Snook feeding in the surf are pinching bait against the beach and are along with jacks, ladyfish, and any other bait feeding predators, are blasting through the pods indiscriminately. Any bright flashy fly of the right proportions in the fray [...]
It was a beautiful Wednesday morning in the last week of July. I was gently drifting north in 100-feet of water off the Breakers in Palm Beach, Forida in my 28-foot M ‘Ocean Grant’d console. I came prepared with a [...]
We profiled artist Scott Donaghe in our March, 2012 issue of Fly Life Magazine, but have not gotten around to transferring all the archived issues to the new WordPress format. His popularity with readers prompted us to repeat Scott's interveiw [...]
Many anglers make assumptions about what fish see and hear, and many of these assumptions are wrong. I’ve been told, for example, in no uncertain terms, that fish can’t see color. This is not true. [...]
You can do-it-yourself - catch a few bones on a DIY basis in The Bahamas, but realistically it's pretty tough to get a good ROI and it's very physically demanding. To be successful, you'll have to be a good angler [...]
The Green Hornet Tarpon Fly was designed to take laid up tarpon in the Lower Keys. The fly has just the right amount of motion between strips to keep the fish’s attention and enough flash to attract, but not spook [...]
If you fish for giant tarpon on fly in the Florida Keys, do you find that the fish seem to get a little smarter and a little tougher to feed every year? Do you find that a fly that worked [...]
I'd caught snappers on flies before. The same goes for groupers and other known bottom feeders. Yet while the proverbial blind squirrel can find the occasional nut, he’s not likely to do it on a regular basis. Most of the [...]
By Skip Clement – March, 2011 Being Fly With Sailfish – Part One Zane Grey, Ernest Hemingway, The MET and launching the International Game Fish Association After coming out of the 1890’s depression (Wall Streeter shenanigans and easy credit – [...]
Many anglers make assumptions about what fish see and hear, and many of these assumptions are wrong. I’ve been told, for example, in no uncertain terms, that fish can’t see color. [...]
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