June 2004 Talking about big fish naturally brings to mind ones that got away, or very nearly did. Big fish are big for a reason, after all. They are strong, smart and know their home grounds like you know your own bathroom [1]. If there is a single mangrove shoot or coral head around, they’ll [...]
Posts Tagged ‘guiding’
Cast a Line
May 5, 2002 Prospect Point, 3:30pm, rising tide. Bones in SE corner. Wind. Surf. Changed flies a half-dozen times; finally got a take on a #6 pink Flee with lead eyes to anchor it down in the wash. Saw other fishermen there, a fly-fisher among them, but they were too far to the NW and [...]
New Flatswalker Short Film
“Flatswalker’s Journal, March 2010. We descend into paradise to look for the Grey Fox, but we also find a wolf…” Do it yourself (DIY) fly fishing leads to an unusual discovery for this small group of anglers at an undisclosed location in the Caribbean. Barracudas (the Wolf) are on the attack and bonefish (the Grey [...]
How hard is it to get a bonefish to bite?
Intro I got this letter a few days ago from someone calling themselves “a committed guide” [1]. It’s so damn funny and insightful and delightfully frustrated (in a ranting, I’ve-just-gotta-vent kind of way) that I couldn’t help posting it. Maybe the humor is only apparent to other guides and those readers who’ve only ever been [...]
Catching Bonefish is Easy.
August 3, 2007 Catching bonefish on your own is easy. Just spend hundreds of days on the water, casting at everything that moves: jacks, pinfish, needle-fish, barras, mullet and boxfish; divine their locations from the mysterious cycle of the moon; stalk the flats for sunburned days — scurrying in the mud like a bonefish yourself [...]
Loose, man, loose.
December 30, 2008 (probably) Still dark, had a late night so a little cranky. Drive North to find today’s client waiting in the dark. Ready. Good sign. SS flat, tailing singles. First cast at first fish and BANG, fish on. “Easy, now. Let ‘im go.” SNAP! “Wa’ ‘appin?” “I let him go.” (With mounting trepidation) check drag [...]
