Rather little to report this time: as usually we saw very few tourists here until Christmas and it was actually wise of them to stay away as the weather was really awful most of the time. The 3rd was still just fishable and the ride to the northern Drop Off with Mervin on GameChanger and Maldives angler Abdalla was actually not too bad in the morning. But that is all the good to tell about that day actually, as the wind started to come up strong and on top a hefty current ran at a bad angle. Thus the usual depths once could hardly fish and as they did not produce we worked the shallower areas. Not too good there also and the poor chap on top lost most of his fish either to dropped hooks or the lousy Sharks. Still he was happy with the day and plans to come back. Which I hope he does to get a taste of what the jigging here should be.

That day also Greg & Andre fished a bit, for a few hours around Praslin doing this and that with some success.

By the next day the weather really turned sour due to the season`s first cyclone in the south,  which as usually brought us lots of rain and northerly winds above 20knots with much stronger gusts. The mess prevailed for a full two weeks apart from a pleasant and inexplicable day on the 10th when they again had fun trolling.

And a bit of jigging produced this massive Golden Trevally.

Only a few days before Christmas the weather got somewhat better but still far from nice to fish. Lesser rain and also wind at times but any rain front brought it up strong again. Totally unpredictable conditions thus, even just for a few hours, so hardly anybody was tempted to give it a try. Only exception was again a guest with Greg & Andre who got this GT on the 21st.

The predicted calmer period just after Christmas did not really materialize so the boats doing there usual trolling trips endured proper rock´n´roll. Brandon even ventured to the Drop off on Faith but finding nothing there at all, they trolled back and got Dorados, Wahoos and a Sail. Most welcome that the trolling fish are inside so even half days produce nicely with such mixed bags of fish, the usual Bonitos of course and the odd Yellowfin in between. So pretty solid on that end and worthwhile going - if one is really seaworthy. So much from here for this year, thank you for following and a happy & healthy 2025 to you all!

For the preceeding reports check the archive.