Bonefish and Mangroves

Bonefish and mangroves go together like chocolate and peanut butter, like Sonny and Cher, like Jack and Diane.

Here’s why.

• Mangroves provide important rearing habitat for all kinds of little critters that bonefish like to eat.
• Mangroves provide cover for bonefish, allowing them to travel far inland on a high tide to eat, but still be protected from predators like sharks and barracudas.
• Mangroves provide convenient obstructions around which bonefish can wrap your leader in the middle of the fight of a lifetime.  Well, it’s almost all good…

We thought Bruce Chard got a really cool picture of a bonefish hanging out in his mangrove habitat, so we’re sharing it with you today.

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