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Following on from Graham's theme on his trip to Singapore, I went to the Seychelles last month. We had a week on a catamaran sailing around the island, followed by a week ashore. My decision not to take a rod with me was a very bad one. The seas around there are stuffed full of fish, from the pelagics such as sailfish, bonito, tuna, dourado, barracuda, wahoo, jacks and sharks, through to the big groupers on the reefs.
The crew on the catamaran kept us well-supplied from fish that they caught by trolling as we went around, but I was itching to have a go, so once ashore, we booked an afternoon out with one of the smaller charter boats, an American-built catamaran of around 23 foot long powered by twin 115hp outboards and 2 crew. Very stable. I had hoped to both troll and reef fish but the current was too strong for reef fishing they said.
We ended up with around a dozen bonito, a yellow fin tuna, a dourado and 3 wahoo. All are hard-fighting fish, especially the tuna, and a belt is really needed to bully these fish up. Great fun though, especially the dourado that kept leaping out the sea. The wahoo we landed were between 15-18 kilos, according to the skipper.
One morning at Beau Vallon, the locals rowed a boat out from beach by around 100 metres, dropped a net and then proceeded to haul in the tag ends. I offered to give a hand. Fishing in the old way really. It was amazing what they caught. A couple of small hammerheads, dozens and dozens of small bonito, jacks and all sorts. Everything was taken to the roadside, chopped up and sold to passers by.
So if anyone happens to be planning on going that way, don't leave your rod at home!
I've still got Ayva Leigh in the water at Amble, and hope to get out over the winter, but even if I get lucky and bag some decent cod, it won't feel quite the same.
Following on from Graham's theme on his trip to Singapore, I went to the Seychelles last month. We had a week on a catamaran sailing around the island, followed by a week ashore. My decision not to take a rod with me was a very bad one. The seas around there are stuffed full of fish, from the pelagics such as sailfish, bonito, tuna, dourado, barracuda, wahoo, jacks and sharks, through to the big groupers on the reefs.
The crew on the catamaran kept us well-supplied from fish that they caught by trolling as we went around, but I was itching to have a go, so once ashore, we booked an afternoon out with one of the smaller charter boats, an American-built catamaran of around 23 foot long powered by twin 115hp outboards and 2 crew. Very stable. I had hoped to both troll and reef fish but the current was too strong for reef fishing they said.
We ended up with around a dozen bonito, a yellow fin tuna, a dourado and 3 wahoo. All are hard-fighting fish, especially the tuna, and a belt is really needed to bully these fish up. Great fun though, especially the dourado that kept leaping out the sea. The wahoo we landed were between 15-18 kilos, according to the skipper.
One morning at Beau Vallon, the locals rowed a boat out from beach by around 100 metres, dropped a net and then proceeded to haul in the tag ends. I offered to give a hand. Fishing in the old way really. It was amazing what they caught. A couple of small hammerheads, dozens and dozens of small bonito, jacks and all sorts. Everything was taken to the roadside, chopped up and sold to passers by.
So if anyone happens to be planning on going that way, don't leave your rod at home!
I've still got Ayva Leigh in the water at Amble, and hope to get out over the winter, but even if I get lucky and bag some decent cod, it won't feel quite the same.
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