Best Overseas Fishing Spot !!!

[fish-n-dive]

OK,

Where is the BEST place have you personally fished overseas and why???

Mine would have to be Alaska for the MONSTER salmon and abundance of trout.................the scenery's pretty good too!!!

Cheers

[mitch_05]

mine would be burns lake in canada as that is the only overseas place i have fished

didnt catch anything but

[Lone_Wolf]

Gee I am going to cop it for this but how 'bout Moreton Island?

[Mary_River_Cod]

North Stradbroke Island when the mulloway are running...lol

[gone_phishin]

Hen and Chicken Islands off Whangarei NZ. Fishing off the yacht in 80' of water and crystal clear all the way to the bottom. No BS, use to use tiny blocks of cheese to catch good pan size squire, after you got through the blue mau mau's. Always gave the misses the tom tits when she went hunting for cheese to cook a scallop mornay on the yacht

Other best spot was in the "Hole in the Wall" in Arnhem land, but I guess it wasn't really overseas as such, just in the Wessels in the Arafura Sea.

Geoff

[wiseguy67]

Burns lake and you did not catch any!!!?
Great place and fantastic fishing.

My favorite for fresh is Shuswap Lake BC Canada I grew up there and where the Adams river enters the lake is a top rainbow spot, full on action when the salmon are spawning.

Cocos Keeling produced some good fish with little effort, long ways to go unless you have a sail boat as we did at the time...

Yukon Canada for northern pike and moose lived with a mad trapper for 3 months when i was 11yrs and learnt so much from him.

[bignick]

Neither are technically overseaes, as they are both Australian territories, but I would have to say Christmas Island and the Cocos Keeling Islands, which are both way out off the coast of Western Australia in the Indian Ocean. Huge GT's from the jetty at night and giant Dogtooth Tuna from the boat in the daytime at Cocos. Big Wahoo, Yellowfin Tuna, monsterous GT's and Sailfish on the troll at Christmas within a stone's throw of the boat ramp. And work paid for me to go there...

Cheers,
NICK.

[backhoe]

PNG for black and spot-tail bass. Everything you read about them is actually true plus more. Memories stay with you forever

[choppa]

bensbach.....png......but i went there prior to the mad tourist boom that it still holds today,,,,,last time i enquired you have a 45% chance of confirmation of booking 6 months in advance @ $550/day,,,,lodgings were primitive,,, but everything,,and i mean everything was laid on,,,, going by there web site little has changed including the fishing which is all c & r,,,only a certain amount of fillets are allowed out,,,,,needed 1 week additional off work just to recover from the 1 week there

[trueblue]

Grander alley adjacent to the island of Kona in Hawaii.

Didn't get lucky on the marlin the trips I went out, but plenty of wahoo and yellow fin tuna.

[catchy_fishy]

i have been fortunate to fish a number of countries (all with fly).

I've fished in South Africa where I live for many fresh and saltwater species both inshore and off shore.

I've fished a number of african countries including Lesotho for the native yellow fish, Zambia and Zimbabwe for the elusive tiger fish, and I've fished Mozambique plenty - see the pics to follow.

More widely I've also done a bit of fishing in the Uk, as far soiutha s Cornwall, the lake districts in the middle, and in Scotland I chased Greyling and Salmon.

My all time favourite is by far Mozambique where I lose myself due to the wildness. Being a very recent war stricken country now suffering from poverty and rife with disease like Malaria and HIV AIDS, not many but the boldest go.

That includes me.

You can go in mid holiday season and see no one for at least 3 days.

See the pics attached of this gem of a place - the first shows a beautifulk ledge / drop off that runs for about 70km's up the coast. It's deep sea, and suddenly a pinnacle then land - this means you can push out on a yak or simpy cast and catch a saily from shore - exceptional place.

Cheers

Catchy Fishy

[catchy_fishy]

Plenty of space to fish undisturbed

[catchy_fishy]

Look closely, far out on the point you can see a blob - that's me

[catchy_fishy]

I felt the need to come back to what I was missing

[catchy_fishy]

Actually it gets quite scary out there when you are casting a fly and every centimetre counts, with a rising tide I came home casting all the way through the "flats"