As inidcated in the last and somewhat depressing edition I was abroad for my annual trip to Germany and only returned last weekend. Had been observing the weather forecast for Seychelles which showed a typical Southeast Monsoon with winds mostly in the 15-25kn range but a few slighlty kinder spells that offered opportunites for the seasonally typical trolling trips, even out to the Drop Off. The Yellowfin Tuna are around in good numbers and reasonable sizes as you can see from the following pics provided by Brandon. 

Fishing on Unreel he and his guests had a good and even spectacular time. Notably when the guest fainted after 2hrs of fight with a Marlin to lose it and the next one coming to check out the spread of lures only minutes later. But it wouldn`t take and no-one on board was really sad about that as the angler was already done. Marlin encounters to different ends were sevetal. Bertrand got one to the boat as did Sandro while another straightened his hook. But another day he also was outdone by a big specimen when he was out with an unexperienced friend just for fun. Sandro fought that fish on 80lb standup gear for 4 hours with the youngster on board rather useless. That big Black had come up for a first time after 1.5hrs and then once more 2hrs later but went deep again. With time running out Sandro increased the drag bit by bit in a do-or-die attempt to bring it up and it went badly. Sailfish were plentiful and at times very cooperative. Brandon`s catch of 8 in a half day will speak for itself.

Besides these trolling trips even a bit of GT popping was possible along that last weekend. Friday the 23rd Mervin had informed me about a trip with 3 caught and 5 lost out of 13 raises.

And it was not just one lucky day as Sunday on just a half day he came up with half a dozen more.

That was the day of my return and I had already seen the flat seas from the plane. Any hopes of going fishing were shattered though as since the following day it has been blowing at 20 knots or more.  So as I managed to bring along and install the most important boat spare I am just waiting for an opportunity to at least jig a few kitchen fish. And generally speaking it all showed once more that the Southeast is one of the most productive times for fishing here – weather permitting.

For the preceeding reports check the archive.