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THE EXUMAS Island News: BOOK YOUR BAHAMAS TRAVEL DIRECTLY WITH US - BFFG TRAVEL PLANNING AND BOOKING SERVICES -- We use our extensive experience to personalize all trips to your specific needs. You can fish with our favorite guides in our favorite locations. The beginning of your ideal vacation is just a click away. Email Kim directly to begin planning your ideal trip. As always our travel bookings services are free. You pay nothing extra, so why not leave it to us to plan and book your trip. And that goes for DYI anglers too. We can save you time and money. Peace and Plenty Bonefish Lodge has been sold and is closed. See more info below. Great Exuma is easy to reach, with regular flights into George Town Airport. Kim can arrange all your travel so all you do is relax and enjoy. We have received excellent reports about service and accommodations at Coral Gardens Bed & Breakfast. Owners Betty and Peter Oxley provide a homey stay with fine hospitality and a value price. Sandals Emerald Bay - Formerly, the Four Seasons Hotel. We've received great reports from recent guests who love staying at this all-inclusive resort. If you want luxury, you can have it here, and you can also still go bonefishing by booking with some of the top independent guides. Email Kim directly to begin planning your ideal trip. She often books the top locations around the world and can get you the best rates.
Choices of accommodations include: Club Peace & Plenty, Master Harbour Villas, Regatta Point, Two Turtles Inn (The Inn is now re-opened, and once again is a hot spot for Friday night fun), Coconut Cove, Minns Cottages, Palm Bay Resort, and others. These accommodations range in price and style from expensive to cheap/casual/comfortable. Most properties are on the water or beach. To book Garth and the other guides at ExumaBonefishing visit their web site by clicking on the link below. You will be able to see photos of each guide, learn about their history, and e-mail them with the dates you would like to fish. They'll get right back to you with availability. Visit their site at Exuma Bonefishing. Also, Exuma Bonefishing now has a newsletter. You can sign up to receive their newsletter by emailing Alan@ExumaBonefish.com -- Stephen and Kim recommend the lodge options shown below. Regatta Point is a convenient spot for serious anglers, couples or families with non-anglers. The six apartments sit right on Elizabeth Harbour and offer a private swimming and snorkeling beach. You're just a minute's walk from George Town, and you can rent a boat and keep it right in front of your place. The apartments are nicely furnished, feature full kitchens, ceiling fans, private verandahs and spectacular views, plus daily maid service. Eddie's Edgewater - One of the best local bar/restaurants on the island, located on the "pond" in George Town. They serve delicious fresh seafood and are famous for their Monday night "Rake 'n Scrape". They are open Monday through Saturday, Closed Sunday. FLATS FISHING PATTERNS: Fishing the southern Bahamas, including Exuma, is a way to play the odds against tricky weather patterns, and in the spring, summer and fall the weather is almost always gorgeous. March through July and October through November are prime months, with December through February having a good chance of nice weather. While windy conditions have prevailed throughout most of the Bahamas this winter, you can always find some good lees to fish in the Exumas. October 9, 2011Fishing Reports Great Exuma and Little Exuma - The most established bonefishing operations is Club Peace & Plenty Club. The Peace and Plenty Bonefish Lodge has been sold and is closed. Magnolia, the great manager at the lodge is now at the club and all is going well. The P&P guides are eachassigned to a region of the island, which means the guides really know the water they fish well. Anglers fishing the north end of Great Exuma will fish with a specialist in that area, and the same for any other area. The P&P guides are also good instructors, so we recommend this location for beginning anglers. There are miles of white sand flats that are easily wadable in the area, so even during bad weather anglers can sight-cast to good numbers of bones. Year in and year out, Exuma offers some of the best wade fishing in the Bahamas. This is one of our top recommendations for combining great bonefishing with an overall relaxing vaction. Email Kim directly to begin planning your ideal trip. A #6 Greg's Flats fly is one of our favorites all over Exuma. Other favorites include #4-8 Gotchas, #4-6 Pink Hoovers, #4-6 Beck's Sililegs, #4-8 Veverka's Mantis Shrimp, and #6 Pink or Tan Bone Wigglers. For really picky fish, especially on the highly pressured airport flats, we like a #6-8 Pink/Pearl or Tan/Pearl Darting Coral Shrimp. Anglers who want to fish on their own will also have good opportunities while staying at one of the P&P properties, or by staying at Coconut Cove, or on Stocking Island at Higgins Landing. The best on-your-own wading opportunities are available by renting a boat from Exuma Docking Services or Exuma Dive Centre in George Town. REEF/OFFSHORE: Decent action for wahoo, dorado and tuna. Our favorite reef and offshore flies include: #4/0 Abel Anchovies, #2/0 Conomo Specials, #2/0White/Chartreuse Clouser's Minnows, #4/0 RM Flatsides, #1/0 Tres Generations, #1/0 Popovics' Jiggies, and Bluewater Baitfish patterns.
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YOU CAN BOOK DIRECTLY WITH SOME OF THE BEST INDEPENDENT GUIDES ON EXUMA - Garth Thompson, Reno Rolle, Drex Rolle, Trevor Bethel, Stevie Ferguson, and others. Click on the ExumaBonefishing link below. 
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