Mini season bail out

A few weeks back, Chris and myself left the Keys during the dreaded mini lobster season and headed north in search of beach Snook.  We walked many miles of sandy shorelines looking for line siders with not much to show for it.  We each landed a small snook and had the hook pull on a few other nicer fish.  At […]

Bait and Switch

  In mid-July, we headed to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico for a family reunion.  Upon hearing that, only one thing popped into the minds of my brother and I, and that one thing has a huge and unique dorsal fin and has been dubbed “the Elizabeth Hurley of game fish.”   If we didn’t want to be anti-social, we had […]

New Digs – Africa

  Three years on a tiny Caribbean island left my girlfriend and I satisfied with our experiences there.  We were able to travel throughout the region, make some lifelong friends, have more than our fair share of adventure and catch some incredible fish.  One of the best things about it was having Mark and Adam down to take advantage of the […]

Game of Bones

  It is the latter half of the trip and I am all alone on the island sleeping in a hammock on the beach. The night before storms kept rolling through, leaving my gear and sleeping quarters soaked for most of the night. With only an hour or two of sleep, I embarked on a grueling hike filled with a […]

A Three Month Hiatus

Back in April I had abandoned one of my favorite carping spots in search of new water. The fish in this particular venue had become almost too savvy to compete with. After three months of fishing elsewhere it was time to say hello to my favorite group of fish once again. Back in April the tools of the trade consisted […]