Kathy and I are headed down to Beaufort, South Carolina, for a board meeting of The Turneffe Atoll Trust in mid-march. A strange place for a meeting of a Belize conservancy, but with some of the board members living nearby and having accommodations for most of us, it...
Bonefish will be my ruination. The challenge of such fishing, in seeing, stalking, casting to them in brisk winds, and then judiciously strip-setting the hookup is indelibly etched into my psyche. After the scorching runs of these fish on a coral rubble flat behind a...
Pops (Winston Cahral) is a stocky man with large hands, wearing fishing gloves, the palms of which are completely worn out. The gloves are there purely as a measure for keeping the sun off the backs of his hands. His palms are heavily calloused from handling the pole...
It’s day four of fishing with a guide here in Belize. This morning I feel like I’m finally “on the step,” ready to go out and show that I have quickly mastered bonefishing. My guide shows up wearing a bright yellow-orange shirt. I don’t immediately react...
The Flats of Belize are coral rubble flats that lie behind a fringing reef of the Turneffe Atoll. They are often just a few inches deep, with water streaming over the barricades of the reef onto coral rubble mixed with sections of eelgrass and sand. In these flats,...
