This gallery displays one photo of each species of fish I’ve caught on hook-and-line (591 species). Click here for my angling lifelist in table format. Click images to enlarge (and eventually to view captions containing names and other info, but I still need to add those). Species are grouped into…
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,…
A version of this article was first published in American Currents, Publication of the North American Native Fishes Association (Volume 43, Number 4, Fall 2018). Visit nanfa.org for more information. Note: My article version published in American Currents covered only the first part of my June 2018 trip, mostly in the southern Appalachians…
My friend Ben Cantrell (check out his blog here) moved from Illinois to San Diego in mid-2017 and after some strategic discussions we decided I would visit him there in March, 2018. The timing gave me respite from what had been a long northern Michigan winter, and with rockfish season…
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…
The forecast for Lake Superior Provincial Park in Ontario did not excite me: highs around 55 degrees and lots of rain. So, instead of driving 250 miles north into Ontario for a long weekend of solitary camping and hiking in dreary wet weather I started my trip by traveling 400 miles…
I would love to return to many of the places I’ve visited but when selecting vacation destinations I tend to choose places I’ve never been before. This trip was an exception. I’d already fished in the Florida Keys and Everglades in 2011, which resulted in 22 new species to my…
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…
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?…