One, two, three, four, five . . . .
by Mick Kolassa, BTT Board member
BTT has been tagging bonefish in Belize for several years and our efforts have really stepped up over the last three years. This year our efforts have begun to pay off, and in a quite surprising way. I fished for a week in March 2011 at the Belize River Lodge, one of BTT’s most active Research Partner Lodges. Fishing for 6 days with two different guides, Jose and Dirk, we caught and tagged several bonefish in different locations. On May 31st Mike Berardi, fishing out of the Belize River Lodge with Pedro as his guide, caught a bonefish that I had caught and tagged on March 19th, the first recapture of a tagged bonefish in Belize. We were thrilled to learn of this, and at the things we can learn from the recapture, but we even more thrilled to learn that on August 3rd, Teri Williams, fishing with Raul on a day trip from the Belize River Lodge, caught a bonefish that I had caught and tagged on March 31st. This second recapture brought about the amazing pattern that motivated the title for this report: at one lodge, two fish were caught by three anglers fishing with four guides over five months.
