And the tour rolls on with my presentation, “Trout Bumming the World” tonight in Hartford, CT for the East Haddam Fish & Game Club. Then tomorrow starts the Marlboro Fly Fishing Show. I hope to catch up with all my New England friends at the show. I’ll have my famous coffee mugs, steins, sun shirts … Read more
2,500 miles of driving through hectic Rocky Mountain winter road conditions (Victor, ID – Denver – Victor – Bozeman – Boise – Victor – Pocatello) for fly fishing shows along with delivering 16 presentations in 10 days finally comes to an end. However the tour is far from over. I’m presently flying to Boston for … Read more
Winter continues. I’m about to leave on my long drive from Bozeman, MT to Boise, ID. I had a fun gig here last night with Madison/Gallatin Trout Unlimited and now it’s to the Western Idaho Fly Fishing Expo for two full days on Friday and Saturday. The Western Idaho Fly Fishing Expo is a … Read more
As soon as I chase these rascals off my apple trees it’s on my way to Bozeman, MT. Tonight I speak to the Madison/Gallatin Trout Unlimited Club. This is my fifth time speaking here and my presentation tonight will be “Fly Fishing the Lakes of Yellowstone”. If you live in MT come on down. … Read more
Hard to believe I’m sitting here at my computer and the Denver Fly Fishing Show is over. How time flies when you’re having fun. Or perhaps how time flies when you are so busy at these gigs. Granny and I drove down to Denver Thursday. After the big snowstorm on New Year’s Day I … Read more
At a glance I look like lucky guy that does nothing but fly fish and travel, but actually I’m a lucky guy that’s made fly fishing his living. There’s a ton of work behind the scenes. Just imagine writing a blog post for every single fishing day for more than the last ten years. … Read more
Happy New Year everyone from Granny and I. It was a beautiful day of dumping snow. Of course it snowed because I need to drive all the way to the Denver Fly Fishing Show tomorrow to start my show circuit. Weather has not been on my side in recent weeks! I want to start … Read more
I didn’t want to get my expectations too high that we’d fish Dubai today. The weather has been cruel much of this trip. Nick Bowles and I bagged fishing yesterday due to wind and today’s forecast had more of the same. But we went to bed crossing our fingers, and lo and behold, when we … Read more
While Sammy probably finds himself somewhere over the North Atlantic Ocean on his return home, I remain in Dubai with my great friend Nick Bowles, founder of Ocean Active Fly, and his family. It was 2014 that we met and started fly fishing Dubai together. We hit it off so well I moved into his … Read more
This has been a challenging expedition to the Indian Ocean that began with a cyclone in the Seychelles. That storm sent us to Dubai early but rare rains messed Dubai up. And today in Musandam we got on the water very early trying to beat an incoming storm. We had rain and wind right from … Read more
The hunt for a monster giant trevally began with an early departure from Khasab port in Musandam with Ocean Active Fly. To say this is a rugged region of this planet is an understatement. Until 2008 this region was only accessible by air, boat or a ten hour drive. Now there are fast ferries from Muscat, … Read more
Today was a travel day for Sammy and me. We left Southern Oman and traveled to Musandam, the northern part of Oman. There’s a catch however, Musandam is not connected to the rest of Oman. Oman is divided by the country of United Arab Emirates (UAE). This is called and exclave and very unique. … Read more