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HOLIDAY PHOTOS & NEWS
ELEUTHERA, BAHAMAS, SPRING 2002
(updated June 3, 2002)
This Spring, BfG had a week's holiday on Eleuthera with Anne before Garry Scholes arrived on Saturday March
30th for 2 weeks, Chris Bradford and Ian Chainey arrived Thursday 4th April then Graham & Claire Backhurst arrived Saturday 6th for the final week. All except Chris were "bonefish virgins" but were good pupils and caught their first bonefish on their first day. Chris already
knew the ropes and caught 3 bones within hours of getting off the plane!
Apologies for the quality of the photos this time. The main reason
being BfG's digital camera broke during the first week so most of the following
were from cheap disposable cameras and had to be scanned in.
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![Sunday 31st: Garry hooks his first bone at Rainbow Beach and performed an 'LDR' [long distance release]...](s02-0331gs-lost-th.jpg)
![Thursday 4th: Chris arrives 7.00am and catches 3 bones, Ian [pictured] arrives 2.00pm and soon hooks one at Hatchet Bay...](s02-0404ian2p-th.jpg)
![...then Chris & BfG planned this double-hook-up, both fish [2lb each] were landed after an exciting 5 minutes](s02-0408double-th.jpg)
![Friday 12th [our last day] this 'cuda eat a fly BfG cast to a big school of bones near Governor's Harbour.](s02-0412bfg-cuda-th.jpg)
For those who are interested in statistics:
Every angler caught bonefish on fly. Chris, on this his 4th trip to
Eleuthera, landed 14 bones to 6lb. Garry: 9 to nearly 3lb,
Ian: 8 to 3lb, Graham B: 10 to 3½lb, Claire (who had only just started
to flyfish): one of 2lb, BfG (who had a week's start on everybody else): 39
to 5½ lb and performed LDR's on two very big fish. Garry & Ian also
LDR'd much bigger fish than they landed. Chris caught the smallest at ½lb
and also the biggest at 6lb as well as 3 others over 4½ lb. Chris &
BfG had the only double-hook-up and Garry sustained the only "sports injury"
by being slightly scratched savaged by a small
needlefish large houndfish. He also suffered the worst case
of sunburn and landed the biggest bar-bill. In total we fished 58 "rod
days" for 81 bonefish averaging nearly 2½lb. Other species landed
included snappers, needlefish and barracuda. Garry, Anne & BfG were privileged
to watch a half hour display by a school of around 20 dolphin feeding about
200 yards offshore one day, but Krabby Ken was the real star of the show
when he told some tourists, who were pestering him during breakfast for a description
of a particular beach, that it had "sand on one side and water on the other"
- nice one Ken!
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![Sunday 31st: Garry hooks his first bone at Rainbow Beach and performed an 'LDR' [long distance release]...](s02-0331gs-lost.jpg)
![Thursday 4th: Chris arrives 7.00am and catches 3 bones, Ian [pictured] arrives 2.00pm and soon hooks one at Hatchet Bay...](s02-0404ian2p.jpg)
![...then Chris & BfG planned this double-hook-up, both fish [2lb each] were landed after an exciting 5 minutes](s02-0408double.jpg)
![Friday 12th [our last day] this 'cuda eat a fly BfG cast to a big school of bones near Governor's Harbour.](s02-0412bfg-cuda.jpg)
