Standing thigh-high in the waters of Belize will teach a dedicated western river angler more about our sport’s diversity than a thousand bonefish books could ever hope to accomplish. Because the tropics are so not Montana in November. Because a place like Turneffe Flats or Glovers Reef is everything steelhead fishing in springtime isn’t. You’re warm. You’re comfortable. You’re wearing shorts. And for once you can leave the “Nobility in Suffering School of Flyfishing” packed away at home with your leech patterns and neoprenes. It’s doubtful bonefish will ever replace brown trout on the unspoken scale of our piscatorial caste system. Still, a day on the flats leaves your head as clear as the surrounding sea and you never have to worry about hooking your backcast in the willows.
–Denver Bryan
Here they come again, slightly smarter than last time. As the sun sets over your shoulder and the pull of another double haul turns your forearm to mush, you pick out a fish and aim…
