TWO PERMIT FOR WEEK SEVEN

Another fantastic week of flats fishing has come to an end. Weather conditions were sunny primarily with variable wind direction. Wind speeds were from five to 15 knots making for great flats fishing conditions. Tides started off in neap tides this week, with the tides increasing up to spring tides by the end of the week.

GT fishing was fantastic this week, with our best total yet of 37 fish landed. All anglers landed GTs this week! Christian Kammerer was on his first saltwater fishing trip, and his first fish was a GT; it wasn’t his last! Chris landed ten fish this week, with the biggest being 101 cm, followed by 99 cm. His fishing partner, Christian Mairold, landed seven GT’s.

Brothers Alex Haider and Stefan Haider also brought it this week. Eight fish for Alex and four for Stefan. Robert Slameckza landed three GTs. Helmut Sackl landed his first GT. Klaus Dirnberger, Marko Kallay, Michael Hason, and Waltraud Hason all landed one GT.

With excellent conditions, anglers were able to land 58 bonefish this week. Alex and Stefan were able to each catch a moustache triggerfish, and each caught a permit! The permit was the first Indo-Pacific permit the brothers had landed. Even more impressive, each brother was able to get a slam this week. Stefan completed a trevally slam with a GT, a bluefin, and a yellowspot trevally (our first this season). Alex completed a classic slam of GT, bonefish, and a permit.

Species fishing was also very productive, with several monster bohar snapper landed, including a 75 cm x 56 cm fish landed by Alex. Klaus caught a 75 cm napoleon wrasse.

In the bluewater, two sails were caught by Marko and Rob. Three beautiful yellowfin tuna were landed this week caught by Michael, Waldi landed, and Rob.

Tight lines,
From Alphonse Fishing Co.