Been a nice visit up here in Wolfeboro, NH over the holidays with family. I hardly ever settle down for long anywhere and I almost never go a few weeks without my fly rod in hand. Granny and I have been hanging low, eating too much, watching lots of football, sleeping in and believe it … Read more
Happy Holidays everyone! Sorry to have gone dark since that last post from Borneo. Seems a few of you were worried about me and I appreciate your reaching out. (Photo not our house!) All is good. I walked in the door of our Hayward, WI house (with our new garage for the van and … Read more
It didn’t rain last night here in the Borneo rainforest therefore we were able to fish a few hours today before starting our long journey home. Unfortunately, despite not raining, the Jeromai River was still flowing huge and the color red. Though we’ve pulled a few Hail Mary’s out of such water this week, you … Read more
Both photos taken from nearly the same exact spot 15 hours apart. To help with the scale of things, if you look close at yesterday one of our boat man is at water’s edge. You can also use that branch dipping down into the water. A 25 foot rise! Disaster! When … Read more
With only 2 ½ days left of a nine day fishing trip to the boonies of Borneo Indonesia, the pressure was on to catch my first red kaloi today. The peculiar species has eluded me and it’s not exactly a hop, skip and a jump to get over here. Our location is basically the antipode … Read more
We left home ten days ago and today was our first full day of fishing. Hard to believe but true. There’s been a few hiccups to say the least on this journey so far. Most caused by horrific rains. But last night there was no rain and for the first time the river cleared and … Read more
You could probably tell the way I ended yesterday’s blog that I wasn’t confident in a rainless night. Things looked good but they looked good the night before too. At 10 pm the lightening flashes started and distant thunder gained on us fast. Disappointingly, I could hear the rain falling a mile away. It was … Read more
“Our fishing should be no less than incredible tomorrow if it doesn’t rain tonight” was yesterday’s blog quote before bed last night here in the boonies of Borneo. I was feeling confident. The sky was clear and full of stars. But at midnight I was woken to flashing lightening. At 1 am the roar of … Read more
We didn’t exactly “roll” in to camp here in Borneo last night easy breezy like I made the end of yesterday’s blog sound it would be. It was a hellacious 4 x 4 grunt that surpassed the difficult factor I once met on a Bolivia 4 x 4 camp transfer years ago. While the drive … Read more
Losing two days of fishing when you’re as far away as Borneo is a major bummer. But when you originally scheduled nine days it’s not so bad. The two days spent lounging here in Jakarta wasn’t the end of the world. My body clock adjusted to the 12-hour time difference. I rested. I worked. And … Read more
I thought my next post would come from the rainforest in Borneo but unfortunately as I was leaving Amsterdam Tuesday evening I met travel challenges. First was a 90 minute delay on KLM departing Amsterdam for Singapore. A departure interruption on what was already a 12 hour flight was a drag, but also added stress … Read more
Seems like I was making my last Wisconsin cast minutes ago but the reality is I’m in the KLM Lounge in Amsterdam making the best of a long layover about 36 hours later. I left Duluth on the 6 pm flight to Minneapolis yesterday then last night caught the redeye to Europe. In about six … Read more