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Permit
The ultimate prize catch for saltwater anglers is permit, a game fish. Permit is to flats anglers in Ascension Bay what Atlantic salmon is to fresh water anglers.
Permit – found in Ascension Bay and at the lagoon mouths - attracts the attention of serious flats anglers. Permit is unusual, unpredictable, and has a reputation for avoiding capture despite anglers’ best casting and retrieving efforts. Yet permit is actually far more “catchable” than most anglers realize. Ascension Bay is world-famous for permit fishing. It provides the ideal ecosystem for permit to thrive, and the permit population that swim in these waters is unparalleled anywhere else in the world. Various sizes, including schools of pan-sized baby permit to permit weighing over 13 or 18 kilograms (this includes several line-class records) are waiting for anglers in Ascension Bay. In short, Ascension Bay is the Mecca of permit fishing.
SEASONS TO FISH:
Permit can be caught in May, June, July, October and November; numerous in December, January and February
The ultimate prize catch for saltwater anglers is permit, a game fish. Permit is to flats anglers what Atlantic salmon is to fresh water angler
Bonefish (locally called “macabi”), which thrives in Ascension Bay, is among the world’s best game fish. It is highly sought after by anglers.
Anglers visiting Ascension Bay prize these large coastal game fish. Tarpon can reach nearly 91 kg in weight and nearly 2.5 meters in length. Tarpon is an elusive fish, residing in tricky-to-access hidden “lakes” in the far reaches of Ascension Bay.
Ascension Bay boasts one of the world’s most diverse varieties of game fish for the light-tackle saltwater angler. Anglers will find that they can catch all kinds of different species on the fly. Jacks, snook, barracuda, shark, needlefish, dorado, triggerfish, and snapper are all waiting for the intrepid angler.
What gear, tackles, flies and rods are needed to do the big catch.