Bonefish and Sea Glass

Author: Doug

4/26/09

We left Green Turtle in the morning and covered about three hours to Allen's Pensacola.

Still had very strong winds, they have settled into a pattern of Easterlies around 15 to 20 knots in the morning increasing to about 25 by afternoon. They lay down a little sometime after midnight. The good news is that we are heading west, so the seas are behind us, which is much nicer than having them on the nose like we did on the way here. Also, it has been sunny and nice every day for weeks.

We had a pretty nice run this day, hanging in the shelter of Green Turtle and Mun Jack. The Mun Jack channel was a little rough, but otherwise OK. We learned our anchoring lesson about Allen's Pensacola and took our time finding a really nice sand hole to drop the hook. We also set two anchors right from the start. Though it blew really hard in the night we didn't drag at all.

Took the dinghy back to our little hidden cove, the tide was way out, so the swimming wasn't as good, but we found a lot of nice sea glass and conch shells. I caught a tailing trigger fish on the flats by the beach, but no bonefish. We saw a big boat called "Toi Boat" there, they have tons of room, complete with a little motor cycle on deck.

The next morning I got up early and bonefished yet another flat at Allen's Pensacola. The flat was COVERED with big tailing bones, I saw 500 plus in two hours. I caught and released three near or over double digit fish. It was amazing, the best bonefishing of my life. At one point I had a fish on and a school of maybe 70 other fish swim around my legs. They literally parted and swam around me, without really spooking. Pretty amazing fishing. Jen and the boys got a lot of

schoolwork done, Bryce has been concentrating on spelling and Simon has been working hard on his journal.