Marshal is the driving force behind MidCurrent - fly fishing’s leader of the blog pack.

He’s also a recovering flats guide (note the irony), and we commiserated a bit recently over the number of things we’d like to write for our respective blogs, but haven’t found time to do amidst the pressures of making a living and engaging in the rare bout with personal hygiene – that kind of thing.

Still, Marshall clearly fired up the word processor and gave us his Permit Primer, a passage from which I’ve included below.

During more than 12 years of guiding in key West, I watched fly fishermen make more mistakes on permit than on any other species, perhaps because there are more mistakes to make with this finicky and often exasperating fish. From that, I’ve developed a sort of Top 10 list of the essential skills, techniques, and tactics necessary to pursue permit.

 
Del Brown with a 32 pound permit. (Marshall Cutchin photo)

Read Marshall’s Top 10 Permit Tips (my favorite is #3: Learn to cast a heavy fly in the wind…. like, where’s the adventure in that??) See you on the salt, Tom Chandler.

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