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Bonefish
Bonefish: AKA “The Gray Ghost” is a bottom feeding fish with a streamlined nose and a forkish tail. This fish is built for speed. Their backs are generally light gray with whitish to silver sides and his fins are edged with light blues. Their coloring allows them to blend into the flats, which makes them the most difficult fish to spot on the flats.

The average size fish we will catch will range from 5 to 8 pounds, with a few 10 – 14 pounders if we’re lucky. Expect lighting fast runs of 100 -200 yards. Keep your rod tip up and enjoy the fight!

 
Permit
Permit: I believe the permit is the most easily spooked and the most difficult fish to catch on the flats. They have a fork tail, silver sides with a few shades of yellow around their pectoral fins. They are a very tall fish, half as high as they are long.

Permits eat small crabs and shrimp. They average in size from 12 – 18 pounds. There are 20 – 30 pounders out there and we catch our share. Permit are famous for scraping their noses along the bottom to fray your line, so keep your rod tips up and hang on!

 
Tarpon
Tarpon: AKA “The Silver King” These are the monsters of the flats and channels in the backcountry. They have blue, gray or green backs with shiny silver sides. Most tarpon range from 50 – 80 pounds; however, it is not uncommon to catch tarpon up to 150 pounds, with a few larger monsters caught each year.

These fish do it all! They run, they jump or maybe you should say they explode from the water violently shaking their heads and spreading their gill plates. What a show. If they find some deep water, then you have a bull on your hands. It’s an arm aching catch on 20 pound test line, but isn’t that why you are here?

 
Barracuda: “A mouth full of teeth with a bad attitude” A 20 pound barracuda on an 8 pound test line is as much fun as any fish you’ll catch on the flats. Enjoy drag screaming runs and bizarre leaps; these are all a part of the barracuda’s repertoire.
 
Sharks: I think we all know what sharks look like. The most common sharks we catch on the flats are lemon up to seven feet, black tip up to six feet, bonnet head up to four feet and sometimes a big bull. Watch out for hammerheads and bulls when you’re tarpon fishing. A tired tarpon is their favorite food.
 
Cobia
Cobia: Cobia looks like a cross between a shark and a catfish. I primarily catch these in the channels between the flats in late February and early March, while live baiting for tarpon before the tarpon move up on the flats. If you have a warm February you might find cobia swimming with sting rays and sharks on the flats.
 
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