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Originally posted by f095:
Can you fish bones from the shore?
Sure,

Tom (Goody's husband) and I did it. You really have to go up north towards Journey's End or a few spots down toward Victoria house. You need to be VERY careful though because it's mostly mud or soft sand. I wandered out on the lagoon side just 1/4 mile north of the cut and sank up to my waist instantly. Scared the hell out of me, but I remembered what Severo did laying his pole on the bottom and walking on it to get the skiff off ground when we would get beached in the shallows. I just used my fly rod laid across the bottom to pull myself out carefully. The stuff is like quicksand in some areas. If you go north towards Journey's End, the windward side is shallow and firm. You can go out just about anywhere on front of Journey's end and cast for them. Also, early in the morning, you can cast off of Capt. Morgan's pier on the right side about half-way down the pier in the turtle grass and you should see some.

One day Tom and I were discussing the day's fishing out on the pier at Banana Beach and a 4+ lb Bonefish cruised right by my legs and under the pier when I was standing in the water next to the pier(go figure, they spook easily everywhere else), so I'd say you can get them pretty much anywhere, but no where near as many as you would using a guide to get out to Congrejo, Blackadore, or Savannah flats.

Although you can't fish there, the Amigos Del Mar pier has about 50 large bones under the dock. I saw them there when doing a refresher for my dive certification. That's pretty much the reason you can't fish there - it's a dive training area for confined water exercises. Bones are smart though; they know it's safe there.

Angelo