Relaxing, diving, swimming and good conditions for fly fishing – an island for all our demands is not easy to find. Almost everywhere the fishing on the flats, or from the shore is not allowed.

So the search for our dream island is difficult. Finally is the August holiday our family holiday, and fishing is only one part of the routine of the day. This time my wife and my daughter Anna, also my son Andreas with his girlfriend Vera are there to. We wanted an island a little further from the airport island of Malé, and we found it in the south.

Ayada is a newly built resort in the pristine Gaafu Dhaalu atoll, located an hour's flight south of Malé. The resort is a new, very nice, and well run. The Beach Suites are a dream! We have two adjacent villas with each a small private pool

Fly fishing on the flats is not so easy. There are no bonefish to be seen, and only twice I see single GTs there – however they were out of my casting range. On the flats we just catch smaller fish and bluefins.

On the other hand, fishing from a boat in the channel and on the outer reef is super. We catch everything, what the angler heart desires: yellowfin tuna, many GTs to 45 kilos, bluefins, snapper, grouper and a Napoleon.

Generally one can say that far away south of the main island that there are more fish as at the well-known tourist atolls in the vicinity from Male. Also with snorkelling you are guaranteed to see large fish and mostly intact coral.