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Fishing in 2 zones, you fish each zone on one of the 2 days
Zone 1 : Glebe Lakes 1, 4, 5 & 6
Zone 2 : Glebe Lake 7, Big Lake, Foundation Lake

Draw 8:00 – 8:45 Mallory Park Lakeside Café
Fish 11:00am – 4:00pm

Breakfast available at the Mallory Park Lakeside Café from 7:30
each day

Tickets cost £25 per 2 day festival and include a

Complimentary Hog Roast Saturday Evening at the Lakeside Café

Trophies / Prizes for top overall weights each day plus a random pairs competition decided on weight over the 2 days with prizes to the winners

Optional section pools payable on the day (100% Payout)

For tickets please state which match you would like to fish and enclose £25 per match with Stamped Addressed Envelope to :

Marukyu Festival
19 Manor Road
Desford
Leics
LE9 9HD

See www.malloryparkfisheries.co.uk for rules and updates

Postcodes for SatNav users :

Mallory Park : LE9 7QE - Glebe Fishery : LE9 7RF

The sun rising over Key West Harbour

The A team consisted of Robber; Sergeant Geoff who got promoted yesterday and Chris the AJ who also got a citation. Our Captain was Big Bill and we were on the Cool Water.

Days like this are a rarity at this time of the year

The B team was Keith and Cruncher who were with Captain Manny.

The A team had a plan and after buying some Goggle Eyes from the bait boat we set out to fish a wreck in 240’’ of water hopefully for some Red Snapper.

Unfortunately no one had told the snappers and first drop down a reef donkey (AJ) was hurting Geoff’s back, it was the Chris’s turn and it was the same story.

A monster amberjack. Bringing these up from 200 ft involves plenty of HURT

Robber was under fire for not having a go but was forced into it and no one would take the rod off him when it bent double.

The AJ has brought Robber Marlow to his knees

Being an Admiral he set the scene with an 8-minute battle with an Amberjack a tough target to beat.

Plan B was set in motion; the idea was to slow troll a whole Bonito on the beastie gear for a Hammerhead.

How's this for a bait ??

This was trolled around for about an hour around the wreck but no Harry.

Then another boat close by reported seeing a big Mako and by big I mean about 600lbs.

More slow trolling but no Mako.

Plan C was next, fish the whole Bonito alongside the wreck 240’ down hopefully for a giant Jew Fish or the Mako which may have gone down.

This was Robbers last chance for another P.B and we had the tackle.

The plan was to have so much drag on the reel that humans couldn't pull it off, the rod would be in the holder and if a fish was hooked the boat would hopefully drag it clear of the wreck.

On our second drift the rod arched over and Robber was on the reel, note the rod is still in the holder, with this much drag it could be man overboard.

Everyone thought we had a Big Jew Fish, but we were wrong another greedy AJ had taken the whole Bonito and Robber slowly cranked it to the top.

It was decision time and the crew opted to have a last shot at the Tarpon, they jumped two and landed none.

Not a brilliant end to the adventure, but how could you complain about an AJ every drop after all they are fish and they do pull....and pull....and pull !

The B team were also having a tough day although they did catch some big yellowtail snappers.

Robin Cruncher mentioned that he hadn’t caught a Permit for 16 years; Captain Manny said he could change that.

A 10-mile run to the Permit Patch and the last cast of the trip Robin and Keith had a double hook up and both landed their Permits.

A Permit on the last cast of the trip for Cruncher

And one for Keith also

A nice way to finish.

All in all it was not the best fish catching trip, it started off brilliantly with 36 Tarpon to the boat in the first two days. Then it was patchy.

The Shark fishing was exceptional with the A team boating 26 on one day.

Robber had a P.B Lemon Shark estimated between 230-250lbs

A Big Bull Shark over 200lbs, Tarpon up to 120lbs and some superb Tunas.

Chris the AJ who prior to this trip had only caught fish up to 16lbs had dozens of fish up to 100lbs. Geoff broke the AJ record for the most caught.

Keith and the rest of the shipmates also had many great fish.

This year we had no broken rods and reels, mainly down to Daiwa.

Super Kensaki rods did the business and without doubt must be the best travel rods for the price in the world.

A variety of Daiwa reels were used and everyone has an incredible drag, without a good drag you will not land anything of any size.

Yes we had the bad luck stories mainly revolving around broken hooks, that's fishing and it can happen.

Relaxing in the Raw Bar after a hard day on the water

All of the shipmates hope you have enjoyed our Big Adventure.

Keith - Without his organisation none of this would happen

And goodbye from Roy - He writes all of the words (although not neccessarily in the right order)

Our message is simple, if you want to do this don't leave it to late, because you will not be fit enough to do it.

This was judged as Picture of the Week

Signing off

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Captain Manny

This time we found the Thread Fin Herrings there were millions in a weed line; my guess is that they were spawning and within 15 minutes we filled the bait well.

Using 6 hook Sabiki rigs it was often 6 fish every cast.

Catching the bait can be as much fun as trying to catch the monsters

Captain Manny who is Cuban decided on a very long run in fact 44 miles to a place where few white men know about, except Keith and Roy because they had been there with Manny a couple of years ago.

Its amazing miles of ocean with hardly any fish then an oasis of fish over a wreck or just a few rocks.

This location was a small sharp drop off where the water went from 220” to 230” along a shelf.

It was just over an hour away and a very pleasant ride in near calm conditions.

The fish finder was showing a few fish and Captain Manny skilfully positioned the boat so we could fish down the drop off.

The plan was a couple of flat lines fished with threadfins on the top and then bottom rigs with a 6 ounce sinker, the current and the colour were perfect and we were optimistic.

Last time Keith and I fished this spot we bagged up on Huge Mutton snappers and some Tuna then we were plagued with sharks.

Robber had a cunning plan quickly hatched, the fish showing on the scanner were off the bottom and big, Amberjacks were first option and in 220” of water could be very painful so he told Chris to have first drop whilst Robber played with setting up the flat lines.

Chris pulling hard

What a good choice, within seconds of the bait hitting 220” Chris was into a powerful fish that Robber told him would be a big Mutton Snapper or Grouper.

15 minutes of grunting later an AJ came to the surface.

First Amberjack of the day to Chris

A great fish but not target species and now an aching back was mentioned.

Robber during this time had pulled the hook on two Tunas and was not a happy bunny.

Lemon Geoff was next on the bottom rig and it was the same story, more pain.

Robbers skilfully landed a Tuna after a hectic fight and guess what he had foul hooked it in the cheek.

Roy's turn for arm aching action as he plays a tuna

The Tuna is safely in the boat

Sweat was now falling off the crew and it was decided we would time the quickest AJ landed.

Everyone had a go and we got it down to less than 10 minutes per fish, but the pain was showing, even Robber looked like he had been thrown overboard he was that wet with sweat.

Lemon Geoff had sweat falling off his nose and this was cooling the reel.

In between Robber who was concentrating on the flat lines hooked another fish that smoked the reel, after a fierce battle it was a nice King Fish, guess what foul hooked again, he is lucky.

Robber's foul hooked kingfish

Robber being a nice person let Chris and Lemon fish the flat lines and almost immediately they had a double hook up with fish that headed straight down.

A double hook-up of Amberjacks for Geoff & Chris

Different fights to a Tuna so it was guess the species time.

We all got it wrong because after 20minutes of sweating and even more grunting two big amberjacks were in sight. These were on 12lbs outfits with 20lb braid and as you can see they really can bend rods.

Cutting to the chase, the shipmates landed 4 Tunas, 1 King Fish and 13 Amberjacks, that meant at least one fish was being fought all the time they were out there.

What a fantastic day as eight of the AJs were taken off the surface.

Lemon Geoff was told that one of his surface fish was an Amberjack his little face dropped a mile after a 20 minute fight,  however Robber had seen that it was a Tuna when it took the bait.

Smiles all round, it's a Tuna instead of an Amberjack

Eventually big smiles all round as Lemon saw the funny side.

What a great day, the shipmates had a long run home and were very tired, they clocked 96 miles from leaving the dock, this adventure is for men only.

Chris the Wrasse was promoted to Chris the AJ.

Lemon Geoff was promoted to sergeant and Robber is still an Admiral.

No pictures from the B team, but we understand they also had a good day.

Tomorrow is Day 14 our last day in Paradise, watch this space.

Catching bait was the problem and our usual Threadfin Herrings had done a vanishing trick.

They had got progressively harder to locate over the last few days.

However both teams battled on but it turned out to be hard work.

A last resort is often the Amberjacks; if they weren’t so easy to catch you would consider them to be a brilliant fish.

They can be big and really pull hard, often in deep water over wrecks sometimes it’s all you can catch.

For most anglers 1 is enough 2 are painful and more than that is serious back pain.

Pulling them up from 200ft of water is serious hard work.

Over the years we have seen many a strong man beaten by AJ’S.

Cruncher Morley with another AJ

Not to be deterred both teams made the most of a very hard day and boated several.

It is not uncommon for the shipmates to do a round trip of 100 miles in a day and to do that you need some serious horsepower.

This is not one of our boats but 4 x 300 horsepower is pretty awesome, so is the fuel bill at just over ½ gallon per mile.

Serious Horse Power !!

The marine patrol has the same engines on a much faster boat that will exceed 60 miles per hour; you can’t outrun one of those.

Our boats have much more sensible engines and this is Cool Water captained by Chris Garcia running at a mere 40 miles per hour

Coolwater is one of the boats that we regularly use

On checking through our pictures we found one that we are sure was planted.

Mischievous Keith looks like he is about to do something very naughty, cant imagine what.

What's going on here then ??

Its only tough shipmates that can stand the pace, Keith looks tough, or is he in pain?

Playing big fish without a butt pad can lead to some nasty bruising in tender places

You will notice that Robber always wears a butt pad; you supposed to get wiser as you get older.

Robber Marlow always has a butt pad at the ready

A tough day for everyone, but that's fishing.

Both teams off to early beds, tomorrows another day and some cunning plans are in the offing.

The weather forecast is for no wind so it could be an exciting adventure.