just a few pics from my snorkelling escapades in egypt last week
















the last one is the best pic I could get of a white spotted puffer fish, although it looked like a cuttlefish at first.

I reckon some of those would take to the fly.... unfortunately the red sea is (according to thr rep) a national park/reserve, you can't even feed the fish, but tis fairplay.

Great pictures

The hotel in Sharm that I stayed in last year always had GT's cruising up and down the reef drop-off - interestingly one had a hook left in its mouth.

Nice pics.

great photo's mate.went scuba diving in cyprus many years ago, encountering the fish in their playground was amazing, wish i had the pics to remember it...

__________________
“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

"I can resist everything except temptation"
Oscar Wilde

I was in Sharm three years ago, your pics brought back happy memories.

Not down in Saudi it's not. Reefs better than Egypt and GT, tuna and sailfish for the catching! Tourism opportunities a bit limited though!

__________________
“There is no more lovely country than Monmouthshire in early spring. Nowhere do the larks sing quite so passionately, as if somehow inspired by the Welsh themselves. There is a blackbird on every thorn and a cock chaffinch, a twink as they call him there, on every bush...... It moved me profoundly. I had been spared to see another spring, and I thank God for it.”

Oliver Kite
“A Spring Day on the Usk”
A Fisherman’s Diary

Good effort. If you ever get the chance, dive the reef off the coast of Belize. It's the second biggest after the Great Barrier. Truly, truly amazing kaliedescope of colour and movement.It's relatively unspoilt too.

__________________
I won a £1,000,000 and spent most of it on prostitutes, drink,trout fishing, cars, cocaine, cigars and the rest I wasted...

One of the GTs that I mentioned previously, apologies for the poor framing and blurriness - I was swimming like buggery after it with a disposable camera.

Love the way the gar is hidden in the surface layers.

__________________
It is in truth not glory,nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting,but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with his life.(Declaration of Arbroath, 1320)

nice pics Im going to egypt at the start of July. - looking forward to snorkelling!

I was wondering whether to bring the telescopic fly rod with me....

found this site which said shore fishing is allowed....
http://www.worldreviewer.com/travel-...red-sea/56512/


Anyone know what flies to use if I do bring it? Will do a bit of research to see where fishing is allowed from the shore!

EDIT: where im going fishing isnt allowed
http://www.egyptfishing.com/Sharm_El-Sheikh.asp