2/15/23 - Checking in at the Rod & Gun Lodge in Everglades City, Florida is a trip. The lobby’s filled with ancient stuffed tarpon, snook and redfish, Florida black bears, panthers, Indian head sculptures and wild turkey mount the coffee table across from a reception desk featuring a set of [...]
1/23 and 1/24, 2023 The call of New Orleans in January comes from deep within. It’s a pilgrimage that started for me in the 5th grade when my parents scheduled an unrequested winter break to visit my cousins who lived a bohemian life down the street from a bayou canal near Lake [...]
Fly Fishing the Trout River, Iowa Driftless Residing in the Trout River Log Cabin Guide: Mike Rogers from Bear Creek Anglers Driving east out of Wyoming in mid-October, farm fields in Iowa were dried and heavy with field corn on the outskirts of Decorah. The dark green F-150’s trip odometer [...]
Guide: Eliza Scott, Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming Outfitter: Fly Shop of the Bighorns, Sheridan, Wyoming The odometer read 4204 mi. as we pulled into Sheridan Wyoming, almost dark, a cold light rain peppered my windshield. Sheridan’s main drag might have 10 cross streets, it’s clean and the store fronts are filled with [...]
There’s a wonderful story about a couple of teenagers who met on a gas dock at the edge of the Missouri river near Montana’s Gates of the mountains in the early 1980’s. Stephanie (a professor’s daughter) was about 15 at the time, handsome John (son of the marina manager) was [...]
Guide: Kip Vieth Wildwood Float Trips, Guide Service October 2022 - If you’re interested in chasing muskellunge with a fly rod, the idea of floating the Mississippi river in Minnesota is likely to come up. Muskellunge or muskie, sometimes shortened to musky, is the largest member of the pike family. [...]
October 2022 - We rolled into Hayward late on Sunday afternoon. The world’s largest Muskie (a 143-foot-long sculpture) on the edge of town was just visible from the road in last light. Check-in at the Holiday Inn Express was quick and easy. My wingman Larry Carlson was hungry. Our guide [...]
Gavin Marquart guides the rivers of northern Wisconsin for an outfit out of the Greenbay area called Tight Lines. This is my second trip on the Peshtigo with Gavin, he is a full service guide who put me in the right place at the right time to catch musky on [...]
