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Alphonse Fishing Co. 11 February 2019
The Best Flies to Land Milkfish

When it comes to targeting Milkfish on the fly, we can honestly say we know what we’re talking about as the origins of targeting this species on the fly stem back to Alphonse Island and the St. François lagoon where these techniques were first pioneered and developed. ...
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Alphonse Fishing Co. 10 February 2019
Alphonse Island Fishing News | The Island Shows its Diversity!

Alphonse Island Fly Fishing Season 2019 | 02 - 09 February Anglers hosted by Ocean Active joined the Alphonse Fishing Co. team this week. Fishing remained consistent throughout the week, despite gusting wind conditions. A total of 13 giant trevallies were landed, with the two largest specimens both measuring 87 ...
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Alphonse Fishing Co. 6 February 2019
Astove Atoll Fishing News – Incredible Fishing from the Cliffs!

Astove Fly Fishing Season 2019 | 24 January - 04 February 2019 The third week in to our 2019 Astove Atoll fly fishing season saw two guests join us for a true private island experience. Return guest Teemu Juutinen and Patagonia ambassador Jasper Pakkonen came to see what ...
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Alphonse Fishing Co. 4 February 2019
Alphonse Island Fishing News – Variety is Key!

Alphonse Fly Fishing News 2019 | 26 January - 02 February The week started with excellent weather conditions and anglers on St. Francois kicked it off well by getting stuck into the renowned Bonefish of the atoll. Michael Spencer opened the week with a good 33 cm ...
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Alphonse Fishing Co. 3 February 2019
Cosmoledo Atoll Fishing News – Milkfish Madness!

Cosmoledo Fly Fishing Season 2019 | 24th - 31st January Crevan O’Grady, Grant Slack, Malcom Offord, Leith Robertson, Peter Gordon, Nigel Whittingham, Tom Beattie, Scott Amero and Gary Addison joined us for this weeks fly fishing at Cosmoledo Atoll. As the tides swung into the neap tide cycle we ...
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Alphonse Fishing Co. 28 January 2019
Cosmoledo Atoll Fishing News – A Rod bending week!

Cosmoledo Atoll Fly Fishing Season 2019 | 17 - 24 January Tom and Ken Teague, Donald Olen, Barry Lundquist, Julian Grupp, Yoshiaki and Yoshikazu Suzuki and Ross Purnell were the lucky group of anglers that joined us on Cosmoledo Atoll for the week. With the tides swinging ...
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