Chipiona Charter
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Rota, Cadiz (ES)
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Fishing in Rota
Located in the province of Cadiz in Southern Spain, Rota is home to the Naval Station Rota, also known as NAVSTA Rota. This is the largest American military commu...
Read more..Located in the province of Cadiz in Southern Spain, Rota is home to the Naval Station Rota, also known as NAVSTA Rota. This is the largest American military community in Spain.
Located close to Puerto de Santa María, Chipiona, Sanlúcar de Barrameda and Jerez de la Frontera, this is also a great place for sport fishing. Offshore, Rota offers big game fishing for tuna, dorado and marlin. Inshore there's snapper, seabream, jack, scorpion fish, meagre and pelegic species such as bonito and skipjack tuna.
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Fantastic day out. Martin knew his stuff and we caught 7 tuna which we weren't expecting. Great day out overall.
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Rota lies at the north of the enormous bay of Cadiz. In the centre of the bay is Puerto de Santa Maria and the estuary of the river Guadalete. The bay has shallow silty seafloor with hardly any obstacles. There is bluefish, seabass and gilt-head bream in the bay. Further off-shore, rocky areas areas provice nice bottom fishing with banded seabream, scorpion fish, blackspot seabream, snapper, jack...
Outside the bay, the seafloor descends slowly, you have to sail 20 miles to find deeper waters for biggame fishing.
These waters are extremely rich with tremendous amounts of baitfish that attract pelagic fish such including tuna, marlin, wahoo and dorado.
Top sport fishing species in Rota
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Mahi Mahi (Coryphaena hippurus) are also commonly referred to as dorado, dolphin or dolphinfish. They are recognizable by their bluntly shaped heads, long dorsal fin and their bright colouring, dark blue and green on their dorsal side and yellow on their sides and underside.
MORE INFO >Dorado
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The Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus thynnus) is a pelagic fish that can grow up to 500kg (1000lb). The biggest Bluefin Tuna ever caught was 780kg (1496lb). These great fighters can be caught trolling, jigging, casting or drifting; mainly off-shore.
MORE INFO >Bluefin Tuna
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The Amberjack species are a game fish that are found both in the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Jigging and live bait fishing are the best techniques to target these magnificent fighters. Greater Amberjack can weigh up to 170 lb (80 kg).
MORE INFO >Amberjack
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The dentex (Dentex dentex) is a common saltwater fish in the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea and sometimes they appear in the Canary Islands, Morocco and Senegal. They have very strong teeth to feed on fish, squid and mollusca. Dentex are a great species for sportfishing and are targetted mainly trolling or jigging. The larger fish are 1m long and can weigh up to 15 kg (35 lb).
MORE INFO >Dentex
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The pink dentex (Dentex gibbosus) is a saltwater fish distributed from Portugal to Angola, Canary Islands and the warmer areas of the Mediterranean Sea such as southern Spain and the Gibraltar Strait area, Morocco, southern Italy, Tunisia and Algeria. The larger fish are 1,2 m long and can weigh up to 18 kg (40 lb).
MORE INFO >Pink Dentex
FISHING SEASON IN Rota
Spring
Fishing in Rota from April and May is an ideal time to do trolling and jigging for bluefin tuna, albacore and little tunny. Spring is also a good time to fish with live bait to target dentex, grouper or meagre.
Summer fishing in Rota
Summer is ideal for fishing bluefin tuna or white marlin trolling off Rota. Closer to shore, live bait fishing produces dentex, pink dentex, grouper or amberjack.
Autumn
Fishing in Rota in autumn is great to catch bonito, skipjack tuna, dolphin fish (mahi-mahi), frigate tuna, little tunny, smaller bluefin tuna and sometimes even wahoo. Light tackle trolling with smallers lures & feathers is the best and easiest way to catch these species.
Winter
Bottom fishing for blackspot seabream, scorpion fish, snapper or redbanded seabream for example and live bait fishing for meagre, amberjack, sama, grouper.
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LEGISLATION / REGULATIONS
Wether you fish from the shore, on your own boat, with a shared charter or a private charter, you need a fishing license to go sea fishing in Rota. The fishing charters in Rota normally have the fishing license included in the price, so you don't need to buy one if you're chartering a boat.
If you do wish to buy a fishing licence, you can purchase one on the website of the Junta de Andalucia.
