Fishing Trip

Hello Hank,

Found your email address via your http://hongkongsportfishing.blogspot.com/ website, and i hope you don't mind me contacting you directly.

I'm interested in booking a deep sea fishing trip as a surprise experience for my girlfriend's birthday and was wondering if you still arrange trips or can put me in touch with someone who can help? Ideally we would like to go on Saturday 20th November as that is the day of her birthday but we could also do Sunday if necessary. I've only ever been fishing once before and know precisely nothing about fishing so i hope you can help me to ensure she has a great Birthday experience!

Thanks,

Miles.

Fishing tomorrow.

I’m heading out fishing tomorrow.  You want to come?

 

Trip report from yesterday:
First 30 minutes we had already experienced a great day out! Two tuna and three mahi mahi were caught by 10am.  The action slowed down through high tide and only picked up a little on the outgoing. We caught another 3 tuna and 7 mahi mahi from 11:45 until around 3pm

See pic attached.

Great day out already with 5 fish caught by 10am. Two tuna and three mah mahi. See attached pic.

We had 7 or so more fish throughout the day.

Blue water is relatively
Close.

If you are up for Fri. or Sat. let me know today.

Sent from my HTC phone

Fishing this week/weekend

Are you up for fishing Friday or Saturday?

 

I’ll be fishing with Kim tomorrow and out on my boat Friday and Saturday.

 

http://www.hongkongsportfishing.com

 

Re: Marlin from Saturday

Outstanding!
net looked too small. Hope that was to be released
Hope there's many more

Kim

RE: Marlin from Saturday

Hi Hank,

Where was that marlin? I was waiting to see them try to net it.

I hope you are doing well.

My best,

Bruce

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From: hankt@netvigator.com
To: hank.terrebrood.hksportfishing@blogger.com
Subject: Marlin from Saturday
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:49:46 +0800

A colleague from Daiwa that bought a boat this year and picked up tips on how, what, where and why.  We spent time at work with mono tied around the monitor supports on the desk in the winter discussing knots in preparation for this year's fishing season…

 

Congratulations Shing!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5dL5SlL9II

Carmine's trip report August 6th-7th

HK fishermen:

Onboard the "Thai Lady"
Andy Bright
Carmine Vastola

Departed cwb: 12 noon 08/06
Returned cwb: 7pm 08/07

With mine and Dr Bright' schedules matching a 2 night trip was in order. We
departed into moderate conditions, with clear skies and bright sun... the
ride offshore was uneventful our plan was to fish the first rig for the
night and then troll to a group of 90 miles rigs for our Saturday night tie
off.

As we were going to run out of day
we trolled in the last 10 miles to the
first rig with a few nice skip jack boated.
Once we were tied off, which
turned out to be challenging,
Dr Bright tried to jig up some bait, the
"Tall Guy" was out of squid so we were
bait less for a 2 night trip. On the first
drop bang fish on. After a short fight
a chicken grunt came over the side.

Unfortunately this was the first and only strike on the bait catching front.

At about 9:30pm one of the work boats decided he did not want us on the rig
and proceeded to force us to leave. This particular work boat seems to have
a complex as he is the only one to act so poorly. We took his hints and
moved on 16 miles to the next rig.

We got hooked up to the next rig with little
difficulty and were back to fishing.   We
had little success on this rig with only 2
kawa kawa boated.

The morning brought 2 "big boats" arriving
at about 7am. There is always a first for
everything, both of the big boat captains went
out of their way to call over to us saying "DIE FUNG" or big wind.... After some broken
Cantonese discussion we realized the forces has change and force 6 winds were now
being called for.

After some discussion we made the call to
work the area and start to troll home by this
time the wave heights had already started to
build and it was obvious it would be an
unfriendly night to stay out.

We worked 2 more rigs with lots of spray
covering the boat with the now 5-8
foots seas causing the 2 man crew to be very careful when we got a strike.

The yellow fin are sure at the rigs we ended up
boating 3 between 10 and 15lbs.  On one pass
all 5 rods went down, we ended up boating 2 fish.

One other point to note is the tanker in the second
group of rigs is no longer there. Strange as it has
been there for the entire 5 years we have been
working the area. Hopefully it comes back as we
pulled many nice fish from under her.

Next shot is this coming weekend, drop me a note if you are interested.

Trip Report - May 28th (happy anniversary Becks!)

Saturday was a good day out. Not as many fish on previous weekends and not as large. However, we were FISHING and it doesn't get much better than that.

In this photo is Jeff Fisher and daughter Caitlin with his catch from Saturday's trip.

We headed out at around 07:45 – a little later than usual as someone had missed the bus and as it was his boat the entire crew had to hang out and wait. The ride out was fast on a very flat sea making the 20 mile trip go by in a flash at a 25 knot cruise. We saw the changeover from inshore to blue water just past Po Toi in the ship channel.

Arriving a few miles from the wreck we planned to troll around saw flying fish but no birds and very little flotsam. Our first 2 hours saw a single strike which the guy had on for 5 minutes before the fish threw the hook. With nothing to help for sighting we continued to blind troll and by 11:30 had our first fish over the gunwale – a very small mahi mahi. At about 5 minutes past noon Jeff was nearest the rod that went off and brought in the fish in the above picture. There was a mate with that fish as it came to the boat so we quickly had the lure back out and trolled back through the area. The bull was caught and ended up on Ray Bond’s plate Sunday.

Throughout the next couple of hours we caught two more tiny mahi mahi making it 5 fish boated and one missed on the day but only 2 keepers.

The winds had kicked up to force 5 and the nice gentle swell was blown out to a small chop with whitecaps prevalent. That plus an electrical storm made us accelerate our plans to return, however, we stopped and trolled about 5 miles before the Leema Islands through the color change back up against Po Toi but without a further strike.

-Hank

Fishing Tuesday, May 18th

The day's fishing was aboard Kiduzi with Kim Stuart running out of Hong Kong at 07:45 in near dead calm conditions.

Offshore it was the same with nice calm seas and near cloudless skies.

I was next to the rod that went off first and boated a mahi mahi of about 18 pounds. We went on to catch more than 20 fish, all mahi mahi, keeping only 7 for the table.

On the troll home I was also next to the rod for the last strike of the day. On the Hong Kong side of Leema in the ship channel between there and Poh Toi we came on another nice mahi mahi. It jumped once and went deep and with a violent head shake threw the hook.

Another brilliant day of fishing offshore from Hong Kong.

Hank

Hank's Trip Report Saturday, May 15th

Saturday, May 15^th was not a cracking day to be on the water but was a good day of fishing. The 07:45 run from Aberdeen to Po Toi was fine with three of us on the Reel Infinity leading Kim Stuart and crew of Kiduzi at a comfortable 19 knots. Once past the smaller islands and into the ship channel we ran over 3-4 foot waves that would be with us all day.

Our first fish was in the box at 09:30 with an 8 pound mahi mahi caught. We then trolled between a couple of anchored cargo ships and met up with Shing and crew on the Silverton who had just boated 4 mahi mahi as well. As we trolled past the Silverton and another ship at anchor we had a triple hookup of mahi mahi but managed to drop all three. We had one fisherman down with Mal de Mer leaving two of us to bring in fish and clear lines. It was one step below unmanageable.

Throughout the rest of the day rain came and went and the seas stayed at a slightly irritated level.

Trolling on the way back brought a double strike from two medium sized mahi mahi of about 20 pounds (by length and girth measure the calculated weight was 34.56lbs), Greg brought in the cow and I dropped the slightly larger bull. Both fish were in the air on their first take of the lures. We had both fish on for several minutes and I realized there was no way to bring these two fish to the boat without making a right mess of the other three lines still out so I backed down on the drag a bit hoping my fish would run for home and give me just a second to bring in the other lines. I got one line in and checked over at my hooked up rod to observe that it was already straight and the line slack – my fish was gone. We boated the cow in the photo and continued fishing.

We came upon a pallet and had a quadruple hookup of schoolies – the Chinese coxswain began shouting: “too many mahi mahi, too many.” By that time Ian was ready to bring in a fish and he boated on mahi mahi of 4 pounds. As we trolled away from the area we had a double hook up and Ian landed another fish of maybe 5 pounds and Greg released his two fish of about the same weight.

On the way home we suffered a drive by from a wahoo or a barracuda with the reel screaming for less than a second. I brought in a line with no lure and could see that the loop where the hook had been was sliced cleanly.

We brought home 5 as seen in the picture, boated and released 7 more and dropped 6 (conservatively) for a total of 12 fish caught on the day. This was the second Saturday in a row of good fishing.

Saturday, May 8th: Crazy day of fishing!

For the first time EVER we came back early (left the fish at 1:30 and dropped off in Aberdeen around 3).

We missed 3-4 fish, threw 7 or 8 back, kept 13 for the table. Bluefin and mackerel tuna to 12 pounds or so, two small mahi mahi.

In nearly 10 years of fishing in Hong Kong, this was the first time I've found fish under birds. The school of fish was several hundred square meters large and we could have stayed with it and
sunk the boat with fish. No sign of larger predators.

Visibility on the trip out was 100 feet to start and gradually cleared to about 2 miles. Light winds and a little rain. Seas were 3-4 feet.

Carmine's Fishing Trip Report

HK fishermen:

May 9, 2010

Onboard:

Alex Pozza
Gianni Balzano
Raffaele Impagnatiello
Rune Evensen
Carmine Vastola

Departed cwb: 5:15 am

Returned cwb : 4:30 pm

We departed with a forecast of good sea conditions and reports of early morning fog from  the previous day.  After heading for fuel the reality that the visibility was fine sunk in and we were off to the 60 mile rig and tanker…  lines were in by 8:30 with 80f water and some old sea which was flattening out.

We trolled the rig, tanker and nearby mooring drum with some action.  Most of the fish were dorado with a few barracuda boated.  Total 5 dorado to 15lbs and 2 small cudas.  We did not see any tuna or rainbow runner.  Looking back at previous spring fishing this seems old as many tuna and rainbow runner were boated during previous year's spring trips.  After about 4 hours working the area we trolled for home, we found dorado under all significant sized debris , with the first fish of the season  tagged, released.  We did not see many flying fish which again seemed odd as there were many last weekend fishing inshore.

We picked up at about 47 miles for a short flight home!!!!

Looking for good weather and some overnight trips in the coming weeks drop me  a note I  you are interested

p.s. with chef Wong being out of commission for this trip "Gianni" who's restaurant "ONLY BUONASERA"  is located in Tst Center brought along an outstanding lasagna….  Thanks Gianni we will be looking for you on future trips…

Welcome Hong Kong offshore fishing types

The 2010 season is just about to start. Check here for trip updates and pictures throughout the season.

Our 2010 calendar is just getting filled with a couple of Pratas reef trip possibilities. Stop by the blog or our online calendar: http://calendar.hongkongsportfishing.com for updates and to claim a spot.

I will also be updating the web site with pictures of previous fishing trips at: http://www.hongkongsportfishing.com

The 48' Reel Affinity will be at the Clear Water Bay Marina BBQ with the folks from the Thai Lady to kick off the season on Saturday March 6th. Hope to see you there!

Leave questions or comments here on our blog or e-mail me at hankt@hongkongsportfishing.com