Maldives fly fishing

Just back from looking at some more fly fishing destinations in the Maldives. We again fished the Kanuhura resort for a few days before flying down to the remotest area of the southern maldives and visiting the stunning Ayada resort. Both resorts are ideally set up for family vacations, honeymoons or just a holiday in the sun.

From a fishing point of view both offer something different. Kanuhura has a boston whaler and trained up fly fishing guide. We have also established a pick up and drop off program for the DIY angler. We encountered good numbers of bonefish while there and had over a dozen shots at ind-pacific permit over a couple of days fishing. The permit here are as fussy as elsewhere but we had several fish very interested in our presentations. The GT's were not around in big numbers but was not a great tide week so this may explain only the few fish seen.

Ayada is a new resort located in the far south of the Maldives. They are in the early stages of setting up their fishing program which will include a gameboat, spotrfisher and flats skiff. We will be helping them over the coming months to establish their fishing operations. There are extensive flats areas nearby to the resort and we spent 2 days looking at these. The habitat is varied (shallow sand, turtle grass and ocean reef) and extensive. Despite the great looking habitat we encountered few fish and this was probabl;y due to a big weather system that came through during our visit.

When the sun shone we manage dot find indo-pacific permit, big triggerfish and a fair number of good sized bluefin trevally (10 lb +). While the flats screamed bonefish we didn't encounter any on this trip. However the area looks great and I am excited about a return visit to try and find out a bit more about that fishery.

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