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One of my oldest friends, Kyle Moppert, joins me on the island of Roatan for a wek of chasing Bonefish and Permit. So far it has been a great week here in the caribbean! We have been fishing Port Royal Flat with good succes. On Monday I landed a nice bonefish of about two pounds, Kyle got one to hand about one and a half lbs. For the size no fish I Have ever caught fights like a Bone. Yesterday, 3/30/10 I finally caught a real nice one of about four lbs. The perfect situation, land the fly 10′ in front of the feeding fish and wait (and hope) they move across it, then with a smalll strip the Bone inhailed the tan Merkin Crab pattern, and the fight was on! He ran me into my backing twice on long and powerful runs that made me glad I had selected the 9wt for my rod. After bringing the fish to release (after ictures of course the rest of the day was spent looking for his friends and taking a few local snapper for dinner!

Just this week the long awaited addition to the cabin is complete! Soon we will have new pictures on the website to reflect the new room, but needless to say it opens the whole cabin up with more space. With the queen bed and new “hide-a-bed” along with the futon the cabin will sleeep two couples and a couple of kids!
My good friend Mike Howard of Austin Texas helped me put the final touches on the cabin and do a little fishing, the weather was fantastic for late March and the fish were hungry! We caught and released over two hundred trout, one crappie and a chain pickerel over a two day period right behind the cabin from the Weir dam to the meat hole. Bead head wooly buggers were the ticket of the day….good fishing and everyone will enjoy the extra space…..