You may remember over the years that Sammy has a place in Baja which is one of the reasons I’m down here so much. He recently got a nice truck that he is now keeping here. He got it for accessing remote areas for fishing and today was its maiden voyage. Sammy can be … Read more
A number of years ago Grant Hartman took Sammy and I up the Pacific side of Baja in search of Pacific snook. While the snook weren’t around we found many other fun species to catch including some Pacific cubera snapper (dog) around a rocky point. It was late that day and we only fished for … Read more
Mornings are cool here on the Pacific side of Baja in March. It’s also foggy until the sun comes up. Regardless, myself, Sammy, Grant and our guide Jose left early in order to make the approximately 15-mile ride into the Pacific for a chance at yellowfin tuna on the fly. There was also some … Read more
If there’s one new fish species I hoped to add to my list this week down here in Baja it’s one of the Pacific snook. Here they have the black snook and the white. Somehow both have eluded me despite numerous trips since 1996. But today, I was able to knock off the white. … Read more
California tour – Pyramid Lake Nevada – Home Sweet Home. Sounds awesome and easy. It wasn’t. My 750-mile drive from Pyramid Lake to Victor, Idaho was a slippery snowy Interstate 80 hell. Made it in 12 hours though. Once home I caught up on bills, shoveling, preparing for the next leg of the speaking tour … Read more
When I began working in the fly shop in Jackson Hole, WY in 1987, we had VHS tapes playing while customers roamed. One tape was of Larry Shoenborn’s TV show, Fishing the West. Larry was catching Lahontan cutthroat from a ladder in Nevada on Pyramid Lake. The once believed extinct cutthroat were gigantic! I had … Read more
I’ll make this blog quick being my turn around from Indianapolis to leaving for California was less than 48 hours. Furthermore, I’m driving through this leg of the tour because this trip entails speaking tonight at Tracy Fly Fishers presenting, “Four Seasons of the Yellowstone Trout Bum”. Tomorrow I start the Pleasanton Fly Fishing Show … Read more
Most of the events that I deliver my presentations at are specifically fly fishing shows and clubs. But annually I speak at the Indianapolis Boat, Sport and Travel Expo. Its massive exposition with everything from boats and RV’s to hunting and fishing. Though the show brings me in to do fly fishing seminars, fly … Read more
My show break is over and today I’m on the way to the Indianapolis Boat, Sport and Travel Show. This is not one of the “Fly Fishing Shows” I usually do. This one has some fly fishing stores and manufacturers but is a more standard Sport Show with boats, trucks, hunting dogs and some big … Read more
For years I’ve been the only one to get up and ice fish on Sunday on this annual Wisconsin ice fishing trip. I get out with the guides till around noon then we meet the others at the Pea Patch Bar for burgers and hours of pool shooting followed by dice games at Little Bohemia. … Read more
Our annual ice fishing trip to the Great Northwood’s of Wisconsin has two other purposes beyond the fishing. Have a good time and eat well. Our incredible host George Hillenbrand treats us to the best of the best when it comes to food. Regardless of the feast last night, before heading to the freezing cold … Read more
Friends and I woke up to the Great Northwoods of Wisconsin this morning to begin our annual three days of ice fishing. The thermometer read an invigorating -17 below zero. Back in my college days up in Ashland, Wisconsin, -30 hardly made me flinch. These days I’m smarter. After we read the temps we lollygagged … Read more