Photo courtesy of the Del Brown Permit Tournament's Facebook page and Capt. Aaron Snell
By Lynn Burkhead, OutdoorChannel.com
"Permit are not meant to be caught on flies. I know this for a fact: Over the years, countless dozens of them have told me so."
-E. Donnall Thomas, Jr.
Whitefish Can't Jump & Other Tales of Gamefish on the Fly
In the entire world, there is no fish on the saltwater flats more difficult to catch on the fly than the permit of the western Atlantic.
So elusive is the crab-eating species, and so difficult to catch on the fly, that some seasoned fly anglers can go years and years without catching a single fish despite ample opportunity to cast to them.
But nobody ever told the late Del Brown that, the Californian who spent up to 100 days...