Marquesas Bonefish on Fly

Got to fish with my buddy Capt Ward Kowalyk from Fort Myers - www.captainward.com - a few days ago. We traveled west to the Maequesas and we were greeted immediately by a school of bonefish, in which Ward landed his first one of the day. Capt Ward ended up with 4 bonefish on fly and three permit followed his fly to the boat but we were not able to entice a bite. We got clouded out half way down the flat otherwise I think many more bonefish would have been caught and there would have been more chances at permit.

Ward is a great guy and if you ever get to the Fort Myers areas and have an opportunity to fish, definitely look him up.

Here is a short video we shot with the iphone of Ward's bonefish.  He may have hammed it up a little!!

Key West Fishing Video

https://vimeo.com/67182515

Short video from Hal and Morgan who fished with me a couple of weeks ago. Couple nice barracudas and a tarpon.
Thanks again guys

Key West Permit on Fly

Paul from England with his first permit on fly.

Awesome Week of Tarpon Fishing off Key West

Tarpon fishing has been incredibly good this past week.  It started last weekend with a couple of flat calm mornings and continued through this morning.  I've been getting my clients out early and they have been jumping tarpon within minutes of turning off the motor.  Some of the highlights this past week include a few tarpon on fly, a morning my client jumped a dozen tarpon and giant tarpon that dragged a couple miles from where it was hooked.  This morning was the first morning we didn't land a tarpon but my client did manage to jump on and have another one briefly hooked up.

Captain Mike Bartlett
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