Giant trevally
Caranx ignobilis
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Present, not peak. 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 2027-01-14, 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 Thursday, January 14. Back to this morning
Morning line
Mahé 7.4 on Thursday, January 14. 16 mph SE. Partly cloudy. Scores are 1–10, not a bite.
outgoing · 1.05 ft · drag or hover for the clockModeled M2 clock — no NOAA gauge on this water. Not a buoy.
Wind
OPEN-METEO
From SE · gust 22
Sky
OPEN-METEO
Clouds
Partly cloudy
A 20% shower chance is not a cancel. A soaker is.
Moon
37% lit
Waxing crescent
neap range · 37%
Water
No gauge
Water
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Today’s range 4.1 ft
outgoing
1.05 ft modeled
Clock
Modeled M2
- HighThu 6:00 AM · 2.01
- LowThu 12:00 PM · -2.04
- HighThu 6:00 PM · 2.04
- LowFri 12:00 AM · -2.03
- HighFri 7:00 AM · 2.07
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.
- 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. 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
9.4Thu 8:00 AM → Thu 2:00 PM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Incoming water
9.4Thu 1:00 PM → Thu 8:00 PM
Moving water in the right part of the day.
Outgoing water
7.4Thu 7:00 PM → Fri 2:00 AM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Incoming water
7.4Fri 2:00 AM → Fri 9:00 AM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Outgoing water
9.4Fri 8:00 AM → Fri 3:00 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 outgoing (modeled — no NOAA gauge on this water).
- — Partly cloudy. Sky is workable.
- — Wind 16 mph SE. Work the leeward shore. Fly gets harder.
- — Waxing crescent moon — neap 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. Off-season here. 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. Present, not peak. 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.