In Search of a Rising Tide
review by David Dalu
I HAVE A CONFESSION to make. Like many others before me, I’ve come to love the Bahamas — the water, the isolation, the unhurried character of the people. The opportunity to spend several weeks each spring exploring the flats on my own skiff in the company of friends, far from any lodge or guide, only heightens this prejudice.
It was with high hopes, then, that I viewed Jamie Howard’s In Search of a Rising Tide, a short film promising “a journey deep into the bights of Andros … providing a glimpse into [its] rare bonefish culture.” The film follows two guides, Andy Smith and Charlie Neymour, as they fish deeper flats of Andros in search of a fish larger than the local “record,” a 16-pound, 8-ounce beast caught on a Nasty Charlie — a fly put into the history books by the local grandfather of fishing, Charlie Smith, and the late Bob Nauheim.
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