Jim Reinertsen has been chasing bonefish on South Andros Island for years. He’s learned some tricks of the trade during that time, including this little secret: more big fish get caught during the winter. Jim brought his daughter Emily to Andros South this past November for her first bonefishing trip. They each encountered some very…
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Bonefish
Dining Room at Andros South
This is our dining room at Andros South. It’s really clean and very comfortable, we think. Fishing pictures hang on the walls, and there are bonefish on our curtains and our table cloth – we really like fishing, after all. We serve a lot of great food here – fresh crawfish, beef ribs, mahi mahi,…
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Casting on the Flats – Top 3 Tips
We’ve given an awful lot of different casting advice to our guests at Andros South over the years. We could write a book! That being said, there are some issues that we see over and over, and some advice that we give over and over. If we had to pick our top 3 casting tips…
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I Had a Crazy Dream…
I had this crazy dream, man! It was snowing at my house, but there I was, standing on the bow of a flats skiff. A bead of sweat dripped off my nose. The guide turned the skiff, and bam! There were bonefish everywhere, and big ones too. More on Dreams from South Andros Just Before…
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End of the Day
It’s kind of a ho-hum picture of the end of a fishing day at Andros South – certainly not worthy of ‘cover-shot’ status – but it actually says a lot. One boat pulls in right after the other has arrived…things seem to happen on time. A father and his son enjoy a beer on the…
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Life on the Flats
We’re always trying new angles in our never-ending quest to bring you a little dose of fishing in your day. Today, it’s a little sample of our newest effort – the ‘Point of View’ Angler Cam! It’s just a bit of life on the flats at Andros South, with rays and bonefish and good old-fashioned…
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All About Bonefish Leaders
We’ve told you a little bit in the past about why you might want to tie your own leaders when you’re fishing in the saltwater. A conversation with Bruce Chard at Andros South a couple weeks back got us thinking that there’s a really a lot to saltwater leader design and construction, so we asked…
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Bonefish and Mangroves
Bonefish and mangroves go together like chocolate and peanut butter, like Sonny and Cher, like Jack and Diane. Here’s why. Mangroves provide important rearing habitat for all kinds of little critters that bonefish like to eat. Mangroves provide cover for bonefish, allowing them to travel far inland on a high tide to eat, but still…
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Present the Fly Quickly
“Get it in the ballpark quickly.” “You don’t have to cast 80 feet onto a dinner plate.” “Speed is more important than distance.” We get asked a lot about what kind of casting skill is required to catch bonefish. We use the three quotes above a lot. On South Andros, our bonefish tend not to…
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Back to the Flat
Andy Bowen, proud owner of Cohutta Fishing Company in North Georgia, is one of those guys who knows how awesome the fishing is on South Andros Island between October and February. He was part of the Bruce Chard Bonefishing School group at the lodge this last week, and those folks had some pretty epic fishing….
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