Category Archives: Fishing Stories
Sacred Fishing Holes
By Alice Tesar It might have been the coyotes that kept me awake the night prior. More likely it was thoughts about the section of river we planned to visit that day. I’d heard a lot about the spot and debated it’s worthiness. I had heard that...
Last Cast Bonefish
Bonefishing, for me, is the purest form of the drug. I’m just returning from the first of three G&G Bonefish Schools in the Bahamas. This trip was more of a reunion than a school, with better than half of the anglers returning for the second or...
Burning Chrome
By Louis Cahill The sun never rises. Not today, at least not here on the Deschutes River. The light is an eerie yellow-orange. The air is hot and dry, and the wind is howling. It’s unsettling. You’d expect it to feel like fog or overcast but it...
First Shot
By Justin Pickett "With an explosion, the water suddenly gave way to expose the shimmering scales and black fins of a perfect Everglades Silver King." The weeks of preparation, tying, and fantasizing had come to an absolute end as I found myself sitting in the backseat of...
DRIFTING
By Marcus Saunders That gentle morning light seems to push back all those fears that hound our minds at 3am. Glancing sideways out of the ute window, I see vague outlines race by as the human world slowly comes into focus; the radio is silent, and...