A little video one of our guests cooked up on a recent trip to our little rock. (Yes, we actually get people wanting to fish with us… yeah, we don’t get it either, but it keeps the bartenders happy!) Just to be clear, this was on his own after a little bit of guiding from [...]
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Mission: Blue Voyage – Saving the Oceans
It sure is nice to hear some good news, FINALLY! Here’s a talk by Greg Stone, the marine biologist that helped found Phoenix Island Protected Area in the island nation of Kiribati. The most interesting and provocative part is around minute 13:20 where he discusses the shocking coral bleaching event that occurred and how quickly [...]
Sweet Fish; Sweet Skiff; Just Sweet
Guy Harvey and the Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation and Chris Peterson, president of Hell’s Bay Boatworks, donated a shallow-water boat to the University of Florida’s Program for Shark Research for their ongoing studies to save sawfish; “A cross between a shark, a ray and a billfish all rolled into one animal.” A man whose love [...]
The Quest for Enlightenment
satori – noun \sè-´tör-é, sä-\: (Zen Buddhism) a state of sudden spiritual enlightenment. Fly fishing for Permit isn’t something that you wake up one day and say “gee, I think I’ll try and catch a permit on fly today.” It’s something that you’re led to. Like the details of a mystery perpetually unfold, so [...]
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 [...]
“Smooth”… That’s How It’s Done.
The word for today is “Smooth”. Definition: How Charlie Neymour wants you to cast. Observe. * This reminds me of my last trip to Andros and a lunchtime casting demo with Charlie. I’d come to think of myself as somewhat of a badass caster over the last couple days—with some reason given the conditions we’d [...]
