Exploratory Fly Fishing Trip to Gabon comes to an End

Man, this over 50 crap is for the birds.  Yes I’ve fished hard this week and its saltwater beach fishing for the most part and it’s intense.  It wasn’t easy getting out of bed at 5 this morning and my body was in shambles.  That snapper last night may have busted my...

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Dedicated to a Big Cubera Snapper on the Fly

Tides run about 55 minutes later each day.  When we got to Sette Cama Camp here in Gabon sunrise was perfect for fishing the mouth of the estuary for tarpon and to try for giant African threadfin.  Now the best tides are well after sunrise and because that’s midday,...

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Fly Fishing Gabon for the Slugging Longfin Jack

There was a lot of rain through the night.  And I woke up with a sore bruised left hand from taking the reel handle many times over on that first ginormous tarpon run last night.  We sped to the estuary mouth under ominous skies before dawn.  We had high expectations...

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The Day of the West African Tarpon

Our sleep was short but for me solid for the first time since I arrived in Gabon.  I hopped from bed and headed for coffee at 4:30 then before I knew it I was in the boat enjoying the stars on the way to the mouth of the estuary.  When we got there we parked the boats...

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Storms Slow Fly Fishing in Gabon

It wasn’t Mark Murray that woke me at 4:30 AM it was a major thunderstorm at around 4.  Thunder shook our cabin and flashes of lightening were like strobe lights.  The rain came with it and let’s just say, they don’t make rain like this in Idaho.  It came down like...

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Giant African Threadfin on the Fly

If you look at a map of Gabon we’re on the southern coast exactly at the border of Loango National Park.  It’s a long way from Idaho and takes a few days to adjust to the time change.  Because of this I slept like garbage last night.  It was miserable waking up at...

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Final Leg to Sette Cama Camp in Gabon

I’ve referred to traveling from one side of the earth to the other as entering the “time warp” many times before.  I left the Midwest Fly Fishing Show in Detroit on Sunday night and I’m finally at my destination, Sette Cama Camp in Gabon.  I’m struggling to shake off...

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A Long Road to Fly Fishing in Gabon

There are few fantastic easy-to-get-to fishing destinations these days – particularly when it comes to saltwater fly fishing.  Its Wednesday night in west Africa and I’m in Port Gentil, Gabon on the way to fishing Sette Cama Camp with my friends of Tourette Fishing. ...

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Arrival in Libreville Gabon

It was gutsy flying home for a mere ten hours after the Michigan Midwest Fly Fishing Show Sunday night instead of heading directly to Gabon.  I nearly didn’t make it back to Idaho because of high winds and snow.  But the fish gods were watching and I landed in Idaho...

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The Things We Do for Fishing

I fly a bunch and I appreciate how incredible flying is.  I love it.  And this is a good thing for me.   At 4 PM I finished the bulk of my speaking tour at the Midwest Fly Fishing Expo in Warren, Michigan.  The shows were excellent this season and the people and...

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The Midwest Fly Fishing Expo

It’s off to Michigan tomorrow to speak at the Midwest Fly Fishing Expo.  I spoke at this show back in 2013 and had a great time.  This weekend I’ll be sharing speaking duties with one the all-time greats, Joe Humphreys as well as friends Ed Engle, Skip Morris, Jason...

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Successful Weekend Up North

The tour continues to blaze by.  Thursday nights gig in Great Falls, Montana with Missouri River Flyfishers went off well and the weekend in Lethbridge, Canada for “The Art of Fly Fishing Festival” was a huge success with their largest attendance ever.  I had a great...

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A Flyby at Home

The longest speaking road trip of the year ended late Monday night after the 14 hour drive from Pleasanton, CA to Victor, ID.  I love the peacefulness of the empty highways through Nevada.  It’s like therapy after the traffic on the west coast.  I was so happy to wake...

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The Pleasanton Fly Fishing Show 2016

It was the usual fun evening in Fresno with the Fresno Fly Fishers last night.  Then after my show I drove all the way up to Pleasanton for the Pleasanton Fly Fishing Show that starts today.  This is always a great show so I hope my California friends make it down to...

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I started fly fishing at age 7 in the lakes and ponds of New England cutting my teeth on various sunfish, bass, crappie and stocked trout. I went to Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin, where I graduated with a Naturalist Degree while I discovered new fishing opportunities for pike, muskellunge, walleyes and various salmonids found in Lake Superior and its tributaries.

From there I headed west to work a few years in the Yellowstone region to simply work as much as most people fish and fish as much as most people work. I did just that, only it lasted over 20 years working at the Jack Dennis Fly Shop in Jackson, WY where I departed in 2009. Now it’s time to work for "The Man", working for myself that is.

I pursue my love to paint fish, lecture on every aspect of fly fishing you can imagine and host a few trips to some of the most exotic places you can think of. My ultimate goal is to catch as many species of fish on fly possible from freshwater to saltwater, throughout the world. I presently have taken over 440 species from over 60 countries!

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