Of all the amazing and difficult to get to faraway places around the world that I’ve been fortunate enough to fish, none were as hard to reach as here at Providence Atoll in the Seychelles. To get here took huge amounts of planning. Then we got canceled by a cyclone. There was more planning and waiting for new dates and the list goes on. But after years of patience, finally the stars have aligned and tonight we arrived on Providence Atoll.
The journey to get here started on Friday night with a bus ride from NH to Logan Airport in Boston. Next I flew 13.5 hours to Dubai. After a 7 hour layover I caught a 2:15 AM 4 hour flight to Mahe Seychelles. Over the last couple days I gathered up my group for this Yellow Dog Hosted trip and this morning we caught a 1 hour 45 minute charter flight to Farquhar Atoll. It wasn’t done then. Next we shuttled ourselves and baggage by skiff to our mothership, the Mayas Dugong.
Once on the Dugong we met our guides and did orientation on the boat. Orientation includes learning where you eat, where you sleep and of course they cover safety issues. Then we had lunch and set up our fishing gear. The minute we were rigged the captain started the engines and we drove nearly six hours before arriving at Providence Atoll, one of the most remote fisheries on the planet.
We are presently anchored and we just finished dinner. This great group of exhausted anglers took my advice and grabbed their 12-weights and headed to make a few casts from the back of the boat. It was on! We caught two small giant trevally and five bigeye trevally. I’m covered in fish slime now so its time for bed. This should be a hell of a week!
it makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up every time i read a report from providence atoll.undoubtedly the best trip i have ever been on.
Mine too Joe. And the reports coming won’t disappoint!