That shadow across its back is from my head. It was actually closer before I fumbled for my camera. Gators don’t mind the brackish too bad, do they?
Tagged: alligator, fishing peril, Florida wildlife, gators
Those are the hands of Jason Puris of Thefin.com releasing a striper in the surf. Jason proved a huge help to getting our book project off the ground. Tosh Brown took some awesome shots in incredibly harsh conditions and posted some of them here, in a lightbox on his site. Now my job starts. Time to put some real thought onto the page, rather than firing off blog posts. Thanks again to Jason, Paul Dixon, Jim Levison, John McMurray, Mike Warecke, and the Salty Fly Rodders of New York.
Tagged: fall run, flies in lips, sandpaper thumbs, striped bass, stripers, sunset cliche
Tosh Brown and I have been working on making an idea for a book project a reality. A “large format pictorial on fly-fishing the Northeast coast” won’t work without large format-worthy pictures. So we’re blasting our way through some of the fall run this week. We’re in the middle of fishing around New York Metro and surrounding salt, with Tosh working the lens.
Tagged: books, Departure Publishing, fall run, real photographers, striped bass, stripers
Bloggers sent me a lot of stuff this year in the form of flies, fly boxes, t-shirts, tunes and fly tying scissors. Michael Gracie, Matt Stansberry, Roughfisher, Keith Barton, Jason Puris, Murdock…all sent something my way. I need to finally give something back. Some of you know I like hitting the ditches when I visit South Florida for the funky payoff. So I’m offering up a Ditch Fishing Kit. This includes: –The Redington Predator 6w rod they sent me to demo for a ditch rod review. –A couple of mutant flies. –A 6th Finger tying scissor from the man who coined the term “Brownlining.” –A long sleeve bass t-shirt from Apex Predator. RULES Bloggers only. If you have a fishing related blog that’s been…
Going to high school reunions is a phenomenon we all must endure at some point, and so it was with my 20th down in Florida. I guess we had a hell of a class back in the day, as everyone who came back turned out to be pretty solid. I stayed at my buddy Z’s house out in horse country. When you live in horse country you can have cool wheels like a John Deere Gator that your friends can take to explore the resident fly water. Z also has a center console that he took offshore dolphin fishing on Friday morning. I didn’t get there until Friday evening. I had three phone calls from the boat by the time I landed. Which means…
Tagged: Midwest tour, Ramen pride, shore lunch
Tagged: chasing big fish, muskellunge, muskie
We had a bunch of these old wooden lures in random places in the boat shed. It’s got some teeth marks on it.
Tagged: Classics, fishing paraphernalia, old school, wooden lures
Messing with an app called CameraBag. No reason.
