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Deep sea fishing in the Canary Islands
Everything below the surface layer. Where big game is about the fish, deep sea fishing is about the column, and about the electronics that let you read it.
We do not fish blind here
We read the sounder, work out the depth and put the bait where the fish actually is. If the fish is down there, that is where you fish.
Most of what lives here never shows itself. Bigeye tuna hold below three hundred metres in daylight; amberjack sit hard on structure at forty to a hundred and twenty. Neither will ever appear on the surface for you to find.
None of them is going to come up to the surface so you can find it.
This is how we fish it
Live bait for bigeye when they have to be looked for down deep, especially at first and last light. Vertical jigging over the marks and the hard bottom. And when the fish are feeding half-heartedly, we switch to slow jigging until they commit.
A note on terms
"Deep sea fishing" and "big game fishing" get used interchangeably, and they are not the same thing. Big game is about the size and class of the fish. Deep sea is about the depth you work. This page is about the second.
What a day offshore is actually like
We leave early, usually between seven and eight, because first light tends to be the best hour and because the sea builds as the day goes on.
A good part of the day is running and waiting with the rods out. That surprises people who have never been: offshore fishing is hours of calm and minutes of complete chaos. When a big fish comes in, everybody has a job.
The crew tells you yours before it happens, not during. That is why it works with inexperienced anglers: nobody has to improvise.
You come back in with the fish on ice and, if a billfish came up, with the photographs of the release.
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.