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June 18th, 2010Friend 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. Â 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. Â 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! Â 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. Â 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!!