Cayo Cruz – A Cuba Trip You Can Trust
Cayo Cruz is a long narrow key, about 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) long with a total area of 32 square kilometers (12.3 square miles), located on the north shore of the eastern province of Camagüey in Cuba. The Cayo Romano fishery is an enormous system of flats, lagoons and pristine estuaries, located in Jardines del Rey, “Garden of the Kings”. It’s part of the Blue Sanctuary a progressive conservation program initiated by the Cuban Government 30 years ago to protect vulnerable and important marine areas. Commercial fishing within this designated area is strictly forbidden and rigorously enforced.
The fly fishing only area is 366 square kilometers (141 square miles) in size, meaning that on the average day, each skiff and pair of anglers has over 50 square kilometers (19 square miles) to fish and explore all to themselves. The fishing grounds are not overcrowded or over fished and represents one of the purest and most biologically diverse marine ecosystems in the world.
Fishing at Cayo Cruz focuses on sight fishing the shallow flats for bonefish, permit, as well as fishing deeper flats, cuts and estuaries for tarpon and the occasional snook. Other species like mutton snapper, cubera snapper, Jack crevalle and barracuda can also be opportunistically targeted. This is a multi species fishery, similar to those you find on the Yucatan Peninsula or Belize, and is a combination of wading hard-bottomed flats as well as fishing from expertly poled flats skiffs. There is a ton of fishing variety to keep the most seasoned flats fisher engaged, while at the same time suitable to anglers new to flats fishing.
We like Cayo Cruz, and we feel you will as well. It’s a solid multi species fishery in a private and furiously protected marine reserve, easy to get to, safe, land based – all the ingredients for an old world Cuban fishing adventure and shocking simple travel logistics.
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