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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...