Bite Me Big Game Fishing Charters, Kadavu, Fiji Islands - Wahoo
Superb blue water game fishing for wahoo, sailfish and marlin with Bite Me Fishing Charters awaits you at Matava in Kadavu, Fiji Islands. Bite Me Gamefishing Charters, Kadavu,Bite Me Gamefishing Charters, Kadavu, Fiji Islands fishing videos. Fiji Islands. www.GamefishingFiji.com
Bite Me Gamefishing Charters, Fiji Fish the tropical waters around the remote S. Pacific island of Kadavu. Jungle covered volcanic hills swoop down to mangrove bays and coral lagoons. 75 miles of Great Astrolabe Reef with outer slopes plunging to canyons of over 12,000 feet. Blue marlin cruise within sight of the reef, yellowfin tuna smash bait balls as far as the eye can see. Packs of marauding wahoo cover the reef points and big Pacific Sailfish free-jump along the reef!
Bite Me Bite Me Gamefishing’s 31ft custom rigged game boat can be throwing poppers for huge GTs or trolling bent butt Penn International 80 Wide chair tackle for blue marlin within 10 minutes of your lodge. Bite Me is based at Matava Resort, a AAA rated 3&1/2 star eco-lodge on the South East side of Kadavu Island. Traditional thatched Fijian bures perch on the island’s rainforrest covered slopes with private decks offering magnificent views
Anglers can choose to work the mangroves, sheltered lagoons or reef edges for Giant Trevally, bluefin trevally, Narrow Barred (Spanish) mackerel, coral trout and a host of toothy reef predators or work the outer reef slopes for wahoo, yellowfin and Pacific Sailfish. Within a few miles of the barrier reef are deep ocean canyons where we find blue marlin, huge yellowfin tuna, mahi mahi and shortbill spearfish and dogtooth tuna.
The Fishing
A seamount lies just 7 miles offshore with nutrient rich upwellings holding large concentrations baitfish and oceanic predators. An hour from the lodge, a remote coral atoll breaks the surface with sheer sides plummeting to depths of 6,000 feet. Bite Me offers anglers the opportunity to explore miles of pristene unfished tropical waters in the comfort of a modern Australian custom built gamefishing vessel with a full range of high quality tackle from custom made all-roller ultra-light record
From our base here you can throw poppers for GTs at dawn, tag a blue marlin by mid-morning, put some 50lb wahoo on the deck by lunch, fight a double header of sails on 12lb string by mid afternoon and stop off on the way back for a bit of deepwater jigging for dogtooth, amberjack, jobfish and Opakapaka. Whatever your prefered method of fishing or species you wish to target, the opportunities here are endless. Whether you want to tease up a pack of 50lb wahoo and cast a fly for the ultimate fly
Sailfish. Every year from May through to September, large packs of sailfish gather along the outer slopes of the barrier reef. Often, individual sailfish come inside the reef and are found in the lagoons. Though caught all year round, May-September is by far the best time of year for sailfish. Black marlin are much more rare and tend to be seen right up close to the reef. In fact quite a few have been seen by guests diving from the lodge. Presumed to be migrating back and forth to the Australia
Home Fish Species Blue Marlin Pacific Blue Marlin. Kadavu island sees black, blue and striped marlin however the most commonly caught species and seen all year round is the blue marlin. Ranging in size from 150lbs to 1,000lbs they can be caught trolling lures, skip-baits or livebaiting. Because of the deep trenches running either side of Kadavu island, the 1,000 fathom line is only a few miles off the reef. Here, blues have been raised as close as 500 yards from the outer barrier reef.
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