Mauritius?

[riverman]

Anyone here ever flyfished Mauritius? Looks like I'm going for a week over
Easter Vacation, and from the Lonely Planet site, there are a lot of streams
on the island as well as some deep sea fishing. I'll definately bring my 9ft
6/7wt for SWFF, but am wondering if its worth bringing the 4 wt for the
inland streams.

--riverman

[Kevin Vang]

In article >,
says...
> Anyone here ever flyfished Mauritius? Looks like I'm going for a week over
> Easter Vacation, and from the Lonely Planet site, there are a lot of streams
> on the island as well as some deep sea fishing. I'll definately bring my 9ft
> 6/7wt for SWFF, but am wondering if its worth bringing the 4 wt for the
> inland streams.


Used to be you'd want to take a short wooden club for huntin dodo
birds, but I understand the action's gotten a little slow lately.

Kevin
BTW, I hope you're staying out of ferryboats lately.

[Wolfgang]

"Kevin Vang" > wrote in message
...
> In article >,
> says...
> > Anyone here ever flyfished Mauritius? Looks like I'm going for a week
over
> > Easter Vacation, and from the Lonely Planet site, there are a lot of
streams
> > on the island as well as some deep sea fishing. I'll definately bring my
9ft
> > 6/7wt for SWFF, but am wondering if its worth bringing the 4 wt for the
> > inland streams.
>
>
> Used to be you'd want to take a short wooden club for huntin dodo
> birds, but I understand the action's gotten a little slow lately.

Funny, we used ta club 'em by the thousands......wonder where they all went.
:(

Wolfgang

[riverman]

"Wolfgang" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Kevin Vang" > wrote in message
> ...
> > In article >,
> > says...
> > > Anyone here ever flyfished Mauritius? Looks like I'm going for a week
> over
> > > Easter Vacation, and from the Lonely Planet site, there are a lot of
> streams
> > > on the island as well as some deep sea fishing. I'll definately bring
my
> 9ft
> > > 6/7wt for SWFF, but am wondering if its worth bringing the 4 wt for
the
> > > inland streams.
> >
> >
> > Used to be you'd want to take a short wooden club for huntin dodo
> > birds, but I understand the action's gotten a little slow lately.
>
> Funny, we used ta club 'em by the thousands......wonder where they all
went.
> :(
>

Was that Mauritius? For some reason, I thought it was on some other island
nearer to Madagascar. Saw a special on TV last week that told how the Dutch
didn't club them all to death, as they weren't very good eating, but instead
the pigs they brought to the island for food regularly escaped and generated
a feral pig population that decimated the Dodo eggs, and killed them off in
pretty much one generation.

--riverman

(But what does this have to do with SWFF and FWFF on the island?)

[Bill Mason]

"riverman" > wrote in message
...
>
> a feral pig population that decimated the Dodo eggs, and killed them off
in
> pretty much one generation.
>
> --riverman
>
> (But what does this have to do with SWFF and FWFF on the island?)
>
>

I've read that with a good dodo egg pattern the action on feral pigs can be
wide open. Better bring a 10WT.

Cheers,
Bill

[B J Conner]

Your close to prime Coelacanth area. Iif I remember correctly there have
been a few caught in that area. I think most have been caught in the
Mozambique channel. I have checked all my books and can't find any
Coelacanth patterns. Looks like you'll have to settle for the usual Indian
ocean species and the local beer.

"riverman" > wrote in message
...
> Anyone here ever flyfished Mauritius? Looks like I'm going for a week over
> Easter Vacation, and from the Lonely Planet site, there are a lot of
streams
> on the island as well as some deep sea fishing. I'll definately bring my
9ft
> 6/7wt for SWFF, but am wondering if its worth bringing the 4 wt for the
> inland streams.
>
> --riverman
>
>

[Wayne Harrison]

riverman wrote in message ...
>Anyone here ever flyfished Mauritius? Looks like I'm going for a week over
>Easter Vacation, and from the Lonely Planet site, there are a lot of
streams
>on the island as well as some deep sea fishing. I'll definately bring my
9ft
>6/7wt for SWFF, but am wondering if its worth bringing the 4 wt for the
>inland streams.
>
>--riverman

harrumph! what a foolish query! why, you might as well have asked
about fishing in the freaking congo, you silly boy!

yfitons
wayno
>
>

[troutbum_mt]

says...
> harrumph! what a foolish query! why, you might as well have asked
> about fishing in the freaking congo, you silly boy!

Or Illinois for that matter. ;-)
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[riverman]

"Wayne Harrison" > wrote in message
...
>
> riverman wrote in message ...
> >Anyone here ever flyfished Mauritius? Looks like I'm going for a week
over
> >Easter Vacation, and from the Lonely Planet site, there are a lot of
> streams
> >on the island as well as some deep sea fishing. I'll definately bring my
> 9ft
> >6/7wt for SWFF, but am wondering if its worth bringing the 4 wt for the
> >inland streams.
> >
> >--riverman
>
> harrumph! what a foolish query! why, you might as well have asked
> about fishing in the freaking congo, you silly boy!
>


Ahh, I see the problem. I forgot to translate my post into Roff street
language.

://: translation mode on:

"Nyah nyah nya-nyah nyah nyahh! I'm going to Mauritius!"

translation mode off ://: :-)

But seriously, folks. I don't know if the inland streams have any indigenous
catchable fish, are short, raging torrents, or if they are just trickles
down the mountainside with old shoes and garbage bags. But it seems that no
one here has been there, so I'll take my 4wt and see for myself, and post a
TR when I get back. :-)

--riverman