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19
Mar 10

Want to Explore?

The Google Alert brought up an interesting story about a  fishing exploration trip to the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal.  Yeah… I had never heard of them either.  The blog is saltwaterflyfisher.com.  Not sure if it is my browser or what, but the blog comes out all crazy looking and doesn’t load well.

They didn’t even go bonefishing… but here’s what he said:

Bonefish??
The first time I wondered down to the beach on Havelock , my jaw dropped. I was greeted with miles of electric blue flats. I actually said out loud ‘’ Theres got to be’. I had a brief chance to wade the flats before the fever and temperature had me limping back to base to lie down. I made enquires and it was confirmed to me that divers see bonefish close to Havelock all the time. The Andamans are 11 degrees north of the equator and well within the Bonefish band that circles the globe. The flats on Havelock do become rather deep on the high tide with that in mind I would be inclined to fish early into flooding spring tides. I found this fascinating and sufficient reason to return. Anyone visiting Havelock would do well to pack an 8 weight rod and wade those flats. There must be a couple of big shoals of Bonefish that visit those flats most days. Im not saying that this is a new bonefish mecca as yet undiscovered but I would gladly take a bet and devote a few days out of a trip to investigate further.

So… that sounds interesting enough.

Looks nice enough too.


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18
Mar 10

Black Fly in Abaco

Black Fly Bonefish Club in Abaco looks like a place I’d like to visit.  One of the handful of places that has really embraced social/on-line media, Blackfly also has a blog, a Facebook page and a Twitter account… not including Youtube efforts like the one below.

Abaco, the Bahamian island just north east of Grand Bahama, was the site of Pirates of the Flats, so if you’ve watched that (and I have), you have an idea of what the water looks like there.  It doesn’t suck.

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17
Mar 10

Tag, you’re a Permit

Building on the data gathering goodness from their bonefish tagging program, the Bonefish & Tarpon Trust has launched a Permit tagging program with the support of Costa Del Mar.  Seems things kicked off on March 15th while I was away paying attention to other things.

Thanks Costa del Mar

Here is what BTT has to say about it:

Costa Del Mar has agreed to fund and support a multi-year, statewide tagging study of Permit in Florida.  A donation of $15,000 in the first year will allow us to purchase thousands of tags and materials for tagging kits, and will go a long way toward researching permit movements and the fishery.

Seems Costa Del Mar is doing some pretty interesting things these days between this investment in Permit research in Florida and their recent short film about Permit/salty goodness in Belize.

Only good stuff can ensue

The hope really is to build the body of knowledge about Permit.  If you want to preserve Permit, or Bonefish or Tarpon, you need to know what they need, where they go and where they breed so you know where to focus your efforts.  This is a great step forward.

Gear — 4 Comments
15
Mar 10

Godspeed Good Friend – My Waterproof Camera

So sad to announce that my trusty waterproof digital camera, my Olympus Stylus 720 SW, has left the world of functioning electronics.  There i was, taking pictures and shooting video one moment and the next… nothing.  I thought it might be the battery, but when I got back to the room and opened the battery compartment… water.  That’s really not a good thing.  Now I can see condensation on the lens and in the flash… that probably isn’t something that will right itself with a couple days of air drying.

Dearly departed, you were a trusty friend.

A good waterproof camera is a great friend of the angler, allowing us to preserve just a little bit of the experience of the river, lake or flat.  A photo of a fish or river canyon, in a way, is like a print of that great painting you saw at the Musee D’Orsay.  It isn’t the same as being there and seeing it yourself, but it reminds you of the experience.

Now… as long as no one tips off my wife, I need to start plotting a path to a replacement.

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09
Mar 10

Familiar Waters Lost in Hawaii

Found this little nugget… the guy who plays Sawyer (Josh Holloway) on Lost out fishing in Hawaii with the Familiar Waters crew… nice.

Hawaii doesn’t suck.  I love Hawaii, although we go to Mexico these days when we are looking for tropical climes… but we’ll be back to Hawaii… and I’ll bring along a 9 wt. and some heavy tippet and at least a day carved out in the schedule to allow me to go get humiliated by those big, educated bones of the Aloha State.

Lost... is that still on?

Fish Tails / Locations — 2 Comments
06
Mar 10

This is Fly… and it is.

The most recent issue of This is Fly is out and not only is it their longest yet, all full of fishy goodness, but it has two, COUNT ‘EM, TWO, stories on bonefish.

This, of course, meets with my approval.

The first story is about Coach Duff and those big, huge, massive, unreasonably large bones of the Aloha State.  You can find that story here.

Richard from Seattle with a 10.8 pound bonefish, caught with Coach Duff

The second story was by one of the guys behind This is Fly, Paris Fleezanis.  This story takes the TIF crew to Andros and Kamalame Cay.

This, I believe, is Paris from another TIF

Kamalame is a place that has shown up on Bones on the Brain before.

TIF, I salute you.  Keep putting out the good stuff.  They remain the leading edge of the e-zine revolution.  A lot was made of the fact that Catch Magazine came out on the same day, but they really are different fish, even if they are both fly fishing-centric.  TIF is for those who read the stories and Catch is for those that like the pictures more than the text (I like Catch, even saw some places I’ve fished in this recent episode).   TIF adds the crazy art… none of which I’d want in my home, in the homes of my friends, on the walls of my friends’ friends, but, ya know… different strokes.

To keep the paper still circulating, I recently subscribed to two magazines… physical magazines… Fly Fishing in Salt Waters and Fly Rod and Reel.  I’m doing my part… ya know, mostly.

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06
Mar 10

Flatswalker goodness

MAN!  I hadn’t checked the Flatwalker blog in a while… he’s been hard at work putting all sorts of choice bonefishness up.

Check it out.

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25
Feb 10

Karl’s First Bonefish

The Being Karl blog (new to me) put up a report about his trip to Belize and his first bonefish.  Always great to hear about someone’s first bonefish… it can be a revelation.

They are at El Pescador… the place I was hoping to go this summer.  I’ve moved my Belize 2010 trip to Belize 2011, but stories like this make me want to head there… um… now.

I make another cast and, bam, I get a hookup.  The fish takes off and is clearly the hardest fighting fish I’ve ever hooked on a fly.  After a couple of minutes of tussle, I bring it to the boat where Carlos reaches down, grips the fish, about 14 inches in length,  and lifts it up for me to see.  My first bonefish on a fly.  I had imagined it would take a day of trying and here we’ve been fishing 15 minutes and I’ve got my first in the boat.

El Pescador photo... go there.

I haven’t seen the Being Karl blog before.  The salty stuff is an outlier, but it is honest and not pretentious in the least.

Conservation / Locations — 2 Comments
23
Feb 10

Those Currents of Belize

Costa del Mar makes some sunglasses that are pretty good, from what I  understand.  They just recently put their weight behind a movie project about Belize, the fly fishing guides who make their  living there and the pressures of development.  The flick is called “Currents of Belize” and it was made by Bradley Beesley for Costa del Mar.

In the movie Abbie Marin scores a Grand Slam, the only  appearance of a bonefish with a much heavier focus on permit in the movie.

The guides shown in the video are from Blue Horizon Lodge and Go Fish Belize.

The rates are pretty good with Go Fish Belize  at $300 for a full day of bonefishing.

Costa del Mar is teaming up with the Bonefish & Tarpon Trust to launch a Permit tagging program in Florida to gather more information about Permit.  This should be some really important and interesting research and I commend Costa del Mar for stepping up to provide the funds necessary.

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22
Feb 10

A little Long Island Bonefish

Nice little bonefish vid from Long Island.  People who don’t bonefish or who don’t like warm, tropical places think Long Island means New York… those are people I pity.

I’ll add that this was a great bonefish release… that’s how the folks over at the Bonefish & Tarpon Trust would draw it up.

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