Fish Tails Blog

The “Christmas Week” was one of diverse gifts both on and off the flats. It was a week full of the different species around the atolls of St Francois, Alphonse

The week started at its normal fast pace as the anglers got stuck into some really exciting milkfish, which had once again congregated close to Bijoutier on the eastern side

Keith Rose-Innes Alphonse has without doubt proven to be the only milkfish destination that continues to offer anglers a life time dream of catching big milkfish on fly. The records

Leaving the UK a little ahead of the group I spent a few days on Mahe re-visiting hotels we have worked with for some time (such as The Wharf) as

So the end of the season finally arrived in Tanzania and, judging by the weather, Mother Nature was very keen to send us off on a high! So the week started

What an amazing week’s fishing it has been as “Milkfish Mania” continued for the fifth consecutive week. It’s evident that our healthy population of Milkfish are back to stay as

The Tanzanian tigerfish season is coming to a close with just a few groups left before the rods are hung up, this does not mean the fishing has slowed in

    After our extremely successful exploratory in 2012 in association with The Fly Shop we would like to share with you some of the highlights of the 2012 season

Catching fly fishing’s “Holy Grail” is not supposed to be easy, so a little luck goes a long way. At the best of times Indo-Pacific Permit are the most difficult

  The records keep rolling in! For the first time in the history of Alphonse Island, all the guests caught a Milkfish on the same day, some even catching two.

I’d had a silly busy year of fishing, used up nearly all my brownie points, and then the phone rang – “Thought this might be up your street, but it

  What a week it’s been as once again the catches on both the flats and out in the bluewater have been extremely good. The biggest GT of 91 cm’s