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


by Adrian Watt - Date: 2007-04-22 - Word Count: 283 Share This!

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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Adrian was born on the island of Cyprus and graduated to his first rod & reel at the age of five. Having fished around the world from the Arabian Gulf to the North sea and English Channel, he finally settled for the tropical waters of the South Pacific around the island of Kadavu, Fiji Islands. Director of Matava Resort Gamefishing, he skippers 'Bite Me', the resort's 31ft DeepVee Gamefishing vessel and thoroughly enjoys exploring the light and heavy tackle fishing around the island and Great Astrolabe Barrier Reef. An IGFA Certified Captain, he advocates tag & release and is a keen supporter of the IGFA and the Billfish Foundation.

Adrian Watt,
IGFA Captain
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