Seychelles Fishing Trip

Here you go guys!! I know it’s a little late but better late than never.

Well after my wedding I wanted to do some fishing. Good thing my wife likes to fish. So we headed out of the marina at 645 and work our way past the local islands heading to the drop off area 30 miles away.  The water depth in this area goes from 40m’s to over 1,000m’s in about 100 yards.   Once we clear the island we have nice long period swells. After some time we get out to the ground and start jigging. I think on the first or second drop I’m hooked into a Job fish. Not the fish I was looking for but still a nice fish. This trip I was after a dog tooth tuna. We keep at jigging and I ending missing a few fish and see some monster Wahoo fallowing the jigs up to the surface. I change over to one of my new jigs and hook into a coral trout. Next drop I hooked into what I can figure is a monster grouper fight the fish to about 60ft. and find myself not gaining any ground so I push the drag up some and start to get back some line then nothing. Reel up to find my knot pulled that was a bummer.  Well in the middle of us moving spots I decide I want to make a few cast with one of my wingman stickbaits and the first cast I get a really good hit and a blistering run. I’m thinking tuna and the fish stays near the surface once I get it a little closer I see it’s a big wahoo.  I get the wahoo near the boat and the gaff goes in. first wahoo of the trip. Next we get back under way and I make another cast and within seconds I’m hooked up again this time the fish runs deep. I work it up to the surface and see it’s a nice yellowfin tuna.  Stop and do a little more jigging but not much going on other than a few misses, and a couple more job fish. So we pick up and start trolling not long into the troll a wahoo comes in a smashing the skirt. My wife’s friend fights her first wahoo to the boat. Then my girl wife gets hooked up on the wingman. After a good fight she lands her first yellowfin tuna. I end up making a cast and get hit hard then another fish comes in and hits my FG knot and bam I lose the fish. We get back under way and trolling and bam the rod goes off and another tuna hits the deck. I finally get a new leader tied on and get a new Wingman tied on and give it a cast.  A few cranks on the reel another blows up on the bait.  I pass the rod over to my wife hoping it’s a wahoo but it turns out to be another Yellowfin Tuna.  After the fight I give the wingman another cast and see a big wahoo slice through the water and smash the bait. We get the fish to the boat and wahoo #3 goes in the box. Probably a couple minutes were hooked in to another Yellowfin.  Well things started to calm down so we headed back over to a jigging spot not long in i get hit hard and end up reeling up a big golden trevally but the deck hand lose it at the leader. On the way in Marvin stops a cave-in where the water went from 17m to 70m. The bait was being pushed to the surface. I drop down one of my new style jig and get hooked up to a couple nice blacktip trevally a first for me.

One thing I found surprising was how well the Cabo 80 did.

Total for the trip was 7 Yellowfin Tuna, 3 Wahoo, 3 Green Jobfish, 2 Blacktip Tervally, 2 big Golden Tervally, to many Bonitos, and a few grouper.

Equip used:

Jigging Rod: M&W spiral warp rod

Reel: Okuma makaira 10ii se

Jigs: Various jigs from H4L Jigs.

Popping rod: Assassin rod 8’3”

Reel: Cabo 80