Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before You Die (by Chris Santella)

Willi wrote:
rw wrote:

Willi wrote:

rw wrote:


On the top of my wish list is Seychelles Islands: Bonefish on
St.François Lagoon.



Checked out Seychelles and from Denver it's a 2 1/2 or 3 DAY flight and
just the flight costs almost $5000! Then from there you have to get to
the island where you're staying. Not an easy place to get to. Can't
see going there anytime soon.

Willi



It's just a dream for now, Willi.



I like to fly but a 3 day flight is crazy!



Another destination in the book that sounds great, and much more
affordable and accessible, is Cuba: Tarpon off Jardines de la Pinta.
(Also supposedly excellent bonefishing.) Remember those two English
twins (from York, IIRC) we met in Belize who'd just come from there?
Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum.




They were a pair! Interesting guys. They really liked Cuba.

They hated the food! (They were FAT!)

One thing they liked about Cuba was that there weren't a lot of
obnoxious Americans. :-) Especially Texans. :-)

Whipray Caye was fun. The Cabrals were a fascinating family.

I recently got an email XMas card from them. Indeed, the Cabrals are
interesting. We ran into the family again at Glover's Reef. I wonder
what that kid is doing now. What was his name?

As American citizens we'd have to break the law to go there. Isn't
that ****ed up?



It is stupid. I thought Fidel was a goner but the pictures I saw of him
recently made him look much improved (if you can go by that).

I'd be up for a Cuba trip. I think it can be done from Belize. The key
is NOT getting your passport stamped.

According to "the book," Americans usually depart from Cancun.

It's a vacation destination (I think number 1) for Belizians. If that's
the case, you must be able to do Cuba on the cheap. I'll ask around when
Susan and I are in Belize next month.

So you decided on Belize instead of that Mexican place your vet
recommended? Tight lines. It's great that Susan is OK with flying.

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As American citizens we'd have to break the law to go there. Isn't that
****ed up?

It would not be all that hard for you to get a Visa to visit Cuba
legally since you've had a magazine article or two printed IIRC. I got
permission just to go along with a writer in the early days of the
administration. If the travel and spending ban for the average Joe
ever gets rescinded, the BASS guys are going to go nuts.

On 29-Dec-2007, Wayne Knight wrote:

As American citizens we'd have to break the law to go there. Isn't that
****ed up?

It would not be all that hard for you to get a Visa to visit Cuba
legally since you've had a magazine article or two printed IIRC. I got
permission just to go along with a writer in the early days of the
administration. If the travel and spending ban for the average Joe
ever gets rescinded, the BASS guys are going to go nuts.

Cuban culture
The people , national pride, and cuisine have always left me in a bit of awe
Some of their music blows me away

Buena Vista Social Club - Geart music!

The whole island under Batista was mob owned

Whether you like him or not or his politics Castro is a great man!
And the fact that as American citizens we couldn't go to Cuba is real ****ed
up

But I was never a main stream American boy anyaway!
I thought that when he came to the NY Walsorf w his entourage and his
chickens - I thought it was great and funny
Their passion fior Baseball and WOW Some of the Cuban women
I could run away to some remote hacienda forever.

I have checked out a few fishng brochures - perhaps someday - but I do not
know how much I would really fish.

Fred

In article ,
wrote:


Buena Vista Social Club - Geart music!


.... or even better....

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Afro-Cuban-L...s/dp/B00005LW4
X

....same people, but the first half is a much better film, made by a
much better director.......

Lazarus

Wayne Knight wrote:
As American citizens we'd have to break the law to go there. Isn't that
****ed up?


It would not be all that hard for you to get a Visa to visit Cuba
legally since you've had a magazine article or two printed IIRC. I got
permission just to go along with a writer in the early days of the
administration. If the travel and spending ban for the average Joe
ever gets rescinded, the BASS guys are going to go nuts.

apparently, there are ways to get there legally and fish. wally, mark,
and i know a fella in morganton that goes there regularly. also, years
ago when i was in jamaica one of the resorts offered special tours to
veradero (?) beach that a lot of americans took to see havana and
partake of "stuff" cuba offered at very low prices.

jeff

"jeff" wrote in message
...
Wayne Knight wrote:
As American citizens we'd have to break the law to go there. Isn't that
****ed up?


It would not be all that hard for you to get a Visa to visit Cuba
legally since you've had a magazine article or two printed IIRC. I got
permission just to go along with a writer in the early days of the
administration. If the travel and spending ban for the average Joe
ever gets rescinded, the BASS guys are going to go nuts.

apparently, there are ways to get there legally and fish. wally, mark,
and i know a fella in morganton that goes there regularly.

I cannot believe that you have revealed the LEADERS location! I suspect that
Jason Bourne is likely on his way to take you out. So much for the April/May
fishin' excursion :~^ (

Btw, stopped in to see Greg the other day. He is stayin' in NC for the
Winter. He plans to turn the campground into a luxury trailer park? He is
also interested in installing a hydoelectric dam and wants me to get him
info similar to what you had asked about. Did you ever contact Dr. Brian W.
Raichle at the Dept. of Technology? If you have lost the info on him I will
resend it to you.

As usual Greg's plan is quite grand, but I'll believe it when I see it, as I
haven't seen him do a great deal towards his other plans of the past.
Personally, I hope he leaves the campgrounds as they are, and simply build
more cabins an open up a few more motorcoach sites. The way he talks, the
lodge, Wayno's cabin, the shower house and other buildings will be raised to
make room for a large number of motorcoach hook-ups.

I stopped by Wally's store the other day and cashed in my credit for that
POS William-Joseph's chestpack that fell apart
on our last outing. I ended up spending another $150 on a neat western NC
fly fishin' book and a Fishpond chest and backpack. I like this rig much
more so that the W-J POS. This set-up doesn't make me look like I have to
sagging square tits hangin' off of me! Used my credit to by my brother some
Woolrich merchandise (Birthday ****), which naturally turned out to be to
small for him. So I had to spend another $100 buyin' him some ASU clothing
and I get to wear the Woolrich stuff :~^ )

Wally and I met at Greg's place the other day, and I got to watch him drink
half of the gift I had brought of Greg--Greg wasn't there. OBROFF--brought
along fishin' gear, but never wet a line.

Op


also, years ago when i was in jamaica one of the resorts offered special
tours to veradero (?) beach that a lot of americans took to see havana and
partake of "stuff" cuba offered at very low prices.

jeff

jeff wrote:
Wayne Knight wrote:

As American citizens we'd have to break the law to go there. Isn't that
****ed up?



It would not be all that hard for you to get a Visa to visit Cuba
legally since you've had a magazine article or two printed IIRC. I got
permission just to go along with a writer in the early days of the
administration. If the travel and spending ban for the average Joe
ever gets rescinded, the BASS guys are going to go nuts.


apparently, there are ways to get there legally and fish.

The restrictions on Americans who can travel to Cuba are actually quite
specific and severe, and I don't fit into any of the categories.

I understand that the risk of traveling to Cuba illegally is pretty
small if you take precautions (risk of prosecution, I mean), but they do
exist and people have been prosecuted. But that wasn't my point.

The point is that the government has no business telling its citizens
where it can't travel. The are no other such restrictions covering any
other place in the world, as far as I'm aware.

The only reason for it, IMO, is to appease an important voting block
(Cuban Americans) in an important swing state (Florida). In fact, that's
the sole reason for the stupid and counterproductive embargo in general.

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On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:27:16 -0700, Willi
wrote:

rw wrote:


On the top of my wish list is Seychelles Islands: Bonefish on
St.François Lagoon.



Checked out Seychelles and from Denver it's a 2 1/2 or 3 DAY flight and
just the flight costs almost $5000! Then from there you have to get to
the island where you're staying. Not an easy place to get to. Can't see
going there anytime soon.

Willi

Last year I looked into a trip to Alphonse Island (Seychelles), and
the lodging was $5000, plus $4000+ for airfare and additional costs of
lodging along the way coming and going. The $5000 included round trip
airfare from Mahe the capitol to Alphonse.

Dave

On Dec 26, 10:12 am, rw wrote:
I received this book as a Christmas present. Naturally, I first had to
see how many of the places I've already fished:

Alaska -- Bristol Bay: Rainbow Trout and Silver Salmon Around Bristol Bay

California: Brown and Rainbow Trout Around Greater Redding

Florida: Permit off the Florida Keys
(Didn't catch a permit, or much of anything)

Idaho -- Last Chance: Rainbow Trout on the Henry's Fork

Idaho -- Stanley: Cutthroat Trout on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River

Kiribati: Giant Trevally Off Christmas Island
(Didn't catch a Giant Trevally, but lots of Bonefish)

Montana -- Fort Smith: Brown and Rainbow Trout on the Bighorn River

Wyoming: Brown and Rainbow Trout on the Firehole River
(It was too warm for decent fishing)

Wyoming and Montana: Brown and Rainbow Trout on the Madison River

Only 41 more to go! Too little time left. :-)

On the top of my wish list is Seychelles Islands: Bonefish on
St.François Lagoon.

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Will you please post all 50 places? I'm very curious to see what they
are. It would interesting to try and speculate. Thinking about it for
even a few seconds I find doing that harder than it sounds. Naming the
top 50 places near home would be hard, let alone the entirety of the
world.

I'd have to think Kamchatka and Tierra Del Fuego are on the list. I
also wonder if any of the "front nine" of Colorado are on it.

Your pal,

Halfordian Golfer

Halfordian Golfer wrote:

Will you please post all 50 places? I'm very curious to see what they
are. It would interesting to try and speculate. Thinking about it for
even a few seconds I find doing that harder than it sounds. Naming the
top 50 places near home would be hard, let alone the entirety of the
world.

That's too much typing for me. Maybe I should send the book to Wolfgang.


I'd have to think Kamchatka and Tierra Del Fuego are on the list. I
also wonder if any of the "front nine" of Colorado are on it.

Yes, Kamchatka and Tierra del Fuego (sea-run browns on the Rio Grande)
are on the list. A flyshop friend of mine fished for those enormous
browns. His photos were spectacular. I posted some on abpf some time ago.

The only entry for Colorado is the Gunnison River.

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