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FIRST FOUR PERMIT
By Greg Schuerger
After two days of chasing bonefish and tarpon with
Capt. Martin McCord aboard the Belize mothership
“Meca” we decided to pull up anchor and head for the
vast permit flats southeast of Belize City. I was
looking for my first permit. We weren’t ready for
what was to happen the next two days.
Out of the four of us, only one angler had taken a
single permit, but anticipation was high as we
headed out in the morning at 6 A.M. It seemed that
every flat we approached had from one to three
schools of permit on it. Finally before lunch, after
multiple refusals, I laid a beadchain merkin into
the middle of a school of smaller fish, the line
came tight, and my first permit was hooked up and
released.
The next day proved to be a day we’ll never forget.
Two other members of our party, Paul Wilms and
Dennis Gieffels, took nice fish. Paul’s two fish
were his second and third permit and Dennis got his
first. Personally, this day will live in my memory
forever as I released three more permit, the largest
a boga grip weighed 15.5 pounds.
I arrived in Belize looking for my first permit and,
in two days, I had taken my first four permit.
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