Bruce Chard

Permit Fly Presentation – Cruising Fish

October 24, 2011
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Last week Bruce Chard told us how to present flies to feeding permit.  This week our series on permit fly presentation continues, with some wisdom on what to do when you see cruising fish. Cruising Permit – How to Present a Fly If the fish is cruising, he’s not actively looking for food.  The drop [...]

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Think Like a Scared Shrimp

October 21, 2011
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Yeah, we’re right in the middle of our Bruce Chard permit fly presentation series, but that’s not going to keep us from running a great little nugget of a bonefishing tip from Bruce. Dive Like a Shrimp If you’re a little shrimp on a white sandy flat and you see a bonefish coming along, you [...]

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Permit Fly Presentation – Feeding Fish

October 17, 2011
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Last week we started a short series of posts featuring Bruce Chard’s incredible knowledge of how to present flies to permit. Today we’re diving deep, and the topic is presenting a fly to a feeding permit. Feeding Permit – Presenting Flies If you come across a feeding permit, recognize that right away. Usually that calls [...]

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Bruce Chard’s Barracuda Rig

October 14, 2011
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Bruce Chard teaches bonefishing schools at Andros South – but even though he’s a master bonefish angler, he always takes some time to throw flies at South Andros Island’s incredible population of barracudas. When Bruce has ‘cudas on the brain, this is the rig that he reaches for. The Summary Ross FW 1090 – 9 [...]

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Permit Fly Presentation – Introduction

October 10, 2011
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We’re starting a little series of posts today on presenting flies to permit! Here’s the background.  Your fearless editor said to Bruce Chard, Permit Whisperer, the other day, “Hey Bruce, we should do a post on the difference between presenting flies to bonefish and presenting flies to permit.”  45 minutes later the graduate level lecture [...]

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Bonefishing Tips – Oldies But Goodies

September 16, 2011
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We’ve got over 1,000 posts on our blog, and though we try to keep things organized and easy to find…we realize that some of our articles get overlooked. We’ve been putting out bonefishing tips since 2008, so if you’re a newcomer to our site there’s probably some good ‘old’ bonefishing content that you’ve been missing. [...]

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We’ve Added a Bonefishing School

September 6, 2011
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You might have heard that Bruce Chard, legendary Florida Keys Super-Guide, runs a series of very popular bonefishing schools at Andros South. What’s a bonefishing school?  Well, it’s a trip that includes a full day of hands-on instruction by Bruce, focused on the fundamentals of catching bonefish on the flats.  After the school day, our [...]

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Backhand!

August 3, 2011
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Since you’re probably starting to think about that upcoming bonefishing trip, you’re going to get in some casting practice, right? Seeing this super cool Louis Cahill photo reminded us that Bruce Chard thinks that presenting your fly on your backcast is one of the most important casts in flats fishing.  Don’t forget to practice your [...]

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Rio Alloy Hard Mono

April 26, 2011
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A few months ago, we ran a video featuring Bruce Chard that detailed his approach to tying leaders for flats fishing.  If you fish on the flats, you really need to check out the video – we’ll give you another chance with a link right here. The foundation of Bruce’s leaders is Rio’s Alloy Hard [...]

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