Fishing in Belize

The best advice I have is to take me with you.

don't drink the water

Try Glovers reef, there are loads of bone fish... and outside the reef are big kingfish. type Glovers reef into google and you'll find it, about an hour south of belize city Dangrigga/hopkins

fiesta de bot fly

My mom lives on Ambergris Caye. Been there a whole bunch. PM me if you want her e-mail.... ( I know a great local guide if you can get him out of the bar....) Better yet, I'll PM you my phone number...

I have fished there twice. Both were cruise stops that I arranged for myself and not through the cruise line.  
 
First time we flew from Belize City to Ambegris Caye.  Hooked up with a guide from Ruby's Hotel (arranged well before the trip) named Vincent.  He was a great guy.  I had tarpon on the brain and even though he suggested bonefish, I insisted.  I wished I had listened to him.  The area that we went to for tarpon was wat too wind blown that particular day.  The wave action, although small, had the sand so churned up that you couldn't see the bottom in waist deep water.  So spotting a crusing tarpon wasn't going to happen.  If we had fished for bones, we could have stayed near the Caye and fished protected areas.
 
Teh second trip I fished with a guide out of the world famous Belize River Lodge.  His name was Nato and was either the first or second worst guide I have had anywhere in the world.  Again, the wind was a factor and we could not reach any of the Turneffe flats in the panga from Belize City.  He decided that we would fish the Belize River.  Of course he didn't have the right gear to fisah the river with him, so we had to stop by the lodge to get different fly rods.  He put-puted up the river like we wereon a sightseeing tour. This cut a short trip even shorter.  When we did finally hit the river, whihc had osme decent current going, he never used the push pole to position the boat.  He would just drift thorugh an area and hope that you made the cast.  We did see two schools of baby tarpon, but he refused to go after them as they fed in an outside bend.
 
So neither experience was great for me.