Wow, is it friday again? Been slacking, I guess, but the calendar says it’s time again for something interesting. ____________________ All he ever has to say is, “Fish, right there” and his clients know exactly what he means. The last time he had to pay for his own drink was during the Reagan administration… hey, [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2009’
The Most Interesting Guide in the World
He’s never been to Vagas, he takes Vagas with him. He’s been known to forget he has a job… because he was out fishing. When questioned about his tactics people often find him unintelligible. He is… the most interesting guide in the world. “I don’t always get to fish myself, but when I do I [...]
Coconuts… or just plain nuts.
Dude, that is a lot of work for a few swallows of water. How did these two clowns even get their hands on those coconuts? Buy them? …and did he just ask for a straw? Clearly these guys needed to watch this first: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lan5hBOjFPg. Way more work, but at least it’s manly. Ok, here’s the [...]
The Keys Chronicles (Pt. 3)
June 13, 2008 You know what tarpon fishing really is? It’s a sliding scale of victories beginning with getting the fish to see your fly in the first place [5]. This begins with the guy on the pole, and poling most tarpon flats is no easy task. The water is often deep, the fish are [...]
The Keys Chronicles (Pt. 2)
June 13, 2008 My buddy, Nate W. who now resides on Tavernier Key, was the first to introduce me to the Keys and it was I who in turn introduced him to BarJack (that’s Mister BarJack to you). Since then they’ve been as thick as thieves and fish together whenever Barjack can talk Nate W. [...]
The Keys Chronicles (Pt. 1)
Preamble In honor of the fast waning tarpon season I have chosen to post a few scribbles about my indoctrination into this dangerously addictive sport. Fittingly, this took place in the quintessential tarpon fishery: the Florida Keys. To be sure, I’d caught tarpon before elsewhere, but it is the fish hooked on those fabled flats [...]
Wade Fishing Cayman
A Taste of the Islands from Davin Ebanks on Vimeo. How does one capture the silence, the light, the sense of space, and of course, the often high-paced action of fly fishing in the tropics? How, especially, in one film? Here is one of my early tries. (And, yes, I do have a better camera [...]
