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ken,Idont know a hell of alot about bonefish but can tell you that I have spent more money in three attempts to catch no bonefish than all my striper trips combined and thensome. So in cost per fish they are way up there, Im talking about florida Keys Bonefish where they grow em big not those ankle bitters of the Bahamas as the Florida guides call them.Course when my son finally finishes all his schooling and hopefully his Dad has any money left at all Im going to give those Bahamas bonefish a try. I figure the Keys bonefish are real smart and are in cahoots with the locals. You can damn well predict when there going to show up, where ,and what direction that they will be coming from. Tails up says the guide,about 150 ft. to the south, Oh yeh You say I see them.And you see them, and you see them and you know that theyre there but they stay about that same 150ft. from the boat the whole time your being poled down the flat.When you get to deeper water the guide starts the engines and you repeat this routine a couple of more times until too much or too little water is on the flats. Maybe once or twice youll get a going away shot at one at 110 ft.[I got one my last trip down and hit one of the sobs right on the noggin, the guide was furious hollerin that I should have put it to the side!@!} After that you get shuttled off to deeper water to catch "trout" and other edible fish that the guide cleans for you and you take him out to the local restaurant and buy him dinner on your fish that you already payed 450 bucks to catch.It now costs another 25 or 20 dollars to have it cooked.The guide tells everybody at the restaurant what a good fishermen you are and how many bonefish that you saw and that tommorow youll really get em but that your better off coming down in June or October if you really want them.You have a couple of drinks and know that tommorrow will be your day. Sure enough not too long after youre out there you see those bonefish again.And they stay that same 150 ft. from the boat !!As they get closer the guide will swear that one is over 16lbs and might be a record if we could only get em. Well maybe youll get an odd cast off but youll never never get em.How do I know this? I saw the guide paying the sobs off one day. So they are in cahoots!! Their natural enemies are sharks. When you first get to the Keys they tell you not to wade because the bottoms muddy. Thats bs, they dont want to scare you but all the sharks in the southeast winter over in the Keys, Ive had 15 to 17 ft. long bull sharks come up and eat my ladyfish!!Wade, forget about it, I want to go out there in a battle ship rather than a flats boat.Well Ive seen those bonefish get hooked on Flip Pallots show{they must have payed it off] and one of those bull sharks came up and ate him like Halloween candy.At the end of my last trip I was gettin so frustrated that I was hoping to hook one just to feed him to the sharks for all the frustration that they put me through but they never gave me the chance...I thought that I was just a lousy bonefishermen until taliking to a friend of mine who has a place in the Keys and fishes there often. I got him drunk not too long ago and got him to admit that all those Keys bonefish that he told me he caught were on shrimp and not on fly. Yep he said Ive never caught one on a fly.I didnt want to tell him about the conspiracy as he hot tempered and might tell the cops and I didnt want to get any in trouble. Hope Ive taught you something about bonefishng. Mike
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