Spin
Fishing at Mango Creek Lodge
Mango Creek
Lodge’s spin-fishing guests wade
Roatan’s saltwater flats and explore
the mangrove canals and harbors in
our 18-ft skiffs. Your guide will
help you spot and stalk the
saltwater grand slam of bonefish,
permit, and tarpon as well secondary
target species such as jacks,
barracuda, snappers, grouper, and
queen triggerfish. In addition, you
can try your luck at passing schools
of tuna, wahoo, sailfish, and
marlin.
Make sure you
gear up with the appropriate
rods,
reels,
line,
leaders,
and tackle.
A variety of
rods can be used in Roatan’s waters.
Consider bringing:
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Light–Medium
Light, 5.5–7 ft
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Medium
Light–Medium, 5.5–7 ft
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Medium, 5.5–7
ft
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Medium Heavy,
5.5–6.5 ft.
Brings reels of
150 yd, 250 yd, 200 yd, 175 yd.
Possible line
varieties are 6, 8, 12, 12–20, and
15–25 lbs.
Pack mono 60–80
lb and 100 lb for barracuda,
6–18-in wire, and 30–50-lb test.
An wide assortment of tackle is
your best bet. However, here are
some of our favorites for the grand
slam species.
Bonefish
Bonefish are easily catchable on
spinning tackle—especially if you
tip your jig with a piece of dead
shrimp. For bonefish, bring:
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Phillips
Gaines wiggle jigs, 1/8 oz and
3/8 oz, in light tan, pink,
yellow, olive, and white
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D.O.A. Shrimp (the smaller, the
better).
Permit
The best bait for permit is a
live crab, although some permit are
caught on the flats with jigs. For
permit, bring:
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Owner MUTU
hooks 1 and 1/0
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Gamakatsu
Octopus hooks 1 and 1/0
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Wiggle Jigs
(see above)
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D.O.A shrimp,
tan and olive, 1
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D.O.A. crabs, tan and olive, 1.
Tarpon
The best bets for tarpon are live
bait. Very rarely does a tarpon pass
up a struggling sardine. For tarpon,
bring:
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Owner AKI
hooks 3/0
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Gamakatsu
Octopus 2/0
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Gamakatsu
Octopus Circle 4/0
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Super Zara
spook red/white and mullet
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Saltwater
Rapala Fire Tiger
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YO-Zuri
Crystal Minnow, black and silver
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Rat-L-Trap
Mag, blue and silver, yellow
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Mirror Lure
52m, red and white, yellow,
black and silver.
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