Red Tide Fishing Charter Marbella — Deep-Sea Sport Fishing Boat

Red Tide is the purpose-built sport-fishing boat in the BoatHire24 Marbella fleet — an 11-metre vessel rigged specifically for offshore deep-sea fishing from Puerto Banús. Where most charter boats offer fishing as one option among several, Red Tide is designed around fishing as the primary and only activity, with the specific equipment configuration that serious offshore angling requires.

Specifications

• Length: 11 m
• Capacity: Up to 6 anglers
• Crew: Skipper + mate
• Equipment: Fighting chair, outriggers, rod holders, livewell
• Departure: Puerto Banús, Marbella

The fighting chair

The fighting chair is the piece of equipment that distinguishes Red Tide from the Bandido and from any other charter boat in Marbella that offers fishing as an activity. For targeting bluefin tuna — the species that draws serious anglers to the Strait of Gibraltar area every summer — a fighting chair is essentially required. Adult Atlantic bluefin tuna routinely exceed 100 kg and can pull hundreds of metres of line in the first run after the strike. Fighting a fish of that size from a standing position, even with a gimbal belt and harness, is exhausting over a 30–60 minute fight.

Seated in the fighting chair with a shoulder harness and leg brace, an angler can apply leverage and body weight to the fight in a way that isn't possible standing up. For groups whose primary target is trophy-sized bluefin or white marlin, the fighting chair on Red Tide is the reason to choose this boat specifically.

Offshore grounds from Puerto Banús

The Strait of Gibraltar and the offshore banks south of Marbella are among the most productive fishing grounds in the Western Mediterranean. The Atlantic-Mediterranean current convergence creates upwellings that concentrate bait fish and draw the pelagic predators above them. The skipper and mate on Red Tide know these grounds in detail — the specific banks where the bottom fishing holds, the temperature breaks and colour lines where the pelagic fish concentrate, and the timing of the tidal flows that activate the feeding.

What to expect on a Red Tide charter

A typical full-day offshore charter from Puerto Banús on Red Tide: depart 07:00, 90-minute transit to the offshore grounds with the trolling spread rigged en route, 5–6 hours of active fishing (trolling for pelagics, bottom fishing on the banks), 90-minute return with catch prepared on board, arrive dock 17:00.

Your skipper will adjust the program based on the conditions and what's being caught. On days when the surface trolling is quiet, the mate will switch to bottom fishing techniques over the rocky banks — the sea bream and grouper fishing there is reliable and genuinely enjoyable even for guests who haven't been offshore fishing before.

Charter pricing

Red Tide is priced on request. Half-day (4 hours) and full-day (8 hours) charters available. Contact via WhatsApp with your preferred date — peak bluefin season (June–September) books ahead, so enquire early if offshore tuna fishing is your target.