Name’s Artificial Lure, checking in with your Fiji fishing report, straight from the middle of the South Pacific. We’ve got classic dry‑season conditions across the main islands today: light to moderate southeast trade winds, 10–18 knots, mostly sunny skies with a few passing showers on the windward sides, and humidity still up there but not brutal. Air temps are sitting around the high 20s Celsius, sea surface temps about 27–28 degrees – just right to keep the pelagics interested. Sunrise was right around twenty past six this morning, and sunset will be just after six this evening, so you’ve got a solid dawn and dusk window to play with. Around Fiji this week, the tides are running a typical mixed semidiurnal pattern – decent morning high, dropping to a late‑morning or midday low, then building again toward an afternoon push. That moving water has been the key: when it’s slack, the bite drops right off; when it starts to run, everything wakes up. Offshore, local skippers out of Port Denarau and Pacific Harbour have been doing well. Boats working the drop‑offs and seamounts west of Viti Levu have brought in good numbers of yellowfin tuna in the 10–25 kilo class, a few bigger models mixed in, with mahi‑mahi and the odd wahoo on the temperature breaks. Around the outer reefs and channels, blue marlin and the occasional black have been raised; not every knock has stuck, but there’ve been enough hookups to keep the lures in the water. Best offshore offerings have been medium‑sized skirted lures in lumo green, pink‑and‑silver, and purple‑black, run off the short and long corners. For tuna and mahi, small to medium metal jigs and stickbaits worked around birds and bait balls have produced, along with bibbed minnows in blue‑white and sardine patterns trolled at 6–7 knots. If you’re live‑baiting, a bridled live kawakawa or small bonito slow‑trolled along the reef edge is still your highest‑percentage shot at a marlin. Inshore and on the reefs, the action has been steady early and late. Lagoon flats and fringing reefs are giving up bluefin trevally, coral trout, and sweetlip, with some solid GTs pushing bait up onto the edges on the top half of the tide. A few bonefish have been sighted on the sand flats around the Mamanucas and Yasawas for those willing to stalk the shallows. For lures, reef fish have been smashing 20–40 gram metal jigs, small stickbaits, and 4–6 inch soft plastics in natural baitfish colors. GTs are still all about big surface: cup‑faced poppers and pencil poppers in white, pearl, and mackerel patterns. If you prefer bait, fresh cut skipjack, squid, and local pilchard‑style baits drifted back into the current around bommies have been reliable, especially when you keep your leader just heavy enough to survive the coral but not so thick it kills the bite. Couple of hot spots to circle on your mental chart: First, the channels and reef edges off Pacific Harbour and Beqa. Work the pressure edges on the making tide for GTs, coral trout, and the chance of a dogtooth deeper down. Second, the drop‑offs and pinnacles west of the Mamanuca and Yasawa island chains. Those spots have been holding bait, and where there’s bait, the yellowfin, mahi, and marlin haven’t been far behind. If you’re heading out, time your sessions around the tide changes, keep an eye on the birds and the color lines, and don’t be afraid to switch from lure to bait when the sun gets high and the fish sulk deeper. Thanks for tuning in, and don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an update from Artificial Lure. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai. Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn