The Solomon Islands part 3

dirvin21 · June 20

So as you've probably read our time in the Solomon's had been a little hit and miss, after a good discussion with Eric we got him to realise we weren't worried about monster fish we just wanted to catch fish, the more species the better, so with this knowledge we started our morning casting soft plastics around the shallows and it didn't take long for some action with plenty of small colourful fish like

Yellow tail emperor and

Coronation trout

I handed Eric our 20lb setup and he joined in the action, as we moved into deeper water we switched up to soft vibes

The fish started small but tye size began to improve

Slowly, then Amy's rod loads up proper, Eric was so excited when not 1 but 2 fish surfaced

A nice longfin and coral cod

And shortly after Amy's into another good fish and sure enough

A great paddletail

Getting towardsthe end of our morning session I free my vibe from a snag and it gets annihilated, I called for a big fish,

A really nice leopard trout, and to top off a good morning Amy and I both catch orange lined triggerfish

Absolutely stunning fish

With tgings starting to fire up we headed back out for the afternoon we again vibed some good looking reef, the first few drops were uneventful then woth Eric saying wind up, my vibe gets hammered only a metre from the surface, calling trevally ot was a tough fight over some heavy reef, first thought GT but turned out to be another great bluefin

That set the tone for my afternoon I caught loads of new species

Longnose emperor

Blue spot emperor

Threadfin emperor

And even a surgeon fish

Moving spots looking for bigger fish as the lodge relies on fish for food

We got into a few better quality fish like trout, and other random species like

Highfin cod

And

Small red bass

Amy was having a tough arvo until again after being bitten off I offer to retie her leader passing my rod over

Again Amy catches a great fish on my rod

The afternoon definetly produced with some new and very beautiful fish

Black tail snapper

And a big gold spot

Unfortunately I thought it was a big Lutjanid so I went a bit hard and due to barotrauma couldn't be released

The following morning we decided was our last boat session so we again focused on softvibing

The morning started well

Amy landing a nice paddletail early on, while cranking my vibe in to take a photo again it's nailed, calling trevally seeing silver thought surely the elusive GT but no

A really nice Brassy, we landed a few other small reefies but with the sun out we wanted to send the drone up from a nearby island, pulling up of course there were fosh busting

A queenie to finish off my boat fishing, the island was like a postcard

And even better from above

Our afternoon was spent snorkelling and relaxing bit I also wanted to try kayak fishing near the lodge, I brought a 6lb setup with us so I tried casting a 38mm lipless crank around the coral edges, it was so much fun

The smaller fish were going off on it