![]() ![]() Occasionally, they eat other crunchy items like small lobsters. Permit fan out over flats waters to prowl on their favorite food source, which are live crabs. When they head inshore to shallows only three to five feet deep, they feel very spooky and vulnerable to predation. ![]() Permit often spend their time offshore over reefs and wrecks. One of the reasons that permit are so spooky in shallow water is that the flats are not the natural home to them the way they are to bonefish. Bonefish, which are smaller, can be found in waters as shallow as a foot or less. Because of its size range, permit, as well as tarpon, generally are best found in flats waters starting at three-feet deep. Most all marine anglers are aware of the mythical status of the permit as well as it's place amongst the Big Three of the flats, the other two being bonefish and tarpon. And the big bonus is that these permit average fifteen to eighteen pounds, which again gives Florida the nod for having the largest average size of permit on the planet as well. There is a plentitude of excellent guides in Miami ready to guide anglers to the permit fishing barely 30 minutes from the downtown area. What anglers should find exciting is that they never have to leave the country in order to capture and release this shallow water prize that can top fifty pounds. The wind scuff on the surface allowed a closer cast to this permit. The Sunshine State is the only place to catch permit on the flats in the USA. I've called this magic portion of Florida the Permit Coast. Though permit on the flats can be found outside the United States in such places as Roatan, Cuba, parts of the Bahamas, the Caribbean coast of Mexico's Quintana Roo province and certainly Belize, the stretch of Florida's shallows from Miami to Key West to the Marquesas invariably has the largest size permit on the planet. ![]()
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