Flats
Fishing the tropical flats - and flies for it

Don't wade, you idiot!

Stay dry: Why do many anglers stomp into the water and spook every fish in close distance before they even lay out their first cast? GFF partner Martin Joergensen recommends staying on land.
Read why in this article.

Rising Tide

Bonefishing theme: "What you got?"
"It's a small one"
The fish is fought to the boat and assessed.
"Eight-pound fish. And this fish is a minnow compared to those fish that we were casting at out there..."
The review of Jamie Howard's DVD can be found here

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Christmas Island Fly Fishing

Bones and GT's

Lured (pun intended) by the promise of uncrowded waves I spent a week on Christmas Island (Kiritimati) ... one of several in the small island chain of Republic of Kiribati. Instead of waves I found bonefishing meca, a fact apparently known by the well geared flyfishing 'tribe'.

Christmas Island (Kiritimati) Giant Trevally Fly Fishing

A time to remember, 6 days on the worlds largest coral atoll fly fishing for Trevally, Bones, Wahoo, Yellowfin and more.

Guides gone crazy

FlyCastaway guides Tim Babich, Scot DeBruyn and Nick Clewlow sampling thier back yard!

Re-DRUM - Fly Fishing for Redfish throughout Florida

A Skinny Water Culture and Long Rod Athletes Production.
Watch as we target redfish with a fly rod throughout the state of Florida. From Flamingo Everglades National Park, Biscayne National Park, Indian River Lagoon, Mosquito Lagoon to Tampa Bay. With a few other species (tarpon, snook, black drum, sea trout) that decided to join in.

Filmed by Dan Decibel, Eric Estrada, and Warren Chin. Edited by Eric Estrada with input from Dan Decibel and Warren Chin.

Special Thanks to Strongarm Products, SkinnySkiff.com, and TackleWebs.

Filmed with:
Nikon D3100 - 50mm 1.8D

Fraser Island - Promo Video

Pretty exciting preview of a video from Queensland, Australia about shallow water fishing for tuna and marlin

Bonefish

The real bonefishing

Wading Turks

A DIY bonefish trip to turks and caicos

Turks and Caicos Fly Fishing

Just another day on the flats. No fish could ever replace the bonefish. That being said it can be fun to target these over looked species of the shallows. It is amazing to see how different a fight a blacktip shark dishes versus one from the cuts and bluewater. Its almost as if the two are different species. Blacktips of the flat are bulldogs. Blacktips of the deep are complete athletes. Still these bulldogs put up a fun fight!

Turks and Caicos Bonefishing

An afternoon fish hunt aboard the bone collector. Sam's 7lb bonefish was the highlight. With a lemon shark seen moments earlier, we decided to focus on a safe release rather then digging out the video camera below deck. We hope to begin tagging these bonefish, to help better understand how often a released fish discharging pheromones will become lunch once in deeper water on the low tide. Satellite tags on mature bonefish is the next step in learning about these prehistory ghosts of the flats. On these particular conditions we had a full moon high tide and wind working together.

Tarpon on Fly

Heidi Nute with Capt. Paul Tejera in the Florida Keys Backcountry. Tarpon on Fly in Islamorada, Florida. 4 for 9 on Tarpon on a nice March Day.