Seychelles Catamaran Fishing Trip 2024 - YFS

Seychelles Catamaran Fishing Trip 2024

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This was boat n°2 from the accident trip :    • Jigging and popping fishing trip Seyc...  

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The program is simple: at 4 p.m., we will set sail and sail until the next morning when we can start fishing on the plateaus located about a hundred kilometers from the island of Mahé. We are therefore two boats and inevitably there is a competition: the Niçois against the Danes!

We get to know the crew. First of all, we are guided by Niels, a former Monegasque croupier with a passion for fishing who decided to change careers and throw himself fully into his passion. He has extensive sea fishing experience, using lures and trolling, but like me he is also passionate about pike! All the rest of the crew is Seychellois. First of all, there is Captain “Jean Claude”, a serious and experienced man. He is courteous but dry and quite distant. He speaks French very well, which is not the case for his second “Marcus” who we will nickname “Frida” because he has the same hairstyle as Frida Kahlo. The latter jabbers a little in French but we will speak to him practically exclusively in English (between them, they speak Creole). Finally, to complete the team, there is “Jermaine” our chef. A giant Rasta love, always smiling and above all an excellent cook who delighted us throughout the stay.

The next day at 5:45 a.m., the day was just dawning, I heard footsteps on the foredeck. Through the porthole, I see the other catamaran about a hundred meters away, the Danes are already on the deck popping! Without a second thought, I jump out of bed and go upstairs, Jérôme and Odin are already at work... I take my rod and I make a few casts in my turn. I've been waiting for this for months: sunrise, Indian Ocean, sound of the popper clicking in the immensity, happiness. No touch for this first 30-minute mini-session, we take a little coffee break and Niels tells us that we are going to do our first drift with jigs.

We are all excited and impatient to see what this will bring, we are completely in the unknown and even a little destabilized because we clearly do not know where we are. We are several hundred kilometers south of Mahé. Around us, no islands, no rocks, nothing but water... We absolutely do not know where the South or the North is, there is a 360 degree horizon of water around us and it 'is all. I'm talking about it now because it will save me from talking about it again, but it's going to be like that for the rest of my stay. Worse, apart from the Danes' catamaran (which will soon leave us), we only encountered one other boat. We are alone in the world, we are in WATERWORLD. To tell you the truth, we are still not very far from Somalia and its pirates and it crossed my mind that it is not a coincidence that we find ourselves all alone here. Question asked to Niels: a priori we have a sort of transponder which indicates our position to the Seychellois authorities in real time. The area is heavily monitored and recent attacks have taken place much further north-east in the Gulf of Aden.

Let's get back to our drift. I take my Slow rod and, at the captain's "go", we set off for our first descent in about 50 meters of water. I do 2-3 animations and bammm here we go, first descent and first touch, I feel a very combative fish but not very heavy and in fact, it is a pretty little amberjack of around 6 kilos which arrives on board. Quick photo then release.

We fish until 10:30 a.m. and the scores are already quite honorable with 30 fish caught at 5. None are very big but the variety is present: amberjack, dogtooth tuna, wahoo, groupers, green trevally, job pink and blue fish, tuna and cane beaks. We learned on the radio that the Danes had made a massacre with three beautiful GT trevally and two large dogtooth tuna. We're a little nervous but hey, it's only the first morning...

After a good breakfast and crazy heat, we decide to hang around until the next spot (a famous spot with three mountains) which we will ultimately never find even though it is clearly marked on the maps... At 5:30 p.m., we we return to the jig for an hour. We will add to the species already caught: traveling trevally, moon groupers, star groupers, as well as a magnificent bourgeois caught by Odin with a simple casting jig...

First day total: 58 fish! A nice warm-up.

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