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Seychelles Southeast Monsoon: Trevally, Tuna, and the Golden Hour Bite

Seychelles Southeast Monsoon: Trevally, Tuna, and the Golden Hour Bite

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Artificial Lure here with your Seychelles fishing report, coming to you like a local leaning on the transom at the dock. Around Mahé and the inner islands today we’ve had light to moderate southeast trades, 10–18 knots, with a steady swell from the south‑southeast. Skies have been partly cloudy, with passing showers over the higher ground but mostly clear windows offshore. Air temps sat in the upper 20s, sea surface temps hovering around 27–28°C – classic southeast monsoon conditions that keep the water lively and just cool enough to keep the pelagics moving. Tides ran a gentle neap pattern: a fuller high around mid‑morning and another push late evening, with softer water through the early afternoon. The best bite lined up around the morning flood and again on that dusk push when the current picked up along the drop‑offs. Sunrise was just after 6, sunset just before 6:30, and you could feel the fish switch on during that first golden hour and last light. Inshore, the fringing reefs around Mahé, Praslin, and La Digue produced good numbers of bluefin trevally, green jobfish, and small GTs, with a few brutes in the mix bullying light tackle. Most action came on fast‑worked stickbaits in natural baitfish patterns, 40–80 g, and medium metal jigs fluttered down the reef edges. Soft plastics on 3/8 to 1 oz jigheads, in pearl and chartreuse, did the damage on snapper and emperors for those working closer to the bottom. A bit of fresh squid or small strips of cut bonito on the same jigheads outfished plain metal when the sun got high and the fish fussy. On the outer drop‑offs between the inner islands and the banks, the boats that pushed out reported steady yellowfin tuna in the 10–25 kg class, with the odd bigger model, plus wahoo and skipjack mixed in. Small to medium bibbed minnows in purple‑black, bonito, or flying‑fish patterns trolled at 6–8 knots drew most strikes, with daisy chains and small lumo squids raising fish when the surface activity was patchy. Chunking with fresh tuna and drifting live baits – scads and small fusiliers – turned up a few nicer dogtooth tuna and amberjack for crews willing to work deeper. Casting around bird life and current lines paid off. Tuna were busting briefly then sounding, so fast‑sinking stickbaits and slim jigs in 60–120 g, fired ahead of the school and burned back at speed, were the ticket. Single hooks helped keep fish attached in the sloppy chop. Reef bait fishing stayed solid through the day. Fresh prawn, squid, and small fillet baits on simple running sinker rigs found red snapper, spangled emperor, and plenty of mixed reef species over rubble patches in 20–40 m. Lighter leaders got more bites, but the taxman – the ever‑present sharks – took his share when anglers went too fine. If you’re heading out, two hot spots to mark: first, the drop‑off edges southwest of Mahé towards Sainte Anne and Cerf, where the morning flood piles bait along the contour and brings in trevally and jobfish; second, the deeper blue line along the plateau edge north of Praslin, where the color change and current edges have been holding tuna, wahoo, and the occasional sailfish. Work those areas on the moving tide and you’re in the game. Best overall choices right now: medium stickbaits and poppers for trevally on the reefs, 60–120 g jigs for the channels and drop‑offs, plus a spread of small diving plugs and lumo skirted lures for the bluewater run. Always keep a rod rigged with a live‑bait hook or small circle ready when you mark something heavy mid‑water. That’s it from Artificial Lure in the Seychelles. Thanks for tuning in, and don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss a bite. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai. Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn
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