November 5, 2010 We had a little excitement last night. Fortunately it wasn’t in my tent. The South Africans had a baboon spider sharing their residence and were nice enough to show us before they carefully released him back to the wilds. Evidently there are many species of baboon spider but no matter how harmless … Read more
November 4, 2010 With the exception of some wild pigs foraging through the leaves on the forest floor outside my tent it was a quiet night. But somehow I couldn’t sleep. I wasn’t fearing the arrival of African wildlife and should have been tired from long day of casting, but instead I just laid there. … Read more
November 3, 2010 I couldn’t fall asleep last night to save my life. I couldn’t wait to get on the water this morning and couldn’t stop thinking about the possibility of catching a tiger even bigger than 12lbs. Then, when I finally got to sleep at about 1 am, I was awoken by the distant … Read more
October 31 – November 1, 2010 There’s been no time for jetlag on this adventure. Shortly after breakfast yesterday at the SeaCliff Hotel we found ourselves on a large ferry boat named Kilimanjaro headed out into the Indian Ocean for the island of Zanzibar. Zanzibar is famous for its blend of Indian Ocean cultures derived … Read more
It was a long 36 hour door to door trip. Actually add 20 hours for me because I drove up to Bozeman, MT on Thur. Anyhow, we are glad to be here and ready to rock. We got in to Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania two hours late, just after midnight Dar time. Everyone’s luggage made … Read more
One 9 hour flight done. One more to go. We made it to Amsterdam and in two hours we will fly to Kilimanjaro – another 8 hours. We chill there for an hour then fly to Dar Es Salam. It will be another long day and we don’t get in to Dar until 11 pm … Read more
Fished the Snake with Gary Eckman and famous guide Boots Allen. Story tomorrow. . . BIG CUTTYS
July 27 – 28, 2010 I love to travel but it’s always good to be home. Granny and I wait many months to enjoy our summers. One of the favorite things we like to do is to float the many great rivers within a couple hours from home. This week we did our absolute favorite … Read more
July 22, 2010Day 13 I’m sitting at the Oslo airport in Norway homeward bound. I can’t wait to get on planes for the next 20 hours so I can sleep! Yesterday Vladi and I fished the Trysilelva River for Arctic grayling. We slept in and started about 9 am. It was nice to end the … Read more
July 18, 2010 Day 9 The weather has changed. We woke up to a downpour and much colder temps. Throughout the day we had rain and sun and lots of wind. As planned, we slept in and then relaxed and drank our coffee in the salmon shed over looking the Orkla River next to where … Read more
July 16, 2010 Day 7 Exhaustion is catching up with Vladi and me. We crashed out at about 9 pm last night with intentions of fishing by 2 am but neither of us woke up until 5 am. After seeing two good fish caught yesterday the last thing I wanted to do was … Read more