If Aitutaki were an oyster, the budding bonefishing industry would surely be its pearl.
via The pearl of Aitutaki | PostIndependent.com.
Well, look at that, Butch Leone! A nice little story about Aitutaki that features Butch Leone, who has started a tagging program there in his little piece of the Cook Islands.
Fantastic.
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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This is my guest post for Deneki Outdoors, the owners of Andros South. Love that place.
Photo by Andrew Bennett, fish catching by me.
While out stalking the phantom of the flats, it turns out you can do more than just catch and release. You can fish for science!
via Bonefish Science | Tagging and Fin Clipping Bonefish.
Tagging and fin clips… two great ways to help the folks at the Bonefish & Tarpon Trust.
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It isn’t every day you get to go fish and have a kick ass photographer along for the trip who is going to do nothing more than take pictures.
That was my day.
So… instead of cluttering up things with my words, I’m going to let Cameron’s pictures give you a sense of the day.
Norman picking out the fly... only fly we used all day.
Ready for action
The magic fly for the day.
A tagged bonefish... nice.
Fish on.
Tagging the fish.
Casting
Joy
How cool… tagging bonefish for the Bonefish & Tarpon Trust in CUBA! That sounds kind of awesome.
In mid November I had the opportunity to tag bonefish in Southern Cuba for the Bonefish and Tarpon Trust.
via Slipstreamangling :: Extraordinary Waters Worldwide.
Rich French, from Slipstream Angling is the lucky SOB who got to do the trip… see… he’s Canadian, so he gets health care, sensible gun control AND gets to go to Cuba. I hope they have as many Canada Geese as we have… that would at least be a mark in the negative box.
Canada doesn’t have any of their own bonefish… I guess that’s a pretty good negative too. So, maybe it all balances out.
Good on ya Rich
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(First, just a note, you can be entered to win some Skinny Water Culture gear by emailing me the account of your first bonefish. bonefishonthebrain@gmail.com)
As you may have guessed, I dig Skinny Water Culture gear. So, I was really excited to read on their blog about a bonefishing trip and a re-capture of a bonefish tag.
Nice fish and nice tag.
They got word back about the fish and it’s 658 days between tagging and recapture. Awesome.
Bonefish tagging… it’s important stuff. The Bonefish & Tarpon Trust does tagging as does the Bonefish & Tarpon Research Center at the University of Miami. Keep up the good work guys!
After less than a year, a tagged bonefish has been re-captured off Abaco.
That’s the work of the Bonefish and Tarpon Trust for ya.
You should be a member… if you are reading this you probably want to catch bonefish in the future and the folks that are doing the science to figure out what areas even need to be protected are the Bonefish and Tarpon Trust.
Join.
OK… you have a tagged bonefish. Congrats. Now what?
The good folk at the Bonefish & Tarpon Trust are likely working with the folks that put those tags there and this is what they say:
If you catch a tagged bonefish, we encourage you to report the catch along with the following helpful information:
Location: as specifically as possible
Fish Size: (length – nose to tail fork)
Date Caught:
Tag removed or still in place:
Please contact us either by phone or email to report a catch – 239-283-1622 or info@tarbone.org
There ya go. Now you know.
tagged bonefish from Aaron Adams
Photo courtesy of Aaron Adams.
Aaron Adams and BTT are everywhere, carrying the water for most of us who love, like or otherwise fish for bonefish. Found a story from the Miami Herald. BTT went down and met with Bahamian guides to discuss increasing participation in the tagging and reporting of tagged fish. Read the story here.
Tagged bone. Photo from... MIKE MAZUR / FLY FISHING IN SALT WATERS
How long is your commute? I once had to drive 100 miles, but only had to do it twice a month. Mr. Bonefish, it turns out, can put in some serious miles.
Florida has a tagging program thanks to the Bonefish and Tarpon Trust and the Florida Keys Fishing Guides Association. One of those tagged fish was caught and tagged near Key Biscane. From there it crossed the Gulf Stream (something researchers didn’t know they did) and was caught off Andros, about 186 miles away. This more than doubled the longest known movement by a bonefish. This has all sorts of implications… it means Florida bonefish may be intermingling, and maybe interbreeding, with Bahamian bonefish.
That’s a long commute, Mr. Bonefish
Here is the news from Science Daily.
