Still late with the fishing report, but here an highlight picture of a big GT caught by one of our regular japanese angler during a 3 days popping and jigging trip, beginning of the month.
Stay tuned full report coming soon !!!
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Capt. Nico
Nasty GT !!!
Sometimes anglers are not expecting our GT’s to be so nasty. They can pull hard !!!
Very late with the fishing reports, as I am very busy guiding clients these days. Reports will come soon, but in the meantime, here is a short video where a big GT mistreats an angler during the last week fishing trip. Look how the GT pull him. With too much adrenaline and excitement, at the end he sadly lost the fish.
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Capt. Nico
Great popping trip for young German anglers !!
Max, Robin and Christoph from Germany had booked 3 days popping with us last week and they had a great fishing trip with some good topwater action.
Max and Christoph had already experienced GT popping by the past in Andaman Islands and it was a first for Robin which is mainly fishing for carps in Europe. The first day they had a very good day, on the first spot and the first drift Christoph caught the first GT of the trip and on the second drift it's Max who caught a GT. They caught and missed some fish during the day, and it's in the afternoon Robin caught his first ever GT. End of the day, Max caught the biggest fish of the day a GT in the 20-25 kg range.
The second day, they caught some fish in the morning and just before lunch I proposed them to do some trolling to reach the next popping spots for the afternoon. Conditions were just perfect and in less than 30 minutes, a sailfish was jumping in the air and Robin landed his first ever billfish, congratulations !!! We released this sailfish, for him to grow a bit more and give the chance at another sport fisherman to catch it. In the afternoon, we found some good activity and the boys caught some more GT's.
The third day, fish activity was less, but the guys don't give up and keep casting and that pay off, as they caught some Gt's.
All in all, it was a great 3 days fishing trip with good action, no big one this time, but they caught a sailfish ;-)
Thanks guys to came fishing with us and I wish you a great holidays in Sri Lanka !!
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Capt. Nico
Hot popping and jigging action for Japanese anglers !!!
With some delay, here is the full report of a great 3 days popping and jigging trip with Japanese anglers Nakamura san and Hayato san beginning of February.
The first day, we mainly go for popping and despite some slight green water due to some unusual heavy rain days before, the guys have 5 bites and caught 3 GT in the 15 kg range and Nakamura caught a nice 20kg + end of the day.
As we have bites early morning and end of day, the second day we do a mix of popping and jigging. The morning, Hayato san caught 2 small GT and miss a bigger one. Just before lunch, I decide as planned to reach some of our jigging spots. Good move, as the sonar show me some nice marks and the guys were immediately tight with fish. They caught some amberjacks, black tip trevally, Gt's and a nice long nose emperor for Nakamura.
On the way back, I stopped on a couple of popping spots and on the second spot, I spotted a bait school in surface. Nakamura san, cast his Carpenter Gamma and a big GT came and smashed his lure very close to the boat. The GT missed his stickbait and on the second bite it grab it properly. Nakamura strike, but sadly the hook were not set properly and he lost the fish... Tomorrow is another day...
Last day, we discover a very nice water color on the first spot and I told the guy, that will make the fish more active, especially the big ones. And it's what happen, on the second spot Hayato san had a big bite, the fish goes on a powerful rush and straight in direction of the rock. I started the engine, and followed the fish to make sure the line don't touch the rock. After some epic boat maneuver to keep the fish far from the rock, Hayato san can finally fight his fish safely. After, a hard fight, it's a cracking big GT and we landed on the deck. Not the biggest GT of Hayato san as it's a regular GT angler onboard Big Dipper with Fukui san in Japan. But Hayato san told me this GT was the most tough fish he has fight.
On the next spot, it's Nakamura san who had also a big bite and again very close to the boat. This time Nakamura san set properly the hooks and start an epic battle with a healthy GT who gave him a hard time. And it's another nice big GT we landed, that fish was a bit heavier than the one of Hayato san. We try a couple of others spots without success, than we decide to reach the jigging spots. As the previews day, the sonar show us a lot of big mark and we are expecting some good action. But the most frustrating scenario happening, they don't have a single bite !!! We try different jig action, slow, fast, short shape jigs, long shape jigs, colors etc... but nothing decide these fish. We back a bit earlier as the guys have a flight early in the night, I just stopped on the couple of popping spots, but like I was expected we don't have bite as it was a bit too early.
All in all, these 3 days fishing were great and for their first trip in Sri Lanka Nakamura san and Hayato san enjoyed a lot their trip and they have already plan to come back soon. I am waiting to see you again guys !!!
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Capt. Nico
Big GT for Japanese angler !!!
I just finished a nice 3 days popping trip with 2 japanese anglers.
Here is one of the good size GT caught.
Gt's bites getting hot on popping !!!
Full report coming soon.
Stay tuned !!
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Capt. Nico
They talk about us in Japan !!!
Here is our first news of the year and it's for our japanese anglers : this is the last cover of the japanese magazine Salt World, where you can read a nice article about fishing with us in Sri Lanka for popping & jigging.
Thanks to the chef editor Moto san for this article with beautiful pictures.
We were very busy guiding clients all these last days and we are late with our fishing reports, but that will come soon.
Stay tuned
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Capt. Nico
Successful Popping & Jigging trip for VIP Japanese anglers !!!
Last week, we started our sea fishing season with our first group of angler. This group was composed of Yamada san our travel agent in Japan, Omoto san from Salt World Magazine, Otsuka san the CEO of Studio Ocean Mark and Sano san, field tester for CB One and SOM.
During these 4 days fishing, they had an insane jigging session the first day, where Sano san caught a nice dogtooth tuna and Otsuka san a 30 kg GT. Mainly the catches were GT's, I have try some deeper spots to look for amberjack but sadly without success, anyway our guest were happy with the powerful GT's.
Popping was a bit slow at the beginning, but the last two days the reef and our different popping spots were on fire !
They caught some nice Gt's and nice king mackerels. Average size of Gt's was around 15-18 kg.
The biggest fish was caught by Yamada san with a decent 20-25 kg fish and sadly Sano san lost the 2 biggest fish, who broke the line on the reef.
A very nice trip to start our sea fishing season. A report of this trip will be publish soon in Salt World Magazine.
It was nice to met you and guiding you guys.
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First fishing trip of the season with great Japanese anglers
I had our first sea fishing trip of the season on our new boat Diviya and fishing was good !!!
Just finished a nice trip with in guest star Japanese angler Sano san, field tester for SOM and CB one, who caught this nice dogtooth tuna on jig.
Otsuka san, CEO of Studio Ocean Mark was also part of the trip and he was lucky to caught the biggest GT of the trip, an estimated over 30 kg fish also caught on jig.
This fishing trip will be publish in the famous Japanese magazine Salt World.
We had also some good action on popping, stay tuned the full report will come soon.
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Capt. Nico
Popping and Light Jigging at sea !!!
Last week, we received 2 Japanese anglers working in India for a 2 days trip Popping and light jigging.
Weather was nice, just the water was a bit green, but GT's were keen to smash the floating stickbait of Takagi & Egawa.
On light jigging, they have great fun with some black tip trevally and groupers.
Last day GT's were more active, they caught 4 fish, miss 3 and lost a big one, which broke the leader on the rock.
It was nice to see some GT's on surface action. I enjoyed to guide Takagi & Egawa. Hope to see you for another week-end trip guys.
Capt. Nico