Grab your rod, down the cabana steps, six paces and cast? Yep, that’s where the action starts. Right in front of you you’ll find white sand, and crystal clear water stretching out to Greater Monkey Caye about half a mile in the distance. The bottom here is sand, sloping away to turtle grass and then out in the deep water channel, rock. Right in front just out of sight we even have our own mini reef!

The jewel in the Belizean crown is our barrier reef - the world’s second longest. This is a protected fishery in parts. (Belize is amazingly environmentally-conscious as a country with around half the land mass having protected status.). However most of the reef within easy reach is open for fishing, although nowhere in Southern Belize is heavily fished. You have the southern part more or less to yourself and the chances are you will see few if any other anglers. From Steppingstones, your guide will take you the 40 minutes or so by skiff out to the reef . You have a number of choices. Trolling outside the reef with 30lb class outfits with small konas and large Yo-Zuri and Rapala minnows, for tuna and kingfish, or trolling inside the reef for snapper, barracuda, mackerel small tuna species, using light spinning gear with small Yo-Zuri or Rapala minnows. (Be warned that wooden Rapalas will be torn to shreds in short order - Yo-Zuris are tougher.) You can also fly fish for bonefish and permit as most of the best bonefish flats are out on the reef. If you wish, you can combine fishing with snorkeling, and with a little advance warning your guide will go equipped to cook you a shore lunch - featuring of course your very own “Catch of the Day”.

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