saddleback-grouper

A Saddleback Grouper Fly Fishing Frenzy

It was a special day here on Farquhar Atoll because I got to fish with longtime friend Michael Williams.  Michael is the brother of Jean Bruun, Paul Bruun’s wife, both of which I fish with on this blog often.  Michael and his Brazilian pal Caio are on this trip thanks to a generous friend that … Read more

Dunking Clouser’s Around the Lobster Traps

Sammy Vigneri and I go all the way back to 1987 as friends.  Grant Hartman and I met down here in Baja in 1996 when I drove down here all the way from Jackson Hole.  Grant had just started Baja Anglers and I was on a six week long trip camped on a beach up … Read more

We Made It to Providence Atoll

Of all the amazing and difficult to get to faraway places around the world that I’ve been fortunate enough to fish, none were as hard to reach as here at Providence Atoll in the Seychelles.  To get here took huge amounts of planning.  Then we got canceled by a cyclone.  There was more planning and … Read more

Fly Rod Nightmares of the Deep

Tim and I planned to do a dredge together here on Anaa Atoll months ago.  A dredge is when you rig your 12-weight with a Scientific Angler Sonar Titan Big Water Taper 450-grain sinking line.  Then you attach 5 feet of straight 150lb test mono and tie on a dangerously heavy size 5/0 Clouser Minnow.  … Read more