Posts tagged “silver king

VIDEO: Costa Rican Tarpon Awesomeness

Posted on September 20th, 2009

My buddy Stephen Mick has made something very very cool. Here’s the backstory from him. Last spring, as part of a documentary project I was working on, I went to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. to film “wounded warriors” using kayaking, fly-fishing and other sports as a way to help their rehab. One of the soldiers I met, Army Captain Ferris Butler, was working with Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing, a group that uses fly-tying and fishing outings as a way to get injured servicemen and women outdoors. At that time, Ferris was a single-amputee, having lost one leg to an IED in Iraq. Through “limb salvage,” he was trying to save what was left of his other leg. Fast-forward one…

On The Other Side Of Midnight

Posted on March 3rd, 2009

Nothing on the water looks normal at 2 am. Land masses that provide depth perception in daylight warp  into ominous light-flecked shapes. Reflective channel markers pop up unexpectedly in front of the boat moving too fast through black water. But tarpon feed at night and people sleep. The dates are picked, the strategies are being worked out; it’s happening again. Night Ops 1: Drifting live crabs,big water, big-fish. Night Ops 2: Casting flies, light pools, little fish. (Never thought about the light babies until a note from Flies and Fins regular Marshall Demott. Now we know.) Then the tide dies and it’s back to the ramp. The guides are all there mainlining coffee in the dark while they wait for their clients to show.…

  

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