Calendar
Fishing calendar for the Canary Islands
We do not follow a fixed calendar: we follow the fish. What follows are the windows where each species has historically been most likely, not a forecast. Which fish, which month, and how much confidence to place in that. Season is the single biggest factor in what you can realistically target, but it is a tendency, never a timetable.
Month by month
These bands come from our own experience and from what is generally accepted for these waters. Alí reviews them each season, and we update this page when reality disagrees.
Why a calendar can only take you so far
Populations shift. A run can arrive two weeks late, or set up twenty miles from where it was last year. That is not a caveat we add to protect ourselves: it is the reason our whole method exists.
Use this page to choose a month. Let us tell you, closer to the date, what the ocean is actually doing.
How to use this calendar to plan a trip
If you are coming for one species, pick the dates around it and not the other way round. April chasing marlin is a badly planned trip, and so is September chasing bluefin.
If your dates are fixed by work or family, tell us and we will say what is realistic in that window. There is nearly always something: amberjack runs year-round and dorado covers much of summer and autumn.
And if you can move the dates, the advice is simple: April for bluefin, June to October for marlin, when it runs hardest.
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.