Pretty cool little vid over at the Skinny Water Culture blog.
Needless to say… I like it.
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May 11
You’d learn… like… a lot at this thing.
The Fourth International Bonefish & Tarpon Symposium provides the venue to share this much desired information. Scientists from around the world will present their latest research findings, and angling legends will share their knowledge of the flats. The event will culminate with an Evening with the Legends banquet, where legends will share some of their favorite stories of fishing the flats. This will be an event that every serious flats angler should consider attending.
Yeah… there is nothing in my new job duties that would see me attending this thing… but it would be kind of awesome.
Look at the list of folks that are going to be there…
An Evening with the Legends banquet will round out the Symposium. Emceed by Andy Mill, the banquet will feature: Joan Wulff, Bill Curtis, Lefty Kreh, Flp Pallot, Stu Apte, Chico Fernandez, Sandy Moret, Mark Sosin, Ralph Delph, Steve Huff, Rick Ruoff and George Hommell. You can even reserve a seat at the table of your favorite legend.
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May 11
Ch Ch Ch Changes
OK… there are going to be some changes coming down the pike here at Bonefish on the Brain. Hope the are seamless and you don’t even notice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbnJo88kuP8
I’m leaving the world of “Stay at home dad”-ing. It’s been a good run. I’ve had some really, really fantastic memories. It is now time to get back to that professional world. I had really wanted that job to be in the fly fishing industry as the blog had turned so much of my attention there. Orvis offered me the opportunity to work at their store in San Jose, but I also had the opportunity to work at a high-tech start-up. In the end, I just couldn’t pass up the chance to be a part of building a company with a really intriguing technology… not to mention to potential financial upside (the difference between selling Helios rods and buying them).
Thanks to the folks at Orvis for being willing to take me on. I appreciate the vote of confidence and think you guys are headed in the right direction. I’ve cast the Helios, Hydros and Access… good sticks.
So, I’ll be starting a new job on Monday and entering a new world… one that is going to demand a LOT of my time, energy and focus. I don’t know when my next trip is going to be, but I’m still going to find stories and post them up for you all to enjoy (every day if I can). I might just be a little bit harder to get a hold of and I might be a little slower on the reply.
I’m entering a whole new world, and leaving one very awesome world behind. Sure, I’ll still be a dad, but part of me is really going to miss trips to the aquarium.
Love that girl
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May 11
Abaco Bonefish Roundup
From October 17th through 23rd, Bonefish Tarpon Trust worked with guides from the Abaco Fly Fishing Guides Association, Black Fly Lodge, Abaco Lodge, Delphi Lodge, and Pete & Gay’s Guesthouse to tag 339 bonefish on Abaco. We also surgically implanted sonic tags in 25 bonefish and placed sonic receivers at a suspected spawning location as part of a study to identify important spawning sites.
That sounds like it was probably a lot of fun to be a part of, no?
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May 11
Salven Paints Some FIBFest Goodness
Here’s a new Bragging Rights Portrait of Eric Rathbun of Moldy Chum who recently had the opportunity for the ethereal experience while chasing Bones in the Bahamas.
via ” Bahama Bonefish ” Tropical Bragging Rights Fish Art portrait – Mike Savlen.
That is just pure awesome. Mike does some really, really good work. This picture was taken at FIBFest… some really good pictures were taken by Cameron and now one of those has been turned into a pretty kick arse painting by Mike.
I want one.
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May 11
The IGFA Remembers Fly Fishing Legend Billy Pate
Billy was an innovator, unsurpassed as a fly fisherman, knowledgeable, a true sportsman.
via IGFA | The IGFA Remembers Fly Fishing Legend Billy Pate.
Billy Pate was a founding member of the Bonefish & Tarpon Trust. Never met him. Never even talked to him, but he sounds like a pretty fascinating guy.
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May 11
Big HI Bone
Yeah… they get kind of big out there.
I want to catch a fish that big. I can’t really comprehend what that pull must be like.
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May 11
Starting Point
We all have a place where we first wet a line in pursuit of bonefish (or at least there is a pretty good chance of that if you are reading a blog called Bonefish on the Brain). This is where I first saw a bonefish.
There are some bonefish here... the biggest I've ever seen with my own eyes.
It’s a nice place. It’s very nice. It’s been a few years since I’ve been here. I hope to make it back. Indeed, there is a campground here that is cheap and I often have dirtbag fantasies about spending a week in a tent here living off of slightly cool beer, Ritz crackers and peanut butter.
It will forever be a special place to me even though I didn’t hook a fish there. I saw them… and they were frigging huge. Dear god man, they were big.
I want to be there right now.
The flat is pretty big and it bends around a point so you can’t see the whole thing from the far edges. The bottom is a far cry from white sand. It is a “rubble” flat comprised of old, dead coral. The live stuff is still kicking, just further out from the beach than you’d be walking. The coral and the urchins make your choice in wading boots kind of important (leave those dive type shoes at home, you need more protection out there).
There are deep cuts through the flats and those are useful things if you are a bonefish and want to travel up onto the flat. Those fish will emerge from and disappear into those channels.
I have heard that there are also sometimes fairly large sharks in those deep cuts. Keep that in mind.
It would be great if I could tell you what kind of flies to throw… I don’t know. I didn’t hook a fish and didn’t have a follow (out of the 7 fish I saw). You do have to keep in mind the coral… and you need to put that into the mental calculus when it comes to tippets and spare fly lines (more than one fly line has been donated to the fishing gods because of that old coral).
I want to make it back there… I need to make it back there… I will make it back there… someday.
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May 11
Seychelles via Jim Klug
If you are not sure who Jim Klug is you may not want to know. His life has more fish in more places than you are likely to believe and it might make you bitter and angry that someone actually gets to live that kind of life (co-owner in Yellow Dog Fly Fishing Adventures, for starters).
You don’t need to be that bitter, man… you just don’t need it.
However, you may want to take a look at his photo gallery from the Seychelles.
Cool.
I'll bet your soul feels kind of happy in a place like this.
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Apr 11
New Lodge… Guanaja
That’s Honduras, in case you are not up on your Caribbean geography. It is actually not the first time I’ve heard of Guanaja.
Yellow Dog Fly Fishing mentioned it a short time ago and the Fly Shop’s Mike Michalak caught his first bonefish there.
Looks pretty nice.
Our lodge is at a new location in the middle of Guanaja’s South Cays–right on the flats! We are surrounded by bonefish and permit, you can step outside the door of our plush guest house and cast to tailing fish.
via Fly Fish Guanaja.
That's President Carter... a very decent man.
