Fishing Reports

Fiji Fishing Winter Season 2011 - Summary Report

Fiji Fishing at its best

From the beginning of 2011, the South Pacific experienced strong La Nina weather patterns. Warmer than normal water gathered towards the Western side of the Pacific leading to unusual weather conditions.

Normal tropical depression and Cyclone paths moved West and Australia's long running drought was broken.

For the Fiji Islands this meant fine weather but frequent large ground swells from the South West.

Normal oceanic currents along Kadavu Island's Great Astrolabe Barrier Reef stalled and the GT Popping season was significantly affected with coloured water outside the barrier reef and GTs moving from regular haunts.

December 2010 Fishing Report

Australian anglers Craig & Nick poped over from Melbourne for a few days gamefishing on Bite Me last week.

Looking for some variety with a real mixture of species.

We started off on day 1 with a trip out to the Kadavu seamount with the heavy tackle and jigging gear. Conditions were less than perfect but good enough. Small schoolie yellowfin and skipjack tuna were busting up on the surface so we began our doggie hunt with a 5kg yellowfin livebait on one of the heavy tackle marlin rods.

Joe drops back the circle hook rigged livebait

Unfortunately, within minutes a small hammerhead shark moved in and after a brief tussle, departed with our livebait. Time to switch to jigs...

December 2009 Fishing Report

It has been a bit of a topsy turvey run up to Christmas with very unusual water temperatures and even a direct hit from a Cat 2 Cyclone thrown in for good measure

Whilst the normal incoming flood of hot summer water hovers to the North West of the Fiji Islands, the rest of Fiji is still experiencing water temps some 3 degrees lower than normal.