This winter, BfG accompanied Pete Kelly, Ronnie Perez, Peter & Pat Rostant, Paul Kenrick & Julia Nash on week 1, then BfC arrived with John & Sandra Edwards, Peter "Doc"* & Carol "Camel"* Goodwin, Clive & Colin Finnis and Richard Hardy for weeks 2 and 3. Ronnie, Julia and "Camel" didn't fish but enjoyed the sun, sand, swimming & snorkelling by day and The Inn's excellent food together with Charlie's Goombay Smashes and other exotic cocktails in the evenings. (* With 3 Peters and 2 Carols it became necessary to use nicknames!)
That left 5 of us fishing the first week and 8 fishing the other two weeks.
In spite of unusually persistant easterly winds which made the fishing more difficult than usual, everyone caught their fair share of bonefish. BfC caught (flooked?) an 8½lb specimen on her first day (OK - you can't flook a fish like that, particularly when fishing in mangrove but then BfG did teach her [almost] everything she knows!)
BfG with a small fish from Pelican Cay on the first morning
Pete Kelly with the 5¾lb Mutton Snapper he caught caught blind-casting a fly at "Sponge Beach" 
Peter & Pat Rostant at Governors Harbour
Peter lands a 2½lb bone 
Peter & Pat (at least Peter looks pleased!)
Peter's fish swimming towards Pat's flip-flops! 
Pat's Sprat! Could this be the smallest fish caught on a #4 fly?
Pat hooks her first bone of the week at Alice Town (Hatchet Bay) 
After a 10 minute battle!
At last, safely in her arms! 
Pat & Peter casting to a big school of bonefish in Gregory Town harbour
Pat, Peter, Ronnie, BfG, Pete, Paul & Julia at dinner on their last night 
exit Pete & Ronnie, Peter & Pat, Paul & Julia.
At the end of the first week, BfG had caught 14, Peter Rostant 5, Pat 1, Pete Kelly 10 (plus a good snapper) and Paul 17. A total 47 bonefish to 4¼lb. Everyone enjoyed the warm weather, friendly atmosphere and excellent food and wished that they could stay for another week!
after a 15 minute battle "The Doc" lands his first ever bonefish
BfC caught this beatiful 8½lb bone on her first morning! 
Richard into a fish on day 1 at Rainbow Bay
staggering under the weight of his first fish of the trip - fortunately they got bigger! 
BfC with a nice fish
BfG's best fish from a favourite southern flat - only 6lb but you should have seen the one that got away! 
Colin, Sandra, John, BfC, "Camel", Richard, Peter, Clive & BfG celebrating John's 1st ever bone
BfG with a 4lb supercharged "grey ghost" 
The Doc into a bone (& Richard acting as un-paid guide)
Under 3lb but very exciting (of course a good guide would have picked out a bigger fish!) 
The Doc & BfG at Gregory Town releasing bones after their second double hook-up within ten minutes!
John with a Pompano (a cousin of the Permit, Pompano fight as hard as Bonefish) 
Clean sand & blue sky - the beautiful Pelican Cay flat
Class of 98 (minus Sandra) in Rainbow Inn's "Nautical Restaurant" 
A fast water-taxi ride back from Harbour Island
A crab's eye view of one of BfC's victims fooled by a BfG Mini Puff 
Colin fishing into the sunset at Governors Harbour
Prize-winners Colin & Sandra showing off their Rainbow Inn T-shirts 
The customary group photo by pool on the last day!
During the second and third weeks, Clive caught 8, Colin & Richard 9 each, The Doc 7, John 12 and Sandra 1 (she was champion sunbather). BfC caught only 6 but was concentrating on keeping her average up by selectively casting to trophy fish! BfG finished up with a total of 26 over the three weeks making a grand total of 111 bonefish, plus various assorted snappers, grouper, pompano, barracuda, houndfish and jacks, all caught on fly.
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