Little Grand (typically referred to simply as “Grand”) lies about five miles southeast of Walkers. It served as home base for many of the employees who worked at Walkers during its heyday. The bustling island now serves as base for those of us who still love visiting and fishing in this amazing part of the world.

The offshore fishing off Grand and Walkers usually draws the spotlight. But the barrier reef, the passes through the reef between the Little Bahama Bank and the ocean, and the bank itself, offer some amazing inshore action. You can target a wide variety of species, and almost nobody fishes it. South of Grand lies a 50-mile stretch of uninhabited islands, down to Spanish Cay, the next inhabited island. Islands like Double Breasted, Romers, Strangers and Carters Cays have dozens of cuts, submerged rocks and shallow reefs teeming with fish.

I like casting artificial lures around these cuts and rocks for predators that use them as ambush points. These include several snapper species and horse-eye jacks. When targeting big muttons, I troll swimming ballyhoo slowly through the passes along the reef edges. The muttons eat them eagerly as do mangrove snapper and the occasional grouper. You can also anchor on rocks and chum, drifting back cut baits. You’ll catch all the snapper species doing that.