Category Archives: Saltwater Fly Fishing
South Andros, A Love Story
I love the Bahamas. It hits me about this time every year. Just about the time I start pulling out the polar fleece and looking for my fishing gloves I start thinking about Andros. I love the cold weather, it’s not that, it’s just become...
Save Your Saltwater Flies
Have you ever put a saltwater fly back in you box while it was still wet from fishing? If you have, you know the heartache of finding a bunch of your best patterns ruined by the salt you locked in there. It's no fun. If you're...
Fly Fishing The Yucatan
By Rod Hamilton Standing beside our overheated car, an hour north of Cancun, my three-week fishing adventure to the Yucatan was off to a rocky start. Weeks of preparation and planning had gone into this trip and with military precision three of us were going to explore...
Strip Set, Dammit!
Quite likely the most frustrating thing for an angler who is new to salt water is the strip set. A dedicated freshwater angler will have thousands of hours of muscle memory to overcome. I did it myself time after time. I'd see a fish eat and...
How Not To Learn Bonefishing
Float to the Bahamas on a 55 gallon drum and save the air fare but hire a good guide every day! My buddy Brad went to the Bahamas for bonefish recently. I loaned him a rod, reel some leaders and a box of my favorite bonefish...