808 | Bahamas Flats Fishing with Bruce Chard – Bonefish, Sight Fishing, Saltwater
Wet Fly Swing Fly Fishing Podcast
Dave Stewart
4.7 • 530 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Presented by: Drifthook Fly Fishing, Jackson Hole Fly Company, Patagonia, Togiak River Lodge
What makes an angler who's fished around the world still pick the ankle-deep Bahamas flats fishing?
For Bruce Chard, the answer is bonefish. In this episode, Bruce shares why they're his favorite species, what makes South Andros so special, and how to handle quick-fire shots in windy conditions.
Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/808
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| 0:00.0 | What makes an angler whose fish the world still choose ankle deep Bahamian flats over anything else? |
| 0:07.8 | By the end of this episode, you're going to see why bonefish are Bruce Chard's number one species, |
| 0:13.3 | how to prepare for the wind and quick fire shots of saltwater sight fishing and what it's like |
| 0:19.0 | to wait for miles without seeing another soul. |
| 0:21.8 | This is the Webfly Swing podcast where I show you the best places to travel to for fly fishing, |
| 0:25.5 | how to find the best resources and tools to prepare for that big trip, |
| 0:28.7 | and what you can do to give back to the fish species we all love. |
| 0:32.3 | Bruce Chard is here to talk about pushing a skiff in the Florida Keys and exploring the |
| 0:37.1 | endless habitat of South Andros. |
| 0:40.2 | Bruce has guided. He's taught. He's traveled his way through the saltwater game from Florida and |
| 0:45.6 | around the world and beyond. This is a good one. Bruce has been here before. We're going to dig into it |
| 0:50.3 | bonefish style. Here we go. Bruce Chard. You can find him at chardfly.com. How you doing, Bruce? Great days. Thanks for having me again, buddy. Yeah, yeah. Thanks for putting this together. It's been a little while since our last one, a couple years or so, and we've had a couple good ones now. Today, we're going to dig a little bit more into bonefish and some of the stuff you cover and probably explore the world |
| 1:11.3 | because I know you're traveling a little bit around. But before we jump into it on bonefish |
| 1:15.3 | and kind of Florida and everything, give us an update. Like what's going on the last couple years? |
| 1:19.7 | Well, it's been pretty busy. You know, after COVID, nobody traveled very much after that. |
| 1:24.5 | Then when things calmed down, everybody and their grandmother wanted to go travel everywhere and make up for lost time. So it's been pretty busy. I think last year alone, |
| 1:32.5 | I ended up pushing the boat about 190 days in the keys and guiding down there for |
| 1:37.7 | Bonefish permanent tarpen. And then I filled in all, almost every second in between, between practically with over 13 hosted trips. |
| 1:46.6 | Wow. |
| 1:46.9 | The six different countries. |
| 1:50.3 | And it was probably, I think over 120 anglers. |
| 1:53.3 | I took on hosted trips around the world. |
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