Category: Adventures

Bonefish Thirty Inches of Attitude

Bonefish are built like torpedoes, named for their exceptionally bony flesh. They are silvery, striped, fork-tailed, and streamlined for speed. Nothing compares to sighting a school of silvers and watching them transform from skittish and paranoid to marauding predators when they spot your fly. Sight fishing from the boat deck doesn’t make catching bonefish easy. It makes……….

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Fly-Fishing More Than The Catch

More Than the Catch, if you take the time, the discovery is endless. Many people tie happiness and success to numbers. A rising market brings comfort. A full creel becomes the story. But what matters most rarely shows up that way. There’s more to fly-fishing than a fish inhaling your fly and stripping line, making your reel sing. It is a highly refined, nuanced form of solitary socialization.

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Fly-fishing for Reds in an Arctic Blast

I’ve always viewed life as a sport—one that rewards attention, extra effort and adaptation. Growing older has shown me that survival is also a sport. Conditions change, margins narrow, and the cost of complacent contentment rises. Serious engagement is required. What worked yesterday may collapse mid-stream today. Preparation only matters if it’s adaptable.

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Blue-Line Fly-Fishing My First Time

Blue-line fly-fishing my first time came about when I suddenly realized there was a word and a concept for how I spent my childhood. No one in my family fished or hung-out in the outdoors. But on my own, I played in small streams the way other kids catch baseball, play games in the street or build with Legos. I was drawn to the outdoors by some inexplicable force……

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Cold Weather Fishing

Cold weather fishing on a Google search gives you advice on gear and adapting your techniques. “Cold weather fishing requires adapting your techniques, targeting warmer water areas, using slower presentations, and considering live bait instead of lures, as fish metabolism slows down in colder temperatures.” What about your metabolism? Before you even consider presentations, keeping ice out of your guides, the right flies or (heaven forbid) switching to live bait, think more foundationally. Assess your physical condition.

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