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Fiji Fishing Day in frames

A full day offshore from Fiji — the flight in over the reef, rigging up before first light, and everything that came over the rail.

Day tripFiji40 photos
A seaplane wing above cloud with mountains showing throughOut over the cloud A green island and its reef seen past the wing of a seaplaneDown the reef line A small island with a white beach seen from the cabin windowThe island from the window A green coconut opened and set with a straw on a stone tableA coconut first A lit open-fronted building with a chalkboard sign beside the shore at nightLights on by the water The cockpit under the deck lights, rods set, the island lit behindRigged for the night run First light over the water from the beach before the run outFirst light from the beach Trolling rods over the boat's wake as the sun comes upRods out at first light The trolling spread running out into the dawn wakeLines out at first light Flat water and the island ridge seen from the bow at first lightFlat calm at dawn The sun coming up behind the island as the spread runsSunrise on the troll Rods and reels silhouetted against the sunrise over the wakeThe spread at sunrise The cockpit and spread as the sky begins to lightenDawn in the cockpit At the helm on the run out, the islands aheadRunning at dawn Rods working the wake as the sun clears the horizonGolden wake The full spread working behind the boat at sunriseFull spread Rods bent to the wake as the sun clears the islandInto the sun Underwater lights turning the wake blue at duskBlue water behind The island astern in the early light on the run to the groundsRunning out The island ridge catching the first light across flat waterThe island at dawn The bow of the boat pointed at a volcanic island in early lightMaking for the island Calm water and a green island seen over the bowFlat water all morning A green volcanic island rising from deep blue waterThe island we fished around Clear water over the reef off the island beachOver the reef Two people working at the transom among trolling rods, an island behindRigging up off the island Sounder, plotter and radar at the helm as the boat runs outAt the helm Watching the lines from the covering board as the sun climbsWatching the spread Looking down from the tower to the cockpit as the crew work the linesDown from the tower One of the crew resting in the cockpit between dropsThe mate, between drops Standing to the rod with the mate on the lineHooked up A tuna on the deck beside coiled linesThe first one aboard Looking down into the cockpit and fighting chair from the towerThe cockpit from the tower A wahoo brought over the side at the end of the morningA good one Setting a line into the wake against the sunriseSetting a line Rods set in their holders as the boat trolls home, the wake lit blue at sunsetTrolling home at sunset A pink and blue sunset spread over the beach and shallow waterThe sky did this on the way in Boats at anchor off the beach at duskDusk from the shore Late sun on wet sand with boats moored offshoreBack to the moorings The jetty lit up on the walk back after darkBack at the jetty The helm under red light on the run homeNight watch