Mauro Ginevri with Permit catch 200
With exact
registrations like date, time, tides and weather conditions the
catching results of the Permit that were caught with only one
special fly at Avalon locations are looking like a little
goldmine for fishermen, scientists and biologist. With Mauro's
excellent registration the knowledge about the Permit in Cayo
Largo, Jardines de la Reina and some of our other locations
increasing rapidly too. The catches also improving the
experiences and skills from our guides enormously, and because
all this extra knowledge, more Permit have been caught in a MUCH
shorter period with the same or slightly increased number of
guests.
Avalon
Permit Fly
Our grandslam overview page
The 2010-2011
period in which the second 100 Permit catches were taken, was a
great season for Avalon, and 2011 is not even finished yet. So
far, many fly fishermen succeed at one of our Avalon locations,
and many had the trip of a life time. A lot of Grand Slam
successes also were realized. Not only Cayo Largo and Jardines
de la Reina got strong and powerful feedback from our clients,
but also other less well-known Avalon locations started to improve
slowly, and becoming more and more popular lately. Several
experienced bonefish fishermen told us that they never seen such
large bonefish as in JDR this season and numerous bones over
20lb have been caught. Earlier guests also told us that the
number of Tarpon also was far more than in previous years, and
the number of Permit and shoals of Permit clearly were up
compared to previous years.
What also makes this 2010-2011 season so
special for us is the fact that we registered two permit caught by women,
and this season we had the most couples and female visitors ever.
Ann McIntosh 11-03-2011
guide Amauri
Kathy Ruddick ,03-04-2011 guide Coky , Jardines de las Reina
Also remarkable was the superb fly
fishing action by 13 years old Tom Hradecky who caught 2 permit and a
double Grand Slam all within the same day.
And.. what to think about
Javier Solis
who caught 6 permit in one week or
Mauro Labirio who caught 3
Super Grand Slam in just one week.
The ban of commercial fishing by
the government in 1996, and giving extra rest to some of our fishing
areas in Cayo Largo and JDR to slow down our own fishing pressure seems
to be the magic touch to improving our fishing grounds and number of
fish. Our strict catch and release policy does not have any adverse
impact or influence on the number of fish, and only makes the fishing
better as well.
In our Permit catch overviews and
Grand Slam reports, one can find the names of many of the same guests,
and that means that guest love our places, and clients want to come back
over and over again.
When we look back to our 101-200 Permit catches, we discovered quickly
that our first 0-100 Permit were caught between Sunday, April
26th, 2009 and Sunday, June 13th, 2010 and that’s exactly 413 days.
This
is equal to exactly 1 year, 1 month, and 18 days.
In that period we hooked 144
Permit with the Avalon Permit Fly and lost 44. Only 2 Permit were caught
with other patterns but we did not count them in our overview.
Permit 101-200 were caught between
Sunday, June 13th, 2010 and Tuesday, May 24th, 2011 and that is only 345
days. This is equal to exactly 11 months
and 11 days. In that period we hooked
141
Permit with the Avalon Permit Fly, and lost 41. Only 4 Permit were
caught with other patterns but we did not count them in our overview. This means that we caught the same number of
fish but in 2 months and 7 days faster, and with only slightly more
guests.
Mauro Ginevri with Permit catch 200
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