HOW MANY SPECIES CAN I CATCH IN MALTA?! 🎣 🐠 

MR International!!! loving the content sir

What a cracking video buddy. Brings back happy memories. I was in Malta in 1988. I think I was about 17. Showing my age now. !!!!! we were catching some of them, bream using bread. I got a little cheap fishing rod from a little tackle shop. Well it was more of a shop that sold bit of everything really. Anyway we were sat in between these big boats on the harbour. Me and my old man. Drinking glass bottles of Coca-Cola. Anyway, the shop had some little spinner lures so we bought a couple. I remember casting one out in between these two boats. All of a sudden this large torpedo shaped fish which I can only assume was a barracuda came out of nowhere like lightning. In my panic and before my underpants could fill up with something rather unpleasant , I reeled in as fast as I could. I remember looking at my dad and saying what F …! It was the fact that I didn’t know what I was going to do with it when I actually managed to land it. It must’ve been about 2 foot long. !! Then again everything seems bigger when you’re younger. Like bars of chocolate. I’m sure they get smaller over the years. !!! there was allsorts of fish all over the place. This obviously was over 30 years ago. From what you have said, I think you could possibly be right. Obviously everyone is catching and eating fish of different sizes. They should have put the smaller ones back but some countries don’t bother and aren’t like us Brits as we care about everything. And so we should. The way things are going if we don’t look after what we have there won’t be a lot left for our future generations. If we were all a bit selfless, im sure the world would be a much better place. … it’s when you watch the nature programmes with David Attenborough on. He is so passionate about everything on and around our planet … certainly need a lot more people like him around. Like watching yours and George’s videos. You guys always bring up things like the environment and caring for fish and wildlife.. It’s not just about catching a fish. It’s about enjoying being in and around a different environment not a lot of people get to see. Angling certainly gets us closer to lots of things some people only see on the TV.. Big thumbs up to you buddy and all the best to you and the family 👍😊🎣…. Blimey !!! Where did all that waffle come from 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Great to see sunshine and fish. Thanks for another great video. I fished in Malta about 20 years ago and was amazed to see locals throwing everything they caught into a dry bucket, nothing was returned. Great cake and pastry shops and cafes.

Brilliant video man😁🎣

One of the main causes of the dwindling fish stocks around the Maltese islands is the lack of enforcement of rules. You go to potentially good fishing spots such as Qawra point or Blue grotto and you end up seeing hundreds of metres long gillnets just 30-40m from the shore. I met many Maltese complaining about that but nothing happened.

Great Video Harry , thanks for dragging the camera along, great to watch

nice catches!

Ahhhhh this video made me smile so much. I lived there for 18+ years. Had i been there and knew you were there i would have taken you some secret spots. My friends taught me to fish there off the cliffs at night (ghar hasan was a good spot) and we cast out with the 2 hooks and decent weight. Use imperial worm. Leave with bell attached and sip beers waiting for the jingle. We would usually catch nice size bream. Those fish you were catching a lot of - we would look for when scuba diving with spear guns.. they would stay still and point towards octopus so we would look for them 🙂. Loved this video - brought back memories. 😊

Great video pal cheers

Happy new year Harry , another cracking video, certainly beats specimen hunting off Filey Brigg, your suitcase must be tired out with all the traveling 😂

Excellent Dude

Great video again Harry. Shame about the overfishing.the scooter looked like a great way to get around to fishing spots.

the fish at 16:55 is a lizardfish, not good eating but put up a good fight sometimes. It's impressive how they attack lures 3 times their size. Great video :)

Nice one buddie,,bang on that was.

Loved the video mate! Great commitment to your channel going to Malta in January, fair play to you mate, weather looked cracking too! Did you brave a dip in the water?

Great fishing video bro. Enjoy fish on! Sending support from Dubai angler.

Unfortunately you fished in the central part of Malta which is very built up and full of marinas. The best place to go shore jigging or spinning is either in the rural south or the north where there are more reefs, cliffs and less construction. Or else next time try the grand harbor of Valletta where I catch 2kg blue runners and amberjacks from shore with a piece of Squid

Off to Malta in August and stumbled across this video. Very well put together. 👍 Caught my first bonito, barracuda and blue fish (last cast of holiday) in lanzarote this year. There were plenty of lizard fish there!

Another great trip. Had a couple of those species in Majorca in October. The joys of travelling solo. Can fish for as long as you like. Make the most of it. Tightlines Ceirion 🐠🎣

Nice fishing. Prawns are good a bait as you can get them from most supermarkets when on holiday.

Happy New Year!

Nice🎉

Hey man I've just discovered your channel today! For best fishing spots in malta off shores on a boat and for barracuda go north of malta and on small cliffs are perfect for fishing. Also morning fishing and night fishing more possibility to catch good fish

just saw your video now .. i am from malta actually gozo . if you like you are more then welcome to com back and we can spend your holiday on the sea for deep sea and in summer time till january for mahi mahi fishing

im from malta i love fishing

Nice vid. I like Malta. The kebabs are excellent!

Great Harry, really enjoy your videos, what's story with licence etc fishing abroad,thanks tight lines.

There's a Jetty close to the DB Seabanks Hotel that is a decent night time Barracuda spot.😊 Cross the Road from the hotel and go right about 200 yards

Brilliant video,may be talk about price to travel there .

That fish you caught is lizard fish ( sklam) in maltese

Always been a big fan of the channel and its nice to see you catch some Mediterranean fish, im always fishing in greece and its very similiar. Parrotfish are quite tricky over there, worms are the only bait that work. the are sea bream everywhere, and painted comber (the pretty one u caught around 7:20) are the best, quite tasty, very pretty, and theyll eat anything. That jack was probably a baby bluefish actually, really rare catch, never got a bluefish during the day. At night with a popper they're great, they get really big. Also, once youve gotten used to mediterranean fishing, rainbow wrasse become terrible, eventually I started to hate them.

Harry,your Goby was a Lizardfish..a very common ambush predator commonly found in the Med

On one holiday to Malta i spoke to a bloke fishing Valletta harbour with nothing but a hand line with a piece of white wool on the end, the wool apparently gets stuck in the fishes teeth and you can just pull them in. And he seemed to be doing OK as well, catching several dozen fish while i was talking to him!!

The fish are in the harbours😉

Nice video. Greetings from Malta . Regarding that tackle shop a few metres further there is another well stocked tackle shop

Hi mate, great video. What size hooks did you use please?

I'm lucky enough to live here..over in Gozo. I've not really mastered the Maltese names for the fish 🤣🤣 but that 3rd fish was a blue runner...sawrel they call it. Lizard fish was the first one on that shimano lure by the noisy place. You're right about fish numbers though. The main predator season is August through December..ish. Been bad the last couple of years. Barras tend to be better in spring. They extended the lampuki season this year probably because the water temperature has been higher this year too. Boats are poaching from North Africa too 😡😡

Best to fish is north and find small cliffs in malta😊

Hi bro.Very nice podcast 👌. Do you have any experience in Tax Biex, behind Black Pearl. If yes ,can you share some details 😊

Great video , you need some better location in the spots to go fishing from as you went to bad spots ,I'm a local to Malta and I kayak fish around Malta . 😁

The third fish is a ‘Tailor’ in Australia.

Great video! So if a tourist catches fish on holiday in Malta, where can you get it cooked?

I’m Maltese and that fish you caught from the beach is a lizard fish in Maltese we call them Skalm

Love Malta and fish around St Paul’s bay but there are lots of fish farms just offshore and a constant procession of spear fishermen catching fish ☹️

The fish you wanted to identify (the long one) is a Lizardfish (probably an Atlantic Lizardfish)

Maltese is a very interesting language, lots of maltese people in Australia...well not millions but definitely a healthy population.

Curious random question! Im interested to travel with my personal fishing gear but how can i travel with fishing rod and lures ? Any problems during checks ? Any tips . Great videos !! Keep them coming

Nice vid, i ‘ll be going to Malta in April, do you think is gonna be a good period? What could I aim to in that period? I was amazed by seeing you basking under 20 degree’s in mid January

Any dodgy fish out there like weevers 🎣

Gobie was a weaver fish which is poisonous.

Just discovered your channel and Subscribed, It was lovely watching these fish being released and that's what we want in Malta. 6:11 was a Blue runner (Sawrella Imperjali) and 16:53 was a Lizard fish (Skalm) just be carful from poison Weevers (Tracna) as we have a lot. well done 👍

That fish is a lizardfish that you thought was a goby

@24:47 Where is it located exactly in Malta ?

nice video.... next time you should come for a fishing trip with us private 1 to 1 and will also give you a good discount 😉

Did you have licence for fishing?

thet fish thet you dont now the name is lizart fish

is it the city of Valletta and do you need a fishing license? thanks in advance

nice video.... next time you should come for a fishing trip with us private 1 to 1 and will also give you a good discount 😉