Ok, so here’s another gratuitous, lazy-@$$ video post. It’s time. Tight video. Amazing fish. And no, I do not want to go out and buy an Orvis reel now… not even a little bit. Wonder what kind of rods they were “blowing up”? Just askin’. Mirage Reel from SHALLOW WATER EXPEDITIONS on Vimeo. (Promo for [...]
Posts Tagged ‘tarpon’
Riding High
Riding High: A Season on the Fly from Waterline Media on Vimeo. Waterline Media presents a short film for the Drake 5 minutes of Fly Fishing in New Orleans in August, 2011. Filmed over the course of an entire tarpon season from the lower Keys to the Panhandle, Riding High shows the entire migration [...]
Why I hate Fly Nation:
A short trailer for the very first episode in Fly Nation TV Season 2, premiering on WFN in late 2011. Don’t miss the chance to visit the incredible flats fishery in Cayo Cruz, Cuba with Slipstream Angling Worldwide, offering some of the best flats fly fishing in the entire World! Visit www.slipstreamangling.com for more information [...]
Key’s Chronicles: Early Season
Day I: Late start, low tide, breezy. Oceanside: small groups, singles, and doubles. Second cast: hooked up! Jump, jump. Sweeeet. Drag singing. Fish off. “Uhhhh… popped ‘im off.” Nope: reel in to find the backing broke! Motored around searching for a #10 yellow line zipping through the water but was forced to admit both the [...]
Florida Keys Chronicles: Relentless
April 12, 2011 He’s young, blond, mostly, but fading to gray at the edges. By the way he carries himself I’m guessing football, college, maybe. But it’s his hands that catch my eye; they’re hard, thick, construction workers hands. Though I imagine they’re still mobile enough, they appear solid, immovable, and lay on the table [...]
The Galley’s Open (Pt. II)
December 25, 2000 We finally ended up fishing the harbor lights, our backup plan. Almost immediately I started seeing fish: young tarpon that would go maybe fifteen, twenty pounds. (Every time I start to get down on where I live, I have to remind myself that I can catch tarpon five minute’s drive from my [...]
The Galley’s Open (Pt. I)
December 25, 2000 After the festivities we went down to the sea, my father and I. We loaded up flies, rods, flashlights, knives, casting buckets, and leader fixings, piled it all in his truck and went in search of tarpon. It seemed the thing to do. Around here tarpon hunting doesn’t necessarily mean big motors, [...]
