Socotra is on my bucket list... did not know it has reopened again?
Would you care to share some more info (via pm)?

 

Great. As far as I know there are direct flights once a week. I will write you a PM.

 

Hi,
I'm back home from my trip to A_frica.

It seems that AirArabia is flying once a week via Abu Dhabi; therefore one or two weeks would be possible. I would favour two weeks and including some sightseeing as rest days. I guess the luggage restrictions are pretty tight. Ticket price at the beginning of the year were around 860$. I guess the flight has to be booked by a local agency. I'm in contact with a tour operator and try to verify everything.

 

So is there a catch report coming ?

 

Sorry, I didn't see your post.

I didn't go to Sokotra, but fished other parts of A_frica and near east in the last years. I would still be interested to go, that's why I ended up in this thread again ;P
I didn't check yet, but I guess the flight connection is still bad and flight prices rather high, that's why I didn't want to do this alone. Maybe I will think about booking a group tour with a foreign operator, but I would prefer finding a crazy GT angler for a split charter.

I would like to concentrate on GT popping. I would agree on some jigging, but that's certainly not my prefered method and the boats have no sonar. Some of the skippers know the area pretty well, but I have the feeling that the fishermen in the region don't target GTs and therefore don't know them well and many have no clue about modern sportfishing. I guess organizing a fish finder would be good for extensive jigging sessions.