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 Bonito: Fly Fishing For The Hard Tail High
Posted by jeremy on August 17, 2007 (2553 reads)
Bonito Video
I am addicted to fly fishing for anything with a hard tale. In the Northeast, fly fishing for any tuna species is right up my alley. It’s fast, it’s very visual and hard tales have a way of exposing every weakness. And, above all that, they rip. Tuna species are rocket ships and built for speed. I recently went on a great Bonito fly fishing trip with fellow hard tale addict Tom Rosenbauer, of The Orvis Company. We fished with our now good friend, Capt. Mike, who is also as addicted to hard tales as we are. Tom brought 6 or 7 rod and reel setups, and several of the fly rods were supposedly some new top secret rod that Orvis is working on. I always enjoy my fly fishing trips with Tom, because there is never a lack of gear and he always has something new that he is working on or testing. Anyway, Mike got us on good numbers of Bonito. As always, they were up and down fast and success was dependant on seeing which way they were feeding, positioning the boat perfectly and getting a good cast at a feeding fish. Tom was using an epoxy fly that he tied, Mike was fishing a white bucktail fly and I was using a larger sized epoxy fly. Fortunately, these fish were hungry and eating. The trick was getting the fly in the zone! Tom and Mike hooked up and landed their first Bonito and I was next. Mike positioned the boat perfectly and the fish were busting and moving towards me. I tried my best to not get too amped up (which is very easy to do) and throw senseless casts. I waited till the opportune time to throw one solid cast. Here they come, closer, closer … fire! I was leading one fish and the fly landed where it needed to be. Strip fast, faster, faster … he’s on it! He ate it! The line jumped up when the fish started his first run and it kinda got all wrapped around my arm and reel. I thought it was going to get hung up but somehow I managed to unravel all of the unwanted wraps with both hands and my teeth, and when the fish cleared all the line I had cleared all the wraps and my reel began to sing. If you watch the video you will see what I am referring too. I spend so
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Bonefish Paradise: French West Indies, Tailing Bones At Sunset
Posted by alexismt555 on January 27, 2007 (1988 reads)
On Friday January 19th I got on the flats from 16 H to 18 H 30 and the
tide was just starting to "downstream." The sun was already low making it fairly difficult to spot the Bonefish. I started walking to a part of the flats that often holds Permit. The wind was very calm. As I arrived at the spot, I spotted a permit cruising opposite of me with very low profile, no tail or V on the surface. I tried my luck with a first cast but was unsuccessful. As I was preparing to make a second cast the Permit disappeared into a depression on the flat and I never saw the fish again. I decided to stay on the flat for a bit, waiting for another fish to show. A Half an hour pass and nothing. No tailing, no nervous water and no tell tale V wakes on the surface. I headed to shallower water. This would enable me to reveal some tailing bones or any suspect activity in the water. Now, it was 17h30, the tide had only dropped a little and the visibility declined again. My last hope was that one of those Gray Ghosts would do me a favor and show a tail. There, Nervous water! I cast, strip, strip he missed. I only saw the tail of the bone as reached deeper water and he was gone!.
Now it is 18 H and my luck had really gone away and time had passed without me even knowing. In half an hour it would really be night time. I took off my polarized lenses as it was too dark for being useful. I walked down the flat following the tide for a last time before getting in the
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