One reason writers on assignment want at least three days on a trip is to cope with the "weather variation" that generally occurs over a span of of days. Usually, a three day span yields a fair, good, and bad day, according to that particular kind of thinking,although that certainly is NOT a certainty.
Yet the more time you have at a destination, the more options. The picture on top shows a massive storm system crossing Northeast Abaco, and was shot by me from my balcony at Bluff House in the predawn hours. Six hours later, the same storm system can be seen behind Captain Ricky Sawyer in the other snapshot as it moved off into the Atlantic Ocean. The time I had available gave us the fair weather window to really pound a small wreck loaded with surface and bottom gamefish. Any fishing vacation should include the same strategy- namely, enough time to allow the local weather to go through its natural variations. All of this is not considering the times and seasons of the year that yield more weather stability for inshore and flats fishing, like summer in South Florida and the Bahamas: it considers the vagaries of day to day weather.
Jan
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