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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 [...]

Indian Ocean Chronicles: Day Thirtysomething…ish.

It Never Stops Barjack the Angler Short Pier, Long Beach Bay Indian Ocean March 29, 2011 Day thirtysomething, or whatever: I had to submit and walk back along the beach. After walking in the surf for two hours, being pounded like a porn queen by waves—not to mention the confusion of the whitewash and fear [...]

Indian Ocean Chronicles: Day XVII

12-Weights and Boats Barjack the Angler 12-weight Purgatory Reef Indian Ocean March 12, 2011 Day 17, So I’ve done a lot of riding my bike around and standing with a 12-weight looking for trevally. Good work if you can get it, but I feel the need for a change. Today I think I’ll get in [...]

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 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 [...]

The Indian Ocean Chronicles: Day VIII

The Momentum is Fading Barjack the Angler Thunder Bay Indian Ocean March 4, 2011 Day VIII Yesterday I staked out on a rock perch looking for GT’s for two and a half hours in the wind and rain… Why? What else do I have to do? I was on a nice point in the lagoon [...]

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