How I Wasted My Summer

So I started this about four months ago, while waiting on an airplane and it seems like I didn’t have more than two minutes to sit and think until now, waiting on another airplane.  The time that lapsed between these two flights included many other small flights, boat rides, despair, safety meetings, hikes, pistol toting, net jobs, filleting, constructing, high […]

The 2013 Herman Lucerne Memorial Backcountry Fishing Championship

I first learned of the Herman Lucerne Memorial  about three and a half years ago. It was during the wee hours of a Monday night. Or a Tuesday morning depending on which side of the sleep cycle you may have been on.   I was shivering at the bottom of a January cold front in my tiny radiatorless room, in […]

“Snook Blitz”

After a slow morning looking for hungry fish on the flats, near Gasparilla Sound, we were ready to call it a day. Bryan, Courtney, and myself had put in some hours blind casting the 8 and 9wt fly rods into the wind. Sore hands and blisters were common on the boat that day. With the wind blowing the water into the harbor […]

GT’s…….. Anybody?

For a long time now,I have been thinking about taking a badass trip somewhere in the Pacific or the Indian Ocean.  This video has made up my mind for me. I originally saw the video while skimming through Bonefish On the Brain this morning.   Anyone interested in going? Clear an hour of your schedule…….

Nile Perch

The word for perch in Swahili is sangara. Each day, we went out in the hopes of catching a sangara kubwa sana, but the very big perch eluded us. Instead we caught a bunch of babies, relatively speaking. Sangara kidogo.