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Tenkara Bonefish in the Keys

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Yeah, I can't watch it, since I am not on faceplant.

 

I was fishing Palatlakaha Lake (Clermont). (more than a decade ago) It is a small body between two larger lakes. The shoreline is covered in Kissimmee Grass. I tied a twirl tail jig on 3 feet of line on a 16' cane pole. I would slowly scull the boat along, while swimming that jig out in front of the boat, just at the weed edges or dipping it into holes. Every once in a while, I'd hook something huge. Usually, that ended up with the fish bee lining straight away from the shore and snapping the braided line when I couldn't turn them.

 

I am thinking that hooking a bonefish on a cane pole would work the same way.

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Bonefish in the Keys are tough enough as it is without going fancy about it.... Getting a fly to one of those very educated fish is an achievement - doing it without spooking one - that's an accomplishment all by itself... Bones under ten pounds will burn almost 100 yards before stopping when hooked - then you're going to be working them back in. Bonefish over ten pounds will burn off a hundred yards, pause for a moment so you think you've turned it - then start their second hundred yards.... Your backing will be dragging the bottom on that second hundred, guaranteed....

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Bones under ten pounds will burn almost 100 yards before stopping when hooked ...

 

Bonefish over ten pounds ... then start their second hundred yards ...

THAT'S why I don't bother trying to salt water fish. That doesn't even sound like fun, to me.

Just thinking of reeling in 200 yards of line (without fighting a fish) is enough to turn me away.

 

I like fly fishing, setting the hook, admiring or keeping a pretty fish and then fly fishing some more.

Muscles burning and aching sound more like work than fishing.

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Mike's right - it's just a fancy name for pole fishing. Looks like about as much fun as competing in a bass tournament. Without the exciting runs that bonefish provide, you might as well be fishing for eels or bluegills.

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