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Heading to Turks next week on vacation and would like to do a self guided bone fish trip (no boat). Has anyone done this before in Turks? I have read on a few on other forums that there are a few good spots that I could get to by a car.

Any advice is appreciated as I have never targeted bone fish before.

Ought to be places but I'd go with a guide the first time if you haven't targeted the damned things...they can be frustrating. Hire a guide and pick their brain and do the DIY thing. At times they aren't selective...I have caught them on cut bait on a fish finder rig and at times it ain't hard...I have also been in the middle of hundreds of the damned things actively feeding and when you couldn't run them off a flat with 15 folks chasing them while flaying the water with a cane pole and couldn't get a bite on a dare. I have been in the same situation and taken a bad step and watched as hundreds of them headed for deep water never to return...they can be very frustrating. I don't like guided trips generally speaking but a new species in an unfamiliar setting is one area where I would consider it...

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Posted by baldona

Florida

Member since Feb 2016

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Posted on 4/27/23 at 11:05 am to AwgustaDawg

If this is your Honeymoon you should absolutely hire a guide IF you actually want to fish and keep the wife happy. It will give you a set time to go, she can go and enjoy it some too, and be a great learning experience. Do that early in your trip and you may be then able to go back out and do it again on your own and catch some by yourself.

Bonefish as said are generally particular, they aren't like largemouth where you may be able to throw a bunch of random lures in random places and catch them.

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