Tim Mahaffey [Florida Key Bonefish Invitational Tournaments] has won multiple times said: ‘For targeting giant bonefish and in the bonefish Invitational Tournaments I fish only three fly crab patterns: brown Merkin, brown Duane Crab (toad), and the Red Headed Step Child (reddish-brown colored Gotcha that I use for catching smaller, release bones. Flies tied on size #1 or #2 Mustad 3407s. Color doesn’t matter, as long as it is brown. The primary concern for fly selection is the weight of the fly. The guides I fish with, like me, all fish in Mirages (Maverick). More impressively, all of us had stayed with this boat for years, even when some said that it was more fashionable to make a move, but we all stayed with Maverick performance.’

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