About Peter Bristow

Capt. Peter Bristow has a total of 55 years experience of commercial and sport fishing. In 1968 he moved to Cairns, Australia to begin work on Big Game fishing vessels. The following year he built the ‘Avalon’ a 38 foot sportfishing boat and operated out of Cairns for 23 years.

By 1976 his boat had caught 1000 Giant Black Marlin.

By 1991 he had boated 51 Blacks over 1000 lb. (Largest 1323 lb). He had tagged, boated or released almost 2000 Giant Blacks and accrued numerous World and Australian records.

In 1992 He took the Avalon 2,000 miles to Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia, in the central west Pacific. Together with George Bransford he formed the Pohnpei Deep Sea Enterprises Inc. They operated the Avalon for 4 years under the Australian flag.

1996 found him selling the Avalon after 27 years of operation and moving to the UK. He found the ‘Katherine B’ and commenced a total refit.

Because he is at heart a biggame fisher, he shipped the Katherine B to Madeira to start a sport fishing venture.

He has since formed FISH MADEIRA – PESCA DESPORTIVA LDA and the ‘Katherine B’ is now maintained as an independent operator.