Fly for Bone fish

Can anyone tell me a fly they use when bone fishing. I know very little
about it. I am tring to impress some one of the opposite sex. : )

Crazy Charlies and Gotchas are my "go to" flies when Bonefishing--also
Clousers in size 4 or 6.

Dave M
"Kevin" wrote in message
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Can anyone tell me a fly they use when bone fishing. I know very little
about it. I am tring to impress some one of the opposite sex. : )

"Kevin" wrote in message ...
Can anyone tell me a fly they use when bone fishing. I know very little
about it. I am tring to impress some one of the opposite sex. : )

Tan Mantiss Shrimp is my favorite fly.

But I must say I think they'll eat
just about anything. Last time I was down there
it was blowing so hard the guides couldn't pole
the boats, so we walked the flats and stalked
them on foot. That was the most fun I've had...walking
all day, fighting the intermittant sun, heavy clouds
and gale force winds--and still managing to catch a few.

But the other guys that were there couldn't cast a flyrod
in the wind, so they anchored up over deep water muds and
tossed Big green Mr Twister tails with a spinning rod.
They were catching 20-25 bonefish a day doing that,
while I was struggling to land 5-6 a day.

"Kevin" wrote in message ...
Can anyone tell me a fly they use when bone fishing. I know very little
about it. I am tring to impress some one of the opposite sex. : )

....nother thing, I forgot to mention in the Tan Mantiss post:
After I missed a few hits, using a #6 hook on the first day,
the guide I was working with
said "you got any #4s? ...sometimes do you need a light fly--but you
can do that with no beads on the hook......those little hooks,
they don't hook right," he said.

Later on, when he overruled my plan to hold on to the rod while
we motored across the bight, and made me poke the rod all the
way into the rod holder, he said "because you never know when
the unexpected might pass by." I liked that one. Remembered it anyway.

I pestered him with questions all week long. It was clear,
after a week of prying, that Jerry (the guide) thought pattern
didn't matter much. He stressed the cast. "Slap that line down
and they'll spook from 40 feet," he said.

"When the water's flat, you have to use a light fly"

"wait, wait, wait, strip slow (not too fass mon, you spook the fish)
strip slow, wait wait, twitch, set set set!!!

Thanks guys
"Salmo Bytes" wrote in message
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"Kevin" wrote in message
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Can anyone tell me a fly they use when bone fishing. I know very little
about it. I am tring to impress some one of the opposite sex. : )

...nother thing, I forgot to mention in the Tan Mantiss post:
After I missed a few hits, using a #6 hook on the first day,
the guide I was working with
said "you got any #4s? ...sometimes do you need a light fly--but you
can do that with no beads on the hook......those little hooks,
they don't hook right," he said.

Later on, when he overruled my plan to hold on to the rod while
we motored across the bight, and made me poke the rod all the
way into the rod holder, he said "because you never know when
the unexpected might pass by." I liked that one. Remembered it anyway.

I pestered him with questions all week long. It was clear,
after a week of prying, that Jerry (the guide) thought pattern
didn't matter much. He stressed the cast. "Slap that line down
and they'll spook from 40 feet," he said.

"When the water's flat, you have to use a light fly"

"wait, wait, wait, strip slow (not too fass mon, you spook the fish)
strip slow, wait wait, twitch, set set set!!!