Tahiti Offshore: Mahi, Tuna, and Wahoo on the Rise

This is Artificial Lure with your Tahiti fishing report. Out here around Tahiti and Moorea the southeast trade wind has settled in, blowing 10–15 knots most of the morning with a light chop outside the reef and calmer water inside. Air temps are running mid‑70s at dawn up to the mid‑80s by afternoon, with broken clouds and a couple of quick tropical showers sliding through. Sunrise was just after 6 a.m., sunset will be around 5:20 p.m., giving us a nice long, bright day on the water. Tides today are on the modest side, with a low just after first light and a rising push through late morning, then a small high around early afternoon. That incoming tide has been the best bite window: cleaner water pushing over the reef and bait stacking along the passes. Offshore crews working the drop‑offs between Tahiti and Moorea have seen steady pelagics the last few days. Local charter skippers out of Papeete and Marina Taina report good numbers of mahi‑mahi on the 200–400 m line, with a few yellowfin tuna in the 20–40 kg class and the odd bigger fish mixed in. Wahoo have been spotty but when they show, they’re solid. Best action has come running staggered spreads at 6–8 knots: medium jet‑head lures in green/yellow and blue/white, plus pink squids and small skirted lures rigged with 8/0 hooks. For tuna, darker skirts—black/purple, black/red—have outfished the bright stuff. Closer to the reef, lagoon anglers are doing well on bluefin trevally, small GTs, and jobfish along the drop‑offs and bommies. Casting surface poppers and stickbaits early on the rising tide has been the ticket. White or bone‑colored stickbaits and small cup‑face poppers in sardine patterns are getting crushed. When the sun gets higher and the fish sulk, switch to jigs: 40–80 g slow‑pitch or flutter jigs in pink, chartreuse, or silver, worked just outside the passes. For those fishing bait, fresh bonito chunks are still king offshore—especially for yellowfin. A simple drift with chunk lines out behind the boat is putting fish in the box when the troll bite slows. Inside the lagoon, small live baits or fresh cut sardine near the channel edges are taking trevally, snapper, and goatfish. Just remember to use fluorocarbon leaders; the water is clear and the fish are not dumb. Fish activity has been best from first light through mid‑morning and again late afternoon into dusk, especially when that tide is moving. Mid‑day has been slower with the bright overhead sun, so use that time to move, sound new structure, or run wider for pelagics. A couple of local hot spots to keep on your radar: – Passe de Taapuna, on Tahiti’s west side: Reliable for trevally and reef predators on the incoming tide. Work the edges of the channel with topwater at dawn, then jigs once the sun is up. – The offshore edge between Moorea’s Vaiare Pass and the north‑eastern drop‑off: This line has held mahi and tuna recently. Watch for birds and floating debris; anything holding small bait has been productive. If you’re fishing light tackle in the lagoon, don’t go too light—there’s always a bigger GT cruising the edge, ready to steal your favorite lure in one run. That’s your Tahiti fishing report from Artificial Lure. Thanks for tuning in, and don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss the next bite. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai. Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn