FULL TIME FLY FISHING GUIDE & CHARTER SERVICE
Reserve yourself an ANTIGUA FLY FISHING adventure TODAY!
Catch yourself that “fish of a lifetime”....
A TRIP TO REMEMBER...
Booking with Antigua Fly Fishing Charters ensures you are guided by the most experienced full time fly fishing guide in Antigua….
- but also by one of the most enthusiastic teachers of fly casting you will find ANYWHERE…
YOUR GUIDE...
Background...
Captain Nick” WillIams has been fishing for over 40 years...
Nick began his angling career in the UK - coarse fishing in the tiny stream at the bottom of his garden for chub...
(The first time literally was a cane string and bent nail with a worm on!)
His initial brush with fly fishing came in order to outwit a particularly wily wild brown trout that seemed immune to all other advances!
This discovery - together with his passion for nature, living water and the great outdoors led him to Antigua - the place he has called home for the past 27 years.
Self Confessed Permit ‘Addict’...
Nick is obsessed about the pursuit of Permit on the fly...
- and loves the challenge of stalking these elusive fish wherever they may be.
“Permit are incredibly wary fish usually found in dynamic water - so it is far from easy…
- but I absolutely love that they force you to be your best in everything you do.
If you want to hold the Grail of flats fishing - it‘s to be expected I think!”
Necessity is the Mother of Invention...
Ever since his arrival in Antigua as a yacht captain in 1998... Nick’s keen eyes - which had been accustomed to spotting reefs.... were soon also spotting ‘shapes’ moving in the shallows.
“All the BIG 4 of the flats species were present - so I set about just getting at them.
At first on my own 2 feet - winning my first saltwater gear in a bet!!!
Several years spent float tubing for tarpon in lagoons then inspired me to build a 2 man inflatable micro skiff.
That was the real turning point.... as far as sight fishing was concerned.”
Passion for Teaching...
Nick has helped many hundreds of fly anglers begin to finally achieve their true casting potential - after developing a system of casting that will stand up in Antigua’s ‘often breezy‘ conditions....
“If you can make the shot here in Antigua when it counts - you can pretty much fly fish in saltwater ANYWHERE...”
Quiet Life…
When I cannot be guiding - I love just hanging out at home - with my wife Karoll (who also happens to be a great improvisional chef!), our dogs Misty, Doodles and Foxy + Piskie and Lotus the cats.