Looking back over the last twelve months, we are thankful for life and that we were able to enjoy the last year with each other and some of you. While busy, we also had some slow times, which makes us realize that for everything that happens, there is the opposite effect. With this in mind, we noticed . . .
1. Not all days were sunny, not all days were cloudy but we had many days of sunshine and calm.
2. Some days were great fishing, some days not so great, but any day out fishing is better than a day at the office.
3. We enjoyed seeing family and friends, we had a new family member born, and thankfully, there were no traumatic events this year.
4. Large Tarpon were landed, large tarpon were jumped and large tarpon were lost and some large tarpon just snubbed the fly.
5. We started with rain in early 2013, went to almost draught and have ended the last three months of the year with rain, so flooding in the river. Belize Olde River fishing not so good, but Flats, Sibun and Manatee fishing were good.
6. With all the rain, the river may be in flood, but the grass, trees and flowers are growing and blooming beautifully.
7. Permit were permit and some days large schools followed flies and teased anglers, but the joy of seeing a school of 50 to 100 Permit will stay with them forever.
8. We helped to celebrate an engagement and a few milestone birthdays – 65 and 40 – fun groups and fond memories.
9. We have approximately 1000 bonefish tagged to date and this fall, landed and re-released two tagged Bones. One Bonefish was initially spaghetti tagged in December 2011 and was 22″, about 6 lbs. Good news, the flats have older, larger bones, the other news is, as studies show in Belize, in two years, there was no significant growth in the Bonefish, as it was still 6 lbs.
10. There is color and moments everywhere, if you don’t take a moment to look around and enjoy where you are, then that moment is lost forever.
