Fishing on a SAILBOAT 🐟⛵️South Africa to Brazil

We can definitely say that our freezers were ALWAYS full!
In this video we take you through the fish we caught, our fishing set up and the lures we used.
After leaving South Africa and getting through a few days of terrible weather we were finally able to put the fishing rods out! With great excitement we caught our first fish - the first day that the rod was out, a little dorado (Mahi Mahi) it wasn't a big fish but it was the first fish of Saoirse's life so we had to keep it and make a delicious dinner. The next day Colben put a rod out and caught a long bill spear fish. It was a good fight but unfortunately after getting itself caught around the sail drive and us fighting it at quite a speed the spearfish was not releasable after being brought up to the sugar scoop. We didn't want it's life to go to waste so Colben brought it up onto the deck and filleted it and we put it in the freezer. The long-billed spear fish was some of the most amazing fish we had tasted. it was a firm fish that didn't taste overly fishy. When we made a fish curry with it, everyone on Saoirse thought it was actually chicken curry.
We caught many Dorado on the trip most of them being a little too small to keep so they were released.
We caught 2 mako sharks, 18 dorado, 1 short billed spearfish, 2 skipjacks (we called them Sada sada in the video but we were mistaken) and a Wahoo. We lost 2 HUGE fish to bent hooks and to this day it still haunts Colben not knowing what was on the end of his line.
The fishing over the crossing was amazing we were just missing a Tuna that we were dying to make sushi with!
We hope that you enjoy the video!