Rainer and Noel’s Excellent Camping Adventure 2015

This past weekend was the Annual Camping trip hosted by Rainer and Noel Schaels. This was the 7th straight year they have hosted this awesome event. I was an attendee last year for the very first time and I had a blast, this year was no different. The anticipation has been building up to this trip for the last month or […]

Fat Guys in Little Boats

Currently on the way to the Florida Keys for a day of fishing. I writing this blog on behalf of Derek Rust, Jason Fernandez, and Joe Mirrione. For the past couple of weeks we have been mentioning about a tandem canoe with with four us. Yesterday we finally made it happen. We have been wanting to take out Derek for quiet […]

SWC 2015

Well, 2014 was a pretty crazy year. That’s all history, so it’s merely a mirage when it really comes down to it. Just like the years prior. That’s just the nature of time. Nothing else matters except the moment that you’re in….. At this moment I’m up at the office steaming Bad Perms to get them looking right so I […]

West And East

I did not fish the tarpon migration this year. Nor did I give chase to hefty spring time redfish wallowing in a meadow of turtle grass or pot-bellied snook foraging before the gentle bubble and foam of a mid-summer beach break. I haven’t even been south of Wall Street in the last six months.  All of which is decidedly uncharacteristic behavior for someone […]

BaCk To ThE BaSiCs

Driving home from a long weekend at the lake house I realized that I barely wet a line. With the weather still cooperating I decided to run home, drop off the BOTE boards and swing by a local pond to fish for some largemouth bass. I pulled up to the pond to see that it had been sprayed for weed […]

Bronze backs and Khaki Slacks

I have been trying to get these pictures up for two weeks now… I had the pleasure of drifting the Kankakee River with close friend Capt. Will Winans two Friday’s ago. We had multiple cold fronts push through full of wind and rain that day but we still managed to catch a few and have a some serious laughs in […]