Virgin Cuba Bone Fishing.
Cuba is one of the most unspoiled areas in the Caribbean region for spectacular fishing. Salt water fly fishing has become more and more popular in the last few years. As many people take up this exciting sport, it is necessary to find more challenging places to fish and we have found virginal bone fishing like no where else on earth. |
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You'll find some of the finest bone fishing in the world in Cuba. Since the flats are never commercially fished, they are teeming with bones that average a solid four to six pounds. |
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An angler has lots of opportunities daily for fish in the seven to nine pound class. Bones in the 10-14 lb. class have been caught with more regularity especially in the last years thanks to marina conservation, but what is impressive are the overall numbers and average size of these bone fish. There are a variety of flats, from pure white sand to a mixture of sand and grass, to flats where it can be solid turtle grass and marl. Guides use the flats skiffs to cover a lot of water, but when they encounter an especially good flat to wade, they often park the boat. The anglers will hop out, accompanied by the guide, and wade fish the flats.
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There are a great number of flats that provide outstanding wade fishing for large tailing bones on an incoming tide.
The late afternoon and evening fishing can be especially pleasant. The guides are willing to fish late, and the wind typically dies in the afternoon. Tailing and feeding bones can be spotted hundreds of yards away on the calm flats, and in the low evening light the bones pounce on a fly with abandon you don't see at mid-day.
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Cuban Tarpon Fishing.
Cuba has a huge variety of water types, river mouths and lagoons, endless salt water flats, channels between islands all perfect for fly fishing, surface popping and trolling. Tarpon fishing is becoming more and more popular and as such, it gets ever increasingly more difficult to source and secure good tarpon fishing grounds. We have now found excellent tarpon fishing grounds in the Zapata region of Cuba. The remoteness of this area has only helped in it retaining its uniqueness and fantastic fishing. It’s not the easiest place to get to but that's the advantage.
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Probably the best tarpon fishing in the entire Caribbean thanks to the huge ecosystem that everybody are now able to experience and to fish almost everyday. Tarpon are abundant in the island system, especially baby tarpon in the 20-50 pound class. Larger fish, 80-140 lbs are getting more and more common every year especially during March – June months. What you can expect is some of the hottest fishing for tarpon to be found anywhere in the world! Baby tarpon is a perfect fish to catch on a 10 weight fly rod, or on spin or bait casting tackle.
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