photo by Gerhard Laubscher – FlyCastaway
After today it’s obvious the bonefish gods are mad at me. I’m being punished for passing up easy opportunities to catch bones when I was hot on the yellow permit pursuit. I’m definitely suffering from a permit hangover. In 48 hours I haven’t caught a single bonefish here at St. Branon’s Atoll – possibly the greatest bonefish destination on earth!
photo by Russell de la Harpe – FlyCastaway
I had some bonefish chances. I hooked four in fact. I got broke off on coral by two of them and the other two came undone. One of these was especially dreadful because the bonefish looked significantly bigger than my 11-pounder earlier this week.
Most of our afternoon was in pursuit of giant trevally. St. Brandon’s Atoll has some huge ones and Tim and Gerhard fished hard for them in the afternoon. The scenery at some of Tim’s GT hotspots is ridiculous! We had no luck though. The only catch was this stout little brown-marbled grouper.
photo by FlyCastaway
There was a great fish caught by one of the other guests, Rich Carlson. This is a magnificently colored golden trevally taken on the flat. This beauty was swimming in with a school of bonefish.
photo by FlyCastaway
Rich also caught a species not yet on my list. This cute little fish is a butterfly flounder.
That’s it for today. I promise, tomorrow this permit hangover comes to an end!
If you want to go to St Brandon’s Atoll feel free to contact me or my friends at Yellow Dog Flyfishing Adventures.
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