Well… you might want to do so quickly before every last mangrove in Bimini is taken out, filled in and turned into golf courses and resorts… because the world doesn’t have enough golf courses.
I found this little video of Bonefish Ebbie talking about the Bimini Bay development that is dredging up bonefish habitat to make way for pure and bottled greed.
Read more about the badness that is this Bimini Development.
Bonefish Ebbie can be found here.
Deneki Outdoors has long been one of my favorite websites for my bonefish fix… he simply puts up a lot of interesting content.
The most recent post is 4 Things to Learn About Bonefish… all from one simple photo.
I’m not going to steal his thunder… go ahead and visit the site and check it out.
Thinking about what I might be able to illustrate in one photo…
4 Things from this photo:
Ah… my 20’s….
Now, I’ll be the first to tell you I don’t know a lot/anything about boats. I do know that I am drawn to the lines of flats boats. Bob Hewes, it turns out, is one of the guys responsible for the clean, sleek and function driven modern flats boat. He recently passed away at 86.
Robert Hewes, founder of Bob Hewes Boats Enterprises, died Sunday at his home in Miami. He was 86.
Hewes was involved in the marine business going back to his childhood working with his father, before founding his own company, which is now run by his family. He developed the first of what is now known as the modern flats boat and named it the Bob Hewes Bonefisher.
via Robert Hewes pioneered the flats boat.
Seems the company that Bob created was sold a long while back and it is now Maverick.
Nice looking boat.
You may have heard of the new film project from the folks at On the Fly Productions called Itu’s Bones.
You can read the story of the genesis of this film project at their website. It is worth reading.
There’s a twitter feed to follow if you are into that sort of thing… like, right here.
The players supporting this project are some of the key players; Patagonia, Sage, Costa Del Mar and Rio.
Itu lives on the island of Aitukaki in the Cook Islands. There is an ex-pat American (Butch Leon) who has been pioneering bonefishing out there at Aitutaki Blue Lagoon Fly Fishing.
A fish from the folks making Itu's Bones
This should be a great story to see unfold and a wonderful movie. Looking forward to it.
Air Pacific resumed flights to Christmas Island this week after two years. The inaugural flight was received with joy and relief as businesses, particularly the tourism industry, was affected by the absence of international flights.
via New flight gains – Fiji Times Online.
This means those Christmas Island bones just got a little bit easier to get to.
More news on Buccaneers and Bones from the filming down in Belize and El Pescador.
…this past week Ambergris Caye was host to some heavy weights in the entertainment industry as they filmed “Buccaneers and Bones”. El Pescador (Lodge) was chosen from three locations in Belize to host Orion Multimedia, Michael Keaton actor/director, Tom Brokaw news anchor/author, Yvon Chouninard founder Patagonia, Bill Klyn director Bonefish and Tarpon Trust, Zach Gilford actor, Thomas McGuane acclaimed author, Lori-Ann Murphy director of fishing at El Pescador, and Aaron Adams, scientist, Bonefish and Tarpon Trust. According to Ali Flota of El Pescador, this was the “Coup de grace of fly fishing”, and truly an honor.
via El Pescador hosts Stars, Belize News, San Pedro Sun.
Don't you wish you were there? (photo from San Pedro Sun)
Fly Fishing in Salt Waters keeps on delivering good bonefishy wonderfulness to my mailbox. I pay them to do it, but I still appreciate the quality of the content.
Good Stuff
Happy 4th of July.
During college I spent a year in Paris. Few things will make you more of a flag waver than living in Paris where you are constantly told America doesn’t have a culture or history. I came to a few conclusions from that year… first, I am American and I like being American and I am understood best by other Americans and understand Americans better than anyone else. I also realized that no one is as rude as a wealthy American in a foreign city.
On this 4th of July I thought I’d find some unique American Bonefish. The epicenter of American Bonefish has to be Florida, by a long way. We also have bones in good numbers in Hawaii. San Diego Bay has some bonefish. Puerto Rico has pseudo-American bones. There are some more far-flung American bonefish, such as those found on the incorporated atoll of Palmyra.
Palmyra is a long way from anything, but sits roughly south of Hawaii.
The blog Sweaty Waders has a story from 2008 about fishing there for bonefish and GT’s.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service has information about fishing Palmyra as well.
Sounds the opposite of easy to get there, but I wanna go. I’m not going to, but I want to.
There are semi-American bonefish there.
A video from Fly Water Travel. A nice little slide show with some fantastic photos.
