The Undisclosed location fishing log

[2nd mate]

Day 1: Finally back at our home base comfortably anchored at explosive anchorage #16. Took newly purchased 10wt out for a shakedown. Left leader material in other bag (luckily got some from other fishers), hooked coral, snugged up un-noticed knot on flyline attempting to free from coral, lost first clouser to the reef. cut short evening fish and drank vodka at Officers club.
Day 2 starts in less then 2 hours. Hopefully better than day 1.
Pic from a couple moths ago(not on the fly):

[DEVO]

Nice fish! Is that Bakers I see behind you to the left? Little Misery?

[2nd mate]

Day 2 was WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY better.
10-15 knot winds from the SE(go figure) and low tide.
Wind and sun at my back created pretty good conditions for where I am.
fished a combo of 2/0? white/grey and white/brown clousers.
Stashed bikes at Point Marianne and worked NW along the shore for about a mile. Lots of sand with shallow inner coral reefs perpandicular to the beach separating the 1/4 mile sections of flats. Nothing deeper than knee to thigh. Got spooked by the first stingray, but just moved slow and carefully. Bonefish were all over. I swear I hit a few in the tail with my fly as they were sniffing through the sand. I was still feeling out the area looking for sharks and other things not to step on. Guy I went with caught about 10 bonefish in about 12 minutes in one stretch. Saw them schooling, maybe 3-5 in each group. Landed my first ever. Very happy with the rod/reel setup. A few big jacks and trevally were spotted by my new fishing buddy Paul. Forgot camera but managed to bring leader this time. Lost one fly as I made a cast near a sandy a hole in the reef where some bonefish were chilling out, a goroup of larger blueish small tuna shaped fish come flying in and snatch my fly and I assume break/bite through the 20lb leader. More research on species tonight. I will head out again on Monday with camera. First bonefish eva!

[2nd mate]

day 3 and 4

Day 3: Solo mission to area covered by day 2. Very windy, 2 hours after low tide. I got there later than I wanted to but oh well. only 1 bonefish that I got a shitty pic of.
view looking SE into the wind.


View looking downwind towards reef I caught my one fish. Not windy in here, but windy further down the flats.



Day 4: Paul broke his last rod yesterday so I am him money ticket until he gets more gear from home= He shows me the GOOD spots! And it was good. stooed counting fish after about 10 minutes

This is the ocean side, no longer the lagoon. There is a outer reef to the left that runs parallel with the beach. about 150-200 yards out from where we were.

Maybe a 6 or 7 pounder? We had a few real nice ones like this and lots of smaller ones.


I am SO HAPPY the collective found me a 10wt. Its been awesome so far and I have 2.5 more months of this. Really getting a desire to chase some big fish. I have decided I need to get some bomber gear, a.k.a. an expensive reel. We saw some trevally and jacks but no hits yet for me. There were some GT's caught not too far away the same day. 30-40lbs. We saw a few lemon sharks so next time out I will take some extra gear for shark watch.

[mac19]

Sweet!!


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[DEVO]

[/QUOTE]

This pic makes me hope some pirates try and approach you guys.

[2nd mate]

Pirate hijack= DEATH FAIL

Day 5
High tide @1900
Light SE winds
I didnt get to our newly discovered area, inside the outer reef on the ocean side, until 1800. As I made my way down the beach I gave the old fishierman hands up question to paul, "any fish?" A shake of the head led me to believe not much was really going on. As sooon as I got a white clouser flying......3 casts=3 bonefish. So he was just fucking with me. Kept up fishing white/brown clousers for 45 minutes with 75% of that time fish on the line.
We then saw some of the local fisherman calling it a day from the outer reef, the 2 fly guys decided to try their now empty spot. It was tough for me without a stripping basket but made it work for a bit.(perhaps I will make one) I could see tons of mullet? moving under the rolling surf, only a waves foot high with maybe 2-3 feet deep. No hits offshore so moved back inside the reef.
Now it's been an hour and a half and its getting dark. Spooky when you are supposed to be out of the water(Brit. rule) for fear of "large numbers of aggressive sharks." Just as I call it a evening we see a large GT come hurling out of the water chasing some bait. I quickly thew a popper on but he had moved on. A few more casts and we decided to try another spot. As we approached a sand bar located behind the officers club we could see 2 large fish under the flood lights. 1 trevally and 1 jack. SO as we both had on poppers and we thought it best to put clousers back on...after 2 casts each the fish were spooked and that was that. Still a great day with plenty of nice bonefish.

[2nd mate]

Real pics from day 4

I will let Paul take pics from now on.
Has anyone done buisiness with Front Range Anglers in Boulder? I am going to order a Ross Momentum 5 from them with a rod as well. They have been great to deal with, especially Bill.

[DeeAre]

I'm not sure which is causing my boner, the tourquioise water or the automatic weapons.
Srsly tho, any surf to speak of round those parts?

[2nd mate]

There is surf. Prevailing wind is offshore. It doesn't get very big, I will get some pics next chance. Only problem is- "Large amounts of aggressive sharks."

[plugboots]

You might want to consider the Momentum 6, as the 5 only holds 250 yards of backing with 9 wt line. Or consider gel-spun backing to get more on there. FWIW, I have an old Gunnison 5 that has been unbreakable. I doubt they have these on your ship, but a laundry basket makes a decent stripping basket, just put a lot of holes in the bottom, (or order the Orvis plastic one somehow). http://www.orvis.com/store/product.a...ELAID=28340984

[2nd mate]

I got a great deal on the ross, so thats why I am going with the 5. I have been thinking about gel spun and will probably go that route for the extra length. In teh process of finding suitable materials for a stripping basket fabrication. The Bosun on here is pretty handy and used to fly fish, so him and I may get together and come up with something. So far though only when I am on the outer reefs has it been an issue. I have spent very little time on the outer reefs since the fishing had been so good inside.

[schwerty]

I love my life but can we trade places for a couple weeks?

[2nd mate]

How about we wait until January?

[schwerty]

How about we wait until January?

If the fish was good...sure.