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Bite Me Gamefishing Charters - awesome Sailfish, Marlin and Wahoo Fishing in Kadavu, Fiji

Gamefishing Fiji - The best of Fiji Fishing
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Fish the warm tropical waters around the remote South Pacific island of Kadavu. Jungle covered volcanic hills swoop down to mangrove bays and coral lagoons. 75 miles of Great Astrolabe barrier reef with outer slopes plunging to canyons of over 12,000 feet.

Blue marlin cruise within sight of the reef, yellowfin tuna smash bait balls as far as the eye can see. Packs of marauding wahoo cover the reef points and big Pacific Sailfish free-jump along the reef edges.

Sound like an anglers paradise ? It is.

Gamefishing in Fiji on Bite Me at Matava, Kadavu, Fiji

Bite Me Gamefishing's 31ft custom rigged game boat can be throwing poppers for huge GTs or trolling bent butt Penn International 80 Wide chair tackle for blue marlin within 10 minutes of your lodge.

Whether you want to tease up a pack of 50lb wahoo and cast a fly for the ultimate fly fishing experience or watch a 500lb blue marlin greyhound across the wake as you climb into the chair and strap yourself into the ride of your life, Kadavu Island can make it happen.

Gamefishing Charter Boat MV Bite Me at Matava, Kadavu, Fiji

Bite Me is based at Matava Resort, a AAA rated 3&1/2 star eco-lodge on the South East side of Kadavu Island. Traditional thatched Fijian bures perch on the island's rainforrest covered slopes with private decks offering magnificent views out over the sheltered coral lagoons and Great Astrolabe Barrier reef.

Anglers can choose to work the mangroves, sheltered lagoons or reef edges for Giant Trevally, bluefin trevally, Narrow Barred (Spanish) mackerel, coral trout and a host of toothy reef predators or work the outer reef slopes for wahoo, yellowfin and Pacific Sailfish. Within a few miles of the barrier reef are deep ocean canyons where we find blue marlin, huge yellowfin tuna, mahi mahi and shortbill spearfish.

A seamount lies just 7 miles offshore with nutrient rich upwellings holding large concentrations baitfish and oceanic predators. An hour from the lodge, a remote coral atoll breaks the surface with sheer sides plummeting to depths of 6,000 feet.

Gamefishing for Pacific Sailfish at Matava, Kadavu, FijiBite Me offers anglers the opportunity to explore miles of pristene unfished tropical waters in the comfort of a modern Australian custom built gamefishing vessel with a full range of high quality tackle from custom made all-roller ultra-light record hunting outfits to Penn International 80STW's on Penn International and Melton bent butt chair rods.

From our base here you can throw poppers for GTs at dawn, tag a blue marlin by mid-morning, put some 50lb wahoo on the deck by lunch, fight a double header of sails on 12lb string by mid afternoon and stop off on the way back for a bit of deepwater jigging for dogtooth, amberjack, jobfish and Opakapaka.

Whatever your prefered method of fishing or species you wish to target, the opportunities here are endless.

Book your Gamefishing Trip Now!

Click here to book your Game Fishing trip to the Fiji Islands today and see what all the pro's are raving about in the fishing magazines about Kadavu, Fiji!!

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Nearly took the All Tackle Dogtooth Tuna world record today... PDF Print E-mail
Written by Adrian Watt   
Tuesday, 05 May 2009 18:11

Now I am back ashore, some more info on the big doggie.

It was caught jigging on a Shimano 325g butterfly jig by angler Bill Busch aboard Bite Me using a Zenaq jig rod and Shimano Trinidad spooled with Power Pro 80lb spectra.

Fight time 45 minutes.

It was actually one of four dogtooth tuna we caught that afternoon, (3 others released) the morning being spent popper casting for GTs (we released 16)

The fish weighed in at 90.60 Kg on our Certified Scales (Matava Resort being an IGFA Weighstation) and is a pending new Fiji National All-Tackle Record.


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World Record Wahoo! PDF Print E-mail
Written by Adrian Watt   
Tuesday, 23 June 2009 11:57

Day two of our ultra-light tackle World Record hunting quest turned into a day to remember when we found the first wahoo pack....

With three rods set and a Boone Sundancer teaser run down the prop wash, carnage ensued when the wahoo pack mass attacked. Three reels instantly lit up and a seriously mauled teaser flashed a mayday as it was repeatedly struck by multiple wahoo. We didn't stand a chance as one after the other, we got bitten off. With such a large pack right under Bite Me and lines cris-crossing the surface waters, anything moving got chomped...including leaders, swivels, plaited doubles...

So, we re-tie doubles, re-set with new leaders and lures and off we go again...
At around 12.00 we run over another
wahoo pack and once again everything lights up. This time though its curtains for the teaser as its is again repeatedly struck by one wahoo after another.

Deckie Joe hauls it in as fast as he can watching one wahoo after another tear in for a bite. Just as the teaser clears the water the last wahoo screams in and launches at the teaser in mid air. For a second I thought the fish was going to clear the transom and land in the cockpit but it missed the corner by a couple of inches and landed beside the boat, along with the disintegrated remains of half the teaser...

Probably a good job too what with us being connected to three wahoo on 4kg at the time...not exactly what you want flipping and snapping about the cockpit floor !

Now we got lucky...with Tim on a rod, Bill on a rod and Matava Resort Director Richard on a rod and each wahoo steaming off in a different direction, something had to give. Richard's wahoo headed back to the pack and 'chomp' went the pack on Richard's lure, leader, swivel and double.


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Bluewater Magazine Issue 74

Issue 74

On sale 1st July 2009

Special features include: Catching striped marlin on lures; catching the curious cobia; a marlin season of frustration; a samoan feast; Big fish – small boats; creatures of the deep: Butterfly mackerel; Off-season training for the crew; Cleaning and maintaining your camera

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