Fiji Blue Water Offshore Pattern (The Offshore "I Don't Care Spread")

!±8± Fiji Blue Water Offshore Pattern (The Offshore "I Don't Care Spread")

The Fiji islands enjoy a whole variety of sport fish species from reef dwelling coral trout to oceanic blue marlin. Whilst we usually target particular species aboard our offshore game fishing vessel Bite Me at Matava in Fiji, we sometimes take resort guests out simply to catch dinner and have fun doing so.

Its general fishing (Otherwise known as "I don't care what I catch just as long as its big and tasty") so we cover all our bases and target a variety of different species.

Offshore, we run 15kg (30lb) Penn International 30Ts on Penn Millennium rods with a 9ft double connected to a short leader. In the winter time, (May - September) most lures are rigged on a wire trace because of the wahoo packs that congregate along the barrier reef.

The sample spread below should give you an idea of how we fish the outer barrier reef slopes and offshore blue water for anything and everything found out there.

Sample "I don't care" spread from our Offshore DeepV big game boat 'Bite Me'

Halco Laser Pro 190 Crazy Deep - Silver (mullet), Target - Mackerel, Barracuda Tuna, GT's Wellsys Talai (Medium) - Purple,Target - Wahoo, Sailfish
Lurestreet Raptor or Classic - Green / Gold or Red / White, Target - Wahoo, Mackerel, Barracuda, Tuna Halco Laser Pro 190 minnow - Redhead, Target - Wahoo, Mackerel, Barracuda, Tuna
SHORT RIGGER

Wellsys Turbojet - Blue Silver / Green Gold (Evil), Target - Wahoo, Mackerel, Sailfish, Mahi mahi
LONG RIGGER

Lurestreet Yahoowahoo - Lumo Green or Blue/White, Target - Wahoo, Sailfish, Mahi mahi
SHOTGUN

Wellsys Micro Bullet - Red black / Pink, Target - Tuna Pakula Sprocket - Lumo Green, Target - Wahoo, Sailfish
Species Variety:

Mackerel

Narrow Barred (Spanish) Mackerel Shark Mackerel Double lined Mackerel
Tuna

Yellowfin Tuna Skipjack Tuna Mackerel Tuna (Kawakawa) Bigeye Tuna Albacore.
Barracuda

Great Barracuda Chevron Barracuda Bigeye Barracuda
Where we get our Offshore lures :

Wellsys Tackle

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Fiji Blue Water Offshore Pattern (The Offshore "I Don't Care Spread")

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Tips On - Wahoo - Lures That Work Here In Fiji

!±8± Tips On - Wahoo - Lures That Work Here In Fiji

From May to October, packs of wahoo congregate along the Great Astrolabe Barrier Reef. The average size of wahoo is about 50lbs with a good fish weighing in at 75lbs. Each wahoo pack usually has a fish of close to 100lbs. We almost always use lures when targeting wahoo however we often get jumped by fish when bait & switch fishing for sailfish. If your teaser is rigged with mono...wave bye bye to the end of your daisy chain....

The biggest problem we encounter is a mass attack, wahoo porpoising in at break-neck speed, every rod in the spread going off and then multiple bite-offs as other wahoo attack lines or swivels cutting through the water. We combat this by trolling a full spread until we find a pack and then switch to towing just two lures. Often, just a garfish (ballyhoo) on a two hook rig with a small pink skirt on the nose. Trolling speed is usually around 6-7kts. Most wahoo skippers around the world troll faster. Here, higher speeds do not increase strike rates. Last week on the Kadavu Seamount, we were feeding a skip bait back to a small blue marlin and a 60lb wahoo hit a Lumo green Pakula Sprocket that was only doing about 2kts.

All lures are rigged on at least 4 feet of 124lb 49 strand wire. (Longer if we thing sails are in the area) At this time of year, if it isn't on wire, it isn't coming back....

SHORT CORNER

1. Wellsys Talai - Purple or lumo green

2. Halco Laser Pro 190 minnow - Redhead

LONG CORNER

1. McWhog - Blue/Chartruese - Rigged in front of a garfish (Ballyhoo)

2. Lurestreet Raptor minnow - Green/gold or Red/white

SHORT RIGGER

1. Wellsys Medium Turbojet - Blue Silver / Green Gold (Evil)

(This is our absolute 'must have' in the spread)

LONG RIGGER

1. Lurestreet Yahoowahoo - Black/green/red (I have seen wahoo charge this lure from 100 yards away)

2. Pakula Phantom - Blue Silver / Green Gold (Evil)

3. Pakula Sprocket - Lumo

SHOTGUN

1. Hollowpoint Mahi Sniper - Black/green or Black/red or White/pink

Where we get our lures :

Palm Fishing Australia Wellsys Tackle Melton International Tackle
Lure Manufacturer Links :

Pakula lures Hollowpoint Lures Marlin Magic Lures Wellsys Lures

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General Inshore Fiji Fishing Lure Spread

!±8± General Inshore Fiji Fishing Lure Spread

Fiji Inshore / Reef Pattern (The 'I don't care spread')

The Fiji islands enjoy a whole variety of sport fish species from reef dwelling coral trout to oceanic blue marlin. Whilst we usually target particular species aboard our game fishing vessels here at Matava in Fiji, Bite Me and Offensive Tackle, we sometimes take resort guests out simply to catch dinner and have fun doing so.

It's general fishing (Otherwise known as "I don't care what I catch just as long as its big and tasty") so we aim to cover all our bases and catch a variety of different species.

We run 15kg (30lb) Shimano TLD25 outfits on Excalibur roller tip rods with a 9ft double connected to a short leader. All minnows are rigged on a short single strand wire trace. The sample spread below should give you an idea of how we fish the inner lagoons and fringing reefs for anything and everything found there.

Sample "I don't care" spread from our inshore sport fishing boat 'Offensive Tackle'

SHORT CORNER

Target - Mackerel, Grouper, Red Bass

Halco Sorcerer - Silver (mullet) Halco Laser Pro 190 Crazy Deep - Silver (mullet)
LONG CORNER

Target - Mackerel, Barracuda, Long Tom

Lurestreet Raptor - Green / Gold or Red / White
SHORT RIGGER

Target - Tuna, all Trevally

Wellsys Micro Bullet - Red black / Pink
LONG RIGGER

Target - Tuna, all Trevally

Pakula Uzi - Orange. Abu Toby Spoon or other metal slug- Silver Target - Queenfish
SHOTGUN

Target - Mackerel, Tuna, all Trevally

Halco Laser Pro 160 minnow - Redhead Pakula Phantom - Blue Silver / Green Gold (Evil) Target - Sailfish.Halco Roosta Popper - Redhead Target - Large Great Barracuda & GTs
Species Variety:

Mackerel

Narrow Barred (Spanish) MackerelShark MackerelDouble lined Mackerel
Tuna

Yellowfin TunaSkipjack TunaMackerel Tuna (Kawakawa)Bigeye TunaAlbacore
Trevally

Giant TrevallyBluefin TrevallyBigeye TrevallyBrassy TrevallyGolden Trevally
Barracuda

Great BarracudaChevron BarracudaBigeye Barracuda
Grouper

Coral TroutLyretail GrouperPeacock GrouperRock Cod
Where we get our Inshore lures :

Wellsys Tackle

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General Inshore Fiji Fishing Lure Spread

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