When you’re on the flats fishing for bonefish, your target species is constantly swimming around. Yes, there are certain areas where you’re most likely to see fish, but you really never know when one is going to swim by. Why not maximize your chances by always being ready? Yeah, that’s a really simple point, but…
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Andros Trip Report from Gabe Nyblad
Gabe Nyblad is a fantastic guide and a good buddy of ours. We’ve been working on him to join us at Andros South for a few years now, and he finally made it down earlier this month. We always love getting perspective on our operations from other folks in the industry, so we talked Gabe…
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Put Your Rod Tip in the Water
One very common mistake made by first-time flats anglers is to leave the rod tip above the water when presenting the fly to a bonefish. When you’re fishing in rivers, you spend a lot of time with your rod tip high, mending line and waiting for a fish to eat. In fresh water, a ‘low…
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Top Bonefishing Posts of 2011
It’s become a tradition here at the Deneki blog – around the end of each year we run a little series of lists of the most popular posts on our blog during the year. We want to make sure you don’t miss out on the good stuff! Since we’re catching bonefish right now, we figured…
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Nice Fish, Bruce
It’s been way too long since you’re seen a Louis Cahill picture of Bruce Chard with a nice bonefish from Andros South. So…here you go! Nice fish, Bruce. P.S. Bruce holds his bonefishing schools at Andros South in November and January, because he knows that the ‘winter’ months on South Andros are the best for…
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They’re Not That Picky
Most of the time, the bonefish on South Andros Island are not that picky. What Does That Mean? It means that if you get your fly selection in the ballpark and present reasonably, most of the time you’re not going to get refusals. The photo above is a great example – that’s 15 pound Maxima…
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Identifying Bonefish Muds
When fish swimming around tidal flats disturb the bottom, they make a puff of sediment that’s known as a “mud”. Locating bonefish muds can be one way to locate bonefish. Bruce Chard is back today with another bonefishing tip – how to know if the mud that you’re looking at came from bonefish. Special note…
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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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We’re Open at Andros South
It’s bonefishing season! The first guests of our season arrive at Andros South today, and boy are we ready. Fall is a fantastic time to fish on South Andros, with larger than normal bonefish, tons of great weather and even less angling pressure than the almost zero that we have in the spring. Our pricing…
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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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