Bali Fishing Report: Trevally and Tuna Turning On at Dawn and Dusk

Name’s Artificial Lure, checking in with your Bali fishing report. Around Bali this afternoon, light to moderate easterlies and a gentle swell kept conditions very fishable along the east and south coasts. Skies have been partly cloudy with the usual sticky heat; inshore water’s holding decent clarity, a bit greener near river mouths. Sun rose over Bali’s east coast around 6:25 this morning and will duck out just after 6:15 this evening. That gives a tidy low‑light window at dawn and dusk, and that’s exactly when the bite’s been turning on. Tides today around Sanur and Benoa have been running a typical mixed semi‑diurnal pattern: a pre‑dawn high easing into a mid‑morning fall, then building again through the afternoon toward an evening high. That dropping mid‑morning tide pulled some good current along reef edges and channel mouths, and that’s where most of the action’s come from. Inshore, small boats and shore casters have been finding **trevally**, **queenfish**, and the odd **barracuda** around Nusa Dua, Serangan, and the airport reef. A few boats working light jigging gear off Tanjung Benoa reported half‑a‑dozen GTs in the 1–3 kg class, plus a mix of bigeye trevally and talang queenfish on 20–40 g metal jigs and micro jigs in sardine and pink patterns. Soft‑plastic paddle tails in white and chartreuse, hopped along drop‑offs, have also been doing damage. Offshore, the deep‑sea boys running out from Benoa and Padang Bai are still picking away at **yellowfin** and **skipjack tuna**, with a sprinkling of **mahi‑mahi** around current lines and FADs. Trolling smaller skirted lures in purple‑black, blue‑silver, and green‑yellow has put steady fish in the box, nothing huge but solid schoolies to keep the icebox happy. Around the reefs of Nusa Penida and Nusa Lembongan, jigging and bait fishing have turned up **snapper**, **grouper**, and **emperor** on the morning falling tide. Natural baits — fresh squid strips, small scad, and cut sardine — pinned to simple running rigs have outfished everything else for bottom dwellers. Berley a little, but not too much, and keep your sinkers just heavy enough to hold bottom in the current. For pure lure work inshore, best bets right now: - Small to medium **metal jigs** (20–40 g), silver, sardine, or pink. - **Topwater poppers** and stickbaits in natural baitfish colors for GT and queenfish at first light. - **Minnow plugs** and sinking stickbaits worked along reef edges and around bait balls. If you’re soaking bait from shore, go with peeled prawn, small strips of squid, or local trash fish cut into neat pieces. Lighter leaders get more bites; just be ready for a surprise GT or barracuda. A couple of hot spots to keep on your radar: - **Serangan / Turtle Island area**: channels and reef edges on the dropping tide for trevally, queenfish, and mixed reefies, both from small boats and the breakwalls. - **Nusa Dua – Tanjung Benoa outer reef**: early‑morning lure casting and light jigging for GT, bigeye trevally, and the occasional mackerel; then bottom fishing once the sun climbs. Overall fish activity’s been best at dawn and into the first few hours of the falling tide, then again late afternoon as the water starts pushing back in and the light drops. Midday is scratchy unless you’re on deeper structure with good current. That’s the word from the water around Bali. Thanks for tuning in, and don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss a report. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai. Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn