Pedro did his best to find the fish. We went after many schools of birds, hits on the fishfinder and ploughed through many miles of ocean. The crew never stopped and kept on looking for signs. But fishing is fishing, and you need some luck. Unfortunately in our 4 hour trip, no bites. We did see a few whales and many, many dolphins jumping besides the boat. We went about 7-8 miles out of shore.

I doubted to book for this trip because the boat is relatively small. However, it’s very quick and for two anglers enough space! The equipment is very professional. Would recommend to book with Pedro!

We were greeted at the marina by Frasier who spotted us just as we spotted the boat, a smart 23 footer with a 200hp outboard, four boat rods and out-riggers. We had booked an in-shore trip purely as that is all our budget would stretch too.
Frasier took us to meet Pedro (captain) on a nearby boat who greeted us warmly as did Frasier. A nice strong Portuguese coffee later and we were off, we motored down the coast for a while and then Frasier deployed the rods for trawling with barracuda as one of the target species. Pedro explained about the fancy sonar equipment and enthusiastically filled us in on Sao Miguel’s history and geology responding to our many questions in excellent English.
We trawled for quite some time but the fish were clearly not hungry. Our fortune briefly appeared to change when one of the rod’s clutches started to slip and the first fish was on. My son faught it to the boat but lost it before we could identify the species.
We were offered the chance to head to deeper water where a friend of Pedro was into some big tuna.  We regrettably turned this down in the hope that bottom fishing would be more productive. We spent the rest of the trip doing just this and landed a few tiddlers, sea bream mainly but nothing to get too excited about.
However, the trip was great fun and our lovely hosts did everything they could to get into some decent fish but it was not our day.
With hindsight we should have taken the opportunity to go to deeper waters where the tuna were, hey-ho, we live and learn.
Highly recommended

My friend and I booked half a day Big Game Fishing with Pedro and couldn’t have asked for a better captain. Pedro was very welcoming, had a positive attitude and made the trip very pleasant. Despite the conditions being a bit harsh, we were very successful with a total of 11 tunas. Overall, we had a great time with Pedro and would book another trip with him any time!

I had a fantastic day together with the captian and his assistent. They are friendly, informativ and funny to spend a day with. On top then I got 2 tunars, one very big,- more than 150 kg. Thats why my half day tour turned into a full day - the fight took 2 1/2 hours :-)
And excellent day, and can give the boat and the trip my best recommenadation.

My brother-in-law and I had a great 1/2 day big game fishing with Pedro and Luis on the Mare nostrum. They worked really hard to find the fish, and we each ended up catching a beautiful big-eye tuna. They were great guys, fun to hang with when there were no fish on the line and really helpful when we were hooked up.