Fujairah United Arab Emirates on fire!

[Ocean Active]

This last week Jon Viney and Myself fished in Fujairah with Alex Louw on his boat Lara. Really awesome trip and great fun. We met up at the marina early morning after driving through from GT House and launched the boat.


The aim was to do a little bit of everything from jigging to trolling to light tackle. We headed out to jig some of the wrecks. After a lot of hard work Jon managed to hook up to a good fish on the MC Works 556. After an initially easy fight a nice yellowfin tuna which I believe is the first one of the season came to the boat and then all hell broke loose and Jon had his work cut out for him! But the angler and rod did a fine job and Jon landed a nice 12kg YFT. I managed to have a couple of hits which looked like Aj but never managed to to hook up.


After the sun and heat got up we headed for the tankers to try a bit of trolling and light tackle spinning for Dorado. Alex has an amazing mister system on the boat which spreys a fine spray of fresh water while you fishing, simply fantastic! We actually fished for about 12 hours on the boat because of the system in UAE summer heat!


We got to the first tanker and found no dorado but Jon dropped a jig and managed to raise a couple of fish and then the game was on. We had a fantastic time catching some good sized dorado and rainbow runners on Riptide Plastics and small Hots jigs. I think we must have got about 10 dorado and 8 rainboaw runner. Really great day out and nice to be a guest on someone elses boat just relax and do a bit of fishing!


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Cheers,
Nick
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Launching the boat early morning

Jon into the first YFT of the season on the MC Works 556, awesome rod for this area!

A nice chunky little YFT jigging in 110m of water

Light tackle spinning with a dorry

Nice female dorry on light tackle.

Jon bending on he aerocast

First rainbow runner of the day

Jon hooked up this fish from under the props of the ship!!

Masters of the ocean, still amazed these ships float!

Jon with another dorry

Fishing next to the ships

A nice bull on light tackle, gave me a good run for my money!

Alex in action

Jon in the rainbow runner action again! Great fighting fish!

Jon with a dorado

Finally beat this one, gave a very good fight!

Great pic

Double up! Alex hooked up on the MC Works 556 Conventional

Rainbow runner on jig with a Drift Tune 120gr that we were testing, awesome jig!

I managed a nice rainbow on light tackle

Fighting and landing our own fish we were so busy hooking up fish!

Jon with another nice dorry

Caught on a small plastic

Alex with a nice dorry

Rainbow runners by the dozen!!

Was great to fish the whole day finally as the heat is starting to calm down.

[FishStyx]

Nice stuff. Dorries and Rainbows are such sluts for flotsam (in this case, a huge piece of flotsam). They can provide endless hours of fun.

[Kumz]

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[WalkersKiller]

SUPERB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Gerhard]

Nice UAE gold you have there Nick.


Looks like you guys had a lot of fun.

[Ocean Active]

Many thanks guys! Was awesome fun and lucky to have the big pieces of flotsam!!

[snoek]

We just came back from the UAE and were lucky enough to have a day on the water @ Fujairha. I can report that the fishing at Fujairha is dismal. We were four people on the boat and could only manage one fish for the day. For the price - 2500 dirham (R6000) or R1500pp I can definitely not recommend Fujairha. Imagine paying all that money and not touching a rod.
 
We met some South Africans working in the UAE at the marina who told us that a year ago fishing at Fujairha was great but the last year or so was dismal. They say that the best fishing is in Oman but with a single entry visa into the UAE you can’t make the return journey back into the UAE.
 
Our skipper could only speak about 5 English words. I realized it was going to be a slow day when the skipper tried to make us take a picture with the bait fish he caught at the marina.
 
Anyway, that’s fishing for you. If it was easy there wouldn’t be any fun in it…
 

[Prego]

Sorry to hear about the bad fishing, but it goes like that sometimes. We did a charter In Ponta where all we got was 1 Couta that cost 5 of us R3500.

Which charter did you use?

[snoek]

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[Gerhard]

We just came back from the UAE and were lucky enough to have a day on the water @ Fujairha. I can report that the fishing at Fujairha is dismal. We were four people on the boat and could only manage one fish for the day. For the price - 2500 dirham (R6000) or R1500pp I can definitely not recommend Fujairha. Imagine paying all that money and not touching a rod.
 
We met some South Africans working in the UAE at the marina who told us that a year ago fishing at Fujairha was great but the last year or so was dismal. They say that the best fishing is in Oman but with a single entry visa into the UAE you can’t make the return journey back into the UAE.
 
Our skipper could only speak about 5 English words. I realized it was going to be a slow day when the skipper tried to make us take a picture with the bait fish he caught at the marina.
 
Anyway, that’s fishing for you. If it was easy there wouldn’t be any fun in it…

I have last fished Fujairha in 2009...


My 1st experiance was also the same.

Charter - No fish for the day.


Next time a friend and I went out with is rubber duck.


We basically never came home with out fish.

Dorado, Queen Fish, Cuta (King fish) and small tuna.


Sorry to hear you guys had a difficult day on the water.

[Cam Mundy]

Hi Snoek

Sorry to hear you got skunked on your day out. Fujairha can offer some amazing fishing action but like any fishing destination there are going to be days when the fish have lock jaw. If there are any specifics that you were not happy with please feel free to drop myself or Nick a PM so we can address any shortcomings we may not be aware of.

With regards to fishing in Oman on a tourist visa it is possible to cross the Dibba border into Oman where our operation is based without having your UAE visa cancelled.

Cheers Cameron

We just came back from the UAE and were lucky enough to have a day on the water @ Fujairha. I can report that the fishing at Fujairha is dismal. We were four people on the boat and could only manage one fish for the day. For the price - 2500 dirham (R6000) or R1500pp I can definitely not recommend Fujairha. Imagine paying all that money and not touching a rod.
 
We met some South Africans working in the UAE at the marina who told us that a year ago fishing at Fujairha was great but the last year or so was dismal. They say that the best fishing is in Oman but with a single entry visa into the UAE you can’t make the return journey back into the UAE.
 
Our skipper could only speak about 5 English words. I realized it was going to be a slow day when the skipper tried to make us take a picture with the bait fish he caught at the marina.
 
Anyway, that’s fishing for you. If it was easy there wouldn’t be any fun in it…