What Do We Mean When We Talk Of Light Tackle ?

Light tackle doesn't mean weak tackle, our rods and reels are all top class. It's balanced and matched to the species that we're looking to catch.

We're often asked what we mean by "light tackle". It's easier to tell you what isn't part of our style of fishing. There are no fighting chairs on our boats, no full harnesses, we don't "gun the engine" in order to set the hook, none of our boats has a tuna tower, they are all single storey with not a skyscraper in sight.

All of our boats have a great selection of top class tackle to suit all styles and methods. With tackle from companies such as Shimano, Daiwa, Penn and ABU you can be sure that you have the very best fishing tackle to use in your quest for that next monster.

Sometimes the fish are so BIG that it takes 2 people to reel them in !!

Obviously you don't use the same tackle for all styles of fishing, what light tackle fishing offers is tackle balanced to the fish that you're likely to hook. Thus we might use 10 lb leader when fishing for Yellowtails whereas we'd have 50 lb leader for Tarpon.

Without doubt, one of the most exciting styles of fishing is where you put a live pilchard or threadfin herring on the hook and let it drift behind the boat with no weights on the line at all. You have absolutely no idea what might come along next. It could be a sailfish, cobia, kingfish, tuna, shark, snapper or quite a few other species, you just can't be sure what is going to bite next.

You don't need to worry about the technicalities of all this tackle talk, the skipper will set everything up so that all you have to do is actually fish.