Zapata Fly & Spinning Fishing
Cuba offers some of the finest fly fishing and in the world where you can catch
and release fine specimens of bone, tarpon, permit and other fish. Cuba Select Travel
can offer some exclusive fishing packages including accommodation and transfers
at Zapata.
The fishing sites at Zapata are in easy reach by land from Havana, around 3 hours
drive. We offer the best fishing packages without having to use internal flights
or long overland journeys and long boat transfers to the sites offered by other
providers.
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Deep Sea Game Fishing
The Hemingway Offshore Fishing Experience Barracuda, Billfish, Marlin, Sailfish,
Swordfish and Wahoo. Follow the tradition of the great North American writer Ernest
Hemingway and come aboard one of our excellent yachts for an exciting offshore fishing
experience. Day charter. Short and long term live-onboard charter. All-inclusive
of professional crew, fishing gear, baits, food and beverages. Cuba is a marvelously
attractive fishing area, for many reasons …
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Cuba Bone, Tarpon, Permit Fishing
Cuba is one of the most unspoiled areas in the Caribbean region for spectacular fishing. Salt water fly fishing has become more and more popular in the last few years. As many people take up this exciting sport, it is necessary to find more challenging places to fish and we have found virginal bone fishing like nowhere else on earth...
Cuba has a huge variety of water types, river mouths and lagoons, endless salt water flats, channels between islands all perfect for fly fishing, surface popping and trolling. Tarpon fishing is becoming more and more popular and as such, it gets ever increasingly more difficult to source and secure good tarpon fishing grounds. We have now found excellent tarpon fishing grounds in the Zapata region of Cuba. The remoteness of this area has only helped in it retaining its uniqueness and fantastic fishing. It's not the easiest place to get to but that's the advantage. We have researched all the pro's and con's so your trip will be as smooth as possible...
Other than the Florida Keys, this is perhaps the best place in the world to catch a big permit on a fly. There are both good numbers of big permits, and superb permit flats to be found in Zapata flats. Flats that are barely out of the water or just below the surface at low tide are two to three feet deep on a high incoming tide - perfect habitat for the largest permit. Many of these flats are bordered by deep water- exactly the same kind of conditions you see in the Florida Keys where most of the world record permit have been caught. It is not uncommon to pole up to these flats and see a half a dozen permit tailing, all of which are in the 25-35 pound class! Zapata is one of the few spots in the world where you have a very real opportunity to catch a grand slam - any day of the year! ...
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Tackle
One Bonefish rod, a 9-foot rod for #7, 8 or 9 weight line. An 8-weight rod is perfect
as many of the bones are in the 3-6 lb. class and there is a lot of wind to contend
with. On this rod you will want a good bonefish reel with enough capacity for the
line and 200 yards of 20 lb backing.
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