The Best Flies for Bonefish, Permit, Tarpon, Snook, and Barracuda We LOVE flats fishing! For years our staff has been traveling to Ascension Bay Mexico to host trips and fish the flats for Bonefish, Permit, Snook, Barracuda, Tarpon, Jacks, and a few other species. We put these fly assortments together for anglers planning a week long trip to Ascension or Belize. We are constantly finding new patterns and tweaking the assortment, so the boxes we sell won't be an exact replication of what is in the picture. It is better and more up to date. We choose flies for you that were most successful on our most recent visits. Package Includes Flies for Every Flats Species in Ascension Bay Each year we host dozens upon dozens of anglers and we scrutinize over the flies we fish, because... we are personally fishing these patterns! Our knowledge base grows every year and we are constantly adjusting and tweaking the exact patterns that we use based on what happens and our anglers experience. We have outfitted over 100 anglers with this assortment and feel it is a very well rounded fly selection. Planning a Trip to Ascension Bay Mexico? We book, plan, host, and fish Ascension Bay every winter. You can join Red's Fly Shop on one of these trips and our staff will coordinate, host, and fish alongside you or your group the entire week.
Best Flies for Bonefish Bonefish are caught in the most abundant numbers, and likely what you
will spend most of your time pursuing. We like to have a few flies that are heavy for schools of Bones on the ledges, a couple of mid weight flies, and a couple of unweighted patterns for tailing fish in the shallows.
Average size is about 2 pounds and they run like crazy! They eat shrimp, small crabs, and other
crustaceans. They travel in very shallow
water and the juveniles (12-18") will run in schools, and the larger fish
(3-7 pounds) will usually travel in pairs or groups of three. 7-8 weight rods,
2 X Tippet, and use the smallest flies in your box.
The Best Flies for Permit a.k.a. Palometa or as we like to call them "the drug"! Permit are a big deal! This is the most
coveted game fish on earth... or so says anybody that has ever stalked the
flats searching for them! Anglers make many trips without landing a Permit. Spooky, fast, wiley, and selective are words
that describe them. Mystical,
captivating, and addicting do too. They
eat primarily crabs so you should have at least a dozen various crab patterns
with you. Long delicate casts, longer
strips, and quiet "tip toe" feet are required. The guides in Mexico
like to say... Bonefish are fun, but Permit is our drug! When they are "tailing" (tail out
of the water, head down feeding) is when you try to time your cast. We like Merkin Crabs, Turneffe Crabs, Ragheads, and a few others in this box that you have never heard of. These are the patterns we like!
The Best Flies for Barracuda.... they don't eat.... they attack!
This is the predator
fish of the flats and perhaps the most underrated of all flats gamefish. Average Cuda are 2-3' long, and big ones are
about 5 feet long! They attack Poppers,
Needlefish, Gurglers, and other large baitfish. We like Poppers, this package includes 2 Poppers and you will be amazed how Cuda will attack Poppers even when they won't eat a Needlefish.
Sometimes it takes several casts with super fast stripping to entice
them, but once they attack... HANG ON!
It can be violent. They run,
jump, and slash like you wouldn't believe.
Wire leaders, 10 weight rods, and big flies are the trick. Always have the "on deck" angler
ready with a Cuda rod because they seem to pop regularly.
The Best Flies for Tarpon.... "the Silver King" or Sabalo in Spanish
The Tarpon in
Ascension are found most abundantly in the Mangroves and will be juveniles
10-40 pounds. Not bad eh? In the more open water there are occasions
when fish up to 100 pounds are possible. They are famous for jumping like crazy
and you should "bow" your rod to the fish as they jump. They eat baitfish primarily but will eat
crustaceans at times. An 9-10 weight rod
with a 60 lb. shock tippet to protect against their sharp mouth is required. We like some of the classic flies like Black Death, but our assortments usually have a whatever we had the most success on during our last trip.
The Best Flies for Snook a.k.a. or Rabalo in Spanish The creatures of the
Mangroves... Snook tend to hide up under the Mangroves only wandering out a fin
at a time! It is a fun casting game
trying to get your fly up under the Mangroves just right. They eat baitfish, and the primary flies we
like are un-weighted Deceivers. Most
Snook are about 5-10 pounds, although one of us did hook one closer to 20
pounds last year! The world record is 53
pounds, and you will see photos at the lodge of Snook over 30 pounds! 8-10
weight rods with 60 pound shock tippet is the right setup. Same as Tarpon. This fly assortment will come with 5 Snook flies that are all unweighted and Deceiver style patterns.
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