Bonefish also use camouflage to avoid being eaten, using mirror-like scales to reflect their surroundings. Their sheer quickness and capacity to pivot and accelerate with ease back their ability to avoid being eaten by larger predators such as barracuda. Belize Fly Fishing Speciesīuilt for speed, the bonefish is equipped with a forked tail and a fusiform-shaped (tapered at both ends) body. It is this overall level of angling diversity that truly sets Belize a part from every other Caribbean fishing destination. Bonefish, permit, tarpon, snook, snapper, jacks, barracuda and numerous other species can be found all along Belize’s coastline, in fisheries that range from skinny, white sand flats, to shallow-water lagoons, to deep, mud-covered tarpon fisheries. The entire coastline of this beautiful Central American country – from the northern waters of Ambergris Caye, to the central waters of Turneffe Atoll and the Belize City area, and all the way south to Hopkins, Placencia, and Punta Gorda – hosts a broad range of species and a variety of different fishing scenarios. Seemingly created and designed with fly fishers in mind, the tiny country of Belize is home to some of the finest saltwater flats fishing on the planet.