Guided Fishing Trips Full refund if weather cancelsFrom €900
Instant bookingLast Cast fishing chartersFree cancellation up to 1 day beforeFrom €250
These are silver jacks with the oversized eye that gives them their name. By day they often hang in a slowly turning mass off a drop-off, a channel mouth or a wreck, and after dark they spread out to feed. They take poppers, small stickbaits and jigs, and fight like every trevally: deep, stubborn, circling under the boat at the end. Most anglers let them go.
Casting into a school of bigeye
The Victoria guided trips in Seychelles suit this fish well. Topwater fishing with lures the crew makes themselves is the main event, with high speed jigging alongside, over reefs, wrecks and flats. Trips leave at 06:00 for 8 or 5 hours, for up to 4. When a school shows, a lure has to land in front of it fast, so keep a rod rigged rather than packed away.
In Mauritius, Last Cast fishes offshore from Grand Baie on a Baymaster 215 with Captain Belon and his mate Pravin, for 2 to 4, leaving at 05:00 for 4, 6 or 8 hours. The boat carries popping and jigging gear and likes a Plan B, so a bigeye can come up on a popping stop, though it is not the plan for the day. Our page on popping in Mauritius lists the boats that cast for trevally there.
Questions and answers
Short answers to what people ask before they book. Anything else, ask the captain in chat.
Do the Victoria trips use poppers for bigeye trevally?
Yes. Topwater fishing with hand made lures is the crew's main focus, and they also fish high speed jigs, which bigeye trevally take just as readily. Both the 5 and 8 hour trips leave Victoria at 06:00.
Is bigeye trevally a target on Last Cast in Grand Baie?
Not usually. Last Cast works tuna schools, marlin grounds and FADs, but it carries jigging and popping tackle. Ask Captain Belon for a popping stop if you want a shot at trevally during the trip.