I accepted the invitation of my good friend, José Calero, one of the most important tourist promoters in the Canary Islands and creator of the Puerto Calero complex on the island of Lanzarote, which includes the marvellous marina, with more than 400 moorings, shops, restaurants and a beautiful development with apartments, residential El Cortijo. Puerto Calero is located on the east coast of Lanzarote, south of Puerto del Carmen and relatively close to the capital, Arrecife and the international airport. For me It was about fishing at the end of August in the International Tournament of Puerto Calero, one of the best in the Canary Islands but for reasons of work I could not at that time so I decided to change for the days of 21 to 23 September. The invitation was not for me, but for the whole family, so the group was made up of seven people. We flew from Barcelona with Air Europa directly to Lanzarote, two and a half hours flight.

José Calero and another good friend of mine, Manolo Cuenca, were waiting for us at the airport of Lanzarote. He was a big fan of deep-sea fishing and he was also spending a few days of holidays in Puerto Calero. From the airport we were transferred to the residential area El Cortijo, where José had reserved us a beautiful house on the seafront with wonderful views of the Atlantic Ocean and the neighbouring island of Fuerteventura. The setting was incomparable, the house had three bedrooms with bathroom, living room, terrace facing the sea and individual saltwater pool, ideal for spending three days of vacation.

That same day we had dinner in Amura, the best restaurant in the port and the next day we went fishing with José Calero's boat, Pemidajo, a 22 meter boat made in New Zealand, with a very wide stern and two combat chairs. The boat was very well equipped for deep-sea fishing, we had six rods, two 50-pound lines, two 80-pound lines and two 130-pound lines and we fished with artificial bait. The route went north of the island towards the island of La Graciosa.

Around 3 pm we had a strong bite on a line of 80 pounds, I took the rod and fought for three quarters of an hour with a beautiful blue marlin, which in the first race, we saw jumping away 2 or 3 times and then did not jump again. José, as skipper, gave a real lesson in how to handle the boat's controls when fishing the marlin, accelerating, stopping and forcing backwards, etc, and always having the marlin under control, that is to say, having the line under tension. With a skipper of this category it was easier for me to approach the marlin to the stern, photograph it and then release it. It was a specimen that had to weigh between 190 and 200 kilos. As soon as we released it, it quickly disappeared into the blue waters of the Atlantic. The joy on board was immense, as we had already achieved what we had come to look for; Oriol and Jordi, who had never fished before, were amazed, because for them it was a new and exciting experience. Then, both Oriol and Jordi fished dorado and were definitely fond of deep-sea fishing. The next day we had a splendid day with sun and calm waters, but we had no bite, although we had news by radio that several boats had had some contacts with marlin and a couple of them had managed to catch them.