Over the past month we’ve heard a bunch from Bruce Chard about how to present flies to permit. We got an introductory pep talk, details on presenting flies to feeding and cruising fish, and tips on when and how to set the hook. We’re wrapping up our mini-series today with some thoughts on weather and…
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Tips
Don’t Cast Too Far.
Jeff Hickman is back on our blog today with a very simple but incredibly important spey fishing tip. Don’t Cast Too Far. For some reason, people equate spey rods to long casts. Sure you can cast a spey rod far but that is not the main advantage of using one. Much of the time if…
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Permit Fly Presentation – Setting the Hook
It’s time for part four in our five part series from Bruce Chard on presenting flies to permit. At this point you’ve done a good enough job that a permit is interested in your fly…here’s when and how to bury it home. Like everything else associated with permit fishing, this stuff is often not simple!…
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All About Bonefishing Reminder
Now that bonefishing season is upon is, we figured it was time for a reminder that we maintain a giant page on our web site with links to all kinds of articles we’ve written about bonefishing! It’s located right here. It’s better than it sounds. Have a look if you haven’t recently. As of today…
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Permit Fly Presentation – Cruising Fish
Last week Bruce Chard told us how to present flies to feeding permit. This week our series on permit fly presentation continues, with some wisdom on what to do when you see cruising fish. Cruising Permit – How to Present a Fly If the fish is cruising, he’s not actively looking for food. The drop…
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Think Like a Scared Shrimp
Yeah, we’re right in the middle of our Bruce Chard permit fly presentation series, but that’s not going to keep us from running a great little nugget of a bonefishing tip from Bruce. Dive Like a Shrimp If you’re a little shrimp on a white sandy flat and you see a bonefish coming along, you…
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Permit Fly Presentation – Feeding Fish
Last week we started a short series of posts featuring Bruce Chard’s incredible knowledge of how to present flies to permit. Today we’re diving deep, and the topic is presenting a fly to a feeding permit. Feeding Permit – Presenting Flies If you come across a feeding permit, recognize that right away. Usually that calls…
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Permit Fly Presentation – Introduction
We’re starting a little series of posts today on presenting flies to permit! Here’s the background. Your fearless editor said to Bruce Chard, Permit Whisperer, the other day, “Hey Bruce, we should do a post on the difference between presenting flies to bonefish and presenting flies to permit.” 45 minutes later the graduate level lecture…
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Keep the Faith
If the river you were planning on fishing today is ‘out’, you can either go fishing or not go fishing. Only one of these decisions is going to leave you with a chance of catching fish. Even after you’ve made the (right) call to head out anyhow, you still have two options. You can go…
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Bonefishing Tips – Oldies But Goodies
We’ve got over 1,000 posts on our blog, and though we try to keep things organized and easy to find…we realize that some of our articles get overlooked. We’ve been putting out bonefishing tips since 2008, so if you’re a newcomer to our site there’s probably some good ‘old’ bonefishing content that you’ve been missing….
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