Updates October, November, December 2009

We spent most of the months of October and November doing our annual boat maintenance, both Halcyon and Halcyon II were completely serviced and we put on new anti-foul paint, the electronics have been upgraded on both both boats.
This year the weather in November was unpredictable as compared to last year and most of the month was flat calm save the first few days when we had near gale force Easterly winds and had to cancel a few days of fishing.
We also did a bit of exploratory fishing and looked for new areas to pop and jig. I was very keen to try a new popping connection using Jerry Brown line one hollow spectra and put it to the test with a nice GT below:


We found some new jigging spots as well and this below is a doggie I pulled, actually Akshay had one the same size attack his popper a meter from the boat but the hook pulled, unfortunately.


A friend of ours Vidur Chandy made a quick trip over along with his 2 young sons, if was good fun to get them started on some small GT's around Havelock Island and some Yellowfin tuna trolling, they had a blast. Its the best way to get the younger generation interested in the sport.











We had 2 days to convert Lt.Gen. D.S Chauhan, his son Hamir and Col. Mahendra Singh into popper fisherman and this we did!! We changed them from anglers who had never fished with popper in Saltwater to fisherman who landed over 35 GT's in 2 days of fishing. I think that this is one of the more rewarding aspects of guiding is to convert more people to the sport and conservation as well as to introduce children to angling.

Gt's apleanty, a double hook up from the same school

Look out for more updates on our trips, reports and action in the Andaman Islands on these pages. May tight lines and screaming drags be the flavour of the new year.


Darran & Akshay