Florida?

heading to the U.S at the start of july and going to be down in florida keys for a week. have any of you lads used any charters or anything out there?im particularly interested in flyfishing for bonefish on the flats. any ideas?

Where in the Keys?

The mid Keys are the best, Islamarada and Marrathon...Guides can be quite expensive but most of them will put you onto fish....you can go to some of the boat hire outfits, like Bud-n- Mary's or Terry's boat hire, they both hire out skiffs cheap enough about $300 per day where as a guide will charge double that.

Tom.

heading to the U.S at the start of july and going to be down in florida keys for a week. have any of you lads used any charters or anything out there?im particularly interested in flyfishing for bonefish on the flats. any ideas?

Try Captain Paul Fisicaro at [url]http://www.stripstrikecharters.com/index.htm[/url]
My fishing buddy just spent a week on the keys and fished with Paul for 3 days. Caught his best evr Bone of just over 8lbs.
He has now had 2 holidays using Paul and reckons he's the bees knnes!
Colin

Hi Christina,
I am just back from 2 weeks in the Keys on Sunday, I caught a few bones wading the flats on early morning tides, the problem with going in july is the water tempratures have gone very high up on the flats (up to 32-33C) and the bones are found in deeper water and only move up onto the flats really in the early morning, if you contact bud' n Mary's in Islamorada, and try speak to Richard stancyzyk ( http://www.budnmarys.com)
and explain what you want to do he will give you the best advice and guides, you could also contact rich tudor he captains out of the marina at world wide sportsman at mile marker 81.5 in Islamorada, or matt bellinger out of the holiday isle marina around mile marker 84.
don't be surprised to only get only 1-2 shots a day at a fish (but they could be up to 15lb in Islamorada), and I would suggest you find a field somewhere, put the top of a plastic bucket on the ground, and make sure you can land the fly on that every time, from any angle, from any distance up to 30yd, in winds up to 10-15 kts, if you can't you would be better off using conventional tackle.
you can do 4-6-8 hr trips and they will cost you 450-500 dollars a day + tip.
http://outdoorsbest.zeroforum.com/zeromain?id=1
that is a link to a great forum, scroll down to the florida keys fishing reports and general info, and you can put up requests, search the data base, meet people to share charters, or even make contact with locals who might take you out.
have a great trip, and I hope you avoid the hurricanes.
Dave

thanks a lot for the replies lads. dave, i was thinking the same thing about the bones, it must be way too hot for them on the flats during the day. i really fancy a days bone fishing, it looks like they give an amazing fight! im going to stick a post up on that forum and see what responses i get. to be honest im not to fussed what species we go for, they all look great haha!