
I'm not a great fisherman but I think the best way to catch fish is to get the local knowledge about what fish are in the area and what bait they will go for. You are always moving. So the game is always changing.
The Norwegian handline is not going to the bottom of the ocean, the sinker at the end is just a counter weight to the speed of the boat, you could switch the weight to something lighter if your boat is going slower. As you said it's supposed to catch mackerel, and they usually swim in the top layers of the sea, you don't want it to hang to deep in the water. We catch mackerel all the time (just at the opening of the Oslo fjord) with it. We have one like yours with a smaller sinker and the mackerels we catch are smaller (about 7 to 12 inches) and they taste better than larger ones, since they have less fish oil in the meat. The slower the speed of the boat, the smaller fish you catch, but then you need to match the weight of the sinker so that the line just goes a couple of meters below the water line.
The ones with the sinker at the end _are_ actually designed for "pilking", ie. straight up and down use. The ones that are designed to drag behind the boat (dorgeharpe) have the sinker _in front_ of the lures, so the lures "swim" in a more natural, enticing way. I'm sure a normal harpe works just fine for dorging, but saying that you're not supposed to drop it straight down is wrong.
Yeah, me thinks it's not an issue with the gear but with the knowledge on how to use it, know your type of fish in the area, if they are seasonal, read the weather, select the time of day and so on 😊 It more to fishing than just put colorful stuff in the sea, especially more and more regions are being vacuumed by huge fleets of trawlers 😢
There is enough reward in you sharing your adventure with all of us. I hope that you are well compensated for the work you put into this youtube channel. Thank you so much!!!
Hey Dan. Good ensemble of surface lures there, though I notice you don't have many diving lures to trawl behind the boat. They require a slower speed to effective than surface lures, maybe 3-5max kts. Surface lures require more like 6 in ideal circumstances. Different fish are at different depths in the water, depending on temp, weather, baro etc. Keep you're lines tight 😁
Kika, have you looked at plant recognition apps like PlantNet? You take a photo of a leaf or flower and the app then ‘recognises’ the plant/tree etc. Dan, trolling (ie dragging) a lure behind you is only going to target hunter species. If you jig smaller jigs up/down off the side when at anchor you might open up possibilities of more species. Similarly most fish will feed at dawn/dusk and will still detect a moving lure as long as you are not racing the lure through the water. Keep up the good work guys.
The first lures are spoons and work best at lower trolling speeds. But you can also just drop them straight down when you're not moving and jig them up and down. Once the line gets heavy, you have a fish on.
Sandra and I, along with our 4 year old son and two Danish boats sailed into Puerto Soller 37 years ago, after a night crossing from Barcelona. This summer, mid June, we returned to reminisce. It was not on the tourist’s radar back then. We wintered in Puerto Andratx.
Some of my best memories are of visiting that part of the world as a wide-eyed young Navy sailor. Maybe I'll get back on my own terms one day. Thanks for sharing your adventures!
We keep it mostly pink. Small fish don’t take the big ones but bigger gladly take the smaller. We have caught most fish on pink lures. One looking like a fish(similar to what you showed in video) and a small (7-10cm) pink squid that among others caught a 23 kg sailfish. Below 6 knots we haven’t caught much, so I can’t advise for slow speed. At sunrise and set you should get everything out, to see what works for you. The Mediterranean has been “over-fished” and is dead compared to the oceans. Forget about cod and the like in the Mediterranean. But small hooks with silver bling gives mackerel. For example In Messina strait and the Greek west coast you could get a tuna, big ones. Have fun
(1) Add a second hook to all your trolling rigs. Hook 1 goes through the eye of hook 2. This will reduce the chance of you missing your once a year strikes. (2) 30 min before sunrise to 1 hour after are your best bet especially if no moon. The less moon the better and earlier the bite. Full moon bite will be late afternoon. (3) Troll 2 setups that are different until you figure out what the fish like. So one can be blue and yellow and the other pink. If you get 2 strikes back to back on pink switch over to both pink or maybe one on top and the other deeper down using a planer. Then switch to both the same when you find a pattern. (4) Your 'large" lure isn't that big. A small to medium mahi would eat it. Try it out and your "small" reel isn't that small either. A TLD 20 is big enough for just about any size mahi.
Mackerel swim around in big shoals gulping seawater down openning their mouths wide and then closing them - you wont catch them near the bottom, also becasue they're in shoals you generally either catch none or lots. (They also don't keep very well - traditionally in Britain they were one of the few things you were allowed to sell on a Sunday).
I was sailing the Med 2 years ago, with a hand line I caught so much tuna we almost got sick of eating it. We eventually bought 30 mason jars and canned a bunch in olive oil! I had my hand line attached to a bunch of pots and pans on deck, so when we got a bite the ruckus would alert everyone! Also is this video really old? Because sailing the Med in the middle of winter is not too smart…
northern sailing couple struggle to fit in to warm sailing again. No fish, hardly any clothes, times are tough. Keep chillin, you'll make it, you're so happy the fish are soon going come around if not to get ate, they will want to know what is going on. love the channel, you too are great. Good health from -2& a foot of snow in central Sk. Stay warm.🥶
Thought I’d share this little quick story. I live in Beaufort, NC. Every year there is a Marlin fishing tournament that has nearly 200 boats. It’s called Big Rock. There are multiple cash prizes. The first Marlin weighing in over 400 wins a prize. Biggest fish of the tournament is another prize. This year the first fish caught over 400 (they weighed in at 1:30p the first day) was also the largest fish of the tournament. The prize money was over $3,200,000! Largest payout for one fish ever in the world!!
@@sarahmanalapan8443 Each boat has the option to participate in the Calcuttas. The buy in to the Calcuttas is a bit over $20k. Don’t worry a lot of the boats are 70’-87’ with full time crew. Michael Jordon comes with his boat. Actually the local area receives a lot of money from the tournament. In addition our local town docks are filled for that week which helps Beaufort.
Hi Guys love your channel - If you are trawling you need to think about where the fish feed - You don't appear to be using weights so your lures will be always on the surface - Buy a paravane based on mine sweeping - It's cheap you don't need weights and can set the depth of the lure by where you connect the lines - I'm a Cornish man living in Edinburgh - We trawled for Mackerel out of Fowey in Cornwall (you must visit) using handlines with huge lead weights - We had a normal fishing rod with a paravane and when a fish was on the device would leap out of the water
Fish are like people. They enjoy being comfortable, temperature wise. The deeper they go, the cooler they get, and vice versa. The key is finding how deep they are. Keep fishing deeper a foot at a time until you find them.
You MUST fly a black ball when at anchor. If you get hit by another vessel your insurer will NOT PAY if no black ball flown. Deep water equals fast swimming fish. You are going too slowly to attract fish. You need 8-10 knots before they think your lure is worth the chase.
If you want to catch TONS of fish while underway , Trolling , You need a thing called a Dipsy-Diver , the large one ( #0 or #1 ) Then your Lure goes about 6-8 ft behind that. You aren't catching anything because your lures are not going deep enough. You might think because you have 100-150 ft of line out that the lure is deep, but I assure you, it is not. The Dipsy-Diver is designed to take your lure down 20-40ft , and it is adjustable to achieve different depths. Sailing at 5 knots is about perfect , any faster and only big game fish will be hitting your lures. For the longest time I was in the same " boat " as you and not catching anything. The Dipsy-Diver changed everything. It is basically a DownRigger tool , without the giant mounted Downrigger that Salmon guys use. Try it. You'll see. They cost around $20. Take Care guys !
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Those Rapala lures are better than you think, I would grab a couple of rattling deep divers, two bright colours, two quite dull. Remember, bright colours on a bright day, dull on a dull day. That type of lure is good at low to medium speeds, 4 to 6 knots, maybe a little quicker. They will also catch a large variety of fish. Good luck.
I trailed a line behind my cat for 2,000 miles all the way across the Atlantic - no fish. I had much more success in the Caribbean Windward Islands. I trailed a line with a red bit of cloth as lure. I used a strong shark rod and fairly strong line. Nothing sophisticated. We'd catch fish sailing over shallower water (you have a keel, so might not work for you). I also occasionally caught mackerel in the English Channel. But in the Med - nothing. We did catch a shark just as we reached Bermuda - but cold beer and steak loomed, so we never ate it. I once caught a pelican - this was not good. It dived on the lure and I had a huge pelican flapping around 30m up in the air. Fortunately it eventually ripped the hook through its beak and flew away. All other alternatives were worse, so that was sort of good.
Oh I see you have been listening to my scheduling advice, I wasn’t able to read the bow sticker “Don’t buy a ?” How much wind do you have? I usually average 220 Nm per 24 hour day.
In the Med inshore trolling 2.5 to5 knots, off shore 5 to 12 knots. Run lure 40 to 50 feet back on blue mono and make sure it runs straight. Across current is best rather than with or against. And bright colors skirted lures. Good luck.
My husband and his dad have always matched the color of the lure to the water as closely as possible and favor monofilament leaders. They usually only use steel leaders for something like shark fishing. Maybe use a lighter pound test line and set drag to compliment the line weight. When a fish is on, don’t strong arm it back to boat as you risk popping the line let the fish run and tire out.
If you want to start catching fish get a Mason jar. Put the scraps from a fish in it along with your lures and fill it 3/4 full of water. Put the lid on. Place it in the sun for several days then start catching fish!
I've been yelling at my screen for ages urging you to get into the Med because it is unreal and here you are finally realizing how great it is for sailing..😁😁😁
If I can add some advice, make sure that your hooks are VERY sharp. If you slide the hook over your thumb nail, it should dig in. Use a small file to sharpen it. So if you get a bite, it must hook up. Good luck and good fishing!
My 50 cents worth on fishing. Keep it simple. With bottom fishing, when your lure/bait hits the bottom you should get a strike quickly, if not, you are in the wrong spot, move to another. For fishing on the move your boat itself is a fish attractant and so pelagic fish will come to your vessel for a look see. The lures can be trawled visible off the back, they don't need to be hundreds of meters behind you. On my yacht I've moved away from rods and reels to a simple handline. I use a bungy cord for strike shock absorption trailing the lure a few meters behind the boat. I use gloves if I remember to put them on, and hand over hand the fish in, sometimes skipping over the water surface if boat speed is high. And chuck it directly into the cockpit. The only rule is if you want to have a chance of catching a fish, you must have a hook in the water ;-) See here: ua-cam.com/video/-Ptnl9tETqM/v-deo.html
Fishing question: when the fish bites and the reel starts running, what is your first move? It should be to stop the reel barrel with your thumb and give a big pullback with the rod to ensure the fish is properly "hooked". I'm not sure the explanation is clear but... in Spanish would be "frená el reel y dale un cañazo"... and only after that, you can start to reel in the fish... ;)
While you were talking about fishing is the best time to fish other than an hour before sun rise ! So you won't catch much unless you do ! Use a teaser 10 yards ahead of the luer ! A teaser is something that flops and splashes on top of the water !
How are those folding winch handles holding up? You have had those for a little bit now, correct? Here's to hoping for some good fishing and the breaking of the "curse"! 😂
We ussually catch a good size tuna (enough for a month of meat) every night passage we do between Greece and Croatia. The key times are just after sunset and just before sunrise. We leave the lure about 3 boat lengths behind when we are doing 4-6 knots in 100 - 300 meters depth. We use a bright yellow 12cm halco lure. The brighter the better!
Hi, the mistake that many sailing fishers make is to have the lure to far out the back of the boat. The boat itself attracts fish and so when sailing at 4 to 5 knots have the lure 10 metres from the back of the boat When at 6+ knots have it between 15 metres to maximum 20 metres behind the boat. There is nothing wrong with the lures you have or the new rod you have they are all good. Watch some old episodes of free Range sailing and see the success they always had with this technique. Good fishing
Nothing beats live bait. Match the hatch! Cast net off dingy shallow water near shore. For bait hayabusa sabiki rig hot hooks off boat to catch bait. Live bait free line (no weight) and one with weight. Both with fluorocarbon leader! May you have fair winds and following seas
many people make the mistake of sending the lure way too far off the back of the boat, thinking the boat will scare the fish. Its quite the opposite in fact. Send the lure 2 boat lengths and see how it goes. Many fish will see the hull of the boat and go check it out. Usually large marine animals have little fish around them and larger fish that eats the little ones. So your boat is attracting fish on her own. Good luck
Speed is key and your spread of lures ‼️ BLUE water fishing use the bubblers ‼️set that big bubbler way , back in the middle.. kinda want a W looking spread ! The speed is key , can’t be to fast or to slow I’ve always had good vibes between 4.5 to 6.5 knots 🪢 bubblers and you will need at least three offshore rods out to use that big bubbler ! Big way back two even on star and port side in closer to boat
Get a couple of divers for different depths so you don’t need to mount a downrigger to troll below the surface. Try casting forward and speed jigging with a saltwater spinning setup and butterfly jig as you sail since that’s less dependent on the speed of the boat. It’s more work but a hell of a lot of fun when you find fish. Try jigging like you did for cod but at night. Try jigging for squid. Go to the Pacific or head towards the poles where there’s more nutrients in the water to support fish.
Fishing advice (sharp hooks) salt water is hard on hooks use a steel diamond nail file .The one your partner throughs away is the best .Touch the point of the hook to your finger nail if it slides off it is dull .A three or four sided point is good . I have never fished the med but with a sharp hook you will loose less fish. I fish Michigan in the states.
You're pulling a small lure pretty high in the water column over areas that are unknown to you. If you want to increase your chances, do a little research on Bucket Dredges, which resemble bait balls and create much more motion which draw curious fish up for a look. Your main lure follows a good distance behind the dredge. Hope this helps.
I am italian ...my the recommendation for the med is when you see birds in the wather the fish is there mainly tuna that catch acciugas or sardines we cold this " Mangianze" you have to see mangianze with the birds and reach them with the boat.
Set up your rig so you can change out lures. Try live bait on your hooks. Even if you don’t catch anything off the back of the boat, you landed that beauty back in Uni. She’s so cute!!?❤❤
have you tried adding teasers to your fishing system ? salt water fish tend to get attracted to water surface action. Have a few teasers going some distance in front of your lure, this might help to catch more fish .
I’m sure you will be inundated with fishing advice. So I’ll pile on. Increase your odds by using a squid chain. (A single line with multiple squid on it and one hook at the end.) Fish like crowds, “crowd” the water with something they want. I use this method and I have good luck. Also add another rod. I think I saw just two. Squid back center…..the other two staggered port and starboard. I always enjoy your adventures. 😊
Ask the local bait shop, marina, etc to see what is working? Our local sporting goods store has a fishing report, listing what fish are running, where, and which lures are working.
I have decided you two need a couples spa day. Just some time to chill, get spoiled and feel pampered. Why do you ask? Just because, that's why! Lol wishing you guys the best!
I've lived in Malta in the Med for decades. 😁 There are plenty of fish in the Med. One thing I don't like is there is no minimum size limit for a catch. Many fish are taken before they've reached breeding age. Undersize fish should be thrown back immediately. Even the restaurants sell fish that responsible governments like Australia and New Zealand would prosecute them for. (Selling undersized fish.) That's a recipe for disaster.
years ago when I fished for bass a lot, when a lure stopped working i'd spray it with wd-40, people said they liked the scent but I'm convinced what it did was cover the sent from the oil on my hands. In fact I got where I never handle my lures with bare hands and I did a lot better fishing.
Hi y'all, sorry I don't know that much about fishing to help you out on board. Lot of nice scenery as usual. Hope you have some good Groceries on board by the time you read this. Thanks a lot Dan and Kiki, adios
Ditch the fancy big lures and try with a simple silver spoon, smaller than the ones you have. On the way to Balearic islands from Sardinia the big colorful lures never worked for us. The smaller silver spoon did!
Very sit-com guest-star energy! Old child hood friend joins, but is disarmingly beautiful (like you 2!). Never been on a blue water sail boat! Cooks like mad! Has to jet off to meet another friend.
On fishing, my guess is that you're just going too fast for the rig you've got out. At 4-5 knots, nothing's going to sink beneath the surface without a 5-10lb flash, which you can't support with a trolling rod. Need a downrigger, or at least a diving disc. You don't have to be deep, but very few fish are gonna strike something skimming along the surface.
Your lines the right color, so is the lure. Get the longer "squid" for trolling. We wire a ballyhoo by the nose under the skirt and set the hook in his belly. Make sure your leaders are bite proof. With snapper and toro you wanna wait till it goes "tap tap ..yank" then you yank to set the hook and reel hard till they're in because they're smart. Chumming helps but then the sharks steal some. Snapper bite better on the full moon after it rises in clear 40 or 50 ft of water where you can see a sandy bottom. You can just use chunks of fish for them. Normally when we get a school fish on llike dorado, we stop and drop bait in before we reel it in to keep them around the boat. You have to bottom fish on the reef with frozen ballyhoo with a long leader off the weight so it drifts like its free food. That's how you get the wahoo. This is Florida reef and coast fishing though. We do it often, successfully. I imagine the fish are of a similar mindset everywhere. Think like a fish! When you fish matters too. Think early sunrise and before sunset and when the moon rises. Good luck!
The fancy handline you got in Norway is not only for straight down fishing. If you change the heavy weight at the end with a much lighter lure, you can use it for trolling behind the boat. You decide the depth of the rigg with the weight of the lure at the end and the speed of the boat. Give out plenty of line, at least 30-40 metres. If you want to fish with it when stationary, you can use the weight, or the heavy golden fishy thing with hooks, and just drop it to the bottom, take in one meter of line and jank on it from time to time. Or just leave it out and hope something bites. The fish likes the peppers and spoons! Good luck!
You can try a teaser rig. This is trolled on a seperate line with no hooks. Your hooked lure is further out to get the fish the teaser rig has obtained attention of.
Oh boy, I'll try not to write a book here. No advice on the Med but with that said.... Sharp hooks, stick to lures like the hard plastic crank baits with diving bills, I like gold body with a red head, paint it if you have to. 2 oz to 8 oz bucktail jigs or rattletrap type lures. Bucktails create very little drag and move through the water easily. Also the history of the bucktail jigs makes for some interesting short reading and you will see why they have been used for many years. The squid looking lures are fine but make sure they, and all lures, are trailing well behind the vessel. The faster you go the shallower they will be in the water column. You may have to use a downrigger device to pull the lure down deeper ie Davis Instruments Fish Seeker, no affiliation. Glad you leash your reels to the rails because a good sized fish is going to snap that yellow rod and you can kiss that nice Shimano goodbye if it's not tethered to something. Put the big reel on a medium to heavy action rod and put a smaller reel on the yellow rod for plugging around reefs, your vessel or floating objects. Watch for floating objects, especially offshore, they are a fish magnets and will often hold Mahi. If there is a sudden elevation change on the sea floor, change course if possible and go right over the top of it. Any sudden change in floor elevation will attract fish. Know how to work your reel's drag properly. You want it tight enough that the line will not break from a good sized fish yet not so light that fish will spool the line off your reel. Some areas of the world lack fish due to unethical fishing practices and or poor enforcement of fishing regulations along the coast ie Ghana, Africa. In other words if the fish aren't' there you aren't going to catch them. Hope this helps. Now you just need someone with first hand knowledge of the Med and what fish are most prevalent in the area.
Still have tuna? When you are slow or drifting (not trolling), flip a 1-inch chunk on a treble hook with a small bobber. Drop the bait about 20ft from the bobber. Spam works, too.
Saturday morning. Having breakfast and a cup of coffee while watching latest episode. What a perfect start of the day. Thanks for sharing your adventures with these wonderful videos. While you enjoy the nice and warm weather I am going to switch to winter tyres on my car. ;-)
Ok. I fish with 1 lure down & 1 up. Spade lure no spade. You have a wake. It has a crest where it meets from beam to beam. Like a V. That's where you position your down lure. The other about 5 - 10 ft behind. So all yachts create eddies behind the boat. From time to time you may see these fish in those eddies. They love it. Never put your line out 100 miles. Keep it close. I base this on % to 7 knots. When you get a strike slow the boat immediately. Hope this helps. Good luck. But it is the Med.
I'm not the most experienced sailor or fisherman by any stretch, but in 3000 miles of offshore sailing all over the Pacific coast of Canada, US and Mexico we never had any shortage of fresh fish. Not doing anything fancy. Deep diving Rapalas if we are in colder waters and aiming for salmon, surface-skimming silicon squids for tunas and mahis, otherwise. Planer boards are okay when you are actually trolling at 2.5 knots. I hate them when sailing - too much resistance. A kilometer of 50lb mono on a standup rig with a vintage Penn Senator reel. As little drag as it takes for the reel not to slip underway, slow the boat down before you start cranking, increase the drag as needed. If it's a big fish, drop sails, switch to the motor and steer her to keep the line on your 3 o'clock to make it easier for whoever is reeling. That's about it.
Majorca is an amazing island, the beers are so cheap,I stopped into a bar near the big church,and they cost me $1.50 AUD each,and then the food was free with the beers.
That mackerel thing you have, put it on your rod. Drop it 50 mtrs deep, then hold it until you feel a bite. keep a second and release again for 10/15 secs. Hold it again until you feel a second bite. By that time there should be a fish on every hook. If it doesn't work in the Med (don't know if there is mackerel there), defenitely remember when leaving the Med. Works like magic in the atlantic(garfish and mackerel).
My old Grand grandfather who's long dead now, was a fisherman for many many years and he always said that fishing of a moving boat only worked if you went not to fast and not too slow. Beyond that you had to attract the fish and be patient, do that and you'd always get something sooner or later and sometimes he would get several fish during an hour or he would only get one during the whole 5 hours trip, but at his age (over 70 by the time I was born) was happy with that. All he cared about was doing the actual fishing, he didn't care if he caught anything at all, and sometimes it took hours before anything nibbled at the line. His prefered speed was puttering along at around 3-7 knots i think, but I can't be sure and it could be 4-6 or 5 or.. 5-6 or.. well you get the idea. But he was out there every other day for hours just to fish. And I happen to know that if he was out there for 5 hours without a nibble, well then he stopped at a fishery on they way home and bought a freshly caught that morning fish from them before heading back home, but this was his dirty little secret that he never admitted and we only know because one of us kids were down there buying ice cream and spotted him at one point. The clue here is that you just need to keep trying and make sure you are not going too slow. Less than 3 knots isn't good if I remember his words right, just don't take that for an absolute truth as I might remember wrong. It was over 35 years ago after all.
Fishing on reefs is easy. Trawl five lures over the reef at slow speed and you'll hook five fish.. 😁 Hack: Use fishing rods to space the lines. But pull them in quick because the reef sharks are liable to eat your fish of the hook!. Or maybe leave the head attached.. 😁 for fish head soup.😁
I sailed with my daughter (as a guest on a recreational ship (Lamu) some bazzilionare owned she was crewing on) off the West coast of Africa, she shouted me out on a charter boat and we went up towards Somalia. First day I had ever been on a charter boat and ever fished off a boat, the two crew had 10+ lines out and handed me one that had a bite / hooked one. I pulled in an 85kg Black Marlin, which we photographed and released! Would love to tell you what they were running on their lines, no idea, but just had to share that with you. I'm loving your stories and your yacht, how is the re gen going? I'm sure you'll catch a few soon and nail the fishing as well, then you'll tap into the largest recreational activity on the planet and end up with a whole new customer base!
The trolling lure you have need hi speed to creat a trail of bubbles to excite fish to attack. At 5 knots it will never happen. The flipping jig (not the one you use for the Cods, the other next to it) is deadly. One of the very best you have there. You need a casting or spinning rod and real and do vertical jigging by dropping it to the bottom, raising and lowering the rod while reeling and causing the jig to floater as it drops and spike as it’s raise. Fish will attack out of anger, not huger and is an incredible fish magnet.
the norway gear works, I know it, because was catching a lot at Brekstad (you passed it, outside Trontheim). cod, makrel, and others. dragging: You need a Line weight of about 150g to 200g with your speed of the boat. The gear ends up at about 4-6m below the waterline. I got Tuna in Turkey about 50-70cm a couple of times by just using the Norway kit. You replace the red weight with that fancy blue fish, placing the mentioned line weight about 2m after the last of the small hook facing your ditection. The gear will become "alive" down there....Try it.
Greetings from Canada, Thunder Bay, Ontario.
A tip for you on how to catch fish off your sailboat. You absolutely need a downrigger.
No matter what type of boat is being used, once you’re moving, the lure or any other device will rise closer to the surface. That being said, your one lure has the capability to dive, some a little ways down and others will dive deep. The deep divers are indicated as such.
But to get down deep enough to catch fish, you’ll need a downrigger to get you down to the proper depth. Without it, your lure or whatever you’re using for bait will be much too shallow of a depth.
The downrigger has a depth counter so you’ll know how far down your line is. You probably will want to be down to 50 feet, depending on what you’re fishing for. Some fish will be a little closer to the surface while others will be even further down. But 50 feet is a good benchmark.
I enjoy your episodes. All of the best to you.
Robert
All important stuff i know about fishing, i learned from my grandpa. he used to do a lot of Trolling (and stationary fishing) of his Privateer 20 of the cost of the Netherlands and England. he was an insanely good fisherman and a good enough sailer haha . in his words: Its all about getting the attention of the fish , the right depth, good timing and a bit of luck. (Read Below for my suggestions)
From what i can see there are two things missing, a "diver" and a "flasher (or teaser)", a simple rig looks like this: 1.Diver 2. Flasher 3. Lure
1.The Diver can have many shapes and everyone has there favorite, but in short most of them work like an underwater wing getting your line to the right depth. my only recommendation for one is, that it should be adjustable (most Divers are made for motorboats so a adjustable one is curial for sailing). changing the angel will couse it to go deeper or shallower.
2. The Flasher/Teaser: everyone will swear that their shape is the best! honestly they work all the same . its a big shiny thing that stirs up the water, to get the attention of the fish. the sea is vast and those things are very visible from far away.
3.the squid looking lures you got are fine, just put some small baitfish in them something oily like mackerel bits works wonders! fish can smell quite well and it will help you get more attention
Awesome now you got a good rig and all the things you need to get some tasty fish hooked ! however here comes the part that is a bit of work/and experience but you get there !
4. Timing: i can't stress this enough YOU NEED TO WATCH YOUR ROD! specially if there is no fish on it! learn how the rod looks like when there is no fish on the hook, the drag of your ring will drag on your rod, learn how it looks like if there is no fish on it, so you know when one is on! sometimes its very suttle and fish can unhook them selfs if you are to slow, so its important to get to your rod quickly and "set the hook"
5. Diver and Flasher can be very inexpensive around 20euro for both (when odered online) but also can be DIY'ed if you feel like it :)
6. Bonus: ask ten fishermen and you will get 10 different answers, what might work for one does not work for others. however the tipps above are pretty general and the cheapest setup i can think of for trolling.
Good luck ! let us know if you get something ;)
Excellent comment. I learned stuff I didn't know.
On target. Great advise. Also I believe fishing at daylight and at dusk till dark will be more productive than all day fishing
Amazing advise! Thank you.
Dan would rather make money by having video content instead of fishing because the best time to fish was while he was talking about fishing ! When it comes to fishing , Dan is a born loser !
I've heard teasers are pretty good for increasing your odds
Consider getting a 'Trolling diver' - which sits ten foot before the lure and uses the force of current to pull down deep. One of the problems with trolling behind a sailboat is you are going relativly fast and the lure ends up close to the surface. Not all fish you want hunt very close to the surface (where they are vulnerable to predation). A diver pulls it deep and you are fishing in entirely new terrain! Good luck.
To reel fish once on a hook, my experience on power boat sport fishing, always required “heaving to” to real it in, so as to not rip the hook out of its mouth. When distance sailing, this would be an unscheduled pointing into the wind, basically stopping while reeling it in. This may not be feasible with limited crew, but may be possible when motoring.
Fish are like cats, very picky eaters and very smart, with very good vision. This is the part most people get wrong.
Everything from the color of your line vs the conditions , the speed of your lure, and the time of day are completely essential.
Once upon the time, a wise Crew of a tiny little Sailboat said: "There is no Reason to hurry. Never ever.'" You better should take this. Because this Crew and her tiny little Sailboat are sailing now for seven years the whole North Atlantic, from the very south up to the most north point on earth, you can reach without a diesel engine on board.
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We have been living and cruising on our yacht since 2007. My go to trawling rig is a large hand reel with 30m of Para cord, large bullet game swivel, 10m 200lb mono, large snap swivel then 2m mono or multi strand stainless wire to the lure. My favourite is the 7" slayer with an 8/0 hook. Forget about using a rod when trawling, you are not doing it for fun, but for food. Save the rods for at anchor and just skull drag them in with the hand line. Oh and some shock cord as well. The boat is on the hard at present in Greece. Roll on 2023.
Hey guys, try getting a #3 planer from a tackle shop. That'll get the bait a lot lower in the water column (30ft lower). Also use a longer leader. 20 - 30ft of leader past the swivel. Also, get your gear a fair distance from the boat, you may be running it too close. One last suggestion is to try using smaller tackle too. Spoons are always good choices for that speed
I did not buy a couch but I did buy a leather recliner that is great for relaxing and watching your great videos. Thank you for sharing your adventures!
Agreed, I have a comfy rocking chair, as my body is not able to do these things anymore. Make the most of life while you can peeps.
Dan and Kika. You need to add a Rapala Magnum to your trolling lures, (Green with black stripes). The lure you have need higher speed to attract fish. The Rapala Magnum is a deep diver with a lot of action. Don’t let the size fool you, small fish will attack big fish with out fear.
I would point the rods more towards the wake of the boat so the lures are in or close to the bubbles of the wake, about 4, but not more than 5 boat lengths behind. Strikes usually during sunrise and sunset and albacore, white tuna usually is in water more than 1000meter.
Stick to the soft lures like you have, smaller is better, about 5 to7cm. I had luck with whites and blue, not necessarily shiny. You will get up to 8kg or so on a soft lure.
Slow the boat down, Furl the headsail and point into wind. Take your time so you don't tear the hook from its mouth.
Dan, giant tuna run the Med. Live bait - squid or cuddle fish . If not scent the lures with chicken guts.
Thank you lovely people! Enjoyed it as always and wish we were there…and young again! The closest we got was on a cruise ship in the med…thankful for that. ⛵️🚢❤
Tips for fishing while sailing.
Free Range Sailing
Ep.187.
Well worth your time.
Kiki and Dan you two have such amazing adventures, Thanks for sharing your travels
This Summer I was sailing båten_båra in Norway. We fished a lot with the same line you have and I learned that you have to slow down a bit for the fish. I think the fastest we ever catched a fisch was around 3 knots. The most catches where just by drifting. Good luck!
Hi, I used to fish for a living from an open boat trolling for mackerel, bonito etc. 3 knots was about right, that and actually looking for fish.
i definitely know that problem with NOT catching fish off a sailboat in the med! sailing through the aegean for three weeks we only managed to be successfull three times. and every time we cought something, it was 1. a small tuna (or three), it 2ndly was at sundown times, and, 3rd, we played Barry White quit loudly on board. hope that info will help (dubt it though...) love your reports!!!
I'm not a great fisherman but I think the best way to catch fish is to get the local knowledge about what fish are in the area and what bait they will go for. You are always moving. So the game is always changing.
Dan said the magic words for getting fresh fish..."grocery store".
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The Norwegian handline is not going to the bottom of the ocean, the sinker at the end is just a counter weight to the speed of the boat, you could switch the weight to something lighter if your boat is going slower. As you said it's supposed to catch mackerel, and they usually swim in the top layers of the sea, you don't want it to hang to deep in the water.
We catch mackerel all the time (just at the opening of the Oslo fjord) with it. We have one like yours with a smaller sinker and the mackerels we catch are smaller (about 7 to 12 inches) and they taste better than larger ones, since they have less fish oil in the meat. The slower the speed of the boat, the smaller fish you catch, but then you need to match the weight of the sinker so that the line just goes a couple of meters below the water line.
The ones with the sinker at the end _are_ actually designed for "pilking", ie. straight up and down use. The ones that are designed to drag behind the boat (dorgeharpe) have the sinker _in front_ of the lures, so the lures "swim" in a more natural, enticing way. I'm sure a normal harpe works just fine for dorging, but saying that you're not supposed to drop it straight down is wrong.
Yeah, me thinks it's not an issue with the gear but with the knowledge on how to use it, know your type of fish in the area, if they are seasonal, read the weather, select the time of day and so on 😊
It more to fishing than just put colorful stuff in the sea, especially more and more regions are being vacuumed by huge fleets of trawlers 😢
There is enough reward in you sharing your adventure with all of us. I hope that you are well compensated for the work you put into this youtube channel. Thank you so much!!!
Hey Dan. Good ensemble of surface lures there, though I notice you don't have many diving lures to trawl behind the boat. They require a slower speed to effective than surface lures, maybe 3-5max kts. Surface lures require more like 6 in ideal circumstances. Different fish are at different depths in the water, depending on temp, weather, baro etc. Keep you're lines tight 😁
Kika, have you looked at plant recognition apps like PlantNet? You take a photo of a leaf or flower and the app then ‘recognises’ the plant/tree etc. Dan, trolling (ie dragging) a lure behind you is only going to target hunter species. If you jig smaller jigs up/down off the side when at anchor you might open up possibilities of more species. Similarly most fish will feed at dawn/dusk and will still detect a moving lure as long as you are not racing the lure through the water. Keep up the good work guys.
The first lures are spoons and work best at lower trolling speeds. But you can also just drop them straight down when you're not moving and jig them up and down. Once the line gets heavy, you have a fish on.
Sandra and I, along with our 4 year old son and two Danish boats sailed into Puerto Soller 37 years ago, after a night crossing from Barcelona. This summer, mid June, we returned to reminisce. It was not on the tourist’s radar back then. We wintered in Puerto Andratx.
Some of my best memories are of visiting that part of the world as a wide-eyed young Navy sailor. Maybe I'll get back on my own terms one day. Thanks for sharing your adventures!
Same here, I was in Rota for 2 and a half years!
We keep it mostly pink. Small fish don’t take the big ones but bigger gladly take the smaller. We have caught most fish on pink lures. One looking like a fish(similar to what you showed in video) and a small (7-10cm) pink squid that among others caught a 23 kg sailfish. Below 6 knots we haven’t caught much, so I can’t advise for slow speed. At sunrise and set you should get everything out, to see what works for you. The Mediterranean has been “over-fished” and is dead compared to the oceans. Forget about cod and the like in the Mediterranean. But small hooks with silver bling gives mackerel. For example In Messina strait and the Greek west coast you could get a tuna, big ones. Have fun
Thanks for sharing your lives with us. Shirtless or under 8 layers of foul weather gear, it’s all fun and interesting! 👍
haaa love this comment lol
(1) Add a second hook to all your trolling rigs. Hook 1 goes through the eye of hook 2. This will reduce the chance of you missing your once a year strikes. (2) 30 min before sunrise to 1 hour after are your best bet especially if no moon. The less moon the better and earlier the bite. Full moon bite will be late afternoon. (3) Troll 2 setups that are different until you figure out what the fish like. So one can be blue and yellow and the other pink. If you get 2 strikes back to back on pink switch over to both pink or maybe one on top and the other deeper down using a planer. Then switch to both the same when you find a pattern. (4) Your 'large" lure isn't that big. A small to medium mahi would eat it. Try it out and your "small" reel isn't that small either. A TLD 20 is big enough for just about any size mahi.
I always look forward to Thursday thanks guys
They call it "fishing" instead of "catching"... for a reason...😒 good luck. Love your videos🙂👍
Mackerel swim around in big shoals gulping seawater down openning their mouths wide and then closing them - you wont catch them near the bottom, also becasue they're in shoals you generally either catch none or lots. (They also don't keep very well - traditionally in Britain they were one of the few things you were allowed to sell on a Sunday).
I was sailing the Med 2 years ago, with a hand line I caught so much tuna we almost got sick of eating it. We eventually bought 30 mason jars and canned a bunch in olive oil! I had my hand line attached to a bunch of pots and pans on deck, so when we got a bite the ruckus would alert everyone! Also is this video really old? Because sailing the Med in the middle of winter is not too smart…
northern sailing couple struggle to fit in to warm sailing again. No fish, hardly any clothes, times are tough. Keep chillin, you'll make it, you're so happy the fish are soon going come around if not to get ate, they will want to know what is going on. love the channel, you too are great. Good health from -2& a foot of snow in central Sk. Stay warm.🥶
Thought I’d share this little quick story. I live in Beaufort, NC. Every year there is a Marlin fishing tournament that has nearly 200 boats. It’s called Big Rock. There are multiple cash prizes. The first Marlin weighing in over 400 wins a prize. Biggest fish of the tournament is another prize. This year the first fish caught over 400 (they weighed in at 1:30p the first day) was also the largest fish of the tournament. The prize money was over $3,200,000! Largest payout for one fish ever in the world!!
People are putting way to much money into who can catch the biggest fish.
@@sarahmanalapan8443 Each boat has the option to participate in the Calcuttas. The buy in to the Calcuttas is a bit over $20k. Don’t worry a lot of the boats are 70’-87’ with full time crew. Michael Jordon comes with his boat. Actually the local area receives a lot of money from the tournament. In addition our local town docks are filled for that week which helps Beaufort.
Hi Guys love your channel - If you are trawling you need to think about where the fish feed - You don't appear to be using weights so your lures will be always on the surface - Buy a paravane based on mine sweeping - It's cheap you don't need weights and can set the depth of the lure by where you connect the lines - I'm a Cornish man living in Edinburgh - We trawled for Mackerel out of Fowey in Cornwall (you must visit) using handlines with huge lead weights - We had a normal fishing rod with a paravane and when a fish was on the device would leap out of the water
I agree with Raireva - looks like the leaf of a Ficus tree (and so do the roots behind Kika in the shot) :):)
Looks like a strangler fig to me..
That is a eucalyptus tree leaf would be my guess.
It is definitely a ficus
@@bjkirkpatrick5960 if that's a eucalyptus leaf, I'd hate to see the size of the tree.
It's a Ficus tree, Cartagena is full of it. 👍
Fish are like people. They enjoy being comfortable, temperature wise. The deeper they go, the cooler they get, and vice versa. The key is finding how deep they are. Keep fishing deeper a foot at a time until you find them.
You MUST fly a black ball when at anchor. If you get hit by another vessel your insurer will NOT PAY if no black ball flown.
Deep water equals fast swimming fish. You are going too slowly to attract fish. You need 8-10 knots before they think your lure is worth the chase.
If you want to catch TONS of fish while underway , Trolling , You need a thing called a Dipsy-Diver , the large one ( #0 or #1 )
Then your Lure goes about 6-8 ft behind that.
You aren't catching anything because your lures are not going deep enough. You might think because you have 100-150 ft of line out that the lure is deep, but I assure you, it is not. The Dipsy-Diver is designed to take your lure down 20-40ft , and it is adjustable to achieve different depths. Sailing at 5 knots is about perfect , any faster and only big game fish will be hitting your lures. For the longest time I was in the same
" boat " as you and not catching anything. The Dipsy-Diver changed everything. It is basically a DownRigger tool , without the giant mounted Downrigger that Salmon guys use. Try it. You'll see. They cost around $20.
Take Care guys !
Where did you get those rod holders that attach to Stanchions ? I've looked everywhere for those.
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Can't belive they charged me $90 each at the fishing shop
I believe the leaf is a Moreton bay fig, (Ficus macrophylla) quite common here in nz
It's a Plumars leaf that is the plant that you get the flowers for the Lai in Hawaii, that's what it looks like to me.
Those Rapala lures are better than you think, I would grab a couple of rattling deep divers, two bright colours, two quite dull. Remember, bright colours on a bright day, dull on a dull day. That type of lure is good at low to medium speeds, 4 to 6 knots, maybe a little quicker. They will also catch a large variety of fish. Good luck.
I trailed a line behind my cat for 2,000 miles all the way across the Atlantic - no fish. I had much more success in the Caribbean Windward Islands. I trailed a line with a red bit of cloth as lure. I used a strong shark rod and fairly strong line. Nothing sophisticated.
We'd catch fish sailing over shallower water (you have a keel, so might not work for you).
I also occasionally caught mackerel in the English Channel.
But in the Med - nothing.
We did catch a shark just as we reached Bermuda - but cold beer and steak loomed, so we never ate it.
I once caught a pelican - this was not good. It dived on the lure and I had a huge pelican flapping around 30m up in the air. Fortunately it eventually ripped the hook through its beak and flew away. All other alternatives were worse, so that was sort of good.
Oh I see you have been listening to my scheduling advice, I wasn’t able to read the bow sticker “Don’t buy a ?” How much wind do you have? I usually average 220 Nm per 24 hour day.
In the Med inshore trolling 2.5 to5 knots, off shore 5 to 12 knots. Run lure 40 to 50 feet back on blue mono and make sure it runs straight. Across current is best rather than with or against. And bright colors skirted lures. Good luck.
My husband and his dad have always matched the color of the lure to the water as closely as possible and favor monofilament leaders. They usually only use steel leaders for something like shark fishing. Maybe use a lighter pound test line and set drag to compliment the line weight. When a fish is on, don’t strong arm it back to boat as you risk popping the line let the fish run and tire out.
Maybe you guys could consider teaming up with a fishing expert that will help you guys conquer the reef. Love seeing guests on your show.
If you want to start catching fish get a Mason jar. Put the scraps from a fish in it along with your lures and fill it 3/4 full of water. Put the lid on. Place it in the sun for several days then start catching fish!
I've been yelling at my screen for ages urging you to get into the Med because it is unreal and here you are finally realizing how great it is for sailing..😁😁😁
If I can add some advice, make sure that your hooks are VERY sharp. If you slide the hook over your thumb nail, it should dig in. Use a small file to sharpen it. So if you get a bite, it must hook up. Good luck and good fishing!
I'd recommend getting a silver spoon lure and a yellow feather Hook for smaller fish.
My 50 cents worth on fishing. Keep it simple. With bottom fishing, when your lure/bait hits the bottom you should get a strike quickly, if not, you are in the wrong spot, move to another. For fishing on the move your boat itself is a fish attractant and so pelagic fish will come to your vessel for a look see. The lures can be trawled visible off the back, they don't need to be hundreds of meters behind you. On my yacht I've moved away from rods and reels to a simple handline. I use a bungy cord for strike shock absorption trailing the lure a few meters behind the boat. I use gloves if I remember to put them on, and hand over hand the fish in, sometimes skipping over the water surface if boat speed is high. And chuck it directly into the cockpit. The only rule is if you want to have a chance of catching a fish, you must have a hook in the water ;-) See here: ua-cam.com/video/-Ptnl9tETqM/v-deo.html
Fishing question: when the fish bites and the reel starts running, what is your first move? It should be to stop the reel barrel with your thumb and give a big pullback with the rod to ensure the fish is properly "hooked". I'm not sure the explanation is clear but... in Spanish would be "frená el reel y dale un cañazo"... and only after that, you can start to reel in the fish... ;)
While you were talking about fishing is the best time to fish other than an hour before sun rise ! So you won't catch much unless you do ! Use a teaser 10 yards ahead of the luer ! A teaser is something that flops and splashes on top of the water !
Can't wait for you guys to reach Greece. You'll love it here :)
How are those folding winch handles holding up? You have had those for a little bit now, correct? Here's to hoping for some good fishing and the breaking of the "curse"! 😂
yea, we've had them on the winches for almost 3 yrs! 👌
We ussually catch a good size tuna (enough for a month of meat) every night passage we do between Greece and Croatia. The key times are just after sunset and just before sunrise. We leave the lure about 3 boat lengths behind when we are doing 4-6 knots in 100 - 300 meters depth. We use a bright yellow 12cm halco lure. The brighter the better!
You and your videos get better and better. True professionals now. Hugs
Hi, the mistake that many sailing fishers make is to have the lure to far out the back of the boat. The boat itself attracts fish and so when sailing at 4 to 5 knots have the lure 10 metres from the back of the boat When at 6+ knots have it between 15 metres to maximum 20 metres behind the boat. There is nothing wrong with the lures you have or the new rod you have they are all good. Watch some old episodes of free Range sailing and see the success they always had with this technique. Good fishing
Nothing beats live bait. Match the hatch!
Cast net off dingy shallow water near shore. For bait
hayabusa sabiki rig hot hooks off boat to catch bait.
Live bait free line (no weight) and one with weight. Both with fluorocarbon leader!
May you have fair winds and following seas
many people make the mistake of sending the lure way too far off the back of the boat, thinking the boat will scare the fish. Its quite the opposite in fact. Send the lure 2 boat lengths and see how it goes. Many fish will see the hull of the boat and go check it out. Usually large marine animals have little fish around them and larger fish that eats the little ones. So your boat is attracting fish on her own. Good luck
Speed is key and your spread of lures ‼️ BLUE water fishing use the bubblers ‼️set that big bubbler way , back in the middle.. kinda want a W looking spread ! The speed is key , can’t be to fast or to slow I’ve always had good vibes between 4.5 to 6.5 knots 🪢 bubblers and you will need at least three offshore rods out to use that big bubbler ! Big way back two even on star and port side in closer to boat
Get a couple of divers for different depths so you don’t need to mount a downrigger to troll below the surface.
Try casting forward and speed jigging with a saltwater spinning setup and butterfly jig as you sail since that’s less dependent on the speed of the boat. It’s more work but a hell of a lot of fun when you find fish.
Try jigging like you did for cod but at night.
Try jigging for squid.
Go to the Pacific or head towards the poles where there’s more nutrients in the water to support fish.
Fishing advice (sharp hooks) salt water is hard on hooks use a steel diamond nail file .The one your partner throughs away is the best .Touch the point of the hook to your finger nail if it slides off it is dull .A three or four sided point is good . I have never fished the med but with a sharp hook you will loose less fish. I fish Michigan in the states.
You're pulling a small lure pretty high in the water column over areas that are unknown to you. If you want to increase your chances, do a little research on Bucket Dredges, which resemble bait balls and create much more motion which draw curious fish up for a look. Your main lure follows a good distance behind the dredge. Hope this helps.
I am italian ...my the recommendation for the med is when you see birds in the wather the fish is there mainly tuna that catch acciugas or sardines we cold this " Mangianze" you have to see mangianze with the birds and reach them with the boat.
Set up your rig so you can change out lures. Try live bait on your hooks. Even if you don’t catch anything off the back of the boat, you landed that beauty back in Uni. She’s so cute!!?❤❤
have you tried adding teasers to your fishing system ? salt water fish tend to get attracted to water surface action. Have a few teasers going some distance in front of your lure, this might help to catch more fish .
I’m sure you will be inundated with fishing advice. So I’ll pile on. Increase your odds by using a squid chain. (A single line with multiple squid on it and one hook at the end.) Fish like crowds, “crowd” the water with something they want. I use this method and I have good luck. Also add another rod. I think I saw just two. Squid back center…..the other two staggered port and starboard.
I always enjoy your adventures. 😊
Have a Great Thanksgiving. Stay safe and have fun
Lol! I hear ya……”I’m terrified of what’s going to bite onto it”
Ask the local bait shop, marina, etc to see what is working? Our local sporting goods store has a fishing report, listing what fish are running, where, and which lures are working.
I have decided you two need a couples spa day. Just some time to chill, get spoiled and feel pampered. Why do you ask? Just because, that's why! Lol wishing you guys the best!
I've lived in Malta in the Med for decades. 😁
There are plenty of fish in the Med.
One thing I don't like is there is no minimum size limit for a catch.
Many fish are taken before they've reached breeding age. Undersize fish should be thrown back immediately.
Even the restaurants sell fish that responsible governments like Australia and New Zealand would prosecute them for. (Selling undersized fish.)
That's a recipe for disaster.
years ago when I fished for bass a lot, when a lure stopped working i'd spray it with wd-40, people said they liked the scent but I'm convinced what it did was cover the sent from the oil on my hands. In fact I got where I never handle my lures with bare hands and I did a lot better fishing.
Hi y'all, sorry I don't know that much about fishing to help you out on board. Lot of nice scenery as usual. Hope you have some good Groceries on board by the time you read this. Thanks a lot Dan and Kiki, adios
Ditch the fancy big lures and try with a simple silver spoon, smaller than the ones you have. On the way to Balearic islands from Sardinia the big colorful lures never worked for us. The smaller silver spoon did!
I get the impression that buying fish rather than lures would have been better value 🙂
Very sit-com guest-star energy! Old child hood friend joins, but is disarmingly beautiful (like you 2!). Never been on a blue water sail boat! Cooks like mad! Has to jet off to meet another friend.
On fishing, my guess is that you're just going too fast for the rig you've got out. At 4-5 knots, nothing's going to sink beneath the surface without a 5-10lb flash, which you can't support with a trolling rod. Need a downrigger, or at least a diving disc.
You don't have to be deep, but very few fish are gonna strike something skimming along the surface.
Your lines the right color, so is the lure. Get the longer "squid" for trolling. We wire a ballyhoo by the nose under the skirt and set the hook in his belly. Make sure your leaders are bite proof. With snapper and toro you wanna wait till it goes "tap tap ..yank" then you yank to set the hook and reel hard till they're in because they're smart. Chumming helps but then the sharks steal some. Snapper bite better on the full moon after it rises in clear 40 or 50 ft of water where you can see a sandy bottom. You can just use chunks of fish for them. Normally when we get a school fish on llike dorado, we stop and drop bait in before we reel it in to keep them around the boat. You have to bottom fish on the reef with frozen ballyhoo with a long leader off the weight so it drifts like its free food. That's how you get the wahoo. This is Florida reef and coast fishing though. We do it often, successfully. I imagine the fish are of a similar mindset everywhere. Think like a fish! When you fish matters too. Think early sunrise and before sunset and when the moon rises. Good luck!
The fancy handline you got in Norway is not only for straight down fishing. If you change the heavy weight at the end with a much lighter lure, you can use it for trolling behind the boat. You decide the depth of the rigg with the weight of the lure at the end and the speed of the boat. Give out plenty of line, at least 30-40 metres.
If you want to fish with it when stationary, you can use the weight, or the heavy golden fishy thing with hooks, and just drop it to the bottom, take in one meter of line and jank on it from time to time. Or just leave it out and hope something bites. The fish likes the peppers and spoons!
Good luck!
You can try a teaser rig. This is trolled on a seperate line with no hooks. Your hooked lure is further out to get the fish the teaser rig has obtained attention of.
Try adding divers to your troll rig.
They will pull your presentation down lower in the water column.
Perhaps attracting more fish.
Oh boy, I'll try not to write a book here. No advice on the Med but with that said.... Sharp hooks, stick to lures like the hard plastic crank baits with diving bills, I like gold body with a red head, paint it if you have to. 2 oz to 8 oz bucktail jigs or rattletrap type lures. Bucktails create very little drag and move through the water easily. Also the history of the bucktail jigs makes for some interesting short reading and you will see why they have been used for many years. The squid looking lures are fine but make sure they, and all lures, are trailing well behind the vessel. The faster you go the shallower they will be in the water column. You may have to use a downrigger device to pull the lure down deeper ie Davis Instruments Fish Seeker, no affiliation. Glad you leash your reels to the rails because a good sized fish is going to snap that yellow rod and you can kiss that nice Shimano goodbye if it's not tethered to something. Put the big reel on a medium to heavy action rod and put a smaller reel on the yellow rod for plugging around reefs, your vessel or floating objects. Watch for floating objects, especially offshore, they are a fish magnets and will often hold Mahi. If there is a sudden elevation change on the sea floor, change course if possible and go right over the top of it. Any sudden change in floor elevation will attract fish. Know how to work your reel's drag properly. You want it tight enough that the line will not break from a good sized fish yet not so light that fish will spool the line off your reel. Some areas of the world lack fish due to unethical fishing practices and or poor enforcement of fishing regulations along the coast ie Ghana, Africa. In other words if the fish aren't' there you aren't going to catch them. Hope this helps. Now you just need someone with first hand knowledge of the Med and what fish are most prevalent in the area.
Still have tuna? When you are slow or drifting (not trolling), flip a 1-inch chunk on a treble hook with a small bobber. Drop the bait about 20ft from the bobber. Spam works, too.
Saturday morning. Having breakfast and a cup of coffee while watching latest episode. What a perfect start of the day. Thanks for sharing your adventures with these wonderful videos. While you enjoy the nice and warm weather I am going to switch to winter tyres on my car. ;-)
Ok. I fish with 1 lure down & 1 up. Spade lure no spade. You have a wake. It has a crest where it meets from beam to beam. Like a V. That's where you position your down lure. The other about 5 - 10 ft behind.
So all yachts create eddies behind the boat. From time to time you may see these fish in those eddies. They love it. Never put your line out 100 miles. Keep it close. I base this on % to 7 knots. When you get a strike slow the boat immediately.
Hope this helps. Good luck. But it is the Med.
I'm not the most experienced sailor or fisherman by any stretch, but in 3000 miles of offshore sailing all over the Pacific coast of Canada, US and Mexico we never had any shortage of fresh fish. Not doing anything fancy. Deep diving Rapalas if we are in colder waters and aiming for salmon, surface-skimming silicon squids for tunas and mahis, otherwise. Planer boards are okay when you are actually trolling at 2.5 knots. I hate them when sailing - too much resistance. A kilometer of 50lb mono on a standup rig with a vintage Penn Senator reel. As little drag as it takes for the reel not to slip underway, slow the boat down before you start cranking, increase the drag as needed. If it's a big fish, drop sails, switch to the motor and steer her to keep the line on your 3 o'clock to make it easier for whoever is reeling. That's about it.
Puerto Soller is my favourite port, we were there in September, hope you had a great time there
Majorca is an amazing island, the beers are so cheap,I stopped into a bar near the big church,and they cost me $1.50 AUD each,and then the food was free with the beers.
That mackerel thing you have, put it on your rod.
Drop it 50 mtrs deep, then hold it until you feel a bite. keep a second and release again for 10/15 secs.
Hold it again until you feel a second bite. By that time there should be a fish on every hook.
If it doesn't work in the Med (don't know if there is mackerel there), defenitely remember when leaving the Med. Works like magic in the atlantic(garfish and mackerel).
If/when you get to Valencia, let us know. Happy to be tour guides.
My old Grand grandfather who's long dead now, was a fisherman for many many years and he always said that fishing of a moving boat only worked if you went not to fast and not too slow. Beyond that you had to attract the fish and be patient, do that and you'd always get something sooner or later and sometimes he would get several fish during an hour or he would only get one during the whole 5 hours trip, but at his age (over 70 by the time I was born) was happy with that. All he cared about was doing the actual fishing, he didn't care if he caught anything at all, and sometimes it took hours before anything nibbled at the line.
His prefered speed was puttering along at around 3-7 knots i think, but I can't be sure and it could be 4-6 or 5 or.. 5-6 or.. well you get the idea. But he was out there every other day for hours just to fish. And I happen to know that if he was out there for 5 hours without a nibble, well then he stopped at a fishery on they way home and bought a freshly caught that morning fish from them before heading back home, but this was his dirty little secret that he never admitted and we only know because one of us kids were down there buying ice cream and spotted him at one point. The clue here is that you just need to keep trying and make sure you are not going too slow. Less than 3 knots isn't good if I remember his words right, just don't take that for an absolute truth as I might remember wrong. It was over 35 years ago after all.
It seems that more sailors have good luck fishing with a hand reel. Delos has done well with hand reels over the years and also Nahoa.
Fishing on reefs is easy. Trawl five lures over the reef at slow speed and you'll hook five fish.. 😁
Hack:
Use fishing rods to space the lines.
But pull them in quick because the reef sharks are liable to eat your fish of the hook!.
Or maybe leave the head attached.. 😁
for fish head soup.😁
Welcome to the Med! Now you're really in at the best cruising spots and it just started when you get further east.
You were standing under a Banyan tree with the leaf.
I sailed with my daughter (as a guest on a recreational ship (Lamu) some bazzilionare owned she was crewing on) off the West coast of Africa, she shouted me out on a charter boat and we went up towards Somalia. First day I had ever been on a charter boat and ever fished off a boat, the two crew had 10+ lines out and handed me one that had a bite / hooked one. I pulled in an 85kg Black Marlin, which we photographed and released! Would love to tell you what they were running on their lines, no idea, but just had to share that with you. I'm loving your stories and your yacht, how is the re gen going? I'm sure you'll catch a few soon and nail the fishing as well, then you'll tap into the largest recreational activity on the planet and end up with a whole new customer base!
feeling your pain bro, I am in Campbell River and can't catch salmon to save my life.
Yikes! I grew up in Courtenay so I know what you’re saying.
The trolling lure you have need hi speed to creat a trail of bubbles to excite fish to attack. At 5 knots it will never happen. The flipping jig (not the one you use for the Cods, the other next to it) is deadly. One of the very best you have there. You need a casting or spinning rod and real and do vertical jigging by dropping it to the bottom, raising and lowering the rod while reeling and causing the jig to floater as it drops and spike as it’s raise. Fish will attack out of anger, not huger and is an incredible fish magnet.
the norway gear works, I know it, because was catching a lot at Brekstad (you passed it, outside Trontheim). cod, makrel, and others.
dragging: You need a Line weight of about 150g to 200g with your speed of the boat. The gear ends up at about 4-6m below the waterline.
I got Tuna in Turkey about 50-70cm a couple of times by just using the Norway kit.
You replace the red weight with that fancy blue fish, placing the mentioned line weight about 2m after the last of the small hook facing your ditection. The gear will become "alive" down there....Try it.