ELEUTHERA, BAHAMAS, SPRING 2000
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Week 4 (commencing 8th April 2000): Tim Render, Peter & James Hurst, Alan Dry, Brian Birgin & Dick Hawes |
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 | Rainbow Beach, 1 hour after leaving the airport, James hooks the first fish of the week, first cast... |
 | ...and lands it 6 minutes later - a sparkling 2½lb bonefish |
 | Sunday morning, Pelican Cay - Brian soon learns how to "see" the grey ghosts and hooks one from a small pod |
 | ...Brian's 1st ever bonefish - his expression says it all! |
 | Tim soon hooks one after we move away from Alan & Brian... |
 | ...and 5 minutes later - happiness is bone-shaped! Now all we need is for Alan and Dick to get "boned-up" |
 | Sunday afternoon at Hatchet Bay and after losing a couple, Dick's remembers to "strip-strike" into one... |
 | Success - his first ever bone on fly. Now we only need Alan to catch. |
 | Wednesday, the conditions looked right for Harbour Island - BfG hooks a bone where the ghostly shadows can be seen as they pass over a sandy patch... |
 | 15 minutes later BfG lands the first of 5 bones hooked from that one hot-spot - the 1st was the largest at 6½lb+ |
 | Alan (now known as "Bone Dry") is invited to the "hot spot" where he immediately hooks a bone - will it stay on? |
 | At last Alan caught his first bonefish, a respectable 3½lb, and went on to catch 3 more over the next 2 days. |
 | Harbour Island as seen from the stern of a water taxi. |
 | BfG hooked this angry looking 24" Barracuda in the scissors on a #4 Gotcha! |
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| Our last evening at Rainbow Inn |
 | Our twice-weekly entertainer, Dr Seabreeze, bids us fairwell |
 | Back in the villa, an unusual picture of BfG resting his eyes - thanks Peter! |
