Giant trevally
Caranx ignobilis
Thermal window
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Present, not peak.
Seychelles: verify SFA. Lodge programs are typically catch-and-release. Not an Atlantic jack.
Seychelles · Inner islands / Mahé
Giant trevally are the hunt — the town run is legal; the park wants current.
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 2026-08-07. No wind forecast that far out — score is tide, moon, and season. Not a copper day.
- ⚠ Seychelles requires an SFA license. Outer atolls are lodge water. Ste Anne and other parks are marked — verify before you fish.
Tide + moon
low confidence
Forecast brief for Friday, August 7. Back to this morning
Morning line
Mahé 6.6 on Friday, August 7 — tide, moon, and season only. No wind forecast that far out. Scores are 1–10, not a bite.
high slack · 2.03 ft · drag or hover for the clockModeled M2 clock — no NOAA gauge on this water. Not a buoy.
Wind
OPEN-METEO
No wind reading
Sky
OPEN-METEO
Sky not in
Sky not in
A 20% shower chance is not a cancel. A soaker is.
Moon
37% lit
Waning crescent
neap range · 37%
Water
No gauge
Water
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Today’s range 4.1 ft
high slack
2.03 ft modeled
Clock
Modeled M2
- HighFri 7:00 AM · 2.05
- LowFri 2:00 PM · -2.06
- HighFri 8:00 PM · 2.06
- LowSat 2:00 AM · -2.04
- HighSat 8:00 AM · 2.01
Seychelles tides are modeled from lunar M2. Use them for windows, not a bar crossing. There is no NOAA gauge on these atolls.
Next two weeks
Pulling the 14-day strip…
Where
This pip is that mark on this tide — not the day on the ring.
- 5.9
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 high slack tide is a secondary match.
- — In-play: Giant trevally.
skiffspinfly
When
When is moving water in a good hour — not the day. 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
8.5Fri 9:00 AM → Fri 4:00 PM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Incoming water
9.4Fri 3:00 PM → Fri 10:00 PM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Outgoing water
9.4Fri 9:00 PM → Sat 4:00 AM
Moving water in the right part of the day.
Incoming water
9.4Sat 3:00 AM → Sat 10:00 AM
Moving water in the right part of the day.
Outgoing water
8.5Sat 9:00 AM → Sat 4:00 PM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
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 high slack (modeled — no NOAA gauge on this water).
- — Waning crescent moon — neap tide range. Marsh and passes usually want the extra current of a spring.
5.5
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.
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.
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.