Itinerary Type - The Pemba Channel Fishing Kenya Big Game Fishing Club Kenya
Destination - Kenya

Itinerary Summary

Kenya is a great place to combine a tropical holiday with big-game fishing and perhaps a safari. The climate is fabulous, the people friendly and accommodating, and the country itself is very diverse and beautiful.

On average, the Hemingway's boats land or tag between 50 & 200 kg of fish per day. When the Sailfish are running well, a good day would be half a dozen or more sails between 25 and 40kg. A dozen or more would be a red-letter day. In peak Marlin season, two or 3 stripies is a very nice catch, whilst a decent black or blue a day would keep most of us happ, fish of 400-600 lb are not uncommon. In reality most days will include a number of different species, including Tuna, Wahoo, Kingfish, and Dorado.

Another way to get the heart racing, is to try fly-fishing for Yellowfin Tuna,they are renowned as one of the hardest fighters on conventional gear but will also give even greater sport on the fly. There are two main techniques for catching these battlers; the first involves sneaking the boat into the middle of a feeding frenzy, and then casting into the mayhem, just as if chucking at fry-feeding trout, the difference is that just one of these battlers would eat the whole of your successful trout basket for breakfast. Even more fun is to tease tuna from a shoal by stripping surface poppers back to the boat at high speed. Once near the boat, it's a chuck and chance game with a fly - just make sure there are no loops of line under your feet.

Hemingways Game Fishing holidays KenyaWe fish from July through to sometime in May. The southeast wind (Kusi) blows from mid March to sometime in November and is cooler than the northeast wind (Kaskazi) which blows the rest of the time. The seas are warmer and calmer during the Kaskazi months. Most fish are passing through and not resident in the area and although we have a rough idea of when/what fish will be around, they don’t read the record charts and make guest appearances!The main Billfish (Sailfish and Marlin) season runs from November to mid/late March but Sailfish and Black Marlin often come inshore in numbers in August ( this month has been fantastic for Black Marlin the last few years).

There is a run of Sail just outside Watamu around August, while the main season off Malindi, a few miles north of here, runs November to March. Our Sail fishing is as good as almost anywhere in the world; four to six to the boat quite normal, with our best at twenty-three, all released! We also have three species of sharks here - Hammerheads, Tigers and the high leaping Mako. These are often caught while fishing for tuna; they also take Marlin baits fished live. World record sizes are here but have yet to be boated under the very strict IFGA regulations. Usually caught on live bait using down-riggers, they are very tough fighters. The slow-growing fish are generally tagged and released.