Sportfish

Yesterday was the beginning of a great saltwater flyfishing adventure for most of the team. Today the plan came together and everybody enjoyed a fantastic day’s sport. Together we landed around sixty bonefish - not bad for a team that generally had never tied a bonefish fly on before yesterday. There were three star performers today. John with a cracking 10lbs bone stalked on a flat, Phil, who not content with eleven bones caught during the day went out with me for and a couple of hours on the beach in front of the posada and added another five bones between 4 & 6lbs, all on the deadly gummy minnow.

Probably the most exciting fish of the day was a 60lbs king mackerel landed by Andy. After a marathon struggle on a light spinning rod the monster was eventually landed, trolling a rapala plug. His boat partner Ricky had to be content with a nice blue runner, also on a diving rapala. Jim had great sport with barracuda including a fish that was attacked by another barracuda on the way in. The attacker was much larger and managed to bite Jim’s fish in half.

Such a great day’s fishing certainly took its toll on the team - a relaxing visit to a beach bar saw several of the guys fall asleep on the comfortable bean bags on the beach in front of the bar. So a really super day with everybody in really high spirits. The weather was also much better - which we hope is a sign of things to come.