Rivers North Fishing Report

Salty

June 18th, 2010

Friend Jamie Clous & I met up with Captain Will Benson of World Angling this week in Sugarloaf Key, Fl to experince fly fishing for Tarpon, Permit and Bonefish.  Will is known as one of the finest saltwater guides in the Keys and he produced some epic Salwater opportunities for us during our visit.  My very first day he was able to give me enough shots @ fish to give me my first Grand Slam (Tarpon, Bonefish & Permit on the fly)-very exciting to say the least!  Fly fishing for Tarpon is quite an experience-having a fish the size of you creep up to your fly & then all hell breaks loose once you hook up. Many fish jumped 4-8 times taking several hundred yards of fly line/backing-nothing relaxing about fishing Tarpon! The Tarpon we hooked were in the 30 to 100 lb class with some fish above 100 lbs- in 3 days of fishing we hooked 21 tarpon & managed to land 7. The Permit fishing is very demanding as well-long casts & perfect presentations get it done, otherwise the fish spook easily.  All in all it was a very sweet trip-I highly recommend a trip to the keys to visit Cpt. Will!

Good Stuff in da Sun!!

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