Customer Reviews

The Bahamas Fly-Fishing Guide, Updated and Revised

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

Kim and Steve have done their homework! As a fan of bahamian fly fishing (and andros in particular) this is the one book I'd say that nails it. I learned a lot of things - including how little I knew. I also liked the specific details of where to fish - helpful since andros is SO vast.If I was going to the Bahamas tomorrow I'd have this book in my bag.

I bought this for my boyfriend who is a fishing freak for our trip to the Bahamas. I think I had more fun reading it than he did. These folks give so much information about the islands that I think it is a MUST for fishing widows and widowers. It changed our plans as to where to go and what to do. We fished and enjoyed other parts of the islands. I laminated the cover cause we wore it out.

This book isn't terrible - but could use some work.
** Disclaimer - we only visited Grand Bahama**

I expected the do-it-yourself sections to have some tips on where you could drive & wade out to fish, not just list independent guides instead of package deals. I don't consider hiring an independent guide to be doing it myself. Since our trip was not soley for fly fishing, we wanted to get a guide for a day or 2 & maybe do some independent fishing from shore on a couple of days. We did this, but with zero success on the days we fished from shore. Others (including both guides we used) said that fishign from shore could be productive. I had hoped that the book would have had soem tips for this type of fishing for each island. Or just told you if it wasn't a viable option for a specific island.

BTW - I can strongly recommend Captain Perry Demeritte, who is listed in this book - he was excellent.

All that said, given the selection of books available on this topic, this is probably your best bet. We also still had a great time AND got some fish.

This book is really poorly done. It is a guide book and a poor one at that (not a fishing guide). They have about 15 pages on Turks and Caicos (not in the Bahamas) and no pages on Russel Island (in the Bahamas). Very little about fishing in the other isalnds. This book has very little about fishing other than where to go to hire a guide. You dont need a book for that. That information is available on the internet. I was hoping that this book would have information on where to go on the Islands to catch fish or at least some basic information on what flies to use. It didn't. It literally had no useful information about fishing the Island I am going to (Eluthera). If I wanted a book on what restaurants to eat at or where to get a taxi I would have bought a guide book. The big Islands are covered generally and that's it. The positve reviews must be fakes because this book is by no means a "fly fishing guide". It's a book about these people's favorite hotels, favorite guides, and really nothing at all that is helpful for a person wanting to get prepared for fishing in the Bahamas. Wow was this a waste of money. I feel like a sucker for buyig it.

Well written, with a wealth of general information about the wonderful Bahamas. If your interest in flyfishing is casual, this book is a good buy. If you're avid, it's a must.

I'm not sure you want to read the book to decide your destination
and I'm not sure you want to guy it to read the 3 pages on your destination
by the way it's 5 years old

This was a good book for my first trip to the Bahamas to look for bonefish. A more specific book about bonefish would probably have been a bit better... something like Chico's book "Bonefish."

I found this book while searching the web for Bahamas fishing information. The website for the book touts Stephen and Kim Vletas as a great resource for information about fishing the Bahamas. I tried the email addresses they gave on their webiste and they never bothered to reply. I mailed them a check to purchase the book which they never responded to or mail me my book. Another charge for me to cancel the check! I even contacted Kim by phone who promised to return my call with much needed information but she never bothered. There is nothing in this book that isn't readily available on the web. Don't waste your money on this book and more importantly don't waste your time trying to get any useful information from these people.

More comprehensive than I had hoped. Full of useful information and well organized. Anyone considering a bonefishing trip to this area should benefit from the contents therein.

The amount of information in this book is easily worth five stars. What made me give only four was the lack of color pictures. There are only few color pictures in the middle of the book and in the rest of the book pictures are black and white. Other notable thing is that the book is made considering americans and international travellers are only briefly mentioned.