For a few of us, the dream goes like this: big uneducated bonefish in a perfect setting, no people or jet skis on an endless hard gleaming white flat.

“There’s a tailer at one o’clock, about 120 feet out!” Ken and Eldon Shannon were experiencing their first taste of bonefishing, and I wanted it to be a success. I began poling the boat as quickly and quietly as I could through the crystal-clear water toward the feeding bonefish, keeping an eye out for others [...]

Anticipation is one of the most powerful sensations in angling. In clear-water flats fishing, the greatest thrill comes in the instance between when the fish is spotted, and the presentation is taken or refused. The combination of visual drama and tactile electricity between angler and quarry truly gets the heart pumping!
More so than any other [...]