The Wahoo is the fish that makes Noomaa Kuda Atholhu worth fishing the surface for. It is a fast, savage open-ocean predator that ambushes a topwater popper and then tears off at speed, and it pays far better than the King Mackerel I started this map with. My catch was a Trophy at 21.856 kg … Read more
The Indo-Pacific King Mackerel was one of the first fish I chased at Noomaa Kuda Atholhu, the tropical atoll map, and it takes a fast pilker jig rather than bait on the bottom. It is an active, hard-hitting pelagic that hunts in small schools, so once you find the right water you can often pick … Read more
The Striped Bonito is not a fish you set out to catch at Kaiji No Ri. It is a fish that finds you. It is a small, fast schooling member of the tuna family, and it will hammer the same Spanner Spoon you are throwing for Yellowfin Tuna. My best so far was a Unique … Read more
The Dogtooth Tuna is one of the best fights at Kaiji No Ri, and it is caught in a way nothing else on the map is: by casting a topwater popper near the reefs and working the surface. Despite the name it is not actually a tuna, but it hits like an apex predator and … Read more
The Bigfin Reef Squid is not a payday. My Trophy paid just 1,148 coins, the smallest return of anything I have caught for this site. So why write it up? Because it is a completely different style of fishing from everything else at Kaiji No Ri. This is light squid jigging with a spinning rod, … Read more