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Bonefish: There's A Lot That Goes On In The Crazy Minds Of BoneFishermen
Posted by flyfshrmn82 on February 20, 2010 (616 reads)
My fingers lead the way with my hand and arm close behind in the attempt to hit the snooze button. It’s 4:45am. As I felt my way across the bed, my hand hurdled the gap between the bed and the night stand, but it falls a little short and jams one of my fingers into the nightstand. There’s nothing like a good case of expletives early in the morning to get the day off on the right foot. I begin to drift off again, until the sudden shrill of the hotel phone starts to ring (I love wake up calls). “They put these damn things right next to the head of the bed. Why do they have the ringer turned up so loud?” I ask myself as I reach over to answer it. I am awake now. Today is my last day, I have to get a bone on fly. I pack up all my gear, food, beer, and clothes and fire up the Yota. The humidity is up, the heat has already started, and the skeeters never sleep. Today is going to be a hot one for sure. I check out of the hotel, crack my first beer (5:30a), and make my way to Bob’s casa. I pull up to Bob’s house and find that he has already backed the trailer up to the boat, and is milling around the garage. Yep you guessed it, it was hot, humid, and skeeter abundant over there too. The game plan is discussed and we load up our gear, food and water and hit the road(6:00a).
We pull up to Don’s bait shop only to
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Maine Atlantic Salmon: A Presidential Catch ... And Release
Posted by greg on May 20, 2008 (2222 reads)
While showing another Atlantic Salmon fisherman a few spey casts and a giving a couple spey casting tips, Kenny Clark caught the first Maine sea run Atlantic Salmon of the Spring season. I thought his screen name " Salmon Man" was a bit presumptuous but as usual he lived up to the name. Throughout many years, Kenny and I have been on numerous sea run Atlantic Salmon trips together and we usually do well in Canada. We also fish together in Maine for landlocked Atlantic Salmon, because both of us enjoy fishing for salmon in big river systems with double handed rods and swinging spey flies. Maine's big and classic landlocked Salmon rivers such as the Dead River, Kennebec River and The West Branch of the Penobscott River offer great spey casting opportunities and very respectably sized landlocked Atlantic Salmon can be caught. In Maine, there have been many efforts by many groups of people to help make our sea run Atlantic Salmon fishery better. The Maine sea run Atlantic Salmon is certainly a highly prized, highly respected and highly protected species. So, this sea run fish caught by Kenny on the legendary Penobscot River in Bangor is a absolutely special event. This Spring season is an experimental one, just as the Fall season has been
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Washington, Olympic Peninsula: Fly Fishing For Native Pacific Steelhead
Posted by joey on April 03, 2008 (2769 reads)
Washington Steelhead Video
I have been reading about Native Steelhead in the Pacific Northwest for some time. I would scroll the web scanning sites and pictures of giant, bright fish, in beautiful settings. Upon returning from a Steelhead trip in November it was difficult to pick up a 5 wt and start casting to the same trout I had been fishing for all summer. Instead I booked a flight to Seattle, WA. The Steelhead itch slowly passed and I was casting to the local trout again, trying to dial into the winter fishing. Fast forward to March and I found myself making the 3 hour drive from Seattle to Forks in search of the fish I have only seen in the hands of other anglers. The glacial rivers were accented by the bright green forests that line their banks and the mountains seemed to come right out of the ocean. Everything that I had read about was now unfolding right in front of me. It was interesting to learn about the gauntlet that these fish have to run through in order to spawn. If they make it past the sea lions, whales and adult salmon, they then might run into nets that are strung across the river by local tribes (which can vary day to day) . From there they are hunted by Bald Eagles and Anglers. This can make it extremely difficult to even find a fish and then you have to put your drift on its nose and hope you get a take. But, when all the variables come together and you get manageable river flows and some cooperating fish the fishing can be great. Instead of trying to figure out the local fishery we fished for two days with two of the hardest working guides I have ever met, Jeff Brazda and Dan “Rooster” Leavens. Day one was a bit slow only hooking 2 fish that both came unbuttoned but the float was remarkable. The raft floated along the
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Bonefish & Permit Fly Fishing: From France To Guadeloupe
Posted by alexismt555 on January 14, 2007 (2591 reads)
Bonefish Slideshow
This fish tale begins in February 2006, when I came here to Guadeloupe for a holiday. As I always do, I brought my fly fishing rod and reel.
I stayed in Guadeloupe for one month. After the first week, I had almost made the complete tour of Guadeloupe. I fished each creek, rock bar, beach etc.. and found nothing to be productive. The first day of the second week my girlfriend came from France, thanks to her, I found my first productive spot. Once she arrived, I had to find a place where she could enjoy swimming and take in the sun and I could fly fish. That's what brought us to the flats. These were beautiful places with white sand, turtle grass, reefs and coral.
It was on this flat that I hooked my first bonefish. Once I landed it, I almost gott tears in my eyes. It was a memorable moment because it was my first Bonefish ever and I had spent much time in pursuit of this fish. I started fly fishing in saltwater six years ago in Gabon, Africa, so I was use to seek fish in vast areas. True for bonefish, I understood why the are called the "Gray Ghost of the Flats".
The first days were hard but thanks to no fishing pressure I could tangle with several bones each day. Later, we traveled to Desirada, a little island off Guadeloupe. Luckily, I found the flats and bonefish within the first couple hours. I saw, hooked and caught bonefish after
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