SEYCHELLES FISHING CHARTERS - AMIRANTE ISLANDS - SEYCHELLES OUTER ISLANDS
AMIRANTE ISLANDS FISHING CHARTERS
Fly Fishing, Conventional Fishing & Island Adventure Expedition Charters
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Catamaran Yacht Charter Fishing Holidays
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Amirante Islands, Seychelles
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3, 7 & 10 Night Charters
We offer 4, 7 and 10 night Seychelles fishing and fly-fishing yacht charters to the Amirante Islands in the outer islands region of the Seychelles Archipelago.
The atolls and islands have shallow lagoons surrounded by reef and sand flats and is one of the best fishing areas in the Seychelles. The Amirante Islands is one of the best destination in the Indian Ocean to target Indo-Pacific permit on fly and the flats is also home to species like Bonefish, Bluefin Trevally and Giant Trevally.
Game fish species you can target here also include Sailfish, Wahoo, Dogtooth Tuna, Yellowfin Tuna and even Marlin.
There are no lodges or hotels on these islands so the only way to experience and fish the Amirante islands is on board a charter yacht.
SEYCHELLES FISHING CHARTER CATAMARANS / 2024
65FT CATAMARAN from
(Price per yacht for 4 anglers, each in own cabin)
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3 Nights/4 days - 33,260 USD
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7 Nights/8 days - 54,155 USD
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10 Nights/11 days - 78,050 USD
75FT CATAMARAN from
(Price per yacht for 4 anglers, each in own cabin)
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3 Nights/4 days - 43,240 USD
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7 Nights/8 days - 59,920 USD
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10 Nights/11 days - 85,600 USD
Ask us to quote if you wish to bring partners along to share your cabin.
INCLUDES
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Yacht
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Skipper, Chef, Crew
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2 Fishing guides & 2 fishing skiffs
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Selection of loan fly rods and fly reels
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Tender boat
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All fuel
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Breakfast, lunch and dinner and snacks
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Water, tea and coffee, Beers, Wines, Spirits,
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Soft Drinks, Water, Tea, Coffee,
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Snorkelling equipment, Stand Up Paddle Boards (SUPS), Sea kayaks
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Park fees
All charters start from Alphonse Island and you will need to fly from Mahe to the island to meet the yacht.
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Return Flight from Mahe to Alphonse: $ 1130 pp
SEYCHELLES FISHING CHARTERS. LIVEABOARD YACHT CHARTERS
Our Seychelles fishing liveaboard charters give anglers have the opportunity to fish up to six areas during the charter. Poivre, Sand Cay, African Banks and Remire Atolls are blessed with its wide array of thriving and unexploited marine life making them one of the “must do” fishing destinations.
All our Amirante fishing yacht charters include fishing skiffs and our fishing trip are guided by professional experienced fishing guides with intimate local knowledge of the Amirante Islands.
The Amirantes are remote, largely undeveloped and offer unspoilt pristine nature. For expert fisherman and beginners alike, the Amirante islands offers a has a huge variety of fishing with various techniques of your choice.
We practice a strict catch-and-release fishing policy, except for limited fish that are kept for dinner on board your yacht.
THE FISHING SEASON
The main Amirante islands fishing season runs from early October to the end of May. Our fishing charters and packages can be tailor made to suit your needs based on your travel dates, tides and availability of yachts.
ONE OF THE MOST UNIQUE & DIVERSE SALT WATER FISHING EXPERIENCES IN THE WORLD
THE FISHING
BLUEWATER FLY FISHING
If you have never fought a sailfish, wahoo or yellowfin tuna, to name a few, on the fly, you are at the right place! The deep blue depths provide a prolific feeding ground for various fish species as the constant flow of rich currents well-up against the drop offs, ledges and ridges of the Amirantes. Anglers can start fishing for sailfish a few minutes away from Alphonse as the drop off is two miles from the yacht mooring.
The pelagics are often lured to the boat by trawling a spread of teasers. Once they are within casting range, the hook-less teasers are removed and the angler casts a fly. The reef species can be targeted by dredging with a heavy sink tip fly line and a Mega Clouser. There is also the option of targeting both pelagic and reef species that congregate around the shoals of baitfish, such as fusiliers and scads.
FLY FISHING ONSHORE
Catching a permit on fly is an experience that every saltwater fly angler aspires to achieve. The broken coral and turtle grass flats surrounding Poivre, Remire and African Banks are the perfect habitat for these graceful feeders. Poivre is known as the atoll with the most prolific populations of indo-pacific permit in the Seychelles.
On certain tides, there are also good numbers of bonefish in the four to eight pound range, which feed on the edge of the atoll. Poivre is purely a wading destination and anglers get to stalk these finicky feeders on foot as they hypnotize anglers with the waving of their sickle tails.
GAME FISHING
The Amirantes has some of the greatest offshore angling that the Seychelles waters has to offer, and the beauty is that all the spots are easily accessible by A’mani. The offshore structure is ideal, with a mixture of rings of sunken coral atolls, sheer drop offs, ridges and ledges, all of which are teeming with game fish.
Anglers enjoy exploring the edges of the famous “Ledge”, the “Amirantes Trench”, “Sand Cay Banks” as well as the other rims and coral reef platforms, while targeting the diversity of species both pelagic and reef that can be caught.
Fish like sailfish, wahoo, dogtooth tuna, yellowfin tuna, dorado, giant trevally, bluefin trevally, jobfish, tropical amberjack and a large variety of snapper, wrasse and grouper can be caught on any given day.
REGULAR CATCHES
Bonefish I Moustache Triggerfish I Milkfish I Giant Trevally I Barracuda I Bluefin Trevally I Permit I Jobfish Bohar I Snapper I Yellowlipped Emperor I Sailfish I Yellowfin Tuna I Dogtooth Tuna I Wahoo I Yellowmargin Triggerfish
OUR CHARTER YACHTS
FISHING CHARTER CATAMARAN
OUR GUIDES
The fishing guides along with the Island Conservation Society ensure these fisheries are protected from over fishing. The Guides are conservationists at heart and some of them hold qualifications in the field of ecology.
GUIDES:
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Are professional, passionate and extremely experienced with all facets of fly fishing in these remote saltwater destinations.
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Are fluent in English [some speak French and Creole].
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Carry waterproof VHF radios and are in constant communication with each other as well as the yacht
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Are qualified skippers, with STCW qualifications and have impeccable boat handing skills.
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Have first aid experience.
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Have pioneered many of the techniques in catching the various species that call Seychelles home.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
If you want to take a break from fishing the snorkelling around the coral heads and walls of the Amirantes is simply out of this world. There is snorkelling gear on board for your use.
The kayaking along the edge of the islands gives guests the opportunity to see the magnificent bounty of turtles, rays, fish, and various other sea creatures, which call the Amirantes their home. There will be kayaks and SUPS on board which you are welcome to use.
GETTING THERE
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Alphonse Island is an hour flight from Mahé, the main island of the Seychelles.
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Scheduled flights depart and return to Mahé each Saturday and selected Wednesdays.
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Scheduled Flights depart from the IDC Hangar, Pointe Larue, Mahé.
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Flight times are subject to change. Please make sure you confirm your correct flight times with our reservations team.
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Alphonse Island is also accessible through private charter flights.
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We advise guests to arrive in Mahe the day before departure.
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We will assist with all return flight reservations between Mahé and Alphonse at the time of booking.
THE ISLANDS - THE AMIRANTES ARCHIPELAGO
AFRICAN BANKS
African Banks lies about 230km west of Mahé and the nearest island is Rémire lying 27km south. The group is a pseudo, has two small islands, which appear as just small sandstone ridges exposed only at low tide. The underwater bank extends over four
kilometers north to south, three kilometers east to west and occupy a total area of about 10 square kilometers. The shallow coral ring is incomplete with the western edge varying between 19 to 36 meters deep.
RÉMIRE ISLAND (EAGLE ISLAND)
Situated 245km south of Mahé, Rémire is a tiny island only measuring 300 square meters. It is about halfway between African Banks, which is 25km north, and D’Arros Island 31.5km to the south. 2.5km west of Remire lies the southern edge of Remire
Reef, which is detached and makes for a great fishing area.
POIVRE ATOLL
Poivre lies 268km south of Mahé and is situated on the eastern edge of Amirante Bank. It’s a small atoll, which is made up of two islands, Poivre and Ile du Sud, occupying the cardinal points of the compass. These islands are separated by a shallow lagoon which extends all the way back into ile du Sud on a high tide. This area has the best of both worlds with mind blowing flats that will excite any fly fishing enthusiast, and arguably the best game fishing area that the Amirantes Atoll’s have to offer. Situated on the eastern edge of the Amirante Trench which steadily steps down to 1200 meters only a few kilometers from shore, the area is synonymous for its great bluewater fishing. One of these renowned areas is the appropriately named “kennels” that is home to record breaking dog tooth tuna. Poivre is known as the best indo pacific permit fishery in the Seychelles
