Ascension Bay's Finest Fly Fishing Lodge
Ascension Bay, Mexico, is the permit angler´s mecca where world record specimens of over fifty pounds and big schools of fifteen pounders roam the endless sea grass flats ready to test your metal. Ascension Bay proper and the surrounding ocean side flats are a true year round permit fishery.
With hundreds of square miles of flats and little fly fishing pressure, Ascension Bay, Mexico, has become the finest fly fishing destination in the world for permit fly fishing. In the back of Ascension Bay, schools of 30 to 50 permit are the norm with the school fish averaging 8 - 15 pounds. On the Ascension Bay front and Ocean side flats, solo permit of 20 - 45 pounds prowl the pristine turtle grass flats.
With the creation of the Sian Ka'an Biosphere in 1986,and which encompasses Ascension Bay, Punta Allen, Mexico, and the surrounding lagoons came a netting ban. Ascension Bay, Mexico is now one of the few fly fishing destinations in the world that can claim that the fly fishing is getting better and the fish bigger with each passing year. Heart pounding excitement is putting it mildly!
We fly fish for permit with two professional fly fishing guides in each panga. This allows us to quickly slide over the side of the boat and quietly stalk big singles and schools of permit in different areas of Ascension Bay. One fly fishing guide will wade with the fly fishing angler and help get them into a superior fly casting position while the other guide keeps the boat at a safe viewing distance as to not spook the school yet still able to help keep eyes on the permit’s movements. This fly fishing technique is incredibly effective and makes for truly catchable permit. Ascension Bay, Mexico, Permit angling in the last thirty years has evolved from chucking and hoping to a dedicated, scientific approach. If you want to catch a permit on fly, there is no doubt that Ascension Bay, Mexico, is the place.
Huge schools of bonefish call Ascension Bay, Mexico, home and are getting bigger by the year. Ascension Bay Bonefish that averaged a few pounds in years past are now averaging 3 to 5 pounds, with specimens to ten pounders.
Ascension Bay, Mexico, bonefish are plentiful and eager to oblige anglers. Endless Ascension bay fly fishing flats make for exciting sight casting to individual specimens to ten pounds or huge schools of four pounders. An average fly fishing caster, concentrating solely on bonefish, should have no trouble landing up to twenty bonefish per day. The fly fishing in Ascension Bay is excellent year round with November to late September being the best months.
A mix of lightly weighted and un-weighted gottchas, squimps, crazy charlies in size 4, 6, 8. Pearl and light colors with long sili legs will keep you in the action.
Ascension Bay, Mexico, is a top nursery for tarpon between five to fifty pounds, with the odd fish over one-hundred pounds. The mangrove creeks and lagoons that ring Ascension Bay are home to a healthy year-round population of resident tarpon.
Your fly fishing guides have spent decades exploring the deepest and farthest reaches of the mangrove back country of Ascension Bay, and have discovered countless, “Green Rooms,” teeming with tarpon ready to give heart stopping acrobatics when hooked.
During the late Spring and Summer months of May, June, July, and August, huge migrating tarpon pass the front flats of Ascension Bay, Mexico.
In Ascension bay, Mexico, we fly fish for Tarpon with seven or eight foot leaders and 60lb shock tippets. It is all about casting accuracy not distance. The hotter the weather, the hotter the fishing.
Ascension Bay, Mexico, boasts some the finest fly fishing and sight casting for big snook to be had anywhere. Snook to 40 pounds prowl the mangrove edges and run the flats edges in as little as two feet of water.
Most of the fly fishing in Ascension bay is done deep in the secret backcountry, Green Rooms, where casting accuracy to a plus. Baitfish patterns and topwater poppers elicit aggresive strikes. Matched with a nine or ten weight fly rod, floating line, sixty pound strike tippit and a strong constitution.
During the late Fall and early Winter months, Ascension Bay is witness to an incredible migration and pre-spawn ritual of mature snook. Ascension Bay'ss biggest fish show themselves for only a few months and the sight casting in shallow water is the best in the world!
