Fish where others don’t go 

Record breaking bonefish and trevally.
A yacht hotel that is wholly reserved for our fishermen.
Our knowledge of this natural paradise in the Indian Ocean.

Fish

Farquhar is the home of the biggest bonefish in the Seychelles as well as giant trevally that can reach up to over 120lb of 55kg. “Bones” wait for rising tide to go into the shallows, sometimes in compact shoals of many hundreds of individuals and sometimes in little groups. Blue trevallies, Indo-Pacific permits, long nose emperors as well as three types of trigger fish are also to be seen on the flats. For a while now we have been successfully trying to capture very big bumphead parrot fish when they are tailing on the shoal. Specimens weighing in at 50 to 60 lb or 20 to 25kg aren’t rare and they seem to be interested in big crab imitations, once you’ve got one at the end of your line you’re in for at least an hour of epic combat!
In the passes and channels you will sometimes come across the famous milkfish, which here grow to an incredible size. You’ll meet the biggest fish on the barrier reef: more GTs as well as lutjans, barracudas, several varieties of grouper, job fish and napoleons etc.
In bluewater are wahoos and sailfish, as well as several varieties of tuna that hunt along the drop. By now we’re sure you’ve understood that Farquhar is an isolated sanctuary teaming with an amazing wealth of wildlife. An archipelago at the end of the world where anything is possible when you’ve got a rod in your hand.

Fishing methods 

All these fish can be caught from the boat or on foot, on the hard bed flats where white sands, coral and turtle grass follow on from one another. Several anglers have already succeeded in the great feat of landing monsters of from 40 to over 65lb or 20 to 30kg on fly tackle. On the ocean side of the shoal, you can fish for GTs by sight in the waves, a real sport and a true challenge!
From the boat, you can tease trevallies and bring them to within a few yards of the craft. Then, any fly that falls in the water is set upon quite violently! After that, all you have to do is hold on to your tackle, slam on the reel-brake and dig your heals in to hold your ‘monster’ back.
For bonefish, there’s no need to fiddle around, big orange flies or variants of the Gotcha are excellent. For the ever present trigger fish and permits, beige and brown Merkin-type crab imitations work well but you need to mind the quality of the hooks because big triggers have a nasty habit of breaking them!
If fly fishermen thought they were in paradise, pluggers will find that the coral reef that surrounds the atoll is a sort of Indian Ocean “Jurassic Parc”!
We have landed GTs of over 110lb or 50kg using poppers when wading, a real stalk through the waves!
So as not to disturb the fly fishermen inside the atoll, popper fishing is done outside it. We request that anglers bring lures with reinforced single barbless hooks. Experience has shown that we don’t loose more fish that way but that we can release them afterwards without injury. Except, of course, for the ones we choose to cook up!...

Do plan ahead as availability is limited. We take a maximum of 6 to 8 anglers on board for any one trip. Providence or even Cosmoledo, are possible boarding sites on request for pre-arranged groups.