I’m not seeing much of Victor, Idaho this fall. Almost immediately after Africa, Granny and I headed to Wolfeboro, New Hampshire to spend time with my family for Thanksgiving. We haven’t hit a Holiday in over fifteen years so Mom was extremely happy. There’s not much fishing going on so to occupy ourselves we … Read more
I made it from my tent in Tanzania to my door in Victor, Idaho in exactly 50 hours. That may seem long to some but to me it’s incredible and should remind us all what a magnificent time this is to live. To be able to catch tigerfish on Friday and Snake River Cutthroats on … Read more
It’s the final day of week two and the final day for me also. Today is my fourteenth tigerfishing day in a row and the journey home begins tomorrow. With all that in mind, we needed to end big and therefore we brought Steve and John to the rapids. You know by now that … Read more
There’s no doubt I’d love to catch a vundu on the fly. I’ve dredged vundu waters for almost ten years now but I still haven’t had one eat my fly for sure and dang sure haven’t landed one. With both Oliver and I more than satisfied with our tigerfishing, we went with Andrew on a … Read more
It was an early morning because we switched from the Mnyera River Camp to the Ruhudji River. The Ruhudji is where I started last week. It’s a two hour jeep ride where you see lots of wildlife which this morning included enjoyable sightings of Lichtenstein Hartebeest and not so fun Tsetse flies. When we … Read more
I’ve known Oliver White for about 15 years. Not well however. Oliver moved to Jackson, Wyoming and worked for the fly shop down the street from the one I managed. He became a well known Snake River fishing guide but like most, eventually left Jackson for the “real world”. But he hit the real world … Read more
After yesterdays epic day of fishing, any experienced angler would be suspicious that today might stink. Furthermore, our beat today was the lower Mnyera River, the section where we had our worst fishing day last week. We’re mixing up fishing partners every day and today I was with John Elgee and guide Sven. As … Read more
After Steve landed his first tigerfish last night, a 13lber, I made it clear that this huge fish was not the norm. I didn’t want him to expect such incredible fish all week. That’s never a good thing. But after his second fish he must have thought I was joking with him. Steve and … Read more
Today was the end of the week for my first hosted group. Don, Linda and Mark boarded the charter for civilization at 11 AM and my second group of Steve Reem, John Elgee and Oliver White arrived. Naturally these guys were beat after forty hours of travel from the states. I helped them unpack their … Read more
How time flies – today was the last day of week one. You wait and plan for a year and then the trip itself goes past in a blink of an eye. The good news is it’s been a great one for everyone and we ended big with solid action, hamburgers and the premiere of … Read more
Today was back in the boat with Mark Del Frate. Mark and I fished together earlier this week over on the Ruhudji. You may remember we worked very hard for just couple nice fish. We hoped today would be a better one. We left camp very early with guide Greg. We were on the … Read more
It rained hard at 3 AM. The wind howled and our tent shook and flapped as if things were about to hit the fan like in India last May. Luckily, the mini storm was short lived and when I headed for coffee at 5:15 only a few puffy clouds lingered. Looks like we dodged a … Read more