What can I say… if you’re fishing in the Maldives you cannot go past the boys at Skull Fishing. Being from Australia, I regularly fish of charter boats and habe dealt with many crews. I must take my hat off and congratulate the crew at Skull Fishing as well as their management team.

I’ve been wanting to use skull fishing for about a month leading into my birthday and honeymoon at Centara Ras Fushi. I was afraid to use a third party charter knowing that Centara has their own big game program. However after all the plane their boat wasn’t ready and I was advised at 6pm the night before my birthday that we can’t go. I decided to message the crew at Skull Fishing at 11.00pm thinking not much of it, but with in 5 minutes I received an email allowing me to come out with them at 5.30am. Their afternoon and night fishing were booked out so I had no choice but gladly accept. A decision both my wife and I are amazed with.

The crew were prepared even though it was a last minute request for the sake of my birthday. We wife came with me and she doesn’t handle the sea well but the crew made sure she felt good. With in 5 minutes of Trolling we got our Wahoo. Then all the boats came and there wasn’t much luck so we went elsewhere, that’s when my wife’s rod went off with a tuna. After trolling we decided to launch some poppers where I was smashed by a good sized red snapper/bass. The fish attacked the poppers but we didn’t have much Luck, the crew even jumped in and tirelessly popped the lures hoping for more strikes.

After popping we decided to Jig and that was great. I managed another tuna and a grouper where my wife landed a baby GT… a fish I ways dreamt about. Even though it was my birthday they managed to encourage and persuade my wife not to give up which was awesome. They assisted everywhere and kept feeding and serving us drinks. The boys new I was chasing the BIG one and their boss allowed me an extra hour of fishing. By Then, I was way too tired and so happy that I didn’t mind going back home.

We rocked up back to our hotels Jetty with style where the staff and other patrons couldn’t stop looking. The guys use braid and Penn and Shimano reels including a Penn international overhead. I highly recommend the boys and will habe a 6 hour session next time.

Thanks!!!! Fantastic!

We did a full days fishing! Did Some jigging in the morning where we had none stop tuna action! Then i wanted to target a marlin, so we changed gear and moved location. Sadly the marlin, and none of the other fish would cooperate after this time, so we trolled for 4 hours and caught nothing. The crew were very knowledgeable and we could see how much effort they put into making sure we had a good time. The only thing they could not control, is the fish! Still, coming home with 16 good sized tuna is far from a bad day! I still had a ton of fun, and hope to go again someday soon!

I was staying at Centara Ras Fushi and the onsite charter was very expensive, with not great reviews, so I decided to research local charters.
I came across Skull Fishing, which had some good reviews.
Online the boat looked modern and fully equipped.
I enquired about a trip targeting GTs, with a requirement for purely catch and release.
Aisha was extremely helpful on email and answered all my questions and we agreed on a half day trip.

The team arrived punctually at 5:30am, the boat was very impressive, modern, fully equipped etc. The crew were in matching branded clothing. All was very professional.
The guys were very friendly and offered us drinks and made sure we were comfortable.

My aim was to catch a GT, which we unfortunately didn’t manage.
However, that is fishing and was certainly not down to any effort made by the two crew.
We worked our socks off for 4 hours to make the most of our trip.
Starting on stick/poppers for GTs straight away.
After 90mins of non stop casting and a blue-fin Trevally, we went for a troll for Wahoo/barracuda etc – Also to give the arms a rest!
Within about 15 mins, we saw a big school of tuna hitting baitfish in the distance, so we decided to make a call to change tactics and chase them.
These were decent sized fish (40kg) jumping 3 ft clear of the water and were moving fast.
We kept chasing the shoals and casting lures at them, which is exciting to say the least.
As the shoals move fast, its difficult to stay in touching distance but the team were fantastic at hunting them down and getting us chances at a hook up.
We did eventually get it right but bizarrely, there was a big Mahi Mahi with the shoal which took the lure before the Tuna.
It was a great fish and a very aerobatic fight.
Deservedly, the fish was returned alive.
By the time the fish was returned, we had lost the tuna shoal, so we tried jigging for about 30 mins.
We then spent the rest of the day going back for the GTs on poppers/sticks.
There were a few follows and a few aborted takes but we did get another nice Blue-fin trevally before time was up.

The trip was really enjoyable and I would wholly advise Skull fishing if you want to get out on the water.

Olly

We had a perfect morning fishing with Skull fishing. They picked us up in the morning at our resort. That had drinks and snacks for us. I brought my two kids 13 and 16 yrs old and they enjoyed the trip a lot. We got different type off groupers and very nice Giant Trevally. Thank you for giving us s perfekt day of fishing!

Great experience, crew was wonderful and extremely friendly, communication with the company office was also excellent.
We wanted to fish some tunas and the company arranjed for a very early start for us to be in a offshore site first light to maximise our chances. Turned out to be a success.
After that the fish stubbornly didnt bite but the crew was relentless and tryed to do their best to find new spots and never gave up, we actually gave up before they did.