Reminder: Catch Magazine is Awesome!

In case any of you needed reminded. Catch Magazine is by far and away the best fly fishing magazine out there. Fantastic camera work, good stories a new movie every month. It's just really, really good, entertaining stuff. For this, their premiere publication for their new calendar year they threw in a FREE cover photo for everyone to enjoy. So I'm sharing it with you. Check out the magazine, for $12 a year you cannot beat it. 

Catch Magazine

Destination: Ascension Bay, Mexico

The Mexican Yucatan Peninsula has been a destination for fisherman for a long time, but until recently fly fisherman have been relatively unaware of just how bountiful their sport fish are. Mexico is probably the location where you the angler have the best chance, right now, to go out and hit the grand slam. That is, go out in one single day and catch a bonefish, a permit, and a tarpon in an outing. That doesn't happen often but in Ascension Bay it can. You aren't going to jump the 150 pound mega tarpon like you would in the Atlantic Ocean during migration, but a 70 pound tarpon is still a hell of a good fight (a 10 pound tarpon would be a welcome challenge for me!)!

There is a lodge right in Punta Allen that has been getting great reviews from anglers as well as non fishing guests and that's not that easy to find right now in Mexico.. The name of the lodge is fitting, "Grand Slam," a title that many anglers search their whole life to obtain. Grand Slam hoists the title several times a year with all kinds of anglers.

Photo by Brian Grossenbacher

grand slam fishing

The area is best known for its permit population (shown in the picture to the right) and it is said to have schools of permit numbering in the 20's and solo permit similar in size to this 35 lb beast pictured here. 


All this talk about destination angling has gotten me excited... I'm thinking about putting a trip together to head down there late this Spring (mid-late May) ideally with about 6-8 other fisherman so let me know if you are interested! 

Yellow Dog Fishing

If you want to get more info on your own check out their site here!

 GRAND SLAM 

Permit Photo Sumbission

This 25 pound permit was submitted to us by captain Darrick Parker. This was from last week and this big fella fell to a crab. Just think maybe Kirk and I can get into one of these ourselves. That's the idea anyway, we will have to just wait and see what happens tomorrow when we take the kayaks back out again.