height="163" alt="salt6t.jpg (17362 bytes)" class="image-left" />As someone who has
spent most of his fly fishing time on trout streams and bass waters in New York State, I
never thought I would travel to some exotic tropic location and fish for bonefish. I
pretty much figured that the closest that I would ever get to catching a bonefish was a
Hudson River shad.

Then my wife Bonnie came up with the idea of a Florida Keys vacation and with a little
research I discovered that for a very reasonable amount of money, an angler can go to
Florida and find bonefish on his own. The Florida Keys are a great place to go for a
vacation and better yet, they’re surrounded by wadeable …

Shortly after dawn, I arrived at the trail head to one of my favorite
trout ponds, and
shouldered the frame backpack that I carry all of my pond fishing gear with.
The hike to this particular pond is just under two miles, but in this case, its
two miles up the side of a mountain.
The sun had already begun warming the shallows as I arrived at the shore of
the pond. I was greeted by the welcome sight of a couple of trout slurping their
breakfast from the ponds surface (in this case a size 22 gray midge). This
got me moving as I quickly donned my waders and float tube, and began paddling
my way towards a …