From time to time, FlyFish.com sets off in search of world class fly waters to share with its loyal readers. Our most recent trip was different from our usual, well planned adventures, and we only pulled it off with the help of some entrepreneurially gifted fly guides in the beautiful Bahaman Island of Exuma.
From the beginning we were operating under a few very strict limitations: 1. The weather had to be warm… As much as we desired to escape from the record cold gripping northeastern America, it’s a convenient fact that bone fish don’t dig the shivers much either. 2. We had a severely limited time frame in which to fish.
Our goal then was to get …

Exuma and the renegade guidesFrom time to time, FlyFish.com sets off in search of world class fly waters to share with its loyal readers. Our most recent trip was different from our usual, well planned adventures, and we only pulled it off with the help of some entrepreneurially gifted fly guides in the beautiful Bahaman Island of Exuma.

From the beginning we were operating under a few very strict limitations: 1. The weather had to be warm… As much as we desired to escape from the record cold gripping northeastern America, it’s a convenient fact that bone fish don’t dig the shivers much either. 2. We had a severely limited time frame in which to fish.

Our …

From time to time, FlyFish.com sets off in search of world class fly waters to share with its loyal readers. Our most recent trip was different from our usual, well planned adventures, and we only pulled it off with the help of some entrepreneurially gifted fly guides in the beautiful Bahaman Island of Exuma.

From the beginning we were operating under a few very strict limitations.
1. The weather had to be warm… As much as we desired to escape from the record cold gripping northeastern America, it’s a convenient fact that bone fish don’t dig the shivers much either.
2. We had a severely limited time frame in which to fish.

From time to time, FlyFish.com sets off in search of world class fly waters to share with its loyal readers. Our most recent trip was different from our usual, well planned adventures, and we only pulled it off with the help of some entrepreneurially gifted fly guides in the beautiful Bahaman Island of Exuma.

Though I’ve flats fished from Abaco to Tahiti, I was always curious about Roatan as a unique, exotic, yet economically doable destination for most flats fishermen. My research indicated that it had three major features, which made it a one-of-a-kind island.

Before discussing these, let’s back up to the basics. Many of you may not have heard much about Roatan. Well, this island, and a few others, comprise the Bay Islands that lie about forty miles north of the Caribbean coast of Honduras. If you traced a southward-moving line through the more famous islands off Belize, then
traced that line eastward by following the perpendicular shift of the landmass, you’d find Roatan.

The four characteristics that compelled me to visit Roatan were the …

Cape Santa Maria, Long Island’s northernmost landfall, is twenty-seven miles northeast of George Town, Exuma and roughly the same distance from Devil’s Point on Cat Island. From the Cape to South End, the island snakes for almost eighty miles, and is never more than four miles wide.

The island is one of stunning contrasts in geography. The west coast is composed of sandy flats, powdery-white beaches, and calm turquoise-colored bays, while the east coast consists of harsh reefs and chalk-white cliffs that plunge into often wild dark blue waters. Divided by the Tropic of Cancer, the island’s terrain varies from the dramatic limestone cliffs in the north and south, to rolling hillsides, to swampland, to stark white flatlands where salt is …

At its closest point Eleuthera lies only thirty miles northeast of Nassau, and less than thirty miles east of the northern Exuma Cays. The island spans about a hundred miles from north to south, ending in a Y-shape formed by Powell Point, Rock Sound, and Bannerman Town. While long, the island is also skinny, with an average width of less than two miles.

The terrain is a combination of tall white-faced cliffs, coral sand beaches, forests, green hills and pristine valleys dotted with lakes. All of this is surrounded by aquamarine seas, with the deeper blue of the Atlantic Ocean pouring in over the windward reef.

The story of the Eleutherian Adventurers is well known throughout The Bahamas. Led by Captain William …

Abaco is a mini-archipelago that stretches in a languid crescent for more than one hundred twenty miles, beginning with Walker’s Cay in the north, and running to the end of the Little Bahama Bank in the south at Sandy Point and Hole in the Wall.

Palm Beach, Florida lies just under two hundred miles to the west, while Abaco’s sister island, Grand Bahama, is a short boat ride away from Coopers Town and Little Abaco.

The three distinct regions that comprise Abaco are Little Abaco, Great Abaco, and the offshore cays. Including these cays, Abaco encompasses roughly six hundred fifty square miles, with a population of about ten thousand full-time residents.

The dazzling offshore cays bob in the Atlantic mostly east, and some …

The islands of The Bahamas have long been recognized as some of the most beautiful spots on earth on which to do as little as possible.

Yet in recent years these same islands have been earning glowing reviews in a decidedly more strenuous pursuit. For when it comes to the tackling of bone fish, permit, tarpon and many other
exciting catches, The Bahamas has no equal. And let’s face it…there’s worse places you could find yourself in the quest for the perfect days fishing.

Stephen Vletas and his wife Kim are THE most
respected source of imformation around when it comes to fly
fishing in The Bahamas.

Stephen has recently completed recent updates to The Bahamas Fly-Fishing Guide and …

Andros Island is our favorite Bahamian destination, and considered by many people to be the “Bonefishing Capital” of the World. We would certainly endorse this title.

Located one hundred fifty miles southeast of Miami, and thirty-six miles west of Nassau, Andros is surrounded by the best saltwater flats habitat on the planet. The North, Middle, and South Bights are the heart of this famous fishery, but they are only the beginning. Andros sprawls over one hundred miles from the Joulters Cays on the northern end, to the Water Cays and Curly Cut Cays on the southern tip, and spans forty miles from the east coast to the West Side. …