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Summer fishing conditions brings everything to a lull. In most places you can’t fish, and in the places you can fish the crowds and repetitive nature found on these pressured waters makes you mentally check out at some point. You are fishing to pets that have been pounded day in and day out since … Read more about WHEN THE LIGHT STARTS TO FADE: CAPITALIZING ON THE INITIAL TRANSITION FROM SUMMER TO FALL CONDITIONS

I’ve written extensively, whether it be a core theme of an article, or just a sidebar, about thinking outside the box and testing theories for yourself when it comes to this sport. I think it is important, and increasingly so every year as I seek a bigger rush to replace the déjà vu that is catching … Read more about Good Information: One Nugget at a Time

Timing a trip to a place you’ve never been before, or even spent a limited amount of time but know little about, is a tough decision. Often, you look up prime time and realize there are two choices. The safe and consistent fishing, or the risky but potentially exceptional fishing. In heading west … Read more about THE RIGHT TIME TO GO WEST

This past May, I had a wedding to attend in Playa Del Carmen Mexico and felt it was wrong breaking my cardinal rule of boarding an airplane without a fly rod with me. To rectify things, I did some research and came to find the southern part of Mexico near the Belize border had some remote and unique … Read more about FLATS FISHING IN CHETUMAL BAY MEXICO: REMOTE. AUTHENTIC. LOTS OF PERMIT.

There is a reason that each gamefish is respected. Trout are respected for the places they are found and for their good looks. Golden dorado and other exotic species like peacock bass are respected for their predatory nature and the violent strikes. And permit are respected because they are a smart … Read more about HOW GOOD ARE YOU? A QUESTION THAT ONLY PERMIT CAN ANSWER

Finding a fishing partner is a concept that should be simple. Find someone else that fishes and go fish with them. But because this is a psycho sport, anglers get selective. And I get it. A good fishing partner needs to have a few essential qualities. First, they need to make time to fish and be … Read more about I Love This Game

As I have eluded to in other posts, I think that going from beginner to good in this sport is easier than it has ever been- thanks to the amount of information that anglers have at their disposal to learn from. Once you go from beginner to good however, choosing to want to get better rather than … Read more about GETTING BETTER

When I first started fly-fishing in the 1990s, the sport was just on the rise, but nowhere near what it is today.  There were still classic fly-fishing figures around, and by classic you know the type.  Guys that had fished for decades, smoked a pipe, wore the top hat with flies in it, … Read more about HEROES GET REMEMEMBERED, BUT LEGENDS NEVER DIE: IN MEMORY OF DENNIS SKARKA