Big bonefish are highly prized by season saltwater fly fishers and generally speaking they only come along once in a while. So to find a brace together wandering up a flat is a gift indeed. Carefully timing our casts, Mat McHugh and I managed to double up by hooking one each. With reels screaming our lines crossed several times (left). Eventually though we tempered those blistering runs to bag ourselves a brace of thumping bonefish not far short of 9lb. However, better was to come as another ghostly shadow eased towards me to hover up the size 4 Clouser pattern. Much stronger this fish flirted with several coral heads. Mercifully everything stayed intact for a thumping bonefish that dropped the scales to over 10lb…
~A highly prized double figure bonefish~
