A long, hard, and cold week had me looking for an emergency escape hatch around every corner. Not finding one, I sent Adam a text with a semi-desperate plea for him to stop thinking about carp, and instead think about accompanying me on a trip north for some steelhead. It had been two months since our last hellish trip. […]
Steelhead & Frozen Feet
A Wild One
It is Thanksgiving break and my father asked me to go fishing. His requests usually revolve around the game of golf, which I like, its just that compared to fly fishing, golf sucks. Naturally, I accepted the offer to go fishing and we awoke on a cold morning to head to a local tributary.
The Men Who Stare At Nothing…
It’s mid-Fall and I find myself stepping outside to the first chilly air of the fall. Overnight, temperatures plunged into the thirties signaling the end of warmth and the heart of autumn. Leaves are rustling in the woods and being swept out over the yard and clear skies reveal a canopy of stars. It is 5 a.m. and […]
Kings of New York
Of the many fall runs in the Northeast, the salmon run that takes place in New York is surely a main event. Starting in late August, king salmon, coho, atlantics, brown trout, and steelhead all are on the move. For a fly angler looking to legally catch a king salmon on the swing, the earlier in the season you go […]
Runners
A picture gallery of king salmon beginning their upstream journey to spawn and die on the Salmon River, NY. These shots were taken in the first hundred yards of river as pod after pod of fish began moving through some really skinny water.
The Run
Salmon season is winding down in the Great Lakes region but the last two weeks have been utterly insane in terms of the amount of fish pushing through. Despite a drought and a summer of high temperatures, the fish came and they seemed to not want to stop. For the first time, we caught the main portion of the run […]
Roosters
Good Morning Baja After landing the Dorado on fly, we had achieved one of the two things we wanted to do on our guided trip with Baja Anglers. The other awaited us farther up the Sea of Cortez and is one of the sexiest fish alive.
The Most Interesting Carper in the World
When he trout fishes, he sleeps on the bank, dreaming of carp. He wears a ghillie suit in urban parks, to fish. His home water is a place called The Acid Pond.
Big Poppa Pump
After the events soon to be described had transpired, our captain Arturo told us a story of one of his long-term clients from the states. This man had fished with Arturo once a year for the past 7 years. In that time, he landed exactly one single solitary roosterfish. Judging by the day we had, he was either an […]
Dinner For 17
Morning on the very tip of the Baja Peninsula, otherwise known as Cabo San Lucas, and we are taking a taxi to the marina for our second ever guided trip. I have been itching the entire time to go fishing and this was going to be my one shot. My family convinced me to put down the rod and they […]