FISHING IN THE DEEP & LANDING 8 GTS IN 2 DAYS!

We had high hopes going into this fly fishing week at Cosmoledo Atoll, as we were looking forward to spring tides and, hopefully, hungry fish! We welcomed ten anglers and three leisure guests, with a few familiar faces amongst the newcomers.

After two days, we knew that the red crab effect was still in play, meaning that red crabs were swimming offshore, and all the fish left the flats and remained offshore. This has an impact on the GT count on the flats. However, we were delighted as the week eventually bought in good news, the bones and triggers wanted to play, and all the anglers had multiple shots at these fish during the course of the week.

Vladimir Rybalchenko made the best of this, landing a trigger almost every day during their stay on Cosmoledo. On one day, Vladimir landed both a moustache triggerfish and yellowmargin triggerfish. The giant trevally slowly started to come into the lagoon, and a few were spotted, with one big GT being hooked but sadly lost during the fight to reel it in. The guys who put in the hard work and time on the outskirts managed to land a few GTs on the dredge and popper with multiple grouper species caught in between.

Michael Sarkesian had special two days fishing in the deep. For both days, he had six eight GTs and a yellowfin tuna.
Definitely a tough fishing week for all but a significant improvement in numbers as a whole.

Tight lines,
From Alphonse Fishing Co.