Giant trevally
Caranx ignobilis
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Present, not peak. This tide stage (incoming) 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 — Ste Anne and the inner edges — a GT, not the Alphonse photograph. Work the leeward shore — fly gets harder.
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 2026-08-12, 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.
Forecast
low confidence
Forecast brief for Wednesday, August 12. Back to this morning
Morning line
Mahé 7.0 on Wednesday, August 12. 18 mph SE. Overcast. YOLO day is Wednesday, August 26. Scores are 1–10, not a bite.
incoming · -0.07 ftModeled M2 · not a gauge
Wind
OPEN-METEO
From SE · gust 24
Sky
OPEN-METEO
Clouds
Overcast
A 20% shower chance is not a cancel. A soaker is.
Moon
2% lit
Waning crescent
spring range · 2%
Water
No gauge
Water
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Today’s range 2.2 ft
incoming
-0.07 ft modeled
Clock
Modeled M2
- LowWed 5:00 AM · -1.21
- HighWed 11:00 AM · 1.15
- LowWed 6:00 PM · -1.07
- HighThu 12:00 AM · 1.06
- LowThu 6:00 AM · -1.03
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 · 7.3
Best remaining dry day this month with a real wind forecast. waxing gibbous · spring · tide range ~2.7 ft · wind to 16 mph · Clouds · 2%
Next two weeks
Pulling the 14-day strip…
Where
- 6.7
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 incoming tide is a workable match.
- — In-play: Giant trevally.
skiffspinfly
When
Incoming water
8.5Wed 8:00 AM → Wed 1:00 PM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Outgoing water
9.4Wed 12:00 PM → Wed 7:00 PM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Incoming water
9.4Wed 7:00 PM → Thu 2:00 AM
Moving water in the right part of the day.
Outgoing water
9.4Thu 1:00 AM → Thu 8:00 AM
Moving water in the right part of the day.
Incoming water
9.4Thu 7:00 AM → Thu 2:00 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 incoming (modeled — no NOAA gauge on this water).
- — Overcast. Sky is workable.
- — Wind 18 mph SE. This is a spin / structure / stay-home call.
- — Waning crescent moon — spring tide range. Marsh and passes usually want the extra current of a spring.
6.6
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 (incoming) 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 (incoming) matches how they hunt.
Incidental on the reef. Not a GT.
Regs citedSeychelles Fishing Authority · current SFA license and harvest · rolls in 8 days. Outer atolls are lodge water. Giant trevally lives here. Not on Texas. Not in Puerto Rico.