This day a year ago (more or less), I’d just got back from the Bahamas and was doing my best to readjust. You know how hard that can be, right? It was a sensational week for all kinds of reasons. There were multiple double-hook-ups, the double-figure monster one of us was lucky enough to catch, the ‘night of a thousand Kaliks’ – but I’ll tell you about all that another time.
Largely thanks to the internet, with its endless free-flowing information, video, social media and all the rest of it, the world can seem a mighty small place sometimes. So far, so unrevelatory, but you can’t help but wonder sometimes whether it’s good for us fishermen.
OK, this is pretty much Fishipedia’s favourite video right now – Devil’s Gold, a six-and-half-minute distillation of the search for golden dorado in Bolivia.
So it’s official. Florida’s bonefish will be breathing a small sigh of relief, after the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission this week confirmed the legislation that will make them a catch-and-release species in the state.
Sometimes you meet someone it’s hard not to envy – Matt Harris falls neatly into that category. Here’s a man who’s fished and photographed some of the most incredible locations throughout the world, combining his career as an advertising photographer with a neat little sideline in fishing photography.
Now this is a deal that instantly gets the Fishipedia stamp of approval. This summer, if you stay at Grand Slam Fly Fishing Lodge in Punta Allen, Mexico, you pay the single fishing rate and your fishing partner (or your non-fishing travel partner) stays free.
After three days chasing “black-tailed devils” around the Lower Keys, Idaho’s Mike Dawes and guide Don Gable have been crowned victors of the 2011 March Merkin permit fishing tournament in Key West.
Fancy yourself as a permit fisherman? Then get yourself down to Mexico’s Palometa Club soon, bag the lodge’s 500th specimen and your legend will be assured for evermore.
An important milestone is looming. Project Permit, the Costa-sponsored statewide tagging study of Permit in Florida (a collaboration between BTT and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission), is just about to enter its second year.
Monster alert! Fishing manager at Argentina’s Villa Maria Lodge, Alejandro Bianchetti , hit the jackpot last week when he connected to this lodge-record sea trout, a 33lb behemoth.
