Artificial Lure here with your Seychelles saltwater fishing rundown, coming to you like a breeze off the reef. Out here the southeast trade is starting to settle in. Around Mahé, Praslin, and La Digue we’ve had a steady 10–15 knot SE wind, a light chop inside the inner islands, and a bit more lump once you push past the drop-off. Skies have been partly cloudy, with a few passing showers but plenty of fishable windows. Air temps hovering around the high 20s, and the water holding warm and clear in the lagoons, a little more color on the windward sides. The tide today ran a medium swing: a lively rising tide through the morning into early afternoon, then easing toward low by evening. That pushing water over the flats and into the fringing reefs has been the key. First light to mid‑morning and the start of the afternoon flood have been the prime bite windows. Sunrise came in just after six, with sunset shortly after six‑thirty, giving a nice, compact feeding period at both ends of the day. Inshore, the flats and reef edges have been busy. Fly guys and light‑tackle anglers are finding good numbers of bluefin trevally, smaller GTs, queenfish, and yellowspotted trevally working the bait. Bonefish are around in the shallower sand patches on the lower stages of the tide, especially on quieter leeward flats. A few permit have shown up for the patient stalkers, but they’re moody as always. Best producers inshore have been small white and tan shrimp flies, olive‑over‑white baitfish patterns, and for spin anglers, 20–40 g metal jigs, white bucktail jigs, and small surface stickbaits. A fast, erratic retrieve over the drop‑off has pulled some savage strikes from trevally. Natural bait fishers using fresh cut bonito, small live fusiliers, and prawn along the reef edges are picking up snapper, emperors, and the odd jobfish. Offshore, the drop‑off and seamounts are holding life. Charter skippers out of Mahé and Praslin report solid action on yellowfin tuna in the 10–30 kg range, with a few bigger fish mixed in. Wahoo have been slashing the spread along current lines, and there are still decent numbers of dorado under any floating debris. Sailfish are making scattered appearances; not thick, but enough to keep a teaser in the water. Best offshore spread has been a mix of medium skirted lures in lumo green, pink‑white, and blue‑silver, pulled at 7–8 knots. Cedar plugs and smaller jet heads down the middle have been getting chewed by tuna. When the birds bunch up, switching to casting stickbaits and poppers into the bust‑ups has produced some explosive topwater bites. Chunking with cut tuna or bonito on drift lines is tempting the bigger yellowfin when they sound. For those bottom‑fishing on the edges of the banks, fresh squid and cut fish baits are turning up red snapper, grouper, and jobfish. Heavier jigs in the 80–150 g range, worked tight to the bottom, have been effective when the current isn’t too fierce. A couple of hot spots to keep in your back pocket: First, the drop‑off and reef complex off the south of Mahé, around Anse Royale toward Police Bay – good structure, bait, and current, especially on a rising tide with that SE breeze. Second, the banks and reef edges northwest of Praslin and around the Sisters and Coco area – great mixed bag potential, from trevally on the flats to tuna and wahoo once you push off the edge. If you’re heading out tomorrow, plan to fish hard at first light through the early push of tide, lay low when the sun is high and the water goes slack, then get back on it for the late‑afternoon rise. Keep your leaders stout – there’s always a bigger GT or dogtooth waiting to test your knots in these islands. Thanks for tuning in, and don’t forget to subscribe for more on‑the‑water updates and tackle talk with me, Artificial Lure. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai. Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn
