Getting a lot of reports each day from subscribers who are doing what I wish I was doing…..walking the flats looking for bonefish. It’s interesting from my perspective to see how everyone is doing and there is a wide range of success stories ranging from “it’s so nice to be here (that means no fish)” to “greatest fishing of my life ( I’ll let you fill in the blank)”. Over the next few weeks I’ve got stories and blogs to follow from Acklins, Eleuthera, Los Rogues, Turks and Caicos, Exuma and Abaco. These should help in your trip planning for this spring. Following is a nice story from subscriber Roland Schnapka who just arrived home from I think we would all agree was a very successful trip to Long Island. He is an experienced angler and we communicated back and forth before his trip. I asked him to keep the exact flat where he caught the fish pictured out of his story, but can tell you the location is in the book. It’s one of my favourite spots on Long Island and I even think I know that fish by name. From Roland: “We have just returned from our family Holiday to Long Island. Your book gave me the motivation to try a couple of places off the beaten track that I have been meaning to fish for several years now. I’m grateful I did as it resulted in me catching a cracking Bonefish. The morning started well with us spotting a few decent Bones almost straight away as they moved out on the ebb tide and although the wind was strong we were optimistic to soon get hooked up, however almost as soon as we started seeing fish big clouds rolled in making spotting very difficult, I opted to wade a very skinny sand flat in the hope of being able to make out a shadow every now and then. It proved to be a good move as almost instantly I saw a big bone moving in from my right, I placed a Gotcha nicely in his path and instantly he switched on and came after the fly. I strip set and he held still before tearing to my left, right at my colleague (Richard). Richard thankfully ducked as he then tore off into the Blue behind Richard and my Fly line almost took of Richard’s head ! After a few pics we let the Bone gain strength before swimming off onto the Flats.” Thanks Roland, that is a beautiful Long Island bonefish.
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