I did a 2 week trip to Mauritius trip with mommy to a self catering place called "Le Cerisier" in Mont Choisy, NW side of the Island near Grand Baai, what an awesome place to go and unwind. I did 2 charter trips, one with an organized charter, paid a lot to pull plastic and catch nothing, we found the tunny smashing with the birds, tried all sorts but sea was like glass and fish had lockjaw. Arrange another trip with the locals on there 24foot (pirouk) boat with 2 x 15hp Yamaha Enduro motors, picked me up at 05h00 in the dark with a flashlight to navigate through the reef, oh well its the locals. Arrived at the 2 mile FAD in the dark, put out 2 x rapallas and within 100m on to a YFT of 15kg, another passes same story, 3 on the boat in 30min, decided to fish for live bait to throw for a dorado. Got live bait and I rigged one onto my Assassin 3 piece 1 x heavy, Stradic 500 with 30lb braid and 1m of 40lb fluro leader, well the locals were shaking their heads. 10min in the water I am on, 1 hour later I land a YFT of 25kg, I was then classed as a professional by the locals. Ended the morning with 8 YFT of which I got to catch 7. Called it a day at 11h00 as the wind had picked up to 25knots and was getting unpleasant and my arms and back was killing me. All in all a great day out, I did mention we had problems with sharks eating our fish in SA, there answer was they have marlin that eat theirs, oh well not really a problem is it ??
