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Jason Myers A couple of old salts create the Bahamas’ best new flats-fishing destination Vaughn Cochran says Blackfly Lodge “an exquisitely redone fishing lodge on Great Abaco Island” started as “an art project.” In 2008, the now sixty-seven-year-old artist, former Keys fishing guide, longtime lodge manager, and original member of Jimmy Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band (“I was the jug-band guy, playing the washboard, mandolin, and banjo”) was contacted by Clint Kemp, a native Bahamian guide, about doing a series of paintings of the rapidly aging crew of iconic bonefish guides in the Bahamas. That plan fell through, but a friendship came out of it. A short time later, a developer asked the two men to assess the Schooner Bay area of Abaco as a possible destination for a new fishing lodge. After three days of excellent fishing with local guide Paul Pinder, Cochran says, he and Kemp found themselves sitting on a roof deck, “watching the sunset, having a Cuban cigar, drinking rum, and wondering, “Why the hell don’t we just do this ourselves?” So they did. In 2009, with the help of Canadian financier Dave Byler, Cochran and Kemp founded the first iteration of Blackfly Lodge in Schooner Bay, a new development on Abaco’s eastern shore. They leased a six-bedroom house, hired Pinder as the head guide, and started With an eye toward expansion, the group eventually bought some nearby land and built their own eight-bedroom structure in the style of a Bahamas veranda house. The new lodge officially opened in March. And this time around, there are plenty of personal touches. Each bedroom is named for a famous angler, such as Lefty Kreh, Stu Apte, and Flip Pallot, and adorned with a Cochran original portrait of said fisherman. Chef Devon Roker runs the family style kitchen, which serves up breakfast, dinner, and a packed lunch daily. The theme there is local: seafood caught on the lodge’s thirty-one-foot Yellowfin boat, and fruits, vegetables, and eggs from a nearby Blackfly-owned farm. And then there’s the fishing. Abaco has quickly emerged as one of the top bonefishing destinations in the Bahamas, if not the world, and Blackfly is within reach of the famous easy-to-hook bones in the Marls, the more difficult big fish on Abaco’s ocean side, and the magical Moore’s Island, where bonefish share the flats with permit and even the occasional tarpon. The fishing is so good in the surrounding area that when Cochran asked an angler friend to help spread the word about Blackfly, He said, “Hell no!” Cochran says. “He wanted to keep it to himself.” Good luck. >For more information, visitblackflylodge.com Pirates of Nassau – A Museum of Piracy The Golden Age of Piracy lasted for thirty years, from 1690 to 1720 and Nassau was at its heart. Here was a tropical pirate paradise which attracted the greatest concentration of pirates ever seen in the New World. It is said that when a pirate slept, he did not dream that he had died and gone to heaven, but instead has returned to his favourite port of Nassau on New Providence Island. Mizner Awards October 2013 Schooner Bay Architecture Schooner Bay - June 2015 The Essential Elements of Schooner Bay Tom Scheerer - Architectural Digest Publications
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Blackfly Lodge
Cast Away: Blackfly Lodge
by Monte Burke – Bahamas – June/July 2013
booking guests. Aside from hanging a few paintings, the men left the house as it was. The small, intimate nature of the lodge was a hit. “So we decided to just go ahead and plant our flag,” says Cochran, who has managed properties in Costa Rica and Mexico.Ca’Liza
Captain's Table
Club Villas
Daybreak Design for Marsh Harbour, Abaco 1996
Goodfellow Farms
Goodfellow Farm and Goodfield’s Village
organic farm, country store, equestrian faclities
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Nassau, New Providence The Bahamas
Hope Hill
Islands at Old Fort
Lyford Cay Gate Complex
Lyford Marina Project
Minor Cay
Mt Pleasant Residential Development Design
Mount Pleasant Village
1000 Residential Homes & FacilitiesNassau, New Providence The Bahamas
New Providence Master Plan
Old Fort Bay Club
Old Fort Bay Development
Old Fort Bay, New Providence The Bahamas
Pirates of Nassau
Pirates of Nassau – A Museum of Piracy
Downtown Nassau, New Providence
The BahamasPrivate Exuma Island
Private Exuma Island
The Bahamas
Rockhouse 1998
Saint Paul's Development Design
Sandpiper
Schooner Bay
Sky Studio
Andres Duany
Tom Scheerer
Treetops
Treetops – Lyford Cay Townhomes
Lyford Cay Nassau, The Bahamas
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