News

They talk about us in Japan !!!

Here is our first news of the year and it's for our japanese anglers : this is the last cover of the japanese magazine Salt World, where you can read a nice article about fishing with us in Sri Lanka for popping & jigging.

Thanks to the chef editor Moto san for this article with beautiful pictures.

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We were very busy guiding clients all these last days and we are late with our fishing reports, but that will come soon.

Stay tuned

Tight Lines

Capt. Nico

Famous carp fishing girl caught her first GT on popping

Last week-end, I was guiding the lovely Claudia from Germany, which is also a famous carp fishing girl in Europe, with close to 70k followers on Instagram. It was her first ever GT popping experience.

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After, loosing a nice fish who reef her, she finally caught a powerful GT and she enjoyed !!!

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Stay tuned for the full report of Claudia.

Tight Lines

Capt. Nico

First fishing trip of the season with great Japanese anglers

I had our first sea fishing trip of the season on our new boat Diviya and fishing was good !!!

Just finished a nice trip with in guest star Japanese angler Sano san, field tester for SOM and CB one, who caught this nice dogtooth tuna on jig.

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Otsuka san, CEO of Studio Ocean Mark was also part of the trip and he was lucky to caught the biggest GT of the trip, an estimated over 30 kg fish also caught on jig.

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This fishing trip will be publish in the famous Japanese magazine Salt World.

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We had also some good action on popping, stay tuned the full report will come soon.

Tight Lines

Capt. Nico

Our new sea fishing boat !!!

Finally we have received our new sea fishing boat named DIVIYA. Last week end, we gone fishing with some friends and we took time to take some shots of the boat with a drone.

Diviya is a 30ft power catamaran hull powered with twin 150hp Yamaha four stroke engines. We have all equipment onboard as 2 Garmin chart plotter and sonar with 2 CHIRP transducer 1Kw, radar and VHF radio. For fishing the boat has live bait tank, tuna tube, outriggers and down rigger.

This boat is custom made, he is perfect for all kind of fishing as popping, jigging and trolling, the perfect weapon to fish the sri lankan waters.

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This catamaran hull is from an Australian design and give a very smooth ride. The luxury option is a toilet, then if you plan to bring your wife or girlfriend, now no excuse to come fishing with us !!!

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We will keep you update soon with our first sea fishing report.

Tight Line

Capt. Nico

When a drone give you another perspective of our fishing ground...

Yesterday was the last fishing day of a 3 days trips with our regular angler Yamada san from Japan.

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Our friend Devinda came to join us also with his drone and took some stunning shots. Full report will come soon.

Nico - Head Fishing Guide

Mangrove Studio company support Sportfishing Lanka in Japan !!

Japanese expert angler Kamiyashiki san from Mangrove Studio company, who fish with us at Bolgoda Lake and caught one of the biggest Wild Golden Barramundi on lure, is supporting us on his blog : https://ameblo.jp/mangrove-studio/day-20170906.html

Thanks for the support Kamiyashiki san, we hope to see you soon again in Sri Lanka !!

Nico - Head Fishing Guide

Big Barramundi !!!

Catch of the day : big barra of 93 cm for 10 kg !!! This beast was caught by japanese expert angler Kamiyashiki san from Mangrove Studio company, who is coming to do a fishing report for japanese Salt World Magazine. 

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Certainly one of the biggest Barramundi caught in Bolgoda Lake on casting lure.

Stay tuned for the report in Salt World Magazine !

Nico - Head Fishing Guide

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