General Inshore Fiji Fishing Lure 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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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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