Fly Fishing at Silver King Lodge

Clifford Ramos has been chosen "Fly Fishing Guide Of The Year" by a vote of the fly fishing clients of Silver King Lodge and clients of other lodges that have had the pleasure of using his services. On the east coast of Costa Rica where the Tarpon is the most sought after game fish, tradition has been broken in a significant way. The numbers of tarpon hooked, jumped and landed are now in favor of the fly fisherman. This is mainly due to the efforts of Clifford Ramos . I have personally seen numerous tarpon being jumped and fought by Clifford’s clients this past October while I and other fishermen using jigs and plugs were having somewhat less success . On the first two of five days fishing they had 25 tarpon on and boated 7. During the times when they weren’t fighting tarpon they were landing Jacks in the twenty pound range.

Clifford is a personable young man who loves fly fishing with a passion. Born in Barra Del Colorado he is married to Diana and has three children, one girl and two sons. His youngest son Allen has his passion for fly fishing.

Clifford has been fly fishing for fifteen years having learned it from a client, Nick Curcione. He has since developed his art and technique to the point that he ties his own flies and has developed a method of fishing deep water tarpon with a fly. He can help even the most advanced fly fisherman improve his technique. The "Cliff Fly" developed and tied by Clifford accounted for most of the tarpon that his clients have caught.

The "Cliff Fly", with Clifford guiding, has accounted for an astounding 23 tarpon jumped and 16 landed by Harry Kain in one day fishing.

When fly fishing at Silver King Lodge, Clifford recommends a 14 weight rod in the ocean and a 12 weight rod in the river. Lines are sinking with 400 grain in the river, 500 grain in the river mouth and 800 grain in the ocean. If you choose to bring your own flies he recommends dark colors, black and red with some white and they should have eyes. Larger flies are best.

Clifford Ramos has been with Silver King Lodge for over a year and is the type of person that would be happy to have both the experienced or the novice fly fisherman catch his passion for landing a Silver King Tarpon on a fly.

Want to fly fish?

This is what you will need!

TARPON

RODS;   12-14 WEIGHT WITH 14 WEIGHT THE BEST

BACKING LINE;   200 - 300 YARDS 40LB TEST

RUNNING LINE ; 550-850 GRAIN LEAD CORE FULL SINKING NOT WEIGHT FORWARD,

TIPPET; 12-30LB LINE

LEADER; 15-20-80-100LB MONO, (1 FOOT FOR A RECORD) 3 FEET

FLY COLORS;  EYES ON ALL FLYS

             BLACK & ORANGE,  BLACK & CHARTREUSE,  BLACK & WHITE

            CLIFF FLY

HOOKS; 6/0

TARPON IN COSTA RICA ARE BOTTOM FEEDERS YOU HAVE TO GET DOWN TO THEM !!!

SNOOK

RODS; 8 – 10 WEIGHT

BACKING LINE ; 200-300 YARDS 20LB TEST LINE

RUNNING LINE; 250 –350 SINKING FOR THE SURF

FLOATING LINE FOR THE JUNGLE

TIPPET; 15LB

LEADER; 60-80LB MONO

COLORS SAME AS TARPON ALL SHOULD HAVE EYES

HOOKS; 3/0,4/0

JUNGLE SPECIES

RODS; 5 – 8 WEIGHT

FLOATING DRY LINE

POPPERS, CRICKETS; FROGS

20LBS TEST LEADER

COLORS;  LIGHT AND DARK (WHITE, YELLOW, BLACK, GREENE AND RED)