After I last left off, I was moaning about the weather...well...now you can see why!!

Hmmmm...somewhere down there swim some bonefish...goodluck seeing them!





But we did have some decent weather at times...the following pics are taken of the Korean Wreck area (my favorite area of the Island...much differant enviroment then that of the Lagoon flats which are shown in the previous two photos).





The Korean Wreck will always be a special place to me but not just because it is swarming with the biggest baddest bonefish on the Island...or because the bones there actually 'tail' in the surf and will actually beach themselves in their feeding frenzies...or because it is just a beautiful place BUT because it is where I tied into the fish of a lifetime-a 60# Giant Trevally.

George, my guide for the day and a favorite of many, was walking me along the beach pointing out bones. Out of the corner of my eye however, I started to see him strip line of my trevally rod (CND 11' #11). I asked "Trevally?" (most guides just yell Trevally and get very excited and thus induce a serious case of Buck Fever).

George pointed 2/3rds of the way out to the breakers and about 100 feet down the beach...the GT stood out like a sore thumb as he was a massive blue mass lazily swimming our direction.

I threw my bonefish rod down, grabbed my trevally rod, started stripping line and running out onto the coral to head him off. With about 70' of line stripped out, I was within about 60' of the fish with him just a few feet from being in a perfect postion to make cast.

I tossed a few water loaded casts to get the fishes attention and to get everything set...I then popped a perfect cast 5 feet in front of him. I took two slow even strips...saw him turn, look at him...grab the fly...and turn away.

I looked down to make sure my line was clear and let him him...I ran back to the sandy beach to the highest point I could find and held the rod high and locked my drag down on my Abel. He just wandered off into the breakers with power I have never experienced...

...it is known, that a 20# Trevally is difficult to land at the Korean Wreck because the sheer power of the fish allows it to swim out to the breakers and down into the edge of the coral. Flylines, backing and #80 shock tippet are no match for the coral. Pop went the leader as the fish ran it against the edge of the coral...as I reeled in the 150 yds or so of backing...I just hoped that I would still have my flyline.

The following picture is George retooling my leader and showing me how the guides like to do it (he didn't care for my fancy biminis and wimpy #20 Maxima class tipper)



...and if you look in the 2nd picture of the Korean Wreck, look for the last set of breakers...the fish was beyond those as I was standing up on the sandy beach trying to keep as much line up and out of the water as possible.