| - Average Water Temp - 27.0 | | | | and barely noticeable swell, just enough to keep the |
| - Average Weather - excellent. Calm seas, light | | | | barrier reef breakers visible. All being well, the current |
| overcast, just the occasional breezy day. | | | | excellent popper conditions should last right through |
| - Water Clarity - Variable inshore after tropical rain, | | | | to April. With such calm conditions, its easy to spot |
| good offshore | | | | the fusilier shoals being harassed by GTs, bluefin |
| It has been an excellent spring for us with just about | | | | trevally and narrow barred mackerel. |
| everything on the species list available to anglers. The | | | | The calm also makes it easy to work jigs down to |
| wahoo and sailfish packs have thinned but the first | | | | 120m with little or no drift. This summer we will be |
| of the Christmas Yellowfin schools are now moving in. | | | | working the Kadavu seamount over with larger 400g |
| Trolling small baits is still producing wahoo, sails, | | | | droppers for dogtooth, amberjack and a whole host |
| mackerel and mahi mahi whilst switching to big baits | | | | of wild and wacky deepwater species. At 150m its a |
| close in to the barrier reef is producing good yellowfin | | | | deep drop but easy enough in the summertime. |
| to 100lbs and black marlin to 300lbs. | | | | With 75 miles of unexplored barrier reef, the biggest |
| With the windy winter weather behind us now, the | | | | problem is deciding where to start fishing. Not such a |
| hot tropical calm is moving onto Fiji waters, ideal | | | | bad problem to have. I'm looking forward to worrying |
| conditions for the GT popper casting and deepwater | | | | about it. |
| jigging fans. Summer's almost here with glassy seas | | | | |