I’ll soon be getting on a plane to Miami International Airport, from where I’ll be renting a car to head to Islamorada, also known as The Sport Fishing Capital of the World. My father Mike and I will be flats fishing with Captain Chuck Schafstall, the guide assigned to us by Orvis Endorsed operation Florida
Category: Saltwater
I Don’t Mind Sayin’
“Well I tried to fake it. I don’t mind sayin’. I just can’t make it.” -America (Public service announcement for non-70’s music aficionados: “Horse with No Name” was recorded by America, although often mistaken for Neil Young. Quoted here is the slightly less famous “Sister Golden Hair” which you may wish to revisit or discover
Tarpon Madness – “Lords of the Fly” Review and Musings
This at times bizarre 1973 film is referenced in “Lords of the Fly” by Monte Burke, released in 2020. “As the tarpon neared, he made one long, slow strip of the line. The fish veered toward the fly, engulfed it, and leapt, its body lurching completely out of the water, before crashing back in. It
Haha, Very Funny: Chasing Albies with Little Tunny Charters
Fellow blog writer Ashu Rao and I had made last minute plans to fish for false albacore in Vineyard Sound out of a boat with a guide. The challenge of hooking finicky “hard tails” like bonito and false albacore that prefer warmer water temperatures than striped bass has led to their being nicknamed “funny fish.”