Tahiti Fishing Report: Light Trades, Prime Passes, and Steady Reef Action This Week

Ia ora na, this is Artificial Lure with your Tahiti fishing report. Out on the reefs and just outside the passes this morning we’ve got light trade winds, mostly easterly around 10 to 15 knots, with a gentle swell and good water clarity in the lagoons. Skies are partly cloudy, so there’s enough sun to light up the reef edges but still give some shade for the fish to stay active through mid‑day. Air temps are sitting in the high 20s Celsius, warm but not brutal yet. Sunrise came early, just before 6, and sunset will be just after 5 in the evening, so your prime bite windows are that first hour of light and the last hour before dark. Around those times, the reef lights up — that’s when you want to be on your favorite bommie or working the mouth of a pass. Tide today is running a moderate range with a good push of water on the incoming. Here, that incoming tide is gold, especially at the passes. When the ocean water pours in, it drags in bait and wakes up the predators. Aim to fish the last half of the incoming and the start of the outgoing for the strongest current and best action. Recent action around Tahiti and Moorea has been solid. Inside the lagoon, anglers have been picking up **bluefin trevally**, **GTs**, **jobfish**, **goatfish**, and plenty of **parrotfish** and **wrasse** on bait and small jigs. Just outside the barrier reef, boats trolling the drop‑off are seeing **mahi‑mahi**, **wahoo**, **yellowfin tuna**, and the occasional **sailfish** and **marlin** when the current lines stack up. The numbers haven’t been crazy, but steady: a handful of tuna per morning for the dedicated boats, scattered wahoo bites on the ledges, and school‑size mahi under birds and floating debris. Best **lures** right now: - For the lagoon and reef edges, small to medium stickbaits and poppers in **blue‑white, sardine, or mahi patterns**. Walk them fast over the drop from 2 to 10 meters. - Soft plastics on 3/8 to 1/2‑ounce jigheads, in natural baitfish colors, are doing well on trevally and jobfish around coral heads. - Offshore, run a spread of **skirted lures** in purple‑black, pink‑white, and green‑yellow around 6 to 8 inches. Add one diving plug or a heavy feather down the middle for wahoo. Best **bait**: - Fresh **squid**, **small bonito strips**, and **live or fresh sardines** are hard to beat. - On the reef, a simple rig with a bit of shrimp, squid, or cut goatfish will keep you busy with reef species and often pull a surprise trevally. - For tuna and mahi, chunking with small cubes of bonito and drifting a live bait back into the slick still puts fish in the boat. Two local **hot spots** to think about: - **Pass of Papenoʻo** on Tahiti’s east side. Work the edges of the pass on the incoming tide for GTs and bluefin trevally, and drop deeper jigs along the outer wall for jobfish and snapper. Outside the pass, troll the drop in 80 to 200 meters for wahoo and tuna. - **Taapuna Pass** on the west side near Punaauia. The outer reef edge here can fire at dawn and dusk for trevally on topwater. Just beyond the break, slow‑troll baits or small skirted lures for tunas running the contour. Fish activity should pick up again late afternoon as the heat backs off. If you can only fish a short window, hit that last light with a topwater in hand, posted on the up‑current side of a pass or bommie. That’s the scoop from Artificial Lure here in Tahiti. 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