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Hallaniyat Islands Oman Weekend Trip
February 27, 2012, 05:24:14 PM
While I was in the US fishing for the Bluefin with Sami and the boyz, we had a trip running with Allan Stanton and David De Kock who did a weekend trip down to the Hallaniyat islands. The guys arrived at the mainland villa and transfered across to the island to fish a couple of days. The weather was great on the first day but became a bit rough and luckily we were still able to fish. The guys had some awesome fishing and caught a huge variety of fish including GTs, Blackfin Trevally, Yellow Dot Trevally, Black trevally, AJs, bonito, longtail tuna (Northern Bluefin), Emperor, and a few other fish. The guys had a few monster GTs come up but did not manage to hook any of the big girls up but still had a couple of good fish. The jigging is also starting to pick up and a few AJs were landed. The guys were fishing both heavy popping gear and also light spinning gear for smaller gamefish.

Amazingly David landed a milkfish on spinning gear and a lure! The fish was hooked in the mouth, still not sure if this was just coincidence or the fish took the lure? We have caught them on fly in Hallaniyat up to 20kgs but on lure??? Must have thought it was one beeeg piece if algae!

Its looking awesome for the end of the season and with another boat coming into the operation we look forward to a good few monster fish and hopefully some good weather!! I'm heading for Japan for the Popping and Jigging show this weekend so hopefully we will have a few new toyz to try out on our trip next week to the islands. Hit it!!

Cheers,
Nick




















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Re: Hallaniyat Islands Oman Weekend Trip
February 27, 2012, 06:52:18 PM
Perfect conditions by the look of it! Looks awesome.

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Re: Hallaniyat Islands Oman Weekend Trip
February 27, 2012, 07:00:49 PM
Great work Nick!  8)

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Re: Hallaniyat Islands Oman Weekend Trip
February 27, 2012, 11:05:29 PM
Hi Dan, weather was awesome the first day and a half and then went a bit pear shaped! When weather is good in Southern Oman there is no place like it, flat seas and big fish!

Hi Luke, A lot of big fish have showed up over the last couple of days talking to the commercials, looking good for your trip!

Cheers,
Nick

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Re: Hallaniyat Islands Oman Weekend Trip
February 28, 2012, 01:13:52 AM
Hi Nick ,

On light tackles , that milkfish is a worthy adversary , a few using PE2 line in #2500 sized Shimano have been stripped on the first run of this fish .

Jon .
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Re: Hallaniyat Islands Oman Weekend Trip
February 28, 2012, 07:41:59 AM
Very nice Nick  :) I look forward to the new expedition  ;)

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Re: Hallaniyat Islands Oman Weekend Trip
February 28, 2012, 02:57:56 PM
Hi Jon, Totally agree, awesome fish, I have not had the privilege of catching them on light tackle, always been on fly which is good fun and usually takes a bit of time to hook them up. There are huge shoals around at the moment so if the GTs are not playing the game might give them a try again!

Hi Sami, everything is ready for the trip! Just add GTs! Look forward to it!

Cheers,
Nick