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Andros South
Bair's Lodge
Andros is surrounded by nearly 1,00 square miles of flats and is a dream come true for hardcore bonefishermen. The time to be there is between October and the end of June. It was hard to get there and difficult to find a descent room on the island thirty years ago. Now there are half a dozen excellent lodges at this bonefish Mecca.
Mike Mercer with a beautiful Permit Andros is where the passion for trophy bonefishing began for me. The year was 1982, and I was working in the retail division of The Fly Shop. No wife, no kids, no mortgage, no dogs, no worries, mon.
Half the crowd of fly fishermen that were along on that trip are no longer with us now, and I was just a kid. Ron Giddings and I left the dock with the famous Charlie Smith as our guide in an old Boston Whaler that was pushed by a forty horsepower Johnson. We hadn't gone far with Charlie on the pole when Ron spotted what he thought were bonefish.
It was impossible in those days to sight a fish before the master guide. He was in his prime and told us, matter-of-fact, that what Ron saw was a shark. Charlie was explaining that the fish looked like it was hinged in the middle and was too big to be a bonefish, when the "shark" separated and suddenly two huge bonefish were coming right at us. Even the master makes mistakes. Charlie said, "Don't cast tot he fish on the right, Mister Ron. He's too big and will take all your line." What would you do?
Bonefish the flats of South Andros
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