April 30 – May 1Busy, busy, busy as always. Granny and I made a spontaneous decision to head up to Yellowstone yesterday afternoon to do our annual early season trip to check out the wildlife before the hoards of people show up. It’s one of our favorite jaunts of the year even though we don’t … Read more
April 29Last night was a big night in Idaho Falls, Idaho. I was the guest speaker at Jimmy Gabettas’s All Seasons Angler Fly Shop. It was the businesses 25th year anniversary and Simms was a sponsor for the event providing raffle items, clinics and food and drink. Well known fly tier and author Kelly Galloup … Read more
April 20 Madagascar – Day 21 It was a grunt to put it lightly. First was our rainy pirogue ride from Isle Aux Nattes to Isle Saint Marie (15 Minutes). Then a taxi ride to the airport (10 minutes). We were soaked. Then we flew to Antananarivo (1 hour). We stayed overnight there (15 hours). … Read more
April 19 Madagascar – Day 20 Madagascar Air has been unimpressive so far this trip. I won’t knock them too bad because they run typical to several other remote region airlines we’ve flown throughout the world. That is, the planes are usually a little rough like our first flight where the air blowers were broken. … Read more
April 18 Madagascar – Day 19 Being at La Petite Traversee of Isle Aux Nattes is about as far from Victor, Idaho as one can get and today is the dreaded day Granny and I head back. Days like today are when we all wish we could tap our flip flops, close our eyes and … Read more
April 17 Madagascar – Day 18 The South African girls let out a loud scream last night just as we all settled to our rooms. They had a gigantic spider in their room. You may remember, I wrote of one we had in our room in Tanzania last November. I even posted a picture for … Read more
April 16 Madagascar – Day 17 Granny thought we had another rat in our room last night (We had one last week – forgot to mention that). She awoke me to some scratching noise. I recognized the sound immediately. It was a crab. And I don’t mean some small ocean crab; it was a monster … Read more
April 15Madagascar – Day 16 Even though yesterday led me to believe the fishing here isn’t too good I began the day by chucking some Crazy Charlie shrimp patterns in front of our room. I’ve managed to catch a fish every single day of this trip that I’ve been near water. It’s important I keep … Read more
April 14 Fly Fishing Isle Saint Marie Madagascar – Day 15 We get up early every day but today I must have wandered out to the beach before 5 AM. It was well before sunrise and the lighting on the water was incredible. After a short walk and some play time with a local lemur, … Read more
April 13 Madagascar – Day 14 Granny organized most of this great adventure and I must say she may be in charge for life. I simply picked places that geographically should have fish and she took care of the logistics of getting there and where we stay. She’s’ been on enough Jeff Currier “wing-it as … Read more
April 10-12 Madagascar – Day 11-13 I wish I could tell you that since I signed off on the 9th that we had an on time safe flight to Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar before heading for the jungles, but we didn’t. If you remember, Granny and I were waiting for our flight in a … Read more
April 9, 2011 Madagascar – Day 10 We told Frankie our flight didn’t leave Nose Be until 7:45 PM tonight, yet at 4:30 AM this morning he woke us up in frenzy. “The flight to Johannesburg is at 7:45 AM not PM!” he shouted. At first I was really disoriented, remember its 4:30 AM. Where … Read more