Andros Island Bonefish Club

On my way home from spending 6 nights at the Andros Island Bonefish Club. A wonderful time, ended up going out 4 days with a guide and 1 day DIY hopping on their kayak for a very short paddle across the channel. Caught plenty of bones, a decent Barracuda, and some others. Sharkey ended up taking a bite out if my 8lb bone at the boat, hence a bloody tail, guide took it home for the fam. Look forward to returning.

 

[mcswny]

Fuck yeah! Love seeing all these tropical reports

 

[dflett68]

fantastic! thanks for this.

 

[DimeBrite]

Nice looking bonefish and barracuda!

 

[SilverFly]

Great report. Did you eat the cuda? They're pretty high on the ciguatera poison scale. We got one on Eleuthera several years ago. The guide assured us they were safe to eat from that area. Might've been a risky idea but the Bahamian cuda fritters were delicious!

 

[Aleforme]

That's a dream trip of mine. Hope to get down there in the next couple years.

 

[Florida Man]

Looks like a fantastic trip. Can't wait to be doing the same one of these days.

 

[Scottybs]

Great report. Did you eat the cuda? They're pretty high on the ciguatera poison scale. We got one on Eleuthera several years ago. The guide assured us they were safe to eat from that area. Might've been a risky idea but the Bahamian cuda fritters were delicious!

Guides made the cuda, had a bite, tasted decent, also made some Spanish Mackeral!

 

[Scottybs]

a few more

 

[Brian in OR.]

How did you do on your DIY day compared to fishing with the guides.....

 

[Florida Man]

How did that shark fight?

 

[Scottybs]

How did you do on your DIY day compared to fishing with the guides....

DIY was awesome but challenging in the sense that you are so tide dependent, what I mean by that is with in paddling distance is there are bo beaches available at high tide to cruise, and forget wading deeper than knee deep, saw over 200 sharks last week, Bulls included. So by doing DIY you lose out on hours of productivity, yet fishing was still good once you have bonefishing dialed in.

 

[Scottybs]

How did that shark fight?

Baby shark (reminds me of my kids favorite song when they were toddlers) grabbed my streamer and gave me 2 strong tugs but that was about it, also I had my 12 in hand at that point incase of seeing anything big. Backing up we were fishing a channel between some mangroves that tarpon and everything else transit and I hooked a Spanish Mackerel on my 10 and as I was battling I felt a bump (had wire on) and what I discovered eventually to be a 6’ blacktip shark bulldogged me deep into my backing and made us chase it with the boat, as I got him up in the water column the Rio wire leader failed at the mono to steel knot, oh well, didn’t feel like unbottoning that beast. Another crazy shark story was we were fishing another channel and I had a popper on and was dangling it in front of the boat by about 10’ in the shallows, and as I searched for rolling tarpon, I glanced over to see a 5’ Lemon shark stocking the popper and attempted to eat it on top.

 

[Florida Man]

I was hoping to hear that small shark put on a decent run. I don't know how confident I'd feel about bringing a shark in close to release it. Shame that lemon shark didn't get hooked up. That would have been sweet!