When fishing for bonefish from a flats skiff, it’s common practice to strip a generous amount of fly line off of your reel onto either the deck, or better yet, the floor behind you as you hold the fly in your non-casting hand. We call it the ready position, but in case you’re not sure…
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Bonefish
The Spawning Mantis Shrimp
A great thing about our fishery at Andros South is that the bonefish aren’t overly picky. It’s a great place to get creative with your flies.. A true fly tyer’s paradise! After all, if its the right size, and some shade of tan, odds are there’s a fish out there that will eat it! With…
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Spotting Bonefish Roundup
Spotting bonefish on the flats can be tough, even for experienced anglers. Therefore, we’ve posted quite a few articles on our blog over the years about spotting bonefish, and odds are you haven’t read them all. So, today we thought we’d give you a little roundup of a bunch of posts we’ve run in the…
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Fish Facts: Bonefish Related to Eels?
We’re fortunate to work around a pretty knowledgeable staff at our lodges. In fact, a surprising number of our team members hail from pretty scientific backgrounds with degrees in fisheries biology, environmental science, geology and so on.. That makes for some pretty wild fish facts thrown around the camp fire from time to time. Every…
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Bonefish Running at You?
The classic bonefish take usually goes something like this.. Strip, strip, bonefish eats the fly, angler makes a long strip to set the hook (no trout sets!), bonefish takes off at lightning speed in the opposite direction, angler raises the rod and enjoys a well deserved fight against said bonefish. However, what happens when the bonefish…
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Andros South Video by Hollis Bennett
Last year we hosted professional photographer, Hollis Bennett, for a super quality photo shoot at Andros South. Hollis is an extremely talented photographer and if you have followed our blog at all over the past year, odds are you have seen some of his work. Hollis also took a fair amount of video while visiting…
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Nice Fish, Barry
Congratulations to Andros South guest, Barry Read, for landing the first bonefish of the season with a little help from guide Charlie Sweeting! Great work guys, and awesome fish! More Nice Fish from Our Lodges Nice Bonefish, Ralph Nice Trout, David Nice King, Eric
Andros South Bonefish School – Last Chance for November Week!
Just a reminder that this Saturday kicks off our first bonefishing school of the season at Andros South. We still have a couple openings left but time is running out! The school runs from November 9th through the 15th (for more info, click the link above). Drop us a line and join us for one of the most…
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Brownie
Meet Brownie. Brownie belongs to one of our guides named Sparkles.. Yes Sparkles. If you’ve spent any time at Andros South, odds are you’ve met Brownie, or perhaps her long line of family named ‘Cookie.’ We consider Brownie to be part of the family, and as you can see, she’s pretty excited. Why is she so excited? Because tomorrow we kick off our…
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Hatch Professional Leader and Tippet
Hatch Outdoors might be most well known for their bomb-proof fly reels, but over the past few years, they’ve put out some pretty awesome product on the terminal-tackle side things as well.. Ahem, like their premium backing for example. Hatch recently released their new Professional Saltwater Series of tippet, leader material, and tapered leaders, and since we were able to get our…
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