Los Roques Trip Report

Greetings from Los Roques, Venezuela! It has been a massive 9 days of fishing with a very cohesive group of anglers and now I have a week left fishing with the Roaming Flyfisher himself (www.roamingflyfisher.com) Scott Raggatt. So far all of us have caught literally truck loads of solid bonefish. Fortunately the tides have been suitable for chasing bones on the pancake flats and we’ve been seeing and catching tailing bones every day. But what really gets my blood flowing is the minnow feeding bonefish. Today for example, I chose to have a rest day and catch up on emails and sort some gear out for the week ahead. So I went for a walk along the beach outside the posada (hotel) and found some nice bones cruising less than a meter from the sand. I couldn’t help myself so I went and got the rod. It was like polaroiding trout in Tasmania! Fish cruising down, fly goes out, fish nears, strip, bonefish sees fly, strip-strip set! It was as much fun as I’ve had for the whole trip and just right outside the posada. I got some great footage with the camera set up on the tripod and caught several nice bones but nothing massive. There has been a many 5 and 6 pound bones caught but we’re yet to land anything bigger. The average bonefish here is about 3 pound. Which makes even casting at schools of fish a lot of fun. The most amazing thing I’ve witnessed so far is Jim (our guest) fishing from the pier near the posada early one morning, casting his deceiver out only to have a mammoth cruising tarpon emerge behind the fly and eat it. Unfortunately the fish didn’t stick but it was incredible to see. There’s not many places you can shore based fish for huge tarpon! Fortunately later that day, Jim did manage to land a nice tarpon, just before jumping on the plane home. Catch of the trip so far goes to Derbo from Melbourne with this huge permit on his secret fly. 

He is now a member of a very elite club (so he keeps telling us!) of 20 pound plus permit anglers. I hope to get a seat next to him in the coming week. Havier is THE permit guide in Los Roques and he has found us tailing permit every day.

The “Only in Los Roques” award goes to Will Minson who caught a great bonefish and got the photo to prove it.

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