We did a trip up into the Musandam with Jon Viney, Alex Louw and Damon Beattie as captain and guide to target sailfish of our 32ft Center Console Al Sayyad which is perfectly set up for trolling. Alex is a pro targeting sails so we wanted to see if we could find some new areas and fish. It was an awesome day cruising up into the Musandam with the weather a bit cooler.
We passed several good shoals of small tuna but pushed through to the agreed area we wanted to troll and target sails. As we arrived we saw sails chasing bait great sign, we put out the lures and trolled the area, seeing a few more sails we thought we were going to be in action but unfortunately we only raised one fish and did not manage to hook the fish up. But was good to get out a set a spread for sails!
We trolled through a lot of big shoals of tuna and eventually we could not resist and Jon put in a cast to about 1 million tuna busting and hooked up and landed a nice fish.
We got to one of the islands and there was a nice current and we thought we would try for GTs for a little bit, but as we got closer to the area some massive longtail tuna started busting in the surface, I put in a cast with my aerocast and Stella 5K with a Shout 30gr Dangan with blinged up split rings, swivel and ST66 no2 hook. So I was ready for anything! I went tight and the fight was on! The aerocast is a great light tackle outfit but because of the length does not have to much lifting power on fish over 20kg. The fish sat in the current and we had a back and forth tussle for over an hour, towards the end of the fight the fish came up to the surface and I got a fright when i saw the size of the fish, it must have been 35-40kg, huge and would have come very close if not over the current World Record. All action stations when we saw the fish and we worked the fish another 15 minutes when the fish came to the surface again the leader broke about 10m from the boat. I was using 30lbs Fluro leader and wore through after an epic fight. I was a bit sad but still great fun and even better to see such an awesome fish. The fish and current had pulled us over 4kms from where I hooked the fish!
We set up for our GT drift and on the drift Alex got hit clean out of the water by a big kingfish and then on the next drift Alex, Jon and myself all got hit by good sized kingfish. I got cut off with a Hots stickbait (luckily got it back), Jons fish dropped the lure but Alex managed to hook his kingfish on the Hots 711MH. A great fight and Alex got the fish to the boat and landed.
Really great day out and a little bit of all types of fishing. Good company, good weather can't ask for much more, a few fish a bonus! We been building up to head down to Southern Oman next week to start the season. Everything looking good, the boyz hae been fishing for the last month up North and down South the guys have been fixing up the Island Villa so we have 10 rooms and now the boats have a good number of rod holders so everything is looking fantastic!!
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Heading out on Al Sayyad 2 early morning
Damon captain for the day!
Jon and Alex setting the lines
Alexs home made teasers
Tuna by the million!!
Jon has to have a throw!!
Nice small longtail taken on light tackle.
Spoon and baitfish
Local fisherman handlining tuna in a big shoal.
Hooked into a bus tuna on light tackle!!
Alex with the kingfish next to the boat.
Alex with a big kingfish taken on the 711MH with a dorado slider.
