Ocean Active Fishing

Great communication and a fantastic guide Nadeeka - 25 queen fish in a morning. It was a totally awesome experience. These are great, fun fish to catch on the fly. Totally recommend it and I will be back myself. Thanks

Ramesh is the best guide in Dubai. He got us on Queenies. We boated some nice ones.

As a keen and experienced fly fisher, I can honestly say this was hard. Really hard. There is a certain level of masochism to this style of fishing. The set up is, head out in the boat, one guide and 2 guests. In May it needs to be 6am. We foolishly ended up going out at 1030 (should have been 12, but was arranged to go earlier). They give 2 daily slots, but it has to be the earlier one. Completely forget the afternoon. To be honest they shouldn’t even advertise it. Once the boat is on the water the guide is spotting for birds, to show were the fish are feeding, hitting shoals of sand eels. None of this explained by the guide. But it was easy enough to twig after a few goes. We spend 4 hours on boat, maybe an hour fishing and other 3 hours were motoring about looking for fish. We went from Jumeriah beach down to the far side of Jebel Ali port, up the shipping channel, back to Jumeriah beach and then up to the Dry dock. Then circumnavigated the entire world breakwater (on the outside). The waves were 2ft ish. It felt like my spine was trying to escape via my skull. If you have any type of a sore back, this will kill it. No comfort other than one arse cheek perched on a cooler. The fishing technique is guide spots the birds, park up next the feeding fishing. Guide casts a hookless epoxy surface lure, cranks it back in to get the fish to chase to the boat. Fly fisher casts over the spinned lures (when close enough) and then strip like crazy. Again not really explained well, but we twigged it. The rods are 10wt 9ft with a floating WF lead eye clouser minnow. Character building stuff, double hauling on a pitching boat bow and in 40deg heat. The queen fish are crazy strong, I got 3 largest maybe 2lb. Lost 3 also. They dive down and barrel about. A large fish must be bonkers. But in May your only real chance is very very early. Really need to be fishing a few months earlier. You need to be really physically fit to do this and must, must, must go earlier. The guide spent ...

We arranged for a day of fishing with Ocean Active, as a group we couldn't be more pleased. They took care of us 100% from the time we stepped off the airplane until we where back at the hotel. Professional, knowledgeable and helpful. This was one of the best guide services I have ever used anywhere in the world. Don't hesitate to book a day of fishing with Ocean Active, they are great!

Amazing experience. The staff were so friendly and kept moving to the best fishing spots