Scaled Down: Cuisine on the Fly
Fly Fishing Adventure Travel Cuisine on the Fly Fly Fishing Adventure Travel Cuisine on the Fly. At the moment, the COVID-19 pandemic has a choke hold on life as we know it. Some of us are working essential jobs like delivering goods, managing gas stations or stocking shelves at the market. Some of us are... Read More
Unfinished Business: Sight Casting to Molokai Bonefish
Sight Casting to Molokai Bonefish with fly rods and inflatable kayaks Sight Casting to Molokai Bonefish with fly rods and inflatable kayaks … and Natty Lights Sight Casting to Molokai Bonefish. Every direction was a vision. Golden, shallow flats extended from the western horizon to its eastern counterpart. Waves repeatedly hammered the outer reef to... Read More
Meanwhile, Out West: A Western Australia Fly Fishing Road Trip Adventure
Western Australia Fly Fishing Road Trip Adventure Western Australia Fly Fishing Road Trip Adventure — Yankees wandering the bush with rod, reel and goon chasing queenfish, permit, giant trevally, golden trevally and blue bones. “Every man’s got to find themselves, and I found myself in bloody Western Australia, of all places – there was as... Read More
Australia Part I: Journey Before the Journey
… a Maui bungalow rental to clean up so I get my deposit back.. … copious amounts of pig shit to pick up in the yard… … 3 websites design projects to finish… … scattered gear on the bed waiting to get sorted and packed… … sufficient sleep patterns a distant past… … quality nutrition... Read More
Just A Few Questions: an interview with Rick Mendel
Fly Fishing Film Interview with 70-year-old Rick Mendel. Get your phone out… jump on Instagram… look up “fly fishing”. You’re soon to see a bunch of gratuitous hero shots. You might even notice a few scantily-clad women in Brazilian bikinis holding a fish caught by someone else. If you’re new to the sport, there’s a... Read More
Patagonia, The Final Slice: Coyhaique to Tierra del Fuego
Expect Nothing, Anticipate Everything We were barreling down a dirt road at “the end of the world”, a nickname given to the nether regions of South America. We were headed across South America’s southernmost terrain on, what would be, our last dark and dreary day of a month-long journey through Patagonia. I had made a... Read More
Onward and Southward: Our Chase Continues through Patagonia
Well, I’m just gonna come out and say it: Patagonia is a pretty nice place. More specifically, it might just be the best place. It’s a place of wonder, limited only by the great oceans flanking its periphery. Defined in just a few words: jagged canyons and sweeping valleys… craggy horns and weathered domes… parched... Read More
Triumph and humility. Welcome to fly fishing in Patagonia
“I have never touched a cloud before. I want to touch a cloud.” These aren’t my words. They’re the gleeful words of a little girl just a few rows up from me on one of my flights. Patagonia is my cloud. My mind wandered… shuffling through ethereal scenes—images I’ve conjured up of Patagonia based on television... Read More
Patagonia: on the verge of something big, maybe.
Patagonia: 1 week away. I visited Patagonia once. Patagonia, Arizona that is. I remember it was a sleepy, little town in the far south of that great state, not more than 20 miles from the Mexican border. I was 18 years old, innocent(ish), on Thanksgiving break during my first college semester up in Flagstaff. My... Read More
The Dirty “DIY” Truth for Fly Anglers
DIY Fly Fishing Debate: Truth or Slander? Note: This essay is about a quasi-controversial topic gaining momentum in the fly fishing world today. The topic centers around the DIY (Do It Yourself) approach to fly fishing. On the surface of this issue there’s a question that commonly comes up: How is the DIY approach to... Read More
Chasing Louisiana Redfish in Bayou Country with Kayaks and Fly Rods
Chasing Louisiana Redfish on the Fly. Kayak Fly Fishing Louisiana Redfish. Kayak Fly Fishing Louisiana Redfish. Why do we travel to new destinations to fly fish? Is it about triumphantly hoisting an exotic, new fish species, carving another notch in the fly fishing bedpost? Is it about scratching that “exploration” itch that builds up while... Read More
DIY Fly Fishing: Ride out the Storm for Big Rewards
We’ve all been there… the sun is gently gracing your shoulders. The birds are singing. The fish are somewhat predictable. That’s when Mother Nature rears her ugly head. Well, turn that frown upside down mister! A great rule of thumb for DIY fly fishing: ride out the storm for big rewards and, potentially, great photo ops!... Read More