When you’re wading for bonefish at Andros South or anywhere else they swim, you’re going to have some days with no clouds and some days with no sun, but most days are a mix of the two. The sun comes out and you get great visibility; a cloud comes by and the lights go out….
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Andros South
Stop Your Backcast High
One of the biggest casting mistakes made on the saltwater flats is the dreaded ‘dropping of the backcast’. We all do it from time to time…but it sure screws things up when we do. Dropping your backcast happens most often in an effort to add distance to a cast, and the effect is quite the…
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FIBFest Starts Now
Deneki FIBFest starts today. What’s FIBFest? It’s just a group of folks who like fly fishing so much that we take some time to write about it online. We’re going to chase bonefish at Andros South in the Bahamas, and then we’re going to write about it. You’ll see some posts about FIBFest here on…
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Cover of Bonefish Magazine
OK, maybe there’s no such thing as Bonefish Magazine, but if there was a Bonefish Magazine, this could be the cover shot, right? Bruce Chard and Louis Cahill get ‘er done, on the West Side at Andros South, again. More Pictures of Anglers Holding Fish A Rainbow Trout Named Brightsides A Fat Kanektok King A…
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Johnny Spillane – Skier, Angler
Johnny Spillane, as you know, won 3 silver medals at the Vancouver Olympics earlier this year in nordic combined, an event combining ski jumping and cross-country skiing. As if being a 3-time medalist isn’t enough, Johnny’s first medal was the U.S.A.’s first ever in nordic combined. The icing on the cake? Johnny’s a fly fishing…
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Deneki FIBFest
It’s May 15 – 22 on South Andros Island. It’s an unholy matrimony of bonefish and blogs, fins and Facebook, tails and Twitter. It’s Deneki FIBFest! Huh? It’s pretty simple actually – we think there are some folks writing really high-quality stuff online about fly fishing these days, and we wanted to get a few…
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We Like a Little Wind
Anglers on saltwater flats have a love/hate relationship with the wind. Actually it’s mostly a hate relationship. If you’re not used to it, casting in the wind in a time-sensitive, accuracy-sensitive, sometimes-high-pressure format like flats fishing can be a pretty frustrating experience. It’s nothing a little practice can’t overcome, but that’s a topic we’ve covered…
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Andros South Fishing Report – April 2010
April at Andros South is right up at the top of the list for the most popular time to join us -though we all know the fishing depends more on the weather than time of year in these parts. This season the weather held out nicely and for the most part we made it through without any…
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Perfect.
Bruce Chard lets a big one go on South Andros. More Cool Pictures from Andros South Shallow Water Bonefish Aerial Shots of the Flats Offshore Sunrise
Hand-Tied Leaders for Saltwater Fishing
Today we hear from Bruce Chard – legendary guide in the Florida Keys and teacher of our bonefishing schools at Andros South – about why he prefers hand-tied leaders for fishing on the saltwater flats. Bruce Chard on Saltwater Leaders I have seen a lot of leaders break in my days – unfortunately – but…
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