The incredible thing about this island it’s the marine biodiversity and XXL’s size of fish. This feature is certainly due to several factors: primarily the abundance of forage fish such as rainbow runners and fusiliers, combined with the lack of fishing pressure in these waters and strong currents that transport large quantities of nutrients. In addition to the obvious fortunate position, in the middle of the ocean current that comes from the South favors the upwelling, which brings nutrients to the surface layers. For several months the winds are very violent, causing sea conditions often prohibitive, and thus preventing continuous fishing by local fishermen, who still do not have huge resources. In practice, you can fish well and be safe only for a little less than four months a year, from October to November and from March to April.
Fishing can be done in October, March, and April with good success.
What makes fishing absolutely unique in Socotra is the biodiversity and the variety of the fishing, making it a real last frontier for the ultimate fisherman. On top of the huge variety, what makes it even more special is the fact that fishing has to be done only on #8 wt or #9 wt rod regardless of the species, making it more basic but also more challenging since on the same rod you can have shot at 25 different species.
Here is the list of the possible species to catch from the beach on a 9 wt rod: Parrotfish ( 4 different species), Bluefin Trevally, Yellow-spotted Trevally, Big Eye Trevally, Blue Barred Trevally, Bohar Snapper, Emperors, Green Jobfish, Bonefish, Permit, Milkfish, Titan Triggerfish, Blue Triggerfish, Three Spot Pompano, Indian Threadfin, Bream, One SPot Snapper, Brown Sweetlips, Needlescaled Queenfish, Spanish Mackerel, GT.