We haven’t run a contest in a while. We have some extra Abel nippers floating around. It’s bonefishing season. We love haiku.
Hey, let’s run a bonefish haiku contest and send the winner a free set of Abel nippers!
Contest Rules
- Submit a haiku about bonefish or bonefishing via a comment on this blog post. What’s a haiku? See below.
- On Saturday, November 17th we’ll pick our favorite entry and send its author a pair of the badd-est ass nippers we know – the ones from Abel.
Bonefish Haiku
A haiku is a 3-line poem, with lines consisting of 5 syllables, 7 syllables and 5 syllables. It doesn’t have to rhyme. Here’s an example.
Mini torpedo
I’m so glad you ate my fly
Damn, you can swim fast
Got it? Have fun with it – click right here to submit your entry.
Tan Bonefish Bitter
Strong Fluorocarbon leader
Smoking eight weight reel
Fly fishing for bones
Smiling the entire time
Nothing is better
Flat water smooth sand.
Spring breezing pole lifts no drips,
Zip tap zip tap damn.
My wallet is thin
Unemployed young man’s dreaming
Bonefish maifest
Cast,strip,strip,strip,fuck
Recast,strip,strip,strip,eat,fuck
eat it eat fuck yeah.
island addiction
mudding, tailing, silver flag
strip set cervaza
Bare feet on the deck.
Leader knots thoroughly checked.
Careful, sun burned neck.
Shadows coming fast.
Cast, strip, tug, don’t trout set…boom!
Belikin. You’re up.
I cannot see him.
I still cannot see him.
Tell me where to cast..
I cannot see him.
Really still cannot see him.
Tell me where to cast..
Grey ghost of the flats
Take me away, in my last cast
United are we
Silver tail flashes.
Mangrove shoot sways then splashes.
Need another fly.
Let me guess young man
You see the fish, drop the fly
They spook off the flat
Crustacean critter!
Purveyor of shrimp and crab.
Bonefish like sushi?
tail at ten, point rod
quick bro fish at nine, point rod
umm ya dude tough vis…
Victor Velasco
Has he nowt better to do?
We havent a chance!
Mudflats with the tide
A monster taking me for a ride
Gray Ghost with thee I do abide
Elusive silver,
fleeting glimpses tantalize.
Shadows on the sand.
Ghost appears and nears
Ghost of cheers and tears
Ghost disappears
Bead chain eyes look up
wonder, will I be the one?
Down turned lips say, “Yes”.
Light blue iris strains
Wavy tails clean spring tide groves
Sharp lines rip pink lips
Dawn. Windless, glass flats. Searching.
Aha. There they are.
Nervous water. Tailing fish.
Dawn. Windless glass flats.
Searching. Aha. There they are.
Nervous water. Tails.
When clouds and sea fuse
Gray shapes stir in jade water
Tails shiver silver sun
When clouds and sea fuse
Gray shapes stir in jade water
Tails shiver silver
Last cast of the day
Prodigious strike and he’s on
Next step Kalik, cold
A flash of silver
My rod bends in the full moon
night of the bonefish
Warm water soothes the soul
Mangrove stalks sway in the breeze
Silver dream delight
Long cast, long cast now
Strrrip, strrip, you got ’em
Zziz Zziz zzzz
You are hard to see
But to feel your blazing run
Is heaven to me.
Ha! Ha! I don’t care
Bony bony bony fish
Tail up in the air
Flat water white sand
Bonefish school bountiful free
Josie cast strip set
Azure flats beckon.
Two kids in college need cash.
Bonefish you are safe.
A life races on
Just like the quick-silver rush
Of a fine bonefish.
High Sun, Bright Bottom
Bonefish Invisibilness…
Polarization!
Hot, Bright, Little Breeze
Clear Blue Sky and Calm Flat Meet
Tight to Mangroves, Tails
The gray shadow looms
Lead with the fly. Strip, strip, strip.
Bump. Trout set!! slack. tears.
White slime what is that
Dead stop did i just get snaged
Wife is sunbakeing
Right “der, Mon. Right ‘der!
Yeh can’t see her? She righ’ ‘der!
Crap! Too late. She gone.
Crouch, wade, stop, breathe, cast.
Barracudas stay away.
Finning trances, soothes.
Bright liquid sunlight
Masks ghost over sparkling sand
as it picks up fly
Wading quick, quiet
Shadows gliding across flats
One cast, silence breaks
Casting with hope
of a line tugged from my grip
and a screaming reel
Did you see that shit?
Un-freaking believeable!
Guide, it’s all your fault!
Super model lips
Sleek and fast, can we hook up?
I only want to play
Super model lips
Sleek and fast, can we hook up?
I want us to play
Sunrise ,Tails in air
Chrome Phantom , see’s Fly ,takes dare
Tug of war… so fair
pink lips seeking kiss
gold eye & silver armour
worlds touch at water
went down to the sea
to cast dreams & wade the flats –
caught a glimpse of gold
How many haiku
must I post on Deneki?
Only 1 to win.
My fingers are sore
and toes won’t cooperate
to count syllables.
Really want nippers
But what are chances of that?
Could buy but not same.
Desire steals my sleep –
it is passion to bonefish,
not just those nippers.
Seventeen degrees
and water all rock solid –
just dreams of fish here.
No need for nippers,
its nippy enough outside.
Make reservation.