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The Indian Ocean Chronicles: Day XII (Call for Entries)

Blue Monday… please send flies to: IT1 Barjack the Angler NCTS FE DET Diego Garcia PSC 466 Box 8 FPO-AP 96595-0008 March 7, 2011 [1] Day XII Monday rolls around and blue skies! Where were they Friday thru Sunday as I logged just over 50 miles on the good ol’ single speed mountain bike? I [...]

Travel Log: Last Cast of the Day

March 21, 2011 7:42 p.m. Tide: Low, rising. Wind: ENE, 8-10 knots. Long day, longer with the piss-poor fishing, the worst we’ve had here, ever. In our memories we could project ourselves back to that magical land where we found flats dotted with schools of tailing bones; today we don’t recognize the place. Even the [...]

Travel Log: Pink Sands & Bonefish

  March 21, 2011 2:41 p.m. Tide: Slack High… possibly Falling. Wind: NNE, 15 knots. Coconuts no longer amuse us, and the bonefish have stubbornly persisted in their absence. Except for a brief window where the clouds parted and I chase a cruising pair, splashing my way to the leeward as I followed them in [...]

Travel Log: Of Slack Tides and Coconuts

March 21, 2011 9 am. High rising tide. Wind: ENE, 20 knots and gusty. Whitecaps foam against the ironshore as we descend into paradise. We’re as full of hope as always, our excitement belied by our brisk efficiency as we load packs, rig rods, make lunches, and slap on a few coats of SPF 50 [...]

Travel Log: The Last Fly

March 29, 2011. (3:09 a.m.) It’s 3 am and, finally, all the reels are spooled, rods packed, and flies tied. This last is an act of toil for me now, but it wasn’t always so. Mostly it’s to do with the pressure and the fact that I always procrastinate this particular aspect of preparing for [...]

Return of the Flats Bandito

The flats bandit returns to the beach to snag some bones. But the wind is up and the fish are biting shy (so he claims), and his line ties itself into unreasonable knots at the fish’s request. (Talk about your wind knots!) What is this and what will be the answer? Tunes: Fat Freddy’s Drop, [...]

el agua de franco…

…Which apparently means ‘free water’, is something of an obsession of mine—not this video, per say, but the notion of free-flowing water, not impounded by banks, or locks, or levees. Water where you’ve got the option of getting out there. * Shot on a Canon EOS T2i with a fixed 50 mm f/1.4 lens as [...]

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