Permit Flies
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I’m headed down to Mexico next week to (I can’t believe I’m saying this) be a photo model for Sage’s 2015 catalog. Apparently all those Photoshopped headshots of George Clooney fly-casting that I sent in must have paid off.
Anyway, I am likely to have a shot at some permit and I need some fly recommendations. I’ll be fishing near Ascension Bay. Any help at all appreciated, especially from people who have caught permit down there recently.
Zach
Despite never even casting at a permit, nor fishing in mexico. I advise you tie tan yarn merkin crabs. and tie some bigger than you would typically think. Permit are crab eating machines. I have had great luck with keys bonefish using just that. Bring a sharpie or two incase the crabs in the area are darker. Color up the tan with a brown sharpie and you’re good.
I also take a dubbing needle and work a bit of flex cement into some of the inner sections of the crabs to give them a bit of “hardness” . Works good especially if your yarn is too soft.
Good luck!
I would suggest crab imitations (there are any number that will work) or Kwan’s (with legs). Take a variety of sizes and colors. Merkins are the old standby, but I prefer the foam or Velcro body types myself.
My permit ended up taking a tan felt crab of some kind. It was an amazing experience; I fed him about 45 feet out feeding in turtlegrass. He ignored the first fly (an Enrico Puglisi shrimp left behind at the lodge by Enrico himself). We got lucky and had time to re-rig with a crab; he zeroed in on that and kinda dead-eyed it for a long ten seconds, then he pounced on it. Very, very addiction-inducing. I spent the morning looking at aerials of Boca Paila and mapping the drive (45 hours; maybe not a good idea).
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