- Thu Apr 14, 2011 5:36 pm
#391035
[report]The trip started off with a friend inviting me on a 4 night/3 day trip for Bonefish for some outrageous amount of money. I told him we could fish for a couple weeks for less than that and the search began. We ended up on the same island, but instead of staying at a lodge, we spent 2 weeks at rented a house on the beach. We contracted with an independent guide for half the days and fished on our own the rest of the time exploring what we could reach with our rental car. Turned out we did things right - it was one of my best trips ever. The fishing was great!!! Caught my biggest Bone (guide said 9 pounds but ..........) and lots of them. HUGE flats that literally went on as far as you could see. Beautiful, wild place. The fishing we could have gotten at a lodge but what made the trip special were the things that we would have missed if we did the lodge thing.
drinkin' beer and playin' pool with the locals at a table with half the felt missing
"Gonna go and catch a pray"
getting hustled
going to a fish fry and conversing for 15 minutes with a drunken man not understanding a word he was saying
eating at "restaurants" where we needed to order ahead of time or wait for "hours" to get our food because everything was made from scratch
having a young woman chase after our car after I left my wallet in the "convenience store"
having our neighbor come by and give us a 10 pound Snapper he had speared that morning
"I like your shoes, can I have them?"
beaches where we could literally walk for hours without seeing another person
Our Digs
Our Front Yard - a crowded beach
A typical flat during low tide
Some fish
Our artist neighbor who gave us the Snapper
A Pine forest fire that looked like a bomb had been dropped
A restaurant
The fancy restaurant
The "connection" man
For Woolybug25
Willi
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drinkin' beer and playin' pool with the locals at a table with half the felt missing
"Gonna go and catch a pray"
getting hustled
going to a fish fry and conversing for 15 minutes with a drunken man not understanding a word he was saying
eating at "restaurants" where we needed to order ahead of time or wait for "hours" to get our food because everything was made from scratch
having a young woman chase after our car after I left my wallet in the "convenience store"
having our neighbor come by and give us a 10 pound Snapper he had speared that morning
"I like your shoes, can I have them?"
beaches where we could literally walk for hours without seeing another person
Our Digs
Our Front Yard - a crowded beach
A typical flat during low tide
Some fish
Our artist neighbor who gave us the Snapper
A Pine forest fire that looked like a bomb had been dropped
A restaurant
The fancy restaurant
The "connection" man
For Woolybug25
Willi
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