Our group consisted of 7 fly fishermen (2 English, 2 Russian, 1 Norwegian and my fishing partner Marco and myself). It was our first trip to Farquhar and our goal was to catch a bumphead parrotfish once. The weather cooperated quite well for this region except for 2 days with rain and storms. Overall fishing was average for the group with the exception of one very special day. In one week 7 bumpheads, 18 GT’s, 2 triggers and about 10 bonefish were caught.

Marco and I had our best day as fly fishermen. Early in the morning we both caught a Bumphead of 108 cm each. An hour later each a GT. Now all we had to do was find the Bones and do a Grand Slam on each. Around 12 noon we found a school of Bones and caught 2 of them at the same time. So we both had a Grand Slam by noon. But it should get even better. Marco caught another bone and I spotted a big Trigger which I was allowed to catch, which meant a Super Grand Slam.

As far as we know, a Grand Slam and a Super Grand Slam were caught by a boat in one day in the Seychelles was never done.  At 12 o’clock it was done and for the rest of the day we caught another good GT, Bluefins, Boharsnapper and and and – a day on the books!