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mntnguide said:
unfortunately i did not this time. . We got hit with a bad cold front with lots of wind and rain..made fishing tough. caught lots of good sized bones. The good days we had, we saw a lot of permit. And in reality, the only reason i didnt hook up was my fault, i should have been casting before the trip, but i didnt and paid the price. 1st morning, 5 minutes into the first flat I had 6 tails at 80-100ft...and totally messed it up, and messed up a good number more through the rest of the trip. Our guide did all he could to put us on fish, and we saw a lot, just didnt get one to the boat. . We were in Southern belize, Blue Horizon lodge and I will 100% go back there. . Ive fished northern belize out of El pescador, and I personally wont go back there compared to the stuff out of placencia for permit. We saw very few other boats, whereas up by san pedro, they are all over. We were less than 10 minutes each morning from lodge to fishing, which was nice. Our guide said during spring/summer an average day for them is 10+ good shots on permit a day. They also get a lot of really big migrating tarpon around too. Which place did you fish in Mexico? id like to do the ascension bay stuff as well, a friend fished with Kay fly fishing lodge and caught a super slam one day and saw lots of permit on that trip.
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We're headed to Rocky Point Permit Camp in early May. North Ambergris. Sort of DIY so I'm trying to get myself up to speed as much as I can.

Expectations are low but stoke is high!
 
mntnguide said:
unfortunately i did not this time. . We got hit with a bad cold front with lots of wind and rain..made fishing tough. caught lots of good sized bones. The good days we had, we saw a lot of permit. And in reality, the only reason i didnt hook up was my fault, i should have been casting before the trip, but i didnt and paid the price. 1st morning, 5 minutes into the first flat I had 6 tails at 80-100ft...and totally messed it up, and messed up a good number more through the rest of the trip. Our guide did all he could to put us on fish, and we saw a lot, just didnt get one to the boat. . We were in Southern belize, Blue Horizon lodge and I will 100% go back there. . Ive fished northern belize out of El pescador, and I personally wont go back there compared to the stuff out of placencia for permit. We saw very few other boats, whereas up by san pedro, they are all over. We were less than 10 minutes each morning from lodge to fishing, which was nice. Our guide said during spring/summer an average day for them is 10+ good shots on permit a day. They also get a lot of really big migrating tarpon around too. Which place did you fish in Mexico? id like to do the ascension bay stuff as well, a friend fished with Kay fly fishing lodge and caught a super slam one day and saw lots of permit on that trip.
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Right on, lots of places down there that are good and bad. First time down there I went to a place called sea dreams, it was billed as a hardcore fishing spot, it was actually just like a luxury drinking/pool resort that arranged fishing guides. The guides were good but absolutely no reason to stay at that expensive hotel.

Sucks how much the prices have gone up in Belize since the first time we went.
 
mntnguide said:
unfortunately i did not this time. . We got hit with a bad cold front with lots of wind and rain..made fishing tough. caught lots of good sized bones. The good days we had, we saw a lot of permit. And in reality, the only reason i didnt hook up was my fault, i should have been casting before the trip, but i didnt and paid the price. 1st morning, 5 minutes into the first flat I had 6 tails at 80-100ft...and totally messed it up, and messed up a good number more through the rest of the trip. Our guide did all he could to put us on fish, and we saw a lot, just didnt get one to the boat. . We were in Southern belize, Blue Horizon lodge and I will 100% go back there. . Ive fished northern belize out of El pescador, and I personally wont go back there compared to the stuff out of placencia for permit. We saw very few other boats, whereas up by san pedro, they are all over. We were less than 10 minutes each morning from lodge to fishing, which was nice. Our guide said during spring/summer an average day for them is 10+ good shots on permit a day. They also get a lot of really big migrating tarpon around too. Which place did you fish in Mexico? id like to do the ascension bay stuff as well, a friend fished with Kay fly fishing lodge and caught a super slam one day and saw lots of permit on that trip.
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Sorry forgot the rest of my reply, in Mexico I’ve fished at grand slam lodge, Campeche tarpon, flyfish Tabasco and holbox island.
 
Trr15 said:
My guess would be that TFO or Redington is the Tikka equivalent and Lamson Liquid reels fall into the SWFA category
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I agree wholeheartedly with this sentiment. Hard to beat a Tikka, hard to beat a Redington for the money.

My higher end custom build fly rods would be more of a "custom shop" LR rifle builder as well. See....there are hunting to fly fishing ties here. I like the idea.
 
thinhorn_AK said:
Sucks how much the prices have gone up in Belize since the first time we went.
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Yea i agree. We jumped on Blue horizon cause they did a 30% off offer that lasted 2 weeks if you booked any trip for the next year. . Wish i would have booked 2! El pescador used to do 2 for 1 price a lot which was great, my fishing buddy got married there and I was the officiant...we did more drinkin than hard fishing that trip for sure. I keep my ears open for deals, and am usually willing to go last minute if i can.
 
mntnguide said:
Yea i agree. We jumped on Blue horizon cause they did a 30% off offer that lasted 2 weeks if you booked any trip for the next year. . Wish i would have booked 2! El pescador used to do 2 for 1 price a lot which was great, my fishing buddy got married there and I was the officiant...we did more drinkin than hard fishing that trip for sure. I keep my ears open for deals, and am usually willing to go last minute if i can.
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Absolutely, 2 years ago I went to the grand slam lodge in Ascension Bay, they had a thing where if you booked 2 people together it was +2500.00/person for everything, airport pickup in Cancun, water taxi to the lodge, nice rooms, all food, drinks and 4 fishing days. I didn't realize at the time how good of a deal that was. With my credit card miles my flight to Cancun was free. Now that trip is like 7100.00/person. I don't mind spending some money to hunt and fish but I don't live in a tax bracket where 7k for a few days of fishing is something that I can do without significant planning and saving....and even then, I don't think I'd pay that to fish ascension bay even though its awesome.

For the last few years, I've found that its much cheaper to just find a local guide and make my own accommodations rather than booking those lodges, it is very nice to know you'll be picked up at the airport and that you can just travel light and kick back but the days of doing that for cheap down in Mexico and Belize are pretty much over. Belize is just crawling with fishing guides and most are pretty good, heck, the fishing is so good there that even a bad guide is likely to get you on fish. my friend booked a guy right out of Cancun last summer, some random dude who he met at a dock. They ended up just slamming tarpon all damn day, He landed like 6 tarpon and hooked several, they had a great time and he paid just a few hundred bucks, he said it was easily the best value he's ever had on a hunting/fishing trip.
 
I’ve fished sages (xp’s) Scotts(g’s) and Winston’s(TMF, IM6’s). Sold all of em to get tying materials. Now all I fish with are St. croix rods, for my fussy dries, and cabelas rods for all else. Best move I’ve made. Won’t sell the bamboo tho- those aren’t replaceable imo.
 
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