Our first Similan area trip of the season had some good action for Wahoo, Yellowfin Tuna and Black Marlin.
Judd Briggs and his friend booked "Gecko" for a 3 day Koh Rok trip, but after having really good weather for a couple of days and no waves, we decided to fish the sea mount 12 miles west of Similan Islands instead.

On the first day we followed the drop-off west of Phuket north to the Similan Islands and picked up this nice 15 Kg Wahoo and many Tuna.

Early second day we headed out to the sea mount and in 200 meters of water Similan and the sea mount an approximate 50-60 Kg Black Marlin hit a medium size marlin lure fished from the outrigger on 50 lb equipment. The Marlin took a couple of hundred meters of line before it started to jump. Judd fought it back to the boat and we thought it was going to be an easy release, but the fish came up and shook its head and the lure was thrown.

This didn’t let us down for too long a time though, when we reached the seamount we hooked the first Wahoo quickly and we soon ran into a big school of Yellowfin Tuna.

Both Judd and his friends hooked up Yellowfin Tuna non-stop for the coming 2 hours, when the Tuna moved on we fished close to the F.A.D.’s with diving plugs and hooked another 7 Wahoo and also missed many strikes.

When the current slowed down we moored up to one of the F.A.D.’s and did some bait fishing. Before all lines were out Judd hooked a nice Dorado and he was over the moon, his target for this trip was Wahoo, Yellowfin Tuna and Dorado, and by the second day his wish had been granted.

On the way back to Phuket on the third day we had a Sailfish coming up on the small tuna lures, but it wasn’t hooked. Skipjacks were caught in large numbers all the way back to Phuket.

Hong Kong angler Milton Kung and his girlfriend Yoko, were picked up at Racha Island Pier for a days fishing around the two islands.

Milton had brought along some of his own equipment for a spot of popper casting close to the rocks, but unfortunately the weather made this quite difficult with fairly rough water, so on the day it was decided it would be a better option to concentrate on trolling.

After a couple of hours trolling, the Tuna started to feed, and we also released 2 nice Wahoo. We spotted a couple of Sailfish jumping in the morning, but by the afternoon it appeared that they had moved on.

US angler Rick went fishing with us for 3 different trips this month. A trip aboard "Gecko" to Racha produced many Tuna, a nice Wahoo and also a Barracuda on a pleasantly calm day with lots of sunshine.

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