![]() ![]() Kemp manages the lodge, guides on flats and offshore, makes the best mojito I’ve ever tasted, and keeps a humidor stocked with the world’s finest cigars for evenings on the lodge’s wrap-around veranda or at the oceanside fire pit. Clint Kemp is a direct descendant of English settlers who founded a Bahamas colony in the 1600s, and he built his reputation as an outstanding bonefish guide in Nassau before he saw the opportunity to move to a quieter island with hundreds of square miles of untapped bonefishing potential. The lodge itself is owned by a Canadian, an American, and a Bahamian. × Blackfly Lodge was designed to look and feel like an original plantation-style Bahamian home. The plan worked, as many of the founding homebuilders are ardent fly fishers who can walk to the lodge as easily as they can walk to Schooner Bay’s isolated sandy beach, or the nearby forest preserve populated by Abaco parrots. Using fishing villages like Dunmore Town or Hope Town as inspiration, the fly-fishing lodge came first as sort of a bell cow for like-minded individuals to build homes in the fledgling community. The lodge is the first commercial entity in Schooner Bay. Not a tacky town of touristy facades and T-shirt shops, but a sustainable, ecologically sensitive, and authentic community centered around the Bahamas’ greatest natural resource-the fishing.Īt the center of this carefully planned and engineered village-still in its infancy-is the plantation-style Blackfly Lodge. But the Swedish-born and Bahamas-raised Lindroth had a dream to create the penultimate traditional harbor village. Just a few years ago, the east coast of Great Abaco south of Cherokee Sound was a rugged wilderness with no marine safe harbor. The towns themselves are polar opposites, but they have one thing in common-extraordinary year-round bonefishing an hour away from Florida. Congo Town on Andros Island is an eclectic mess of shanties and cinderblock bungalows. Schooner Bay, Abaco, is a utopian harbor town being carefully developed by Swedish developer Orjan Lindroth. This story was originally titled “Tale of 2 Cities: The best bonefishing getaways in the Bahamas” It appeared in the Jan-Feb 2014 issue of Fly Fisherman. ![]()
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