Fly Odyssey: Saltwater Fly Fishing Destination: Belize - Whipray Caye, Turneffe Flats, Tarpon Caye

Belize is the location that must be considered as your next saltwater fly fishing destination if Permit are high on your list of priorities. Over the last couple of decades the Permit fishery in Belize has developed to the point where there are several fly fishing lodges targeting Permit specifically and who have fine tuned techniques to give visiting anglers the best chance of landing these elusive fish.

A host of flats species

There is also a host of the usual flats species swimming around Belize's pristine waters to keep you casting between permit encounters. You will have the chance to tackle Tarpon, Bonefish, Snapper, King Mackerel, Barracuda and Grouper. These un-pressured and remote waters ensure that you will have the flats and the fish to yourselves.

Fly Odyssey is pleased to be working with three of the best lodges in Belize, each offering a different experience and providing our clients with the right choice to suit their fishing wants and needs.

Whipray Caye, Belize: Permit paradise

Whipray Caye, Belize, is a private unspoilt fly fishing oasis. Located 11 miles off the coast of Placencia and surrounded by the warm tropical waters of the Caribbean sea, Whipray Caye offers you the chance to fish some of the best permit waters in the world. The flats surrounding Whipray Caye provide the perfect setting to wade, stalk, and cast to these mysterious and most highly regarded flats fly-fishing species. The fly-fishing for permit of Whipray Caye is so good, the place has now been labelled Permit Paradise.

A private island lodge

Whipray Caye Lodge is a private island lodge catering to a total number of 8 fishermen per week. It is a fly fishermen's dream and it's rustic charm will have you resting your legs at the end of the day in a hammock on the verandah, watching a Caribbean sunset with a Belkin beer at hand, or sitting under the thatched roof of the bar telling tales of your days fishing.

Best Permit guides in Belize

Fly Odyssey is pleased to offer this trip of a lifetime to one of the best locations in the world to catch that elusive Permit. You will be fly fishing with the best Permit guide in Belize, Julian Cabral, and hosted by his wife Beverly while staying on this private tropical island. Your fly-fishing days will be overseen by highly experienced Permit guides who understand what is required to catch these special fish. If a Permit is high on your list of saltwater fly-fishing priorities, then there is no better place to go than Permit Paradise.

Fly Fishing Holiday 2008 Rates - Whipray Caye, Belize

7 night/ 6 day fly fishing package costs £1850 (single occupancy)
7 night/ 6 day fly fishing package costs £1400 (per person in twin-share)
All packages include meet and greet, ground transfers, accommodation, all meals and light beverages, guided fishing, taxes
Excludes international and domestic flights, alcoholic beverages and gratuities

Fly Fishing Seasons

All Year

Fly Fishing - Whipray Caye, Belize Bookings

To discuss any of your travel arrangements or queries about fly fishing in Whipray Caye, Belize, please call us on +44 (0)1621 743711 or e-mail us.

Turneffe Flats

Turneffe Flats, located on Turneffe Atoll has long been recognised as on of the best and most professionally run saltwater fly fishing lodges in the Caribbean. Turneffe atoll is a large series of islands and lagoons that is spread over 530 square kilometers. It has a huge variety of habitat that is ideally suited to the tropical flats species, namely bonefish. permit and for part of the year tarpon, that draw those of us that have an affinity for saltwater fly fishing to travel all around the world in search of them.

Fly Fishing Holiday Rates: Turneffe Flats

7 night/6 day fly fishing package costs £2729 (single occupancy)
7 night/6 day fly fishing package costs £2000 per person (double occupancy)
All packages include:
- Saturday airport pickup and transfer by boat to the lodge (flight arrival no later than 3:30PM)
- All lodging at Turneffe Flats
- Three meals daily, hors d’oeuvres
Excludes: International flights, gratuities, beverages.

Tarpon Caye Lodge

Tarpon Caye Lodge is an in-tuned with nature, down to earth, family owned and oriented lodge located on our small 10 acre caye (island) just 15 miles east of the famous Placencia Peninsula in southern Belize. Tarpon Caye is unique in that they base their fishing days around the tides and when the permit are on the flats. and therefore If this means an early start and a late breakfast then so be it. It is this approach that results in Tarpon Caye guides having a high success rate in putting their clients onto permit. The flats around Tarpon Caye also hold bonefish and tarpon and the pristine reef systems are home to a huge variety of sports fish. For those wanting an alternative to the nine to five fishing lodge experience then this trip could be exactly what you are after.

Fly Fishing Holiday Rates: Tarpon Caye Lodge

7 night/6 day fly fishing package costs £2000 (single occupancy)
7 night/6 day fly fishing package costs £1500 per person (double occupancy)
All packages include:
- Meet and Greet at the Belize International Airport, Ground transfers from Placencia airstrip to transport boat and return, Boat transfer to Tarpon Caye from Placencia and return
- All 3 meals and beverages (sodas, water, juice etc)
- Accommodation on Tarpon Caye Lodge (private cabin, max 2 per cabin)
- Guided fishing: boat, guide, boat tender
Excludes: International and domestic flights, gratuities, alcoholic beverages.

Fly Fishing - Belize Bookings

To discuss any of your travel arrangements or queries about fly fishing in Belize, please call us on +44 (0)1621 743711 or e-mail us.

Saltwater Fly Fishing Destination:

Belize

Fly Fishing in Belize