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Check out the latest trip video from Maldives where we hosted two people each from England, Germany and France.
Stefan joins us for the second time, his first way back in 2012 and he brings his wife to enjoy the bright sun, blue seas and powdery sands of Maldives.
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Watch the video – and experience with us a week living aboard a motherboat and literally fish, eat and sleep in Maldives.
We have been fishing in Maldives since the year 2000. Here are some quick facts about this island archipelago which is the smallest nation in Asia, and Maldives is also the smallest Muslim country in the world.
• Official name of the country is the Republic of Maldives
• Official language is Dhivehi
• Currency is Maldivian Rufiyaa
• Maldives encompasses an area of about 90,000 square kilometers (35,000 square miles)
• Less than 0.5 per cent of the 90,000 sq km are dry land
• Comprises a chain of 26 atolls
• There are about 1,190 islands
• Population of approximately 400,000, a third of which live in the capital of Male
• Male is 1.7 kilometers (1 mile) long and 1.0 kilometers (0.6 miles) wide, but with over 100,000 people crammed onto it, Malé is by some measures the world’s densest city.
• About 200 of the 1,190 are inhabited
• Of the 200 local islands, as of today, the country has seen the development of 100+ resort islands, along with some • 900 uninhabited islands and numerous desolate sandbanks free from any vegetation
• Maldives islands are of coralline origins. Their amazing sand is white and extremely fine. Coralline beaches are rare, they represent less than 5% of the world’s beaches, the rest of them are mostly made of quartz
• Maldivian used to build their houses using coral. This traditional housing is now forbidden since Coral Reefs are worldwide protected. Many coral houses still can be seen in Male and local islands.
• The highest land point in the Maldives is 2.4 meters, making it the lowest highpoint in the world.
4G and mobile connection coverage is available in most parts of the archipelago. Even when you’re in a boat with just water around you.
You can get a local SIM upon arrival in the Male international airport.
Triggerfish are found in seas of tropical and subtropical countries all around the world. They can be considered common and also highly unpredictable.
40 species of triggerfish are scattered throughout the world’s seas and they are often notoriously ill-tempered.
Largest of all is the stone triggerfish (Pseudobalistes naufragium), which reaches up to one meter or 3.3 feet long, found in the Eastern Pacific from Mexico to Chile.
Most species, however, have a maximum length between 20 and 50 centimetres (about 8 and 20 in).
As bottom dwellers, triggerfish hunt out their prey such as crustaceans, by stirring up sand and mud with their fins and blowing water from the mouth.
They also use their strong teeth and powerful jaw on corals and sea urchins.
The havoc created by triggerfish often attracts other fish to tag along to feast on critters that are kicked-up. Much like fish do following big stingrays around.
This is a refresh of a post made back in 2013 of a yellowmargin triggerfish on fly in Maldives by Mike Stevens.
Mike is on his first trip to Maldives along with Peter Hayes when he caught and landed this beautiful yellowmargin triggerfish on a clouser.
He manages to setup his camera to capture part of the action all on his own complete with live commentary.
Mike owns and manages a fishing magazine in Tasmania called Tasmania Fishing and Boating News.
Yellowmargin Triggerfish (Pseudobalistes flavimarginatus)
This is JW’s biggest bonefish to date. Did not have a measuring tape or weighing scale so cannot state how big it is for certain.
Estimate will put it around the 80cm (30in) mark.
This nice bone made a couple of really blistering runs. Later in the trip, JW has an epic battle with a monster triggerfish. Watch out for that video!
