Bring in the New Year

2013 will go down as the year of travel.  Most was for work with numerous speaking engagements from coast to coast.  Then I had the good fortune of hosting anglers for peacock bass in Brazil and tigerfish in Tanzania.  Both hosting assignments were for Yellow Dog...

A Whale of Time Comes to an End

My marlin jinx will go on.  There’s not much to say about the fishing today, our last day of this trip.  Grant and his crew tried every trick in the book to entice a marlin to come from the deep to where I could cast my fly to him, but we saw absolutely zero fish. ...

9 Hours of Fishing – 10 Minutes of Casting

Just my marlin luck, I got to fish first this morning but it was absolutely freezing out.  I’ll guess it was in the upper 50ºs or low 60ºs at the most.  It definitely wasn’t the norm for Baja and by no means good conditions to raise striped marlin into fly casting...

A Striped Marlin on the Fly!

It was nice to get a nearly full night sleep after yesterday.  I say nearly because we still didn’t get to bed till around 11 yet we were on our way to the Cabo docks at 5 AM.  Sammy’s condo is near Todos Santos which is about a 45 minute drive to the boat.  The dark...

Fly Fishing for Marlin in Baja

Sammy Vigneri and I were wiped out when we rolled into the Cabo San Lucas marina this morning to meet Grant Hartman, legendary Baja fly fishing guide and founder of Baja Anglers.  We had every right to be.  After a long day of travel we didn’t get to Sammy’s condo in...