Today's guest traded Colorado trout streams for turquoise flats of Belize and never look back.

After chasing bonefish and permit across Ascension Bay, Marialis Hoppe and her husband, Chris,

built something different on Amberkees Key.

A place where anglers can explore the flats on their own terms, no panga required.

By the end of this episode, you'll know

when to plan your trip for tailing permit and migrating tarpen, why golf carts might be the

best DIY fishing tool on the island, and how snorkeying Belize's reefs can be just as addicting

as stocking the flats. This is the wet fly swing podcast where I show you the best places to travel

for fly fishing, how to find the best places to travel to for fly fishing

how to find the best resources and tools to prepare for that big trip and what you can do to

get back to the fish species we all love marialis shares what it's really like running a lodge

on the beach how to avoid rookie mistakes many anglers make down there and what happens when a 50

pound tarpin shows up just steps from your front porch

plus we're going to find out why learning to haul and cast in the wind is the biggest thing you can

get ready for on your next trip to belize here she is mary alice from iguana house belize dot com

how you doing marialis hey dave thanks so much for having me. I'm doing great. How are you?

Good. Good. Good. I'm excited to jump back to this. I always love when we get chances to dig back into

these topics because I know one podcast is never usually enough. So we had you guys on episode 687, Chris.

And it was it was cool because you have a unique program going down there in Belize. You know, it's kind of a hybrid. I think a hybrid program is the way I'd call it. But, you know, you got all the great species. You're in Belize, obviously, right in the heart of, you know, and we have a lot of listeners. I was just talking to some of ours that are excited about Belize. It's like a bucket list trip. So I want to talk about that a little bit. Maybe we'll talk Tarpin.

But take us back real quick. I know you gave us your kind of intro last time, but for those that

didn't hear that episode, who are you? How did the Yagan House come to be?

Yeah. So I met Chris about 13 years ago, and he was fly fishing for trout in Colorado.

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