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 […]

Not your average girl adventure!

Sharing my great friend Courtney’s recent adventure! ~Mrs. Skinny Water Culture Not your average girl adventure! My adventure began August 13th as I boarded a plane for Houston, Texas carrying my 7,8,9,10wt fly rods as carry on bound for Belize City International, followed by an 11 seater twin engine prop flight to the island of San Pedro, Belize. When I […]

The Island

Rubondo is the Jurassic Park of Tanzania. A relatively unspoiled island teeming with birds, mammals and reptiles. In the complete absence of predators they have been allowed to proliferate, kept in check by the harshness of the dense forest.   Rubondo has a healthy population of a few species of African mammals. Many of them were transplanted to the island […]