The permit, Trachinotus falcatus, is a game fish of the western Atlantic ocean belonging to the Carangidae family. Adults feed on crabs, shrimp, and smaller fish.
Permits can be distinguished by their elongated dorsal fins and anal fin. The dorsal fin is shaped like a scythe. Permit tails are also deeply forked, and their bodies are compressed laterally, making the fish tall and thin when viewed from the front.
The average permit has six to seven dorsal spines, and eighteen to twenty one soft rays. The anal fin has two to three spines, and sixteen to eighteen soft rays. Both dorsal and anal fins have dark, anterior lobes. Permits have no scutes and have a large, orange-yellow patch on their abdomens in front of their anal fins, while their pectoral fins are dark.
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Paradise Lodge
What was at first hailed as the lodge most consistently productive for tarpon and snook now includes outstanding permit fishing in the most scenic and remote flats of the Mexican Yucatan.
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| Belize |
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Belize River Lodge
Belize River Lodge is appropriately named as it sits right on the banks of the Belize River; a lazy and meandering tropical water- way, minutes from the International Airport.
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Blue Horizon Lodge
If there is one ideal place on earth to put a lodge that specializes in fly fishing for Permit, it would be exactly where Blue Horizon Lodge sits, opening in 1997 with a commitment of being a fishing camp with permit as its number one target.
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El Pescador
Situated on a private 40 acres on the Caribbean coast of this island is El Pescador Lodge, named by Forbes Traveler as one of the top ten luxury Eco-Resorts in the world.
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Turneffe Flats Lodge
On the seaward side of the largest and most biologically diverse atoll in the Caribbean Sea is built one of the most beautiful and complete lodges in Central America.
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Turneffe Island Lodge
Originally built by Vic Barothy for the more adventurous anglers and after 37 years, it still offers a fishing adventure but with the amenities and comforts of an upscale fishing/diving lodge.
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Whipray Caye Lodge
A very small private island located about 10 miles off the coast of Placencia, Belize, Central America. Whipray Caye Lodge is custom made for serious salt-water fishermen and the independent traveler.
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Ascension Bay Bonefish Club
Ascension Bay Bonefish Club caters exclusively to flyfishermen, and particularly to anglers interested in Permit. Bonefishing is excellent in the shallow, clear flats of Acension Bay.
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Boca Paila
One of the oldest established fishing lodges in the Mexican Yucatan, founded in 1964 by the Gonzales family who has built a rock-solid reputation as a great destination for bonefish.
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Casa Blanca
If one were to dream up the perfect location for a saltwater flats fishing lodge, it would be hard to find one better than on the private island of Punta Pajaros. Directly between Ascension Bay and Espiritu Santo Bay.
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Grand Slam
As nice and even luxurious as the Grand Slam Fly Fishing Lodge is, it is first and foremost a fishing lodge. It gives anglers one of the best flats fisheries in the Yucatan and their non-angling guests a vacation worth writing home about.
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Palometa Club
About a 3 hour drive south of Cancun, on the oceanside beach of the little fishing village of Punta Allen. Its location is perfect for searching Ascension Bay for the fish it is famous for; Bonefish, Tarpon and the lodge's namesake, Permit.
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Paradise Lodge
What was at first hailed as the lodge most consistently productive for tarpon and snook now includes outstanding bonefishing in the most scenic and remote flats of the Mexican Yucatan.
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Pesca Maya
Started their operation in 1996 with their Fishing Lodge in Ascension Bay Quintana Roo Mexico outfitting anglers to catch bonefish, permit, tarpon and snook. Now offering you services for fishing and lodging all over the Yucatan peninsula.
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Playa Blanca
If one were to dream up the perfect location for a saltwater flats fishing lodge, it would be hard to find one better than on the private island of Punta Pajaros. Directly between Ascension Bay and Espiritu Santo Bay.
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Los Roques Lodge
An off-shore national park located about 85 miles from the Venezuelan mainland. It was first "discovered" by the fly fishing community in the mid-1980's, and immediately was reported to be one of the great bonefisheries on Earth.
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FlyCastaway
This will most certainly be the most spectacular bonefishing you will ever encounter as on most tides anglers can expect to see shoals of these shallow water speedsters as well as enormous singles and doubles.
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St. Brandon's, Mauritius
Never to sit back on their creels, the guys at FlyCastaway have explored an area that may prove to be even more spectacular than the Seychelles as far as Bonefish size and numbers are concerned.
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