ABSTRACT

Introduction ............................................................................................................ 323 The Florida Keys ...................................................................................................324 The Bahamas Archipelago..................................................................................... 325 A Sea of Change for Bonefi sh ................................................................................ 326

I was raised in Atlanta and spent my early years quail hunting and bass and trout fi shing in Georgia with spinning and casting rods, as well as the fl y rod. The fl y rod was fun and considered a novel way to fi sh back in the 1960s, but it got a lot of strange looks from the bass gang.