20 August 2016
Coral trout or Plectropomus punctatus - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Red Coral Trout or Plectropomus punctatus

Red Coral Trout or Plectropomus punctatus is part of the Grouper family. This nice specie […]
20 August 2016
Rosy job fish or flame snapper or Etelis coruscans - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Rosy job fish or Flame snapper or Etelis coruscans

Rosy job fish or Flame snapper or Etelis coruscans is also called ruby snapper or […]
20 August 2016
Golden hind grouper or Cephalopholis aurantia - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Golden hind or orange cod or Cephalopholis aurantia

Golden hind also called orange cod or Cephalopholis aurantia has the surname of “red mama” […]
20 August 2016
Black jack or Euthynnus affinis - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Black skipjack or Kawakawa or Euthynnus affinis

Black skipjack also called Kawakawa or Euthynnus affinis is a tasty fish. Even if it […]
20 August 2016
Barracuda or Sphyraena barracuda - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Barracuda or Sphyraena barracuda

Barracuda or Sphyraena barracuda is not a rare specie in Rodrigues. We can find it […]
20 August 2016
Skipjack tuna or Katsuwonus pelamis - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Skipjack tuna or Katsuwonus pelamis

Skipjack tuna or Katsuwonus pelamis is also called striped bonito. We find it very easily […]
20 August 2016
Spangled emperor or Lethrinus nebulosus - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Spangled emperor or Lethrinus nebulosus

Spangled emperor or Lethrinus nebulosus is a specie of fish that you can catch on […]
20 August 2016
Yellowspotted trevally or Carangoïdes fulvoguttatus - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Yellowknife trevally or Carangoides fulvoguttatus

Yellowknife trevally or Carangoides fulvoguttatus holds different names, such as: gold spotted trevally, yellow dotted […]
20 August 2016
Blue fin trevally or Caranx melampygus - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Bluefin trevally or Caranx melampygus

Bluefin trevally or Caranx melampygus, also called blue jackfish, is probably the most beautiful of […]
20 August 2016
Island trevally or Carangoïdes orthogrammus - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Island trevally or Carangoides orthogrammus.

Island trevally has a scientific name of Carangoides orthogrammus. Like the yellow spotted trevally, it […]
20 August 2016
Big eye trevally or Caranx sexfasciatus - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Big eye trevally or Caranx sexfasciatus

Big eye trevally or Caranx sexfasciatus distinguishes from other trevallies thanks to its big eyes […]
20 August 2016
Giant trevally or Caranx ignobilis - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Giant trevally or Caranx ignobilis

Giant trevally or Caranx ignobilis is also called giant kingfish. This nice specie was caught […]
20 August 2016
Black jack or caranx lugubris - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Black jack or Caranx lugubris

Black jack or Caranx lugubris is one of the trevallies you will catch the more […]
20 August 2016
Two spot red snapper or Lutjanus bohar - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Two spot red snapper or Lutjanus bohar

Two spot red snapper or Lutjanus bohar is this peculiar specie of fish that enabled […]
20 August 2016
Crimson job fish or Pristipomides filamentosus - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Crimson Jobfish or Pristipomides filamentosus

Crimson Jobfish or Pristipomides filamentosus is certainly an excellent fish. You may catch it either […]
20 August 2016
Rainbow runer or Elagatis bipinnulata - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Rainbow runner or Elagatis bipinnulata

Rainbow runner or Elagatis bipinnulata holds some other names: Spanish jack or Hawaiian salmon… just […]
20 August 2016
Moontail sea bass or Variola luti - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Moon-tail sea bass or Variola luti

Moon-tail sea bass or Variola luti is part of the groupers family. It is mostly […]
20 August 2016
Dorado or Coryphaena hippurus - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Dorado or Coryphaena hippurus

Dorado or Coryphaena hippurus has got 3 good reasons to be sought after. It is […]
20 August 2016
Black snoek or Thyrsitoides marleyi - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Black snoek or Thyrsitoides marleyi

Black snoek or Thyrsitoides marleyi seems to come from Abysses. It is not that slender. […]
20 August 2016
Escolar or Lepidocybium flavobrunneum - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Escolar or Lepidocybium flavobrunneum

Escolar or Lepidocybium flavobrunneum is caught on baiting in high depths. It produces gempylotoxin: indigestible […]
20 August 2016
Swordfish or Xiphias gladius - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Swordfish or Xiphias gladius

Swordfish or Xiphias gladius holds a long bill like a sword, which represents a third […]
20 August 2016
Spearfish or Tetrapturus angustirostris - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Spearfish or short-bill spearfish or Tetrapturus angustirostris

Spearfish or short-bill spearfish or Tetrapturus angustirostris is a fish caught by chance and it […]
20 August 2016
Blue marlin or Makaira nigricans - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Blue marlin or Makaira nigricans

Blue marlin or Makaira nigricans can reach record weights. We have big species coming over, […]
20 August 2016
Black marlin or Istiompax indica - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Black marlin or Istiompax indicia

Black marlin or Istiompax indicia is our company’s emblem and our boat’s name. It is […]
20 August 2016
Dusky grouper or Epinephelus Marginatus - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Dusky grouper or Epinephelus marginatus

Dusky grouper or Epinephelus marginatus, also called yellowbelly grouper is the biggest grouper you can […]
20 August 2016
White blotched grouper or Epinephelus multinotatus - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

White blotched grouper or Epinephelus multinotatus

White blotched grouper is also called Rankin’s cod or Epinephelus multinotatus. This variety of fish […]
20 August 2016
Comet Grouper or Epinephelus morrhua - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Comet grouper or Epinephelus morrhua

Comet grouper or Epinephelus morrhua is caught either on jigging or bottom fishing by high […]
20 August 2016
Green jobfish or Aprion virescens - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Green jobfish or Aprion virescens

Green jobfish or Aprion virescens locally holds the name of «vacoa». The biggest we have […]
20 August 2016
Hammerhead shark or Sphyma lewini - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Hammerhead shark or Sphyma Lewini

Hammerhead shark or Sphyma Lewini is very often coming aroung by the boat while we […]
20 August 2016
White tip shark or Carcharhinus albimarginatus - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

White tip shark or Carcharhinus albimarginatus

White tip shark or Carcharhinus albimarginatus is the most present fish around the island. On […]
20 August 2016
Oil Fish or Ruvettus pretiosius - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Oil-fish or Ruvettus pretiosius

Oil-fish or Ruvettus pretiosius is a fish that lives in very high depths. But it […]
20 August 2016
Amberjack or Seriola dumerili - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Amberjack or Seriola dumerili

Amberjack, also called great yellowtail or Seriola dumerili is a fish that holds many different […]
20 August 2016
Dogtooth tuna or Gymnosarda unicolor - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Dogtooth tuna or Gymnosarda unicolor

Dogtooth tuna or Gymnosarda unicolor is the «showcase fish» of our club with a world […]
20 August 2016
Long tail tuna or Thunnus tonggol - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Longtail tuna or Thunnus tonggol

Longtail tuna or Thunnus tonggol is also called blue fin tuna. Claudius caught the specie […]
20 August 2016
Yellowfin tuna or Thunnus albacares - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Yellowfin tuna or Thunnus albacares

Yellowfin tuna or Thunnus albacares you see on this picture weights a little bit more […]
20 August 2016
Big eye tuna or Thunnus obesus - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Big eye tuna or Thunnus obesus

Big eye tuna or Thunnus obesus has many different names in French, such as «fat […]
19 August 2016
Sailfish or Istiophorus platypterus - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Sailfish or Istiophorus platypterus

Sailfish or Istiophorus platypterus is a wonderful billfish, maybe the most beautiful. It is very […]
19 August 2016
Wahoo or Acanthocybium solandri - Rod Fishing Club - Rodrigues Island - Mauritius - Indian Ocean

Wahoo or Acanthocybium solandri

Wahoo or Acanthocybium solandri is also called king fish or queen fish. It cuts skirts […]
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