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Author takes a casting lesson with fishing
guide Clint Kent from Black Fly Lodge.
Opposite: Dock next to Pete’s Pub at Little
Harbour, Great Abaco Island.

Photograph by Johannes Hopermann

After breakfast, I lay on a lounger and was staring thing, so I attempted to cast for about ten minutes.
at the ocean when the fishing expert from nearby it felt more like an hour. I was no Brad Pitt in a River
Black Fly Lodge approached me and introduced Runs Through It,” though every now and then my
himself. “Want a casting lesson?” line would make graceful undulating loops like a
“I don’t fish,” I replied. paper streamer. “Want to hop on a boat and try it?”
“Try it,” he said. “Abaco is one of the premier fly he asked.
fishing places in the world for Pelagic fishing. There’s Not for me. I went back to my book.
Marlin, tuna and wahoo out in the Atlantic.” I feigned After lunch I had planned to continue my day on
interest and he continued, “And just off shore, one- the beach, but because The Abaco Club course is
tenth of a mile out, it drops to 1,000 feet. Five miles ranked the #1 course in The Bahamas, I thought I
off shore, it drops to 10,000 feet. There’s also bone should at least check it out. I was lucky because
fishing on the other side of the island.” Brian Shaver, the golf pro, had some free time so he
Casting on sand seemed ridiculous, but I’ll try any- offered to show me the course. He described it as a

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