Giant trevally
Caranx ignobilis
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In peak season for this water. This tide stage (outgoing) matches how they hunt.
Seychelles: verify SFA. Lodge programs are typically catch-and-release. Not an Atlantic jack.
Seychelles · Inner islands / Mahé
Giant trevally should be the day — the same reef edges, then the drop if you came to troll.
The public door. Victoria, Ste Anne, the granitic inner islands. More reef and blue water than Alphonse sand. GT on the edges, tuna and a dorado offshore. This is not the St François photograph. Modeled tide. SFA license.
- ⚠ This brief is for 2026-04-10, not this morning. Wind is a forecast. Observed water versus the table is a today-only instrument.
- ⚠ Seychelles requires an SFA license. Outer atolls are lodge water. Ste Anne and other parks are marked — verify before you fish.
- Tide · modeled — no NOAA gauge
- No NDBC on this desk
Forecast
low confidence
Forecast brief for Friday, April 10. Back to this morning
Morning line
Mahé 7.9 on Friday, April 10. 15 mph SE. Overcast. YOLO day is Wednesday, August 26. Scores are 1–10, not a bite.
outgoing · 1.82 ft · drag or hover for the clockModeled M2 clock — no NOAA gauge on this water. Not a buoy.
Wind
OPEN-METEO
From SE · gust 20
Buoy
No station
None
No honest NDBC or C-MAN near this water. Do not invent a buoy.
Sky
OPEN-METEO
Clouds
Overcast
A 20% shower chance is not a cancel. A soaker is.
Moon
46% lit
Last quarter
neap range · 46%
Water
No gauge
Water
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Today’s range 4.2 ft
outgoing
1.82 ft modeled
Clock
Modeled M2
- HighFri 7:00 AM · 2.13
- LowFri 1:00 PM · -2.13
- HighFri 7:00 PM · 2.11
- LowSat 1:00 AM · -2.07
- HighSat 8:00 AM · 2.05
Seychelles tides are modeled from lunar M2. Use them for windows, not a bar crossing. There is no NOAA gauge on these atolls.
Monthly YOLO day
Wednesday, August 26
Best remaining dry day this month with a real wind forecast. waxing gibbous · spring · tide range ~2.7 ft · wind to 17 mph · Clouds · 3%
Next two weeks
Pulling the 14-day strip…
Where
This pip is that mark on this tide — not the day on the ring.
- 7.1
Ste Anne Marine Park
sand dropoff · public structure · mid
Named inner-island park east of Victoria. Park rules. Not the Alphonse photograph.
- — sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
- — In-play: Giant trevally.
skiffspinfly
When
When is moving water in a good hour — not the day. First light and last light are named when the clock is the story. Today’s ring mixes the best mark, the lead fish, and the best window, then taxes the sky. A strong incoming can sit under a weak day if the wind or the fish is off. Calendar cells are a third recipe: range, moon, and the day’s forecast.
Outgoing water
9.4Fri 8:00 AM → Fri 3:00 PM
Moving water in the right part of the day.
Last light · incoming
9.1Fri 2:00 PM → Fri 9:00 PM
Last light on incoming water.
Last light · outgoing
8.0Fri 8:00 PM → Sat 3:00 AM
Last light on outgoing water.
First light · incoming
9.4Sat 2:00 AM → Sat 9:00 AM
First light on incoming water.
Outgoing water
9.4Sat 9:00 AM → Sat 4:00 PM
Moving water in the right part of the day.
Launch and beach access
Lodge and Victoria doors. SFA license. Outer atolls are not a freelance wade.
Victoria / Mahé
Seychelles Fishing Authority
The public inner-island door. Outer atolls are a plane, not a skiff ride.
Official source
Legal water
No-take and closed water cited to the agency that owns it. Only the Keys box is FKNMS.
No FKNMS polygon in this box. Mainland Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Mexico, and the Bahamas are not Keys sanctuary closures.
Why — and who
- — Tide is outgoing (modeled — no NOAA gauge on this water).
- — Overcast. Sky is workable.
- — Wind 15 mph SE. Work the leeward shore. Fly gets harder.
- — Last quarter moon — neap tide range. Marsh and passes usually want the extra current of a spring.
8.4
Tuna (blackfin / yellowfin)
Thunnus atlanticus / Thunnus albacares
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Bluewater. Weedlines, humps, and the edge — not this flat or marsh. Switch method to Offshore. In peak season for this water. This tide stage (outgoing) matches how they hunt.
Federal HMS rules. Yellowfin typically 27 in curved fork. Blackfin often more liberal — verify NOAA HMS and FWC/TPWD the morning you leave the inlet.
Great barracuda
Sphyraena barracuda
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Bycatch and beach noise — not the reason you came. In peak season for this water. This tide stage (outgoing) matches how they hunt.
Incidental on the reef. Not a GT.
Regs citedSeychelles Fishing Authority · current SFA license and harvest · rolls in 7 days. Outer atolls are lodge water. Giant trevally lives here. Not on Texas. Not in Puerto Rico.