Giant trevally in Tahiti

In between our bonefishing we managed to have some great GT fishing. Nick Reaygeart of Gin Clear Media was out with us filming a section for his next film and managed some fantastic footage. Keep an eye out for it. Giant trevally were found cruising the dropoff's, up on the flats and on the backs of the numerous rays swimming around the island. Some huge fish were encountered with one fish well over 1m long encountered on the shallow flats. Along with the Giant trevally there were numerous other trevally species including bluefin, stripped and diamond trevally on the flats.

Some images from the trip below and will post some more in the next few days.

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Tahiti Bonefish Project

We have just returned from 8 days fly fishing in Tahiti having implemented the first phase of our Bonefish research project in  conjunction with the Tetiaroa Society. We had some amazing fly fishing to big bonefish with 4 fish weighed and measured over the magical 10lb mark. A large number of fish between the 7-10lb range were also tagged and released. The Field Magazine writer Toby Coe joined us and managed a 5kg fish. Paul Procter also landed his first double figure bonefish along with some fine giant trevally. You can read about it on his blog along with the 2013 New Zealand adventure where we are currently fishing to large wild brown trout.

We will be continuing the tag and release project in 2013 before starting the acoustic tagging in 2014.

Some images of the trip below.

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Bonefish and Giant Trevally in Tahiti, French Polynesia

Some footage from the first of two trips in 2012 to Tetiaroa in French Polynesia. A fantastic place with huge bonefish, flats feeding giant trevally and milkfish feeding in shallow water.

And client Jonathan Hey landing a personal best Giant trevally (1.21m; estimated 85lb) one of 7 fish he had during his week on the island.

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Merry Christmas

Just a quick thank you to all those who have booked trips and travelled with us in 2009. We at Fly Odyssey wish you all a very Merry Christmas and and a festive time catching up with family and friends over the New Year period. We have some new and exciting developments for 2010 which include:

1. We will be running the first exploratory liveaboard trips to French Polynesia, New Caledonia and Kanton island in the Pacific in the newly built liveaboard BONEFISH (See pic below). We will be releasing dates and prices in early January 2010.



2. We are now the exclusive European agent for Casa Veijo Chac in Punta Allen, Ascension Bay, Mexico. The 'Casa' is local permit guru Manuel Chac's 4 room lodge with a capacity for 8 anglers. Fly Odyssey clients have been fishing with Manuel for several years and always return full of praise. The lodge offers the most competitive pricing in the region and is a must for the Permit junkie to visit.

3. We have also teamed up with Chile's finest trout fishing outfit Estancia Del Zorro and Cincos Rios Lodge. The Estancia is a 15000 acre property that it is riddled with springfed streams which are stuffed with big brown trout (as the photo below attests). Cincos Rios is situated on the banks of the world famous Rio Simpson and offers the chance to drift, wade and even jetboat into the headwaters and tributaries chasing the brown and rainbow trout as well as the salmon that inhabit this system.



4. We have also joined forces with Palm Valley Outfitters in the US who are exploring and opening up new and unfished waters deep in the Southern Yucatan Peninsula as well as operating a lodge in South texas for Redfish and white-wing dove shooting. Jeff at Palm Valley will also be acting as our US agent and running some saltwater fly fishing hosted trips to Christmas Island and Australia so if you have any questions about any of the destinations that we offer and are based in the US please give Jeff a call on (956) 428566 or email Palm Valley Outfitters for more information.



Merry Christmas
Mat