You usually start the fishing around 7.30 am after a nice breakfast at the restaurant. Fishing is good close to the camp, but you can make it far and still be back by 5 pm. No day is the same – there are endless possibilities, just let the crew know if you have any preferences as to how you like to mix it up. The days travelling to and from the camp might be mostly popping, while the days at the camp might have more jigging. You can livebait if you want to – there are lots of billfish like marlin and sailfish around, and as many sharks as you have the strength to catch. If you don’t want to spend a minute not fishing, throw an X-Rap Magnum behind the boat and ask the crew for a bit of trolling as they roll out the shade roof over the boat deck for your lunch – you never know if the next day it will be wahoo sandwich.
If that’s not enough for you, you have the opportunity to throw a day of full-blown big game fishing into the mix – a serious quest for the abundant black marlin.
And hey – if you’re even more of a multi-species fisho and you think sleep is only for the weak, spend your evening wrestling big rays off the beach at the camp. So much fishing, so little time!
As for the casting, make no mistake – there are massive fish here like proper GT in the 30-45 kilo range, but usually you don’t fish extremely shallow areas, and the fish don’t particularly like gigantic lures, so this is a friendly PE6-8 (80-100 lbs braid) destination – you can leave the elephant guns at home. Besides GT, possible catches include all the other reef raiders like bluefin trevally, bohar snapper, different groupers, king mackerel, green jobfish, barracuda, sailfish etc. A lot of the time is spent chasing bait balls like schools of fusilier. If some hungry critter is lurking around them, you will often know as soon as your lure hits the water.
In jigging, bring your A-game – the fish will make it worthwhile. Jigging is always a tradeoff, because lighter tackle will get you more bites, but if you take it too far, a big grouper will show you who’s the boss. Slow pitch jigging is amazing, but this is not the place to bring it: Too many sharks, too many big fish in general – you get destroyed all the time.