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MAYAGUANA FISHING

The Island: What Makes it Different

The most remote of the Bahamian bonefishing destinations is Mayaguana Island, lying northeast of Great Inagua and east of Acklins Island. This island is 30 miles long, 6 miles wide and has 380 inhabitants spread over three settlements. They make their living fishing and farming and since bonefish have no commercial value they have been left virtually alone. Fly fishing for bonefish on Mayaguana is akin to fishing a wilderness area.

Mayaguana Trophy Bonefishing is the only fly fishing operation on Mayaguana and has gone to serious extremes to protect this fishery and prevent it from being cooked. Canoes are used instead of clumsy, noisy flats boats. All fishing is done by wading. Catch & release is strictly enforced. Flats are rotated on a daily basis. And a maximum of six anglers per week, two weeks per month and nine months per year represents the total pressure exerted on the bonefish population of Mayaguana. Consequently, Mayaguana is a place where a angler can routinely stalk tailing bonefish of ten pounds or more and where big bonefish still rush to the fly. The biggest bonefish you will catch in the Bahamas will be caught on the snow-white wading flats of Mayaguana.

Mayaguana is a medium sized island, there are several roads that access the three settlements, several good flats and miles of pretty beaches. This is the place to go for people who like "doing your own thing". There is lots to do and you will be the only one "doing it".

Besides respectable bonefishing, there is scuba diving, snorkeling, blue water fishing, shelling, exploring a nearby island with iguanas and goats and cooling off at the week-end fish fry.

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.....the most idyllic beaches, healthiest reefs and most fish-filled waters I had seen in the Bahamas and Caribbean"
-New York Times