44 SeriousFun@JFFC SEPT 2018
In Sudan there are two main species of triggers fish, that you can fish for, the third is in deeper water and are very seldom caught as you have to blind cast to them and hope you get one. The other two species are the Yellow margin and the Titan. Catching these guys takes a lot of patience, after spotting them you cast a crab or shrimp fly about 1m to the direction they are feeding in, if you cast too far away or on the wrong side they won’t see your fly, if you cast too close, line the fish (when you cast your line over the fish) or splash too hard when presenting the fly in to the wind they will disappear faster than the Gupta brothers.
So if you have done all the above correctly you might get their attention, once you have their attention they will follow your fly and bump it , meaning they are trying to smash your fly in to the ground, this all happens while you are doing long slow strips. If the fishing gods are on your side you will feel as if line got snagged on the bottom, just keep on stripping, as soon as the line starts to move to the side then you strip strike with your hand and then move the rod to the side and strike again, never trout strike by lifting your rod you will miss the fish 90 % of the time.
Now you start hoping that you hooked the fish in the scissor of the mouth or the outside lip. Any other place in the mouth where the teeth can get to your hook it will be halved or the tippet snipped. That is in short why this fish is on the most wanted list for many salt anglers, they are difficult to catch. Our main aim was to land one of each species on the trip; we did manage that on the last day of the trip.