DOUG’S BONEFISH WALKABOUT AT CAYO ROMANO
Raconteur extraordinaire Jim Woollett sends us his photo essay on Doug Jeffrie’s circuitous journey through the mangroves during our last trip to Cuba. For Doug, it is not enough to catch a bonefish. Doug ups the ante and makes the game more challenging while getting some aerobic exercise at the same time. I’ll let Jim […]
CUBA: CAYO ROMANO… FINALLY!
In retrospect, we were very lucky to be able to fit this Cuba trip in-between the Delta and Omicron variants.* We were forced to reschedule this trip to the north coast of Cuba three times due to Covid and now, we finally decided to go for it on the 4th attempt. It wasn’t going to […]
CAYO ROMANO CUBA: MIKE AND CHUCK’S DOUBLE GRAND SLAM
Cayo Romano, Cuba…. Double Slam, 18 Nov 2021 November 18 dawned with promise following two and a half days of windy, cloudy weather punctuated by passing squalls. Scott Heywood was the Angling Destinations host for this trip and he arranged for Mike Schwartz and I to fish with Leo that day, knowing that Leo was […]
ABACO, BAHAMAS WAS MORE THAN WORTH THE TRAVEL HASSLES!
We just returned from a truly wonderful trip to Little Abaco Bonefish Lodge. The first question everyone had about Abaco Island upon my return was “How does the island look after the hurricane?”. Well, Abaco is a bit tattered. The evidence of the devastation Hurricane Dorian wreaked is everywhere: trees snapped off mid-trunk, wrecked cars […]
THE BEARS OF KATMAI
The bears of Alaska’s Katmai Reserve are legendary. They grow to obscene sizes and luckily, tolerate anglers who show any small amount of common sense. It is not unusual to fish with bears close enough to make those experienced with brown bears in the interior of Alaska or Kamchatka or Yellowstone shudder. Prior to hibernation […]
BIG RAINBOWS IN ALASKA’S KATMAI/ILIAMNA AREA
We had planned this trip seemingly a decade ago. We had originally been a group of 12. A very sad death, Covid and the lodge’s inevitable shutdown last summer had all conspired to winnow the size of our group and postpone its start date. But now, here we were. With half our group at the […]
TURN AND BURN TRIP TO ROATAN
I arrived back at La Pescadora Lodge after a day of searching for “pinche palametas”, also known as Permit. As I walked in the lodge, I saw a message on my phone from my friend Nick Kelley. He wanted to know how the fishing was and if I was available to help him on a […]