After the 6 months of South East winds, the change of seasons in a tropical Island, is a festive affair. A calming of all elements seem to change the mood of everyone. The sun seems a little brighter; the sea subdues and the wind blows a gentle calm.
As if by clock work, we experienced our first North West wind on the 1st November. We did not waste time in settling into the fishing scene! With the wind switch, the sea just mirrored off to a glassy sheen and for a full week the fish collided at virtually every recognized spot around the Desroches, Poivre and St Joes Atolls. Desroches fished majestically over the off season and as the numbers of fish began to stack up, new techniques were introduced to the already vast facets of angling available to the guests. The spike in fish catches in the month of November produced unprecedented numbers of Yellowfin Tuna, Dog tooth Tuna and GT’s.
All in all, November produced some 1025 fish, with Yellowfin Tuna topping the list with 283 fish - the largest weighing in at 48 kilograms! 26 GT’s - the largest being a specimen of 125cm ( 37.9 kilograms).
Desroches has certainly showed its cards for the 2014 fishing season, and the excitement around the Cast Away center is tangible.
November is always an exciting time for the Fly fishing teams as it heralds the true beginning of the new season. The seasons change so fast in a tropical climate that before you realize it the North West has begun and the state of the sea changes its nature almost instantaneously.
The settled sea opens the passage to the outer Island for the season, and our first fly fishing teams made their way back to the productive Atolls of St Joes and Poivre. As is the customary beginning to the season, a mixed bag of results from the atolls was experienced, with some anglers being treated to mind blowing fly fishing, although some found the speed of the tides a little unfavorable.
Poivre is definitely a neap tide venue and walking the flats on all the points of the compass showed some interesting patterns for the season. The permits are obviously thriving on the abundance of shrimps prawns and crabs, and were tailing in every section. The guys had some interesting hookups with extremely large permits but failed to land these majestic opponents. Andy Beachle finally broke the mold and registered the first permit for the season.
The start of the season has produced 228 bone fish caught on fly on the flats, a single permit, as well as 12 Bluefin Trevally. This is by no means a slow start to the flats fishing for the season.
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