The Alphonse Fishing Company offers guests the chance to Fly Fish four pristine and remote Atolls in the Seychelles.With world class guides and top quality equipment it will ensure that you have an unforgettable experien...
Flat calm seas, hot weather and the presence of big GT’s continued on from previous weeks. Peter Barlow was the first to strike with a monster GT measuring 120cm and weighing 79lbs. Not only was it a real trophy but al...
The South East winds blew pretty constantly through out
the week, which churned up the water inside the shallow lagoon, giving it that
“milky” affect. This murky water makes it easier to target tailing Permit insi...
The Alphonse Fishing Company offers guests the chance to Fly Fish four pristine and remote Atolls in the Seychelles.With world class guides and top quality equipment it will ensure that you have an unforgettable experien...
It was a first time experience for most of the team
this week with 4 first timers to Seychelles and 1 “soon to become angler”
casting his first fly. John Caeser (dubbed John Trevally) had an unforgettable
start t...
The week kicked off with great weather and great shallow water flats fishing with most anglers catching over 20 Bonefish each as well as as a bunch of other species. The Triggers were around in good numbers and althoug...
Week 16 was met by a group of anglers hosted by the brothers Stefan and Alex Haider. The breezy North Westerly winds made for some tricky casting conditions, however it was not enough to deter the guide team and anglers ...
A wet windy start to the week but boy did the fishing
start off well. Harrald Claessen and Robert Gilchrist were quick out of the
blocks with 18 GT’s for the day and 7 of them over 100 cm. Robert landed the
biggest...
The second week of the season has just ended and once again there has been a flurry of trophy fish caught by all of this weeks’ team. We started with only 8 anglers as we continue to train our experienced but new-to-Al...
This week Alphonse Island was covered by a depression bringing overcast conditions, strong winds and heavy rain at times. This poor weather brought on a discussion amongst the guides that there are very few places that c...
The week started with strong Southeasterly winds as this season continues to run late. The early season Bonefishing has continued to impress and so have the Triggerfish, Trevally and Permit catches. This week proved to b...
Sadly this week marked the end to our first 10 weeks at
our new Astove Atoll Lodge. True to what Astove has continued to produce during
this season the fishing results speak for themselves. The big Bonefish were
arou...
In past weeks the Milkfish have been threatening to feeding in a pattern that would allow anglers sufficient shots and chances of hooking these high flying speedsters. This week it changed in dramatic style with 9 landed...
The South-Easterly season is almost upon us as the wind direction slowly swings bringing cooler ocean currents and an increase in Bonefish numbers. It was a week of light winds, flat seas and incredible catches once ag...
The great weather continued from the previous week making for fantastic tailing Bonefish sessions as well as assisting with the 569 Bones that were landed in the 6 days of fishing. Jonathan Stott landed the first of GT o...
Years turned into months, months turned into
weeks, weeks turned into days when finally Astove Atoll lodge opened its doors
for the first time to 6 lucky anglers. It was no surprise when Peter Opperman
started off the...
Astove Atoll is known for being one of the most epic GT
fishing destinations on this planet, but what many people don’t know is that
it’s equally as impressive for other species like Bonefish, Triggerfish, Permit ...
The first week of the 2014 - 2015 season has just come to an end and what a start it has been. We welcomed some new team members as our operation expands to include Cosmoledo liveaboard trips, Astove Atoll Lodge, Desro...
The last week of the season has finally arrived and still only light South-Easterly trade winds. As if to taunt us that the season has closed too soon the fish turned up in a magnificent fashion. We had 8 anglers this ul...
The run of flat calm weather continued on from last week and so did the great fishing. The GT’s were around in good numbers with fish being caught both on the flats and in the surf line. Joern Heiner managed to get a...
It’s hard to believe that the Bonefish numbers could get any better than this seasons previous weeks, but as the South-Easterly continues to make its mark and the cooler waters flood the flats, so do the Bonefish. Ev...
The weather turned for the better this week even though the occasional squall did interfere with a few sessions. The Bonefishing has been exceptional with numerous anglers catching more than 20 Bonefish per day and an im...
The Permit fishing seems to be hotting up as our
team managed numerous shots at these finicky feeders while they tail in the
milky shoreline water inside the lagoon. A little more fly pattern development
and it’s al...
The week started off like a dream with Grant Mackenzie
winning the tussle against a 109cm GT early on the first morning. As the week
progressed the big GT’s were definitely around and more than often than not
winni...
Week 14 was another fantastic week of fly fishing on Alphonse Island. It was started off with Richard Tarn landing a Permit in the morning of the first days fishing. Albeit not the biggest Permit on the flat, but a Permi...
Alphonse Island is known as a destination which provides amazing fishing opportunities week after week and year after year. During the festive season it’s a place teeming with various activity as family groups done o...
