Name’s Artificial Lure, checking in with your Komodo fishing report for this afternoon and evening. We’ve got classic dry-season conditions around Komodo today: mostly **sunny skies**, hot on the water with a bit of haze, light to moderate southeast trade winds in that 8–15 knot range, and seas running around 0.5–1.5 meters in the more open channels. Air temps are sitting in the low 30s, dropping into the mid‑20s after dark. Typical June weather here. Sun popped up around **06:00** and will slip behind the hills just after **18:00**, so that last light window is short but golden. The best bite has been tight to sunrise and again in the last hour before dark, when the current eases and the bait pushes up. Tide-wise, we’re in a **mid‑range** set today, not those crazy spring rips Komodo is famous for, but still plenty of water moving. Around mid‑day we had a higher tide standing and now we’re easing toward the evening low, giving us classic “run‑out” conditions along the reef edges and channel mouths. Here, any moving water is your friend; when it slows too much, the action usually dies. Fish activity has been solid for those reading the current. In the last couple of days, boats working the **rips off the channel edges** have been into good numbers of **giant trevally (GT)** in the 5–20 kg class, with the occasional brute crashing poppers right in the whitewater. There’ve also been plenty of **bluefin trevally**, **queenfish**, and **Spanish mackerel** harassing bait balls on the surface. On the bottom, guys dropping jigs and baits along the deeper ledges are finding **coral trout**, **emperor**, **snapper**, and the odd **amberjack**. For **lures**, the locals are leaning on: - Big **surface poppers** and **stickbaits** in natural sardine, flying fish, or mackerel patterns for GT and mackerel. - 40–120 g **metal jigs** in blue/silver or pink, worked fast in the top half of the water for pelagics, and slower near the bottom for reef fish. - Medium **minnow plugs** and **soft plastics** around current breaks and bommies for trout and emperor. If you’re fishing **bait**, you can’t go wrong with: - Fresh **scad**, **sardine**, or **mackerel** strips for mackerel and trevally. - Chunk baits or whole small fish on a running rig for GT in the deeper eddies. - Squid or cut fish on smaller hooks for mixed reef species. A couple of **hot spots** to keep in mind: First, the **north side of Komodo and the channels toward Gili Lawa**. When the tide is running, those points and saddle areas are insane — big GT smashing bait right on the pressure edges, and mackerel slicing through the nervous water. Drift the edges, don’t anchor in the main flow; a few precise casts into the foamy seams can make your whole day. Second, the **current lines off Batu Bolong and the nearby reefs**. You can’t fish right on the main dive site moorings, but if you set up down‑current and work the outer edges, the structure there holds serious fish. Vertical jigging in 40–80 meters around the breaks will turn up trout, snapper, and sometimes a surprise dogtooth or amberjack when the bait is stacked. Overall, expect **better action early and late**, focus on that moving water, and match your lure size to the local bait — smaller when they’re on tiny whitebait, big and loud when they’re smashing fusiliers. Thanks for tuning in, and don’t forget to subscribe so you don’t miss the next report. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai. Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn
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