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Texas Sporting Journal Series: The New Deep Water Cay, Story by Joe Doggett
A universal truth of flats fishing is this: You know you are looking at a world-class bonefish when, at 100 feet on a sunny day, a veteran guide wearing polarized glasses and standing over an elevated push pole thinks it's a big barracuda. Read More
February 22, 2012: Offshore at DWC is rocking with weed lines and 7 big dolphin fish today with Capt Todd Platt. Several more, but they were lost at the boat.
Left to right. Jim Martin (past TRCP board chairman); Brad Winters (attorney/partner SNRDenton, St Louis); Clyde Drexler (top 50 all time NBA legend) and Pete DeLongchamps (executive with Group 1 Automotive, Houston)
Deep Water Chronicles, Winter 2011/2012, Deep Water Cay Read More
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Actors Liam Neeson and Richard Bentley join the buccaneers at Deep Water Cay. The anglers battle mangroves and sharks as they hook silver ghosts.
The Buccaneers and Bones filming crew shot 7 different episodes at the Cay last year.
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View Buccaneers & Bones "Wet Your Line" DWC
View Buccaneers & Bones "Hit The Flats" DWC
- Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 5:30PM (EST) 3rd Episode
- Saturday, January 21, 2012 at 5:30PM (EST 4th Episode
- Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 5:30PM (EST) 5th Episode
- Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 5:30PM (EST) 6th Episode
- Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 5:30PM (EST) 7th Episode
In Season 2, the original crew from Pirates of the Flats is together once again: Tom Brokaw, Michael Keaton, Tom McGuane, Lefty Kreh, Yvon Chouinard, and Bill Klyn. Additionally, this year they have been joined by legendary angler Flip Pallot and actor Liam Neeson.
Click here to see Buccaneers & Bones/Outdoor Channel.
See Deep Water Cay through the eyes of Fly Fisherman Editor Ross Purnell and our own Captain Todd and his new favorite variation on bonefishing - paddle boning, or bonefishing from a paddle board! Visit Fly Fisherman Magazine on Facebook
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For over 50 years Deep Water Cay has been the finest bonefishing destination in the Bahamas. Legendary angler Flip Pallot narrates and stars in this Orion Multimedia episode of Ford's Fishing Frontiers shot at Deep Water Cay in February of 2011.
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Deep Water Chronicles, Fall 2011, Deep Water Cay, Just because summer is coming to a close doesn't mean that the great Deep Water Cay bonefish fishing stops. Read More
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Jetset Magazine, March 2011, Deep Water Cay, "Often referred to as the "Granddaddy of Bonefish Lodges," the only thing that has aged at Deep Water Cay is the lodge's legacy. Since 1959, Deep Water Cay has hosted some of the most famous names in fly-fishing…"Read More
Bahamian Prime Minister Ingraham Attends Grand Opening of Deep Water CayThe Deep Water Cay Club has long been a fixture in the high-end bone fishing segment of Grand Bahama's sports fishing sector, and is recognized as an important employer of Grand Bahamians, particularly those in and around the settlement of McLean's Town."Read more
Paul Vahldiek and Sonja Engelhorn greet Bahamian Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham at the Grand Opening
Bahamian Prime Minister Ingraham greets Deep Water Cay employees at Grand Opening
Prime Minister Ingraham and Member of Parliament Verna Grant watch Deep Water Cay fly-fishing demonstration
Deep Water Cay owner, Paul Vahldiek, shows Bahamian Prime Minister Ingraham new infinity pool
Fly Fisherman, February 2011, Deep Water Cay's 250 square miles of bone¬fish and permit flats were first discovered by Gil Drake and A.J. McClane in the 1950s and since then, a who's who of the fly-fishing world has visited the archi¬pelago of cays on the northeast end of Grand Bahama…Read More
02/11/2011 – MidCurrent Fly Fishing at its Best In 1973, Guy de la Valdene found himself in Key West, Florida surrounded by people who would later become literary, musical and angling icons. "My first fishing experiences actually started with Gil Drake. We went to school together in the late '50s when his father opened up Deep Water Cay, which is the bonefish lodge situated at the east end of Grand Bahama, in 1957." Read more
Fly Rod & Reel, January 2011,The Grand Bahama area has historically attracted offshore marlin, wahoo and sailfish anglers, but at the island's east end the historic Deep Water Cay offers a tremendous amount of variety… Read More
National Geographic Magazine, August 2010, Deep Dark Secrets, "The blue holes of the Bahamas yield a scientific trove that may even shed light on life beyond Earth…" Read more
Fly Rod & Reel, Summer 2010, Destination Planner, Deep into Shallow Water, "Discover the reasons to fish year-round at Deep Water Cay, Bahamas…As my flight descended toward Grand Bahama, the water color changed proportionately to the depth, from lighter blues to dark emerald greens to pale greens and then shades of white. The pale greens and whites were where I was headed, to shallow flats and wadeable sand. Below, I could see a flats skiff and an angler on the bow. My fishing destination? Deep Water Cay and her 250 square miles of flats." Read More
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