The Bahamas: day two on the flats

We woke up this morning to a beautiful sunrise as we walked over to the main building for our breakfast.

Bruce and I hit the flats today with our guide Danny.  We had a good day with many fish to chase.  I had one bone tap my fly, but not take it and I knew there had to be something wrong and sure enough, I pull in the fly and it had a piece of grass on it.  Dem bones don't like grass on their shrimp.

It reminds me of fishing a trout stream, if you do not like the way your fly is floating down the stream take a second to look at it because there probably is a problem.

Bruce has a bone on the reel, it's rounding third and heading for home!

The Bahamas: day one on the flats

As we were eating our breakfast looking out over the ocean, the clouds were rolling in and giving the sun a hard time to try and make an appearance.  Everyone got their gear down to the dock and we were off.

I went with Nick to the west side.  Once we hit the flats the sun came out and the clouds parted so that we could get some good sight fishing.  My casting was fine, not great.  My stripping was fine, not great.  I caught eight bones before lunch (should have been many more).  The sun was out in the afternoon and really heated up the water and the bones left the flats for deeper water.  We looked and looked for dem bones, but not around.
The colors of the water always entertain me and just when you think you have seen the best shade of a color you turn a bend and THERE, that is the most amazing version of the color you have seen.  Once today I say a color that looked so fake it must be computer generated.  I am sure this photo will not do it justice, but take a look...

we saw this guy as we were moving to another flat

The Bahamas: Andros Island

I arrived on Andros yesterday and it was great to be in the islands after the long Cincinnati winter.  The flights to Miami and then Nassau were smooth sailing.  The Nassau airport has many new buildings and it does not have the old "charm".  You check in at a new counter with electronic screens and then wait to the side until everyone is gathered and then the agent walks the group to the plane.  The walk is forever and all you do is walk out of the bright new building over to the old building where the plane is parked.  The plane to get to Andros is a nine seater and it is not of new vintage.  It is a quick 15 minute jump and you are glad it is not any longer in that aircraft.

Last Upland Hunt of the Season

Caught by surprise

        I had a really good set of guys for the last Upland hunt of the season. We haven't been doing much bird hunting the last few months due to the weather so it was great to see Billy Gerwin and all his dogs at Shags Run. I hope Ryan and Ray enjoyed the day as much as I did. I have been quite fortunate to hunt with some really good people over the years, these two were about as good as they get.

having tea with Barbour

The Hybrids are finally here!

 This is what we have all been waiting for!

Brookville Fishing Report 3/9/14

          Spring is upon us!  The weather has been very nice the past few days and continues to look good into the week.  This is my favorite time of year to fish.  Trout are on the prowl after a long cold winter, tons of steelhead are in the rivers to the north, and warm water fishing is just about to get good.  Brookville this past weekend proved no exception.  The water was at a perfect level of 3.3ft, air temperatures were awesome, but most importantly the fish were feeding.  Water temperatures will still take some time to warm up though.