At Lucky's Beach, we love to fish. Our favorite type is popping for Giant Trevally (GT)
Your guide has over 15 years experience popper fishing in Hawaii and has spent the last 6 years searching Vava'u for prime fishing locations. He would love to take you to the remote reefs to try your luck with these bruts of the sea.
Your fishing platform is named Lupo. In the Tongan Language it is the name of the smaller Trevally (quick and agile). Lupo is a Boston Whaler, Montauk 17, which is excellent for 2 anglers,one forward and one aft. It is powered by a 2009 Yamaha 60 HP 4-stroke for quiet cruising the reef edges.
Warning: This kind of fishing can be physically challenging and requires reasonable fitness levels and casting abilities to be truly effective. Some of the land based options are 20-40 minute walks to remote beaches, down somewhat steep trailes. Please be sure to ask all possible questions before booking GT fishing trips, especially land based ones.
Poppin Tonga
GT FISHING CHARTERS – Poppin' Tonga
We now have two options to cater to the experienced GT fishos with their own equipment. Then the option for the folks that are keen to give this great type of fishing a try. Just a word of warning, this type of fishing is quite addictive
English Translation - When the GT comes around, we forget about the small black reef fish.
This proverb is used in many contexts - When Famous people come to visit we forget about the little people.
This information was kindly provided by Mr. Bruno Toke of the Ministry of Tourism in Vava'u
Some photos of Kenzaburou Fukui (holder
of 4 IGFA GT records) on his trip to Vava'u, Tonga. I had the
honor of taking him and his cameraman "Iga" to one of the remote
islands for land based popping. What an amazing fisherman! Not many
people could have landed that fish.
