Help please! St. Martin fishing info ???

[roadglideguy]

hi there planning a trip to St Martin (prefer the Dutch side)...Learned a lot about spin casting and hand line fishing thru the internet but not much about guided fly fishing tours or DIY wading-fishing for bonefish, snook and tarpon? Hear the are lots of tarpon right off the piers...not much about Bonies/Snook...not a whole lot of flats there but some mangroves! my email is awpc@shaw.ca if you want to share please...

 

[flyminded]

St. Martin in the Caribbean

 

[mnigro]

Tarpon are all over the salt ponds. There is also a snapper that looks a lot like a mangrove, can’t recall what it was, but they were everywhere in the salt ponds too. The water is garbage filled and filthy - I would not wade in many of them. Finding places to cast was tough but I did land one juvi tarpon in about 1.5 hours of casting. There are monsters in there so I was throwing a 10wt as opposed to my 8. This was during a single day stopover on a cruise ship so if you have more time I’m sure you can figure out a way to hook fish. Have fun and good luck.

 

[pnc]

Waters that surround tourist ports. With lots of resteraunts. Usually have some on the water. They ususlly put out chum lines a couple of times a day dumping garbage. If clarity is problem, use sea-ducer or whistler.

......... pc

 

[sweetandsalt]

We went to a wedding on St. John's once. Waded several flats and saw maybe half a dozen bonefish in total over a couple of days and caught zero...but had fun trying. The wedding was a drunk-fest.