The second week of our Gabon session started with high hopes for Tarpon, as the moon was getting in the best phase for those big guys.

Nestled along the west coast of Central Africa, Gabon remains one of the continent's best-kept secrets, offering a haven for adventurers seeking unparalleled experiences amidst untamed wilderness.

It would be hard to find a better way to start the day before breakfast. Through our last stay this November we experienced more baitfish action than on previous trips. And the archipelago was boiling with prey and game fish.

When I met Francesco at Glide Tackle, we immediately had a good vibe. He’s a passionate lure builder who introduced some innovative systems to build lures and obtain ultra resistance on futuristic kinds of lures and tackle.

It was since a long time at Wild Sea we looked at Saudi Arabia wandering about fishing, actually since 2012 when we started operating in the Red Sea, but those years were a no-go since Saudi canceled tourist visas for foreigners, until the end of 2019, and then Covid came, delaying everything.

After having scratched the surface of this unique fishery in 2022, it’s useless to say our level of excitement was really high about the next Fly Fishing session, and since we already knew some tricks about the fishery and how to deal with it, the hype was even higher than high.

To end off an incredible week despite the weather , we embarked on one last mission East in search of Bohar snapper and big Geets.

With this week we can end the season Deep South in Sudan, where we will go from fishing atolls in the middle of the Red Sea to endless costal flats. This week we managed to find a good amount of fish on the flats giving the chance to have shots to every species, having also some heartbreaking moments with the permits and big geets.

Fourteen fabulous days, ferrying from island to island, flat to flat with a crew of hard working seaman, determined guides and six excited anglers seeking what the deep south of Sudan has to offer. This, in a cone shell, was the story of Wild Sea Expedition’s second trip navigating the Deep South islands of the Sudanese Red Sea…

We started the week fishing a small island for a day since in the afternoon we would sail towards the Deep South although that morning we had enough activity landing few triggers and finding a big amount of them on this tiny atoll, although we decided to spend more time looking for another bigger species on the reef.