Techniques
Big game fishing techniques in the Canary Islands
Six techniques, chosen for the fish and the conditions rather than for habit. Most charters run one. We run whichever the day calls for.
The six
How we fish
Each one exists because a specific situation makes the others worse.
Offshore Trolling
The technique that covers water and finds fish. A trolling spread is not a set of lures drag…
View technique 02Live Bait
When a fish has seen everything and refuses all of it, you put a live one in front of it. No…
View technique 03Vertical Jigging
Straight down, straight up, and a take that feels like the rod has been kicked out of your h…
View technique 04Slow Jigging
The answer when the fish are there on the sounder and will not touch a fast jig. Slow jiggin…
View technique 05Offshore Spinning
You see the fish, you cast at the fish, the fish eats on the surface in front of you. No tec…
View technique 06Kite Fishing
A kite holds the bait on the surface with no line in the water. To a predator looking up, th…
View technique 07Chumming
Instead of looking for the fish, you bring them to you. A steady trail of cut bait, and then…
View techniqueWhy us
Why we do not fish the same way every day
A boat that only trolls will troll on a day when the fish are sitting on the bottom refusing to come up. Knowing six techniques means the day is not wasted when the first choice stops working, and knowing when to switch is most of the skill.
We don't wait for the fish. We follow them.
Tell us when you are coming
Send us your dates and the species you are after. We will tell you honestly what the ocean is likely to be doing.