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Now
in its second year of operation, our Bluewater
fly fishing program out at Glovers Reef Atoll has landed some pretty impressive
results. To date, our guests have caught, black finned tuna, yellow finned
tuna, bonito, dorado, wahoo, kingfsih, grouper, jack crevalle, cobia,
large baraccuda, and several varieties of shark. Because of its location,
the Glovers Reef Atoll acts like a fish magnet for a large number of pelagic
species that roam the deep waters of Belize.
The Gladden Cut can also be easily accessed from Glovers Reef. At just
over a half-hour south from the resort by boat, the Gladden Cut and elbow
are world renowned for the big fish that are attracted to this area. National
Geographic has done several specials on the fish that inhabit Gladden
Cut area and scientists are only now beginning to understand why the pelagics
frequent this location is such numbers.
We use several methods to get the fly
in front of fish
1) Teasing- Anglers call “teasing”
the sport of attracting a gamefish to a trolled or cast lure without hooks,
then maintaining the fish’s interest until a lure with hooks can
be substituted. We were successful last year in raising several sailfish,
but never managed a hookup. We’re hoping that this winter one of
our guests lands our first sail.
2) Chumming- We throw chopped up fish
and fish chunks in selected areas (breaks in the reef and reef elbows
where fish are known to congregate) and let the fish slick from behind
the boat act as our business card. After 10 to 15 minutes of chumming,
the resulting feeding frenzy can pull up just about anything that swims.
Our guests were very successful using this technique and we were astonished
by the wide variety of fish that would appear behind the boat.
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These rich waters that surround the atoll are rarely fished because
of the distance from the mainland. However, when spending a week at
Glovers, these productive waters can be fished within a 10-minute boat
ride from your cabana. Last winter, we saw both sailfish and white marlin
within 3 miles of the resort.
3)
Running- At first light, we head out to the elbow off of
Southwest Caye and run the boat until we encounter schools of bonito
and tuna crashing the surface of a bait ball. It doesn’t usually
take more than 5 minutes to encounter one of these exciting feeding
frenzies, and there are often ravenous kingfish and wahoo lurking below
the surface action. Looking for water birds is also part of the “running”
method.
Bluewater
Fly fishing is the dramatic new fly fishing frontier. With the remarkable
advances in rod and reel technology, what was once out of the question,
is now a real possibility. Huge fish can now be stalked and taken on a
fly rod and there are few better locations in the Western Hemisphere than
Glovers Reef to participate in this dynamic new sport. |
