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…