Well.....This year the weather gods were certainly not to kind.
Myself and mate Greg Burt (GPB) headed to Fiji on the 13th March and along came another visitor....that of course being Mr 'Cyclone Thomas'.
We arrrived on the Saturday with a shocking looking forecast with 60-70 knot winds and rain but luckily the cyclone was tracking away from where we were.
Sunday was a non-fishing day regardless but we ended up losing Monday and Tuesday due to the weather.
Fishing began on the Wednesday afternoon and we popped several reefs in close to where we were staying picking up some small GT's around 4kg and late in the afternoon I managed a solid fish on a 'skipjack' around 20kg.
Also missed a shot at a bigger nasty looking black GT.
Thursday we started in close with Greg picking up a very nice Fish close to 30kg which was a top start to the day.
The main plan for Thursday was to travel through the river and emerge on the other side to pop the surrounding islands.The scenery along the way is awesome with the local villagers running along the banks waving,screaming and kids doing somersaults off the banks into the water.They just love seeing you as much as you do them.
The fishing on the Thursday fired.Greg picked up another great fish close to the size of his first and I scored two fish in the low 20kg bracket.
we also got some smaller fish around 6-8kg but the action was pretty consistent.
Friday's plan was going to be the same and fish the same area but the fishing had slowed considerably.
Greg got another fish in the 20kg bracket and I got some smaller ones along with a nice Bluefin Trevally.
We used a wide range of poppers some of which included Craftbaits,Orions,Labo's,Cubera's,Skipjacks,Adheks and Jai's.
All up it was a good trip that turned out to be good considering what 'Could have' been.
Some pics from the trip.
Cheers,
Pete
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