Granny and I have been up at 4:30 every day this week here at 4 Corners Corcovado Beach Lodge. It’s been awesome. During winter in the US we tend to miss sunrises while hibernating from the cold. Not here. Here you can’t help but wake up the minute the birds and the howler monkeys start … Read more
Our inshore boat day down here at 4 Corners Costa Rica in Corcovado had a magnificent start. We traveled about 30 minutes to a pinnacle rock and I was about to send down my heaviest Clouser Minnow on my 500 gr sinking line and hang on tight. Just as I took position to cast my … Read more
Once again it was easy for Granny and I to get up at 4:30 AM down here in Costa Rica at the Corcovado Beach Lodge on the Osa Peninsula. Today our 4 Corners hosts and founders Chuck Hill and Marvin Rodriguez took us on the Dos Mas blue water boat with Captain Donald Mc Guinness … Read more
4:30 AM came early here with 4 Corners Costa Rica at their Corcovado Beach Lodge destination. But that doesn’t mean it was hard to wake up. Granny and sprung from bed and hit the tasty local coffee on the dinning room porch. We were headed out for some inshore fishing for roosterfish, jacks, snapper and … Read more
I haven’t said much about a run down to Costa Rica with Granny to visit our friends at 4 Corners. I guess the reality of it is I haven’t had time since the founder of 4 Corners, Charles Hill, put together a plan for Granny and I to visit way back in September. I’ve been … Read more
After writing two weeks’ worth of big time blogs about this sensational Australian fly fishing adventure, it’s time to close the book. This has been a really fun adventure to document. Everything about this trip was a success and I’ve already talked with Aussie Fly Fisher and Yellow Dog Flyfishing Adventures about locking dates for … Read more
We started our Murray cod fishing early today. We got up at 4:20 AM and were unlocking a gate before 5. Its late spring here in the bush of Australia and the birds were singing. The leaves on the trees and shrubs are new and still that brighter early season green. Josh Hutchins guided his … Read more
Last night was the end of two back to back travel days here in Australia. Thursday, I left the Wildcard mothership in the Wessel Islands closing the book on my Yellow Dog / Aussie Fly Fisher hosted trip. Then I flew to Sydney and stayed at Joshua Hutchins house (owner of Aussie Fly Fisher). Yesterday … Read more
A special thanks goes out to Yellow Dog Flyfishing and Aussie Fly Fisher for working together to create an absolutely incredible trip for me to host in the Wessel Islands of Australia. As a hardcore angler and not so good an organizer I could not have done such a trip without them. Furthermore, I thank … Read more
Its day eight and the last day of fishing here in the north of Australia of my long awaited Yellow Dog Hosted trip. We plan for these trips for months and months and in the case of this one, almost two years. Then in a blink of an eye they’re over. But this one has … Read more
If you’ve not heard of the blue bastard until reading the blog this week, I’m certain you’re not alone. This burly flats dweller is not widespread and unique to the northern reaches of Australia – far from where most saltwater fly anglers ever go. But here in Australia, the blue bastard (Plectorhinchus caeruleonothus) is one … Read more
“Red sky in morning sailors take warning” is a deep-rooted saying that means storms and rain is coming. It may be old but in my experience its 100% true. That’s why as I worked on my blog this morning on the upper deck, I was a bit concerned for today’s weather. Funny thing, we … Read more