In fall of 2016 I was in South Africa visiting and fishing with friends. I ended the trip fishing with my pals of FlyCastaway, Gerhard Laubscher, Ryan Hammond and Tim Babitch. On my last day I had a late night flight home from Johannesburg which gave me time to hang around the FlyCastaway office. The downtime turned into the planning of a masterpiece custom Yellow Dog trip to Providence Atoll in the Seychelles for December of 2019. A custom trip that would be longer than most and gave us the opportunity to divulge upon the best fishing tides of the season.
The three year wait for the trip to arrive seemed like ten. But it gave me time to book eleven anglers to join and to work out many complicated logistics. When departure time came, I must say I was perhaps more excited than I had been for any trip in my life. Soon I was in Mahe, Seychelles with my eleven guests.
But disaster struck after the journey there. The eve before we were literally about to charter our plane then board the mothership Mayas Dugong and begin, I got a call from headquarters. We were going to be delayed due to a threatening storm. That storm turned into a full on – out of season – cyclone. We were trapped on Mahe for a week and never made a cast before having to leave.
Long story short, we were unable to rebook such a custom trip anytime soon. Instead we had to wait almost another three years. Well, the time has come. As you read this blog, I’m on my way for the redo trip to Providence Atoll in the Seychelles. This is a hosted Yellow Dog trip through my friends at FlyCastaway. While not all of my original eleven were able to return with me, five were, and I added the other six. Many of these six were with me in the Seychelles back in November/December.
I’m presently 5 miles high over Greenland on my way over. All I can say is stay tuned my friends. After what is now six years of anticipation, the trip is on. While I’ll do my best to get the daily reports out fast, realize that I won’t have internet during the trip which is April 19-30. Once back to civilization the day by day accounts will load. This should be a good one!
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