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All Tackle World
Record Giant Grouper
All Tackle World Record:
Giant Grouper 179.50 kg on 130 lbs line
Angler: Nelson Shayne
Place: Latham Island (12 March 2004)
Boat: Shuwari (Capt. Jason Alexiou)
Skipper: Maddalena Martinengo (Mady)
Mate: Jason, Kosmas, Murtaza
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Nelson Keith Shayne together with a group of friends decided to have a trip to Latham Island, together with Jason and Mady.
Unfortunately in that period, the boat usually used by Jason and Mady was out of the water for servicing, but, thanks to the ready assistance of Peter Ruysenaars of the Pemba Channel Fishing Club,
Jason Alexiou as a Captain, Maddalena as a skipper, and Baraza and Cosmas as mates,
managed to satisfy the request of Nelson and his friends, and venture
towards Latham Island, by using one of Peter's boat,
Shuwari.
For the occasion, Jason re-fitted the boat with his tackle: rods, lures, rigs and electronics;
the plan was to target dogtooth tuna, but there were too many Giant Trevallies around which were hooking up as soon as a lure was dropped in the water, without leaving a chance for anything else.
So Jason decided to drop a bonito as a live bait, which was pulled around for almost 20 minutes before being taken.
The strike was really powerfull.
Nelson picked up the rod.
We all knew that it was a big fish, but we could not recognize what from the fighting attitude: a massive take, several powerful short runs, broken by periods where it was almost impossible to gain a centimeter of line.
Just the last 10 meters the fish gave up, coming up on the surface with no resistance.
Only than we realised that it was a massive 179.5 kg Giant Grouper.
We though about releasing it, unfortunately the fish was finished.
Congratulations
to Nelson Keith Shayne for the great fight.
Well done Jason Alexiou and Maddalena Martinengo for helping acheive another World Record.
Thank you to Peter for allowing us the complete use of one of
his boats.
Jason Alexiou is an excellent
fisherman which has transformed his passion into his living, working for
several charter operations along the coast since the age of 16.
His involvement does not stop
into the charter business only, but he is also an I.G.F.A. Representative for Tanzania and he has
been several times the Fishing Secretary for the Dar es Salaam Yacht Club (standing position).
During his fishing
experiences, he has fished extensively, all along the Tanzanian coast,
getting to know all the best fishing areas, from North to South; from the Pemba Channel, down through to Kilwa
and Mtwara; but his prime choice and his favourite fishing ground is with no exception Latham
Island.
Latham Island is without doubt the best fishing spot in the whole
of Tanzania, aggregating an enormous amount of reef and pelagic fish along its 15 nautical miles of reefs and
sea mountains.
All year long you can get excellent catches.
From a minimum catch of 200 kilo during the lower season, during June, May, July up to catches of over 800 kilo during the best season (Yellowfin tuna: September/October and Reef fish:
February/March/April)(our smallest catch ever at Latham was around 380/400 kg).
The best catch in a day in Latham Island was 1478 kilo, done
on Kelly II (Jason Alexiou, Jasper Samaras, Habbasi and Maddalena Martinengo as skipper).
The second best catch in Latham was 1472 kilo, done on Miss Linda owned by
Luke Samaras (Alexiou, Maddalena Martinengo, Ali and Jasper Samaras as skipper).
And again, the third best catch in Latham was 1300 kilo, done on Kelly II
(Jason Alexiou, Habbasi,
Bernard and Maddalena Martinengo as skipper).
It is here at Latham Island, that, J.J. thanks to his skills
and the
profuse knowledge of the area, made achieve several World Record to the
boats he was fishing from (without counting the All Africa Records and the
Tanzanian Records):
All Tackle World Record:
Giant Grouper 179.50 kg - 130 lbs line
Angler: Nelson Shayne - Latham
Island, 12 March 2004
- Skipper: Maddalena Martinengo
World Record Women:
Dogtooth Tuna 71.50 kg - 80 lbs line - Angler: Maddalena Martinengo - Latham Island – 22 Feb 2004
Boat:
Miss Linda (Luke Samaras) - Skipper: Jasper Samaras - Mate: J.J, Sven Liebchen
World Record Women:
Dogtooth Tuna 91.79 kg - 130 lbs line
Angler: Maddalena Martinengo
- Latham Island – 14 Feb 2004 -
Boat: Kelly II - Skipper: Jason Alexiou Mate:
J.J, Bernard
World Record Women:
Trevally 41.30 kg - 130 lbs line
Angler: Maddalena Martinengo
- Latham Island – 6 March 2004
Boat: Miss Linda (Luke Samaras) - Skipper: Jasper Samaras - Mate: Jason Alexiou, Ali
Great Latham!
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