Gear + Resources

We poled the saltiest and freshest insiders from the islands and mountains, with each authority eagerly providing the must have flies. This list will allow you to avoid the dreaded giggle from the guides as you open one of your eight fly boxes loaded with all of the wrong flies. We will provide a list pertinent to the location of your next adventure.  Below is an example of a list prepared for our clients by Vaughn Driessel, former fishing manager at Alphonse Island Resort in the Seychelles.

Giant Trevally
1. Bob Popovics - Semper fly tied in natural colours like brown, black, tan, olive and then purple with a touch of red in the gill area.
2. Flashy Profile baitfish pattern but make sure it's on a good hook and not too flashy, scares the fish in clear water.
3. Slammer baitfish again tied in natural colours. Best description is to take a sea habit/Lefty's deciever and flatten it out to form a broad profile. We use epoxy and big holographic eyes.

Triggers
4. Velcro crab: correctly weighted so that the hook rides up. Make sure the hooks are gamakatsu SL12S otherwise the triggers use them as toothpicks.
5. Epoxy Crabs - can be tied with velcro patches and epoxy over.
6. A very well tied borski slider in olive, rootbeer and a mixture of both will also work. Commercial borski's are too flashy and bulky.

Milkfish
7. Get the flies on the island. Clients think they can tie them and end up wasting the guides time fishing flies that suck.

Bones
8. Christmas Island Special in all colours are great.
9. Gotcha's in various weights for different conditions
10. Pink Puffs are deadly.
11. Charlie variations tied with rubber legs in Chart, lumo orange.
12. Spawning shrimp works well for bones and permit.

General
13. Clousers in chartruese, yellow and orange tied on various hooks for different species from a #2 up to a 5-6/0 for GT's or dredging. If a client arrives with a heavy sinking line and some well tied clousers he will have a blast during the dead tides fishing edges and coral heads for snapper, grouper and trevally.