I know we seem to say this every month lately, but this was one of the best trips we have ever had, and probably the best trip we did in 2009.
The truth is that the fishing just gets better because we are now going to the right places at the right time of year and know more than ever about where to catch the fish and what techniques to use. It is worth keeping in mind that all the places we fish have pretty much never been fished before and we have to figure it all out as we go, which is a huge thrill for myself and the other guides, and means that when everything aligns in the right way, there can be major fishing fireworks, and that is what happenned during this last trip – bigtime piscatorial fireworks!!
The combination of flat calm weather, lots of big fish and great guests made this a trip to remember.
We spent the first week at Frederick Reef as an Ultimate Adventure trip, and then the 2nd week was a split trip with half the days at Frederick, and then half the days at Elusive Reef, also as an Ultimate Adventure Trip, and then the last week was a Lagoon Explorer style trip at Elusive Reef.
There’s not enough room here to list a blow by blow account of what we caught, but there wasn’t a single slow days fishing in 3 weeks. Some of the highlights included releasing over 250 GTs at Elusive Reef in only 3 days between 3 boats!!! THAT IS SPECTACULAR FISHING.
Frederick reef once again turned on huge numbers of big wahoo, marlin and yellowfin, but this time we targetted the yellowfin on poppers, and had some awesome action. Lots of yellowfin tuna between 15-40kgs were landed on poppes.
The wahoo at Frederick were awesome fun and airborne wahoo hitting stickbaits was the order of the day. The wahoo were generally between 30-35kg. And there was also the day at Elusive where we landed 9 GTs between 40-50kgs in one day between three boats. One of the boats also caught 32 GTs in a single day, and with the average size of the GTs at 20-25kg, this is GT fishing as good as you’ll find anywhere in the world.
Take care and tight lines,
Damon Olsen
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