"Set Sights For Sails"

FloridaSportsman.com gives us insight on fly fishing for Atlantic Sailfish. Catching an Atlantic Sailfish on the fly is considered much harder than hooking its left coast cousin:

Fly fishing for Florida sailfish is an oddity, but it delivers for the dedicated.

- By Pat Ford

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When a sharp color change sets up off Key West, it's possible to sight-cast to sailfish.

If you want to catch a sailfish on a fly, it's easy. Hop on a jet and head to the Pacific side of Central America, and book a competent crew out of Guatemala, Panama, Costa Rica or Mexico. Can it really be that easy? Yes it is, now that fly fishing is no longer an oddity in those parts.
Want to raise the bar and do that deal close to home? Well, you can, though taking an Atlantic sailfish on fly off Florida is still considered an extraordinary feat, for a number of reasons.
Atlantic sails are smaller, but infinitely smarter. They can be teased up with a hookless bait, but usually only stay on the scene long enough to make one pass at the fly. In other words, everything has to go perfectly. Pacifics, on the other hand, will sit behind the boat and chew on a rubber squid forever. "

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Wow...Setting the hook on one of those sails must be a blast! Are here people only think of fly-fishing as something people do to catch smaller fish like trout and bass! Geesh :)

Be sure to click on the link at the top of this article to read the full story.

Thanks to Murdock at: http://flyfishmagazine.blogspot.com/2006/01/atlantic-sail-on-fly-in-florida.html for enlightening me about this article.

-Michael