Game Fishing Vanuatu

As a lot of you know I write an are report for Blue Water Magazine. We are limited to 150 words. We are to talk it up and talk it up even more for the coming months so here it is, you read it first right here:

With the wet season well and truly upon us we are seeing spectacular mornings and thunderstorms in the afternoon. This hasn’t affected the fishing at most of the rain is falling over the islands. We are still seeing plenty of mahi-mahi and a few wahoo.  Most operators are finding a marlin or two a day and you could expect to catch at least one. November is traditionally one of the better fishing months in the Vanuatu waters however we haven’t seen the run of big yellowfin yet. Several of the operators are still doing week long trips to the outer islands and have been doing very well on G.T’s and dogtooth tuna. We are now looking forward to the influx of holiday makers through the festive season and the fishing is looking good for those venturing out into these magnificent waters. The fishing club and several operators are about to deploy  several new F.A.D’s to improve things even more if you are fishing out of Port Vila.

Peter Phillipps

Wild Blue Fishing Charters.

Port Vila.

Vanuatu

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Rating: 8 out of 10 (from 37 votes)

Hollywood movie producer Paul Mason and his some Barry have been at it again. We were out for a days fishing yesterday. Fishing in Vanuatu has been high on Paul’s list of destination for the last 4 years. Yesterday we missed the hot bite due to getting away a little late and it was almost lunch time before we saw our first fish.  A blue marlin had 3 shots at climbing onto the shotgun but no hookup was achieved.

We didn’t see another fish until 4pm with another blue at about 70kg coming up on the short corner and peeling off at 200mph. Fifteen minutes into the battle Barry had the fish up by the boat where it received a tag and was sent on its way.

We are off on Monday for and overnighter with Paul and Barry ” I dont think Helga is coming this time” so stay tuned.

Paul has now been fishing with me for 4 years now and has been a regular competitor in the Vanuatu Marlin Classic, and the Port Vila Game Fishing Club November tournament.

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Rating: 8 out of 10 (from 73 votes)

We are just back from another adventure fishing in Vanuatu. Chris, Dave and Tony did a 5 day trip with us. This trip we traveled to Epi where we fished for a few days then is was on tho the Maskelyne Islands at the S/E end of Malekula. We had some very good popper fishing in around the reefs. This was a 5 day trip with over 10 species of fish caught. We have located an island style guest house accomodation in Port Sandwich that gives us some greater fishing options around the Maskelyne Islands. the boys managed a lot of personal bests and cristened some untried fishing gear.

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Rating: 7 out of 10 (from 16 votes)

We received a phone call from a resort we do some work with http://www.thehavannah.com/ asking if Shogun was available for a day charter. After everything was arranged our guests Paul and Bell arrived several days later wet to the skin but busting to go fishing. They had hired a beach buggy to travel around in however there was a torrential downpour during the night and into the next morning leaving them trying to get back into Port Vila holding and umbrella where the roof should be trying to keep dry. We started fishing the F.A.D however there was not a lot happening. After drifting baits then dropping a bonito down to the depths we were hooked up on a shark of good size. From there it was on to Devils Reef. As soon as we got there a mahi-mahi climbed on. The action was steady through out the day with several more mahi-mahi turning up.

These 2 intrepid anglers have the good fortune to live in Darwin and have their own boat so they are fish constantly however Paul hadn’t caught a marlin so that was the main aim for the day. Just after lunch we had a strike however no hook up. Gun deck hand Sam shot out a bait on 15kg that he had earlier prepared and we were on. Well on for a short amount on time.  In the passing over of the rod we ended up with a small overrun on the reel and a bust off.

No sooner that that happened we had another strike, this time a sail was well and truly on. As this was all happening the marlin that we had just broken off came jumping past the boat on the starboard side close enough to just about free tag it. Exciting stuff.

A couple more mahi-mahi were caught and the last I saw of Bell and Paul they were heading off to Havannah Resort again to have some of the fish cooked and were planning to sit at the table on the end of the jetty overlooking Havanah Harbour.

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Rating: 7 out of 10 (from 10 votes)

Brad came to Vanuatu for the first time earlier in the year. He stayed at Iririki Island Resort with his wife Darleen and in his travel called in a said he would like to go for a fish. We got him into some wahoo and tuna action and this guys is now hooked. Brad and his wife have just completed their second trip this year and this time mahi-mahi, more tuna and a missed shot on a blue marlin rounded out the day. Brad is booked in for Feb 2011 to have another shot.

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Rating: 9 out of 10 (from 14 votes)