Andros Island Bonefishing For Fly Fishing Fanatics
Andros Island Bonefishing provides the angler with some of the best possible salt-water sports fishing in the world. There is a wadabe flat where these fish are posted frequently, and this is fishable places of any other place in the Caribbean. There is even a Bonefish Club on this Island with is the biggest in the Bahamas chain, but also the least populated.
The waters around Andros Island are world renowned for the sheer numbers of Bonefish which inhabit the area. In the Caribbean pidgin “tousands of dem”! This offers the angler the potential to fly fish for trophy-size, or if you prefer “double-digit” Bonefish. They swim the surrounding seas in large schools with average weights of 3 – 5lbs, but obviously the trophy sized fish are much larger.
Spectacular fly-fishing from Andros, in the Fresh Creek area, you may even find Bonefish Bradley – reputedly the most famous Bone-fisher man on the Island, and a certified fly fishing guide. If you have never fished off these shores previously, you will need to inform yourself about the kind of tackle you need. This has to be able to accommodate sharks, jacks and barracuda too!
More often than not the fishing takes place from 16 foot “flats boats”. This is a boat which has a poling platform and it allows both the angler and the guide the ability to spot and cast on the flats. The Bonefish here are affectionately called the “ghost of the flats”.
Casts may be very short, as little as 20 foot, but they also on occasion reach as far as 50 – 60 foot. Fish in large quantities are available all throughout the year, so anglers can expect a good catch no matter what time of year they visit.
Specific flies need to be used to land Bonefish, however they also respond well to spins. Spin fishing for shark, barracuda, tarpon, jacks and snapper is very popular and most anglers are successful in their quest to land the one, that might have been “the one that got away” in any other area but Andros Island.
