Deepwater Jigging

Jigging

Kadavu Island has 100km of Great Astrolabe barrier reef, the worlds 4th longest barrier reef. With steep outer reef slopes plunge to thousands of meters in depth and the island itself spikes up from the seafloor some 4,000m below the surface. To the North lies a remote coral atoll and to the South East, a range of underwater seamounts rise in places to depths as little as 150m.

The calm inner coral lagoons offer shelter to a variety of reef predators but the exposed outer reef slopes and seamounts are home to patrolling dogtooth tuna, Amberjack, giant Grouper and a whole host of deepwater species.

We expore these remote reef cliffs with jigs ranging in size from 120g knife jigs in relatively shallow waters to 400g fast sinking Zero Dropper jigs on seamounts and deepwater bottom features.

From your base at Matava Eco-Adventure Resort, the nearest passageway through the barrier reef is just 5 minutes away aboard our fishing vessels Bite Me and Tease Me.

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GT Popping in Fiji

From sheltered still mangrove bays to Great Astrolabe barrier reef breakers, the opportunities to cast poppers are right on the resort's doorstep and stretch for as far as the eye can see. We target the Bluefin Trevally, bigeye trevally and GTs.

We target the Bluefin Trevally, bigeye trevally and GTs with Daiwa threadline reels on Shimano T-Curve 50lb class Bluewater spin rods from both the inshore and offshore game boats.

Common by-catch are red bass, narrowbarred (Spanish) mackerel and barracuda. GTs to 25kg and bluefin trevally to 7kg are common along the outer barrier reef.

All are fantastic sport on medium tackle gear.

Bite Me holds several Fiji National line class Records for bluefin trevally and GTs on the popper.

If you wish to target the 50kg+ monster GTs that haunt the outer reef breakers, we recommend you bring your own specialised gear such as Daiwa Saltigas or Shimano Stellas.

You should bring more than one outfit as you are likely to suffer breakages from these huge fish.

We advocate catch & release on all GTs and bluefin trevally other than National or World Records.

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