If you're a fishing guide, you may not understand this but you might be interested in it. I'm your average fly fishing addict whose daydreams follow a gaze out the window anxiously awaiting my next opportunity to reclaim a little bow time. It's a beautiful thing when you put everything together for your next fishing trip. But a good fishing trip usually begins with a good guide saying yes.
That's right. You can pick your destination. You can start tying flies. You can ask a million questions on your favorite fishing forum. But, if the guide you pick is booked, then its time to start over again. Ever try to book your favorite keys tarpon guide in May or June? Hope someone bequeathed you a week on their death bed, because those times just don't fall off the key lime tree. Ever try to book your favorite bonefish guide in the Bahamas during April or May? Hope you planned ahead.
So, when it came time for me to chase the redfish, I chose to try and book a trip with Captain Seth Vernon of Double Haul charters. Dates weren't easy to come by, but we finally got some times that work and 2013 is now the year of the redfish.
Check out this video as a little teaser of what's to come.
Welcome to The Bonefish Flat
There's a stiff wind in your face as you squint in the sun trying to see what the guide sees. "Bonefish at 12 o'clock about 90 feet, do you see it, mon?" You don't and keep squinting, your hat pulled low to keep the sun out of your eyes. "Bonefish at 11 o'clock 70 feet out. Come on man, do you see it?" As the guide is calmly shifting the skiff into position, this time you spot the fish, "I got, it," you reply.
"OK, Mon, Bonefish 50 feet at 10 o'clock. Cast when you're ready."
Cast when you're ready. And with that you drop your fly, roll out a cast, false cast once, and then...
Welcome to the bonefish flat.
"OK, Mon, Bonefish 50 feet at 10 o'clock. Cast when you're ready."
Cast when you're ready. And with that you drop your fly, roll out a cast, false cast once, and then...
Welcome to the bonefish flat.
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