Cuba; Zapata Prime 2019 Dates

If you are fishing Zapata in Southern Cuba, the live aboard, Georgiana, will be home for the week allowing direct access to the flats, fishing as the tides dictate. Zapata fishes 8 rods to the week, between 6 skiffs. The skiffs rotate so you can fish 3 days in a single skiff and 3 days in shared skiff. The rotation enables you to all experience those areas of the flats that are best fished from a the skinny water flat bottomed single skiffs while in pursuit of bonefish and permit. The deeper hulled Dolphins, conversely, will take you further afield and into deeper water in search of Zapata’s very healthy populations of juvenile tarpon.

Three High Season weeks remain for 2019. Contact us for details

16-23 March 2019
18-25 May 2019 – 4 spots available
29 June – 6 July 2019 – new moon

Years ago it was inconceivable to the people living in the Zapata Swamp that they would one day stop using the forest here to make charcoal, extract precious wood or hunt crocodile and deer. In fact the San Lázaro Channel that you use to get to Georgiana, your live aboard for the week, was one of the channels they used to bring the charcoal from the island to the sea. In 2000, UNESCO declared the wetlands, which occupy the entire Zapata peninsula and surrounding areas, a biosphere reserve and it remains one of the least populated areas in Cuba. In 2001 the Ramsar Convention included it on its list of wetlands of international importance as its 6,500 square miles of wilderness and supports an amazing 175 species of birds, 31 species of reptiles and over 1000 species of invertebrates, the majority of which are indigenous.

If you would like more information please contact Peter McLeod or Steffan Jones or call us on ++44 1980 847389. Alternatively click HERE if you would like us to contact you.