I arrived in Phoenix last night and I’m staying with my friends Steve and Lisa Berry of Nomada Fly Fishing. I’m here to deliver presentations to Arizona Flycasters, Sun City Grand Fly Fishing and Desert Fly Casters. Over the last 20 years I’ve spoke down here nearly a dozen times. I enjoy it because Steve … Read more
The reason you haven’t had a blog to read since October is Granny and I sold our Victor, Idaho home of 29 years and had to be out on November 1st. The last two weeks were the most stressful and daunting time in either of our lives. Packing and transporting our remaining things to storage, … Read more
Despite challenging wind all week here on Cape Cod, it’s been an amazing visit. Friends Rick Wilsterman and Bob Lewis and I managed some very nice false albacore fishing, a few random schoolie stripers and another new species for me, the window pane flounder. And hands down, to see great white sharks face to face … Read more
Rick Wilsterman passed me on to my friend Bob Lewis at 5:45 this morning. Bob took me fishing today and then to my gig for the Cape Cod Trout Unlimited Club tonight. Tomorrow he’ll take me to spend a full day with the Cape Cod Fly Rodders then to the airport for home on Friday. … Read more
Friends don’t nickname me “Monsoon Currier” for nothing. While I may not always bring a deluge of rain, I attract all types of bad weather. Apparently this week its strong north wind. Each of my first two days fishing here on Cape Cod with pal Rick Wilsterman, the wind blew a steady 20 mph with … Read more
When Rick Wilsterman and I left the harbor from Chatham, Massachusetts here on Cape Cod, it was obvious the birthday gods were with me. The wind was howling and there no other boats out. Yeah, our pursuit seemed crazy, but in the cut from bay to ocean, birds were diving and the false albacore were … Read more
I hopped on an airplane yesterday and arrived on Cape Cod last night. I should be packing up my life in Victor but all these fun little things like Alaska last month, Czech the last few weeks and now this trip were planned well in advance before knowing I’d be moving. The main reason of … Read more
Me and Team USA are on our flights home now from the World Masters Fly Fishing Championships in the Czech Republic. I expected to be in deep sleep in this little tilted back seat on the 10 hour flight between Amsterdam and Salt Lake City, but I’m so overtired I can’t sleep. Competition uses every … Read more
Morning comes early when you need to be up at 4:30. But me and the USA Masters Fly Fishing Team headed out on the final day of the competition here in the Czech Republic. We had work to do. After the first two sessions our team sat at 4th place. Unfortunately, there was distance between … Read more
The nice thing about the World Masters Fly Fishing Championships is that the schedule takes it easy on us. They give us a day off between sessions 1 & 2 and 3 & 4. Today was that day. For the most part we re-rigged our set ups. I have a new leader on my … Read more
It was a long dreary bus ride to Sector 1 of the Upper Morava River for me to start competition today for the World Masters Fly Fishing Championships here in the Czech Republic. For nearly two weeks the weather has been spectacular, but of course, the first competition day it had to rain. While the … Read more
We moved into our World Masters Fly Fishing Championships hotel today, Wellness Hotel Diana. The place is high up in the rolling hills outside of Zábřeh Czech Republic. It’s beautiful but there will be little time to enjoy its features. Instead of swimming in the pool or a few nice pilsners in the bar this … Read more