A slower week GT wise for the team but Astove still
produced a fantastic variety of other species like Triggers, Bonefish,
Saddle-Back Grouper, Swallow-tail Grouper and Wahoo. 30 GTs were landed with 3
breaking the 1...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
The light North-Westerly winds have finally arrived after a lengthy delay. The change in wind direction was met by an explosion of Milkfish feeding on the flats, in the channels and offshore. The highlight of the week ...
The week couldn’t have started any better with Paris Felezanis from the well known on line magazine “This Is Fly” catching a Permit on his first day of fishing Alphonse. The weather played its part allowing for per...
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...
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 week started in true Seychelles style with a slight North-Easter blowing and great visibility. The bonefishing was “off the charts” with 129 Bonefish landed during the first day. There were a few big fish around ...
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...
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...
The North Westerly winds have finally arrived and so have the Milkfish. It’s been a great week with flat calm seas, spectacular sunsets and a vast variety of species to catch. 9 Triggerfish, 5 GT’s, a Barracuda...
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 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...
As the season draws to an end and the South-Easterly winds start to blow in a light fashion. This change in direction reverses the currents bringing cooler tides to the surrounding waters, channels and flats. The cooler ...
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...
Continuing from last weeks’ great action, the first day of this week kicked off with 2 “Flats Slams”, 8 GT’s, 2 Triggers and 112 Bonefish. Arthur Wickson and Simon Dawes both landed GT’s, Triggers and Bonefish ...
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...
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...
Repetitive sounding fishing reports are indicative of how constant this seasons good fortunes have been on a weekly basis. The reports might sound similar, but the smiling faces in the photos have varied on a daily basis...
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...
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 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...
The incredible weather continued with light South-Easterly winds and flat calm seas. The Milkfish have been here since October even though they have been considerably late in their offshore feeding due to the non-exist...
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...
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 ...
Alphonse is synonymous for its magnificent Bonefish population as well as the sheer diversity of predatory fish that feed on these shallow water speedsters. Great weather, neap tides and anglers who focused on Bonefish m...
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...
Indo Pacific Permit are without doubt one of the most difficult flats species that can be caught on fly. This week started in an incredible fashion with 2 magnificent Permit caught on the first day of the week. Chant...
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...
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...
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 settled weather finally arrived after 2 wet weeks. The GT’s continue to make their presence felt as 7 good size fish were landed between the team. Robert Simini managed to tame this weeks biggest GT of 108 cm, wi...
Week 15 was full of variety with a number of firsts for numerous anglers! Again, like almost every week, the Bonefish fishing was exceptional with over 300 fish caught during the first few days. The guests quite often la...
The week couldn’t have started better with great weather and plenty of GT’s. Good friends Hugh Law (93 cm & 84cm), Brian Mclean (70 cm & 79 cm) and Alistair Crawford (80 cm) landed 5 GT’s on day 1 which set...
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...
Jan Hradecky hooked, fought and landed a nice Milkfish after a 1 hour 35 minute flight that endured 2 jumps and 6 greyhounds. What a way to finish the year as we look forward to a 2015 full of Milkfish tales/tails.
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...
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...
