crazy fred Posted February 26, 2006 Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 having just been on an explortory visit to cuba with good ole tommy smith i can say that this a one heck of a fishing paradise.Our first day bone fishing produced 3 fish to 5 1/2lb stand back and watch 200 yds of backing fly off your reel towed along by a fish that looks like a mullet thats had too much vindaloo and thinks the nearest toilet is over the horizen, explosive fishing to say the least.On the second day lee and i went with another guide and broke the record for the most bonefish caught in a day on the cayo islands 24 bonefish 2 permit and a cow fish this place is heaven, warm weather and fishing to die for. But how can i finish without giving you the usual funny story about our trips which incude tommy lap dance smith.Sitting at the breakfast table four of us decide to go fishing at remano bridge for any thing we can hook up with, so we decide poppers, prawns and maybe a bit of squid will be the methods to use but where do we get the bait!.We hatch a plan of how to get the bait out of the griddle chef in the buffet bar by telling him tommy is a muslim and only eats salad and raw prawns with squid for breafast .So poor old tommy who's a little bit deaf to say the least and looks like a muslim who's had his rocket launcher taken off him by the yanks is talked through the cunning plan and nomminated to be are secret agent.Any way if he gets caught and gets sent to gauntanamo bay hell look good in an orange suit .So we talk tactics and pack him off on his mission , pick the salad up on the way to the buffet bar and get as many prawns as possible, so up he gets an limps off with the look of fear etched on his face but will he come through. Ten mins later no tommy, has he been sussed and locked up, we all look at each other and decide another cup of coffee and give it another 5mins before we hatch a rescue plan.Then he apears from behind the buffet bar whistling with the biggest smile you have ever seen.He's done it , we have the bait for our days fishing .He looks like a child whos been let loose in a chocolat factory as he sits down places the plate on the table grinning from ear to ear and we all look at tommy in disbelief, osma binliner was so long because he's had the bloody things cooked in garlic and butter.So we had to sit there and eat the bounty for breafast and vote in the next muslim, best we pick one without hearing aids so ronaldo was picked for mission 2 sporting only one hearing aide. I couldn't go as i was the coordinater !! or was it i didn't fancy getting caught as i was the youngest at 52 and they had 25 years in front of me. So it was up to ronaldo with his SAS training ,he slipped away without us even realising . Ten mins later and all had gone well he was back base ball cap full to the brim with prawns strange habbits these muslims eating breakfast out of thier hats?, we had all the bait we needed and we were off fishing.It's far easier giving bribes than sending tommy all we had to do was give the chef 5 pesos for all the bait we needed after that till next time CRAZY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted February 26, 2006 Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 Brilliant fred you do have the best stories, good old Tom, he's our very own" old man of the sea" bless him PJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afishionado Posted February 26, 2006 Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 Where were you in Cuba? We stay at Cayo Guillermo and use Dunieski as a guide. The head chef at most places are only too happy to supply fresh prawn and squid for fishing, just ask. Remano Bridge? The half fallen down brige next to the old railway bridge? Carol and I fish that one too. Fatbloodytastic fun And as usual Carol out fished me . Mad Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazy fred Posted February 26, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 yea we fished with orlando and donyeski we had the 24 fish with donyeski funny man .You mean the bridge at the coastgaurd station on the way to cayo raymano where all the good flats are.We stayed at the melia cayo coco and caught a bonefish off the veranda of my room in the laggoon .The pile of crap they call a bridge is next to the swinging bridge but when the yanks left the work stopped,but we caught loads of fish there but not of great size but in beauty they were fantastic.Next time going on a weeks adventure to cayo santa maria tarpon fishing with donyeski and orlando as guides one hell of a road trip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afishionado Posted February 26, 2006 Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 yea we fished with orlando and donyeski we had the 24 fish with donyeski funny man .You mean the bridge at the coastgaurd station on the way to cayo raymano where all the good flats are.We stayed at the melia cayo coco and caught a bonefish off the veranda of my room in the laggoon .The pile of crap they call a bridge is next to the swinging bridge but when the yanks left the work stopped,but we caught loads of fish there but not of great size but in beauty they were fantastic.Next time going on a weeks adventure to cayo santa maria tarpon fishing with donyeski and orlando as guides one hell of a road trip Oh how I wish I'd have known you were going. I would have given you some gear for Dunieski, he is always short of hooks. As you said a hystericaly funny guy Carol and I were in tears laughing half the time. Once upon missing a strike Dunieski said very seariously in the best fishing guide manner. Hey Mike you know why you missed that one? Expecting a bit of priceless fishing knowledge to be passed on I said, NO why? ' Cos you an anchor !! (Well it sounded like anchor). If you are going again befor next autumn please give me a shout as I have some stuff for the guides and some messages. Mad Mike PS did you meet a guy called Lazero on the beach? He has a small launch and takes you right into the lagoons fishing for shark in 3ft of water!! Catching one of them is more like flying control line model aircraft. Mad Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazy fred Posted February 26, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 were going back next april for 14 day's but i have got there emails if you want to tell donyeski he's the biggest anchor ive ever seen . He recons i cast like his mother in law so i said i didn't relise there were two good anglers on the island lol .But we did have some great times except when they charged us to fish for tapon in the stinking ditch at the cayo guilermo he got the message after that episode!. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afishionado Posted February 26, 2006 Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 Quote...were going back next april for 14 day's You mean this April coming? He knows me as El loco Miguel, and I would like to send him some bits and pieces if you can take them. If so would you give me a shout nearer the time? Did the stinking creek still have the crocodile in it? It used to wander around the back of the Melia where the locals waited for the bus to Moron. Mad Mike PS Small world isn't it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazy fred Posted February 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 no april 2007 but a friend of mine is going may Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afishionado Posted February 27, 2006 Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 no april 2007 but a friend of mine is going may I will try and remember to contact you at the end of April. I just want to send the guy some hooks. Mad Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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