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Hey,
Well you don't specify if you're going to be fishing the surf or the mouth or the lakes, so I'll try to give you some general pointers.
If it is your first trip and not being familiar with your FF ability and/or background, here's a sure fire bet to at least get you into some fish.
6/7WT rod setup with intermediate line ending in 20lb Fluoro at the tip with a selection of small(ish) clousers, salty buggers and Charlies. This will see you get into some fish (Kingies, Pompano, Bastard Mullet and the usual by catch of Moonies/Needlescale Queenies and the k@k one typically does not want to catch) If you bear in mind that realistically speaking your average sized fish will be hand sized or slightly larger, it will still be fun on the 6/7WT.
If you can manage to cast your clousers on your 5WT, rather use that, but the best advice I can give you is to make sure you use something which allows you to present your clousers at >25M distances consistenly, bearing in mind that usually you will be timing your casts so as to present the fly in between wave crests right before the approaching wave crashes over you up to chest deep so as to maximise your distance.
One last tip, if you're catching lots of small fish, then you will have learnt the first lesson of that area of the coast, you're fishing like a trout fisherman. To get into something juicy (read : bigger) you have to fish wilder water in more dangerous locations, find the really crazy currents/breaks/rocks/etc and you will find your bigger fish there. If you aren't getting washed off your feet and run the risk of getting drowned during every wave you aren't fishing the right water. Observation is key, for example during non peak times outside of the tidal push and during the times the sun sit high in the sky, you will see the bigger pompano cruising in pods in the crest of the waves, run ahead of them, present your fly (usually directly into the wind) and hold on. That usually produces your best results in terms of getting a decent size fish, slaying the little guys is a lot of fun but if you want something bigger, you will have to not fish like trout fishermen typically do.
If you know your stuff in terms of SW flyfishing (then you also wouldn't be asking this question) ... 7-9WT with clousers/salty buggers/sprats in sizes 2 - 2/0 for general work during the day when racking up numbers and species, 10-12WT with big brush/profile flies/sempers in anything from 2/0 - 8/0 during the prime times.
It's a lot of fun, I'm going to be there from the 23rd of December.
If you're fishing the mouth, then outside of your prime times, walk up the river away from the ocean and catch everything that moves, you can even run into little pickhandle barracudas and so forth so it's great fun, don't spend too much time of the really large mullet (you will easily identify them) they can be hugely adrenaline packed up to the fith time youve cast to one and have been ignored yet again. Also fish tight in against tree roots/mangroves and into dropoffs and channels, there are always fish cruising and you can even run into a snapper. I caught rock salmon, pickhandles, snapper and a large number of interresting species this way. Don't forget to be mindful of sharks/crocs/hippos/snakes, they are there.
Originally Posted by JAG
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