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VISIT Eleuthera - Spanish Wells - Harbour Islands Mayaguana - Great Inagua - Ragged Islands San Salvador - Rum Cay - Conception Islands
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GREAT INAGUA, MAYAGUANA, RAGGED ISLANDS
GREAT INAGUA January 27, 2008 GREAT INAGUA FLATS FISHING – Matthew Town. Imagine a distant island with only one guide, surrounded by wadable flats stretching out from rugged deserted shorelines, flats with bonefish and schools of permit, and then, a large inland lake with rolling tarpon. In the southern Bahamas , sixty miles northeast of Cuba , Great Inagua is this island. The one guide is Ezzard Cartwright. Ezzard greets anglers at the Matthew Town airport and puts them up in a comfortable two bedroom apartment across from his house. The air-conditioned apartment has a full kitchen and satellite TV. Meals are served at the house, or anglers can eat in town. Each day Ezzard drives his anglers to the flats for a full day of fishing. Some flats can be accessed directly from shore, while other are reached in Ezzard’s skiff. Deeper flats, including most of the permit areas, are fished from a poled skiff. The drive to Lake Windsor for tarpon fishing takes about an hour over rough roads. Most tarpon are twenty- to sixty-pounds, though there are larger fish. It’s not uncommon to catch several bones in a day over eight pounds, and there are shots at double digit trophies. Anglers can book a package with Ezzard, combine fishing with Ezzard with fishing on their own, or experienced anglers can go it alone and book their own accommodations at various guesthouses.
Mayaguana Management Company, LTD. - Another large developer has another mega development in process, supposedly with the Bahamian government. The airport has been renovated, and there are huge plans for this developer to bring in hotel companies, marina companies, dive and fishing companies, to actually put in the facilities and services they are promoting. It's possible this will happen, so we'll keep an eye on it and keep you posted. Assuming it does happen, and you want to get to Mayaguana while it's still an Out Island, you should plan your trip in the next couple of years. It will take at least that long for things to happen here if they are going to.
RAGGED ISLAND
Island News:
The Ragged Island Bonefish Club is no longer in operation.
Hardcore anglers often take extreme measures to get to virgin fishing. If you fit that description you might be interested in Angling Destinations motherboat program aboard their 61’ shoal draft Hatteras, Outpost. Unexplored and unfished areas are their specialty, though they already have a lot of experience in many areas of the Bahamas such as the West Side of Andros, the southern tip of Long Island , the remote cays of Exuma, and the southern flats of Acklins. Taking only four anglers at a time, a trip aboard Outpost isn’t actually roughing it so you don’t have to be that hardcore—you just have to want to fish from dawn ‘til dusk in remote locations. The yacht has air-conditioning, a reverse osmosis water system, comfortable beds, a large salon to hang-out in, and they serve great meals. Two bonefish skiffs suited to exploring remote areas are towed behind the motherboat. Bahamian guides man the skiffs and will be on hand to assist you, or to let you wander the deserted flats on your own. Be advised that these trips aboard Outpost are exploratory trips and only anglers willing to accept both the risks and rewards of these type trips should consider this adventure. Outpost plans to visit The Ragged Island chain and Great Inagua in 2005, plus they may swing over to Acklins. For more information contact Angling Destinations. www.anglingdestinations.com For firsthand
reports from fellow anglers, The Angling Report is a good source
of additional information. There are recent reports available now for
anglers who have fished throughout the Bahamas.
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