Our Africa trip was long in the making, as Ben, Eli, Ken and I had been talking about fishing Africa for a couple years before we actually made it happen. We started with talks of flying to Zambia with the idea of chasing tigerfish in the Zambezi River and myriad…
My long-time friends Steve, Stephen, and Grace invited me on short notice (a couple weeks out) to join them for a mid-September vacation in the Azores. I had only a vague awareness of the Azores. Essentially, that 1) they are a group of isolated islands somewhere in the eastern Atlantic,…
When George Brinkman called me in the middle of summer 2017 to invite me to come down and fish with him in Mazatlán I told him I needed to save money for my planned 2018 Africa trip. By the end of the same phone call, during which George presented a…
In June 2017 I got the opportunity to complete a river restoration training (Wildland Hydrology‘s Applied Fluvial Geomorphology, AKA “Rosgen Level I”) in Seeley Lake, MT. My employer paid for the course and travel out there, and I took a few vacation days and the weekends bookending that week-long training…
A version of this article was first published in American Currents, Publication of the North American Native Fishes Association, Volume 42, Number 2, Spring 2017. Visit nanfa.org for more information. The Amazon. Home to over 5,600 species of fish, the world’s largest river system is a dream destination for many…
My sister, Ashley, had been in Brașov, Romania volunteering at a children’s hospital for a few months when my wife, at the time (Joy), and I traveled there to visit her as she was wrapping up her final stint and preparing to return to the U.S. We flew out of…
The 2015 Puerto Rico was born out of a desire to escape Michigan’s winter and do some warm weather fishing in Florida, and then discovering flights to San Juan were an even cheaper option. Why not travel further south and enjoy some island life while brushing up on our Spanish?…
Joy and I had an opportunity to go on a fishing trip in June 2014 and after some research we decided that Santa Catalina Island would offer a rich diversity of species in a new habitat that neither of us had ever fished. The kelp forests and cool water of…
After seven weeks in Belize, our extended travels in Central America were coming to an end. Joy and I crossed into Mexico at Chetumal, leaving Belize behind on October 21, 2012. We would fly back to the Minneapolis on the 26th. But first, we enjoyed a few days on Isla…
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