Maldives fishing charter trips and live-aboard fly fishing safari

Peter Hayes in Maldives — Peter Hayes in foreground, prepares to go fish with Nick Ooi, Yusaku San and the rest of the crew still munching on their lunch in the background.

Fishing in Maldives

Mention the name Maldives and images of crystal clear water, turquoise seas rich with marine life, deserted islands with white powdery sandy beaches comes to mind.

So does beautiful and often expensive water villas and resorts!

Our trips in the Maldives take away the resort part and make the price more down-to-earth, considering you get to have a week long vacation in this paradise with accommodation and all meals included. And fishing, too!

A wide range of fish inhabit the Maldivian seas, such as amberjack, barracuda, bluefin trevally, bonefish, giant trevally, groupers of all sorts, tuna including dogtooth tuna, marlin, sailfish, permit, wahoo and more.

We have 2 types of trips, island stay and live-aboard.

Maldives live-aboard fishing hosted trip
Stay on island and fishing nearby islands

Maldives live-aboard mother boat — The motherboat

LIVE ABOARD HOSTED TRIP

These trips can be a group of up to 10 people, or less.

Each cabin comes with air-conditioning and bathroom en suite

This is not a luxury cruise but the 110-foot (33.5 meters) long motherboat is spacious and comfortable. Air-conditioned cabins are in the lower deck, with the rest of the amenities on the upper deck including a spacious open deck area on the bow allowing you to relax and soak-in the view.

Fishing can be done all around the motherboat, from the small tender and on the flats and surf.

Anglers can indulge in a wide range of fishing styles, be they fly fishing or spin fishing, jigging, popping, and so on. Some joke that you can fish 24 hours if you wish to.

These trips allow you to fish and experience different islands and locations, and see more of the atolls.

Heading out to the surf and reef edge for giant trevally

Azure allure – anchored just off a sandbar

Lower deck of the motherboat houses the cabins

Inside the upper deck looking towards the stern

View from the dining area out through a side door

JW playing a fish with a fly rod at the stern of the motherboat

Hungry yet? – See what we eat in Maldives during our live aboard fishing trips

STAY ON ISLAND AND FISHING NEARBY ISLANDS

These trips can be guided, or self guided.

You stay in an apartment style house throughout the duration and is taken out fishing in surrounding islands.

Trips can be from one to six people.

Paul Arden of Sexyloops’ first Maldives experience is a fish and stay on island with some friends from Malaysia

Paul Arden walking off to look for more bonefish

Island guesthouse accommodation preferred by some

WHAT TO EXPECT

The weather can be hot here. Especially if you come from colder climate countries, so have proper attires, sun protection and stay hydrated. You do not want to take chances and get dehydrated or a heatstroke, that will spoil your holiday.

This is not an effect, the photo just came out this way due to glare and reflection. The bonefish is one of the trickiest fish to photograph due to their mirror-finish body.

Bonefish in the Maldives

This is not Kiribati, Bahamas, Belize, the Seychelles and the like, where catching bonefish is dare I say… easy, where you often spot huge schools of bonefish.

You likely won’t be catching hundreds of bonefish in Maldives. Nonetheless, spotting huge schools of bonefish does happen and there are bonefish in the Maldives.

Some of our guests commented the other attraction when fishing in Maldives is the variety of species they catch, besides bonefish.