Category Archives: Saltwater
Mexico with Smith Optics, for dorado
Ok, the thought of visiting Mexico is not so appealing when it’s 90-some degrees in Montana today, but this video should get you fired up to book early for late fall and winter. That’s when you’ll want to get out … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Gear, Industry, Saltwater
Tagged Chromopop lenses, Smith Optics, Which are the best fly fishing glasses
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Buy Simms Saltwater Flats Boots
I’ve used these in Belize for a week and not much else. I would say they are in great shape and would serve well on the flats, anywhere from the Bahamas to Belize, Cuba if you’re Canadian or willing to … Continue reading
Bimini: Fly-Fishing for Permit, Too
Hopefully you’ve had a chance to read my feature on fly-fishing in Bimini, which is running in the current issue of Fly Rod & Reel. I was amazed at that place and would like to find a way to buy … Continue reading
Posted in Saltwater, Travel
Tagged Fly Fishing Bimini, fly fishing for permit, how to catch bonefish, John Havlicek
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Is It OK To Kill Fish For The Record Book?
Notice I could have headed this post with the line, Woman Catches New World Record Tarpon. But I think the point here is the fish died. And for what? A name in the record book. Certainly that lady isn’t going … Continue reading
Posted in Conservation, Culture, Saltwater
Tagged Florida tarpon, fly fishing record tarpon, World record tarpon
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For Sale: Tom McGuane Book Collection
I have a hardbound, first edition of Thomas McGuane’s The Longest Silence for sale, but it doesn’t stop there. I have a hardbound, second edition of McGuane’s Live Water (in a slipcase), which was published by Meadow Run Press with … Continue reading
Winter Dreaming . . . for bones and permit
Been organizing the last couple days, first the winter steelhead bag and now the bonefish and permit duffel. While I was organizing flies the sun peaked out and I took a few shots of my loot. Just looking at flies … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Flies, Saltwater, Travel
Tagged Bahamas bonefish, bonefish flies, fly fishing for bonefish, fly fishing for permit, permit flies
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Bonefish Observed in Crazy Spawning Behavior
Ran across this e-mail today and thought all of you would enjoy reading it, especially you who have thrown for the bone in the Bahamas and elsewhere. Pretty cool information and it’s kind of crazy to try to picture thousands … Continue reading
Bonefish and Tarpon Trust’s Belize Flats Trip
About this time of year I start thinking about Caribbean possibilities and this one is particularly intriguing. Fish like crazy and help a great research cause in the process. What’s not to like. Give this a read. Let me know … Continue reading
Fred Thomas Fish Art: Discount
Many of you know that my father, Fred Thomas, is one of the country’s best wildlife artists and I thought I would share his work with you from time to time. Fred is willing to offer a discount to AT … Continue reading
El Pesador Lodge’s Tarpon Tagging Expedition
Here’s your chance to help answer the $64,000 Question, “Are our fish, their fish?” Is it possible that the giant tarpon we see late in the summer every year in Belize are the same fish anglers see in the Florida … Continue reading
Posted in Conservation, Culture, Saltwater, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Belize, El Pescador, Fly Fishing for Tarpon, Tarpon research
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