I’m not sure every year keeps getting better, but for certain 2015 ranks up there as one of my best since I quit working the fly shop. I continue to get busier with my business and I fish and travel more than ever imagined. My year started with three months of speaking engagements … Read more
It’s been a good time on Grants boat all week but today our feet were on the ground. It’s Sammy’s and my last day here in Baja and we fished from the beach. Grant, who was not guiding but rather fishing with us, picked Sammy and I up from Cerritos very early and we drove … Read more
The day started very early at dawn under unbelievable skies with a quick dredge where we’ve been sticking the tuna this week. I nailed my second yellowfin tuna on the fly. Sammy picked up Grants fly rig and dredged with me. He had his first yellowfin hook up on the fly but the screaming run … Read more
Whenever I add a tough fish to my fly rod species list the fishing days ahead are relaxing. I didn’t come to Baja for a yellowfin tuna this week but I capitalized on opportunity and yesterday got a beauty. If I don’t get my marlin this trip, so be it. That great fish will come … Read more
If you know me, you know that I’m stubborn. I love a challenge and I’ll stick to almost any challenge until I succeed. I had my butt absolutely handed to me yesterday in a full day attempt to catch a yellowfin tuna on the fly. While I tried, I watched Sammy catch a sailfish and … Read more
Word on the street of Cabo San Lucas last night was that the yellowfin tuna are in just outside the harbor. Without a sighting of a single marlin yesterday we decided to give the tuna a try for the first few hours of the day and try marlin in the afternoon. Years ago at Christmas … Read more
Sammy Vigneri and I became pals back in 1987 when we worked together at the fly shop in Jackson Hole. Sammy was just starting college and I was beginning my career in the fly fishing business. Sammy went on to be OBGYN doctor. By the time he started his practice I’d been running that fly … Read more
Believe it or not I left the good ole USA again today. I’m presently in Cerritos, Mexico with my friend Sammy Vigneri at his sweet place on the beach. Sammy and I fish Baja together often and this week we’ll be after marlin on the fly, a fish that has not been particularly kind to … Read more
I’ve been running wild since returning from Africa. I’ve been drawing on Cliff Boxes for folks for Christmas gifts, shipping coffee mugs and getting ready for a very intense speaking tour for 2016. To really put the pressure on myself, a couple months ago I accepted my annual gig to speak up at Madison Gallatin … Read more
It’s the end of an absolutely special trip through South Africa and Lesotho. Granny and I are presently somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean on one of the longest flights in the world – Johannesburg to Atlanta enroute home. We left Sterkfontein Dam Sunday with Tim Babich and Ryan Hammond and drove to Johannesburg. The guys … Read more