Archive

Every outing, logged and ready for another cup of coffee. Find the story that fits your next tide, hatch, or stretch of river.

February 10, 2026
Salt and Salt Air: Stripes and Blues on Assateague
A first-pass from the road to Assateague Island. Striped bass and bluefish carve the surf as the coast whispers of Delaware Bay looming ahead.
February 5, 2026
Chesapeake Bay at Annapolis: Salt, Stripes, and the Docks
A four-hour drive from Smith Mountain Lake lands me in Annapolis, chasing striped bass and bluefish along working docks on the Chesapeake Bay.
February 3, 2026
Smith Mountain Lake: Quiet Bass and Bright Stripes
A winter drive from Hampton Roads to a clear-water reservoir in Virginia, chasing largemouth and striped bass with a patient hand.
January 27, 2026
Davidson River Drift: Rainbow and Brown in Pisgah Cold Water
A winter quest for rainbow and brown trout along the Davidson River, tracing a drumbeat from the Outer Banks to the heart of North Carolina’s Pisgah National Forest.
January 22, 2026
Salt, Silver, and Silence: Cape Hatteras for Red Drum and Striped Bass
A long drive from Lake Murray to Cape Hatteras leads to winter surf for red drum and striped bass, with the sea’s cold breath and distant shoals shaping the hunt.
January 20, 2026
Across Lake Murray for Stripes and Largemouth
A corridor of water, two species, and a quiet drive from Charleston toward the next coast.
January 15, 2026
Across the Harbor: Redfish and Trout, Charleston Water
A three-hour drive from the marshes of St. Simons Island leads to Charleston Harbor, where redfish and speckled trout test the angler’s patience along saltwater tides.
January 13, 2026
Redfish and Trout at St. Simons Marshes
A one-hour drive from Savannah ends among salt marsh flats, chasing redfish and speckled trout along St. Simons Island.
January 8, 2026
Across Savannah's Bend: Bass and Cat along the Georgia Tide
A traveling angler tempers long roads with the tug of largemouth and channel on the Savannah River's tidal bends.
January 6, 2026
Snook, Redfish in the Ten Thousand Islands: A Saltwater Test
From Key West to Everglades City, the mangrove lanes held snook and redfish in quiet patience. I crossed salt paths toward Savannah, learning water’s language along the way.
January 1, 2026
Key West, Hemingway’s Door to the Salt: Tarpon and Bonefish at the Home by the Sea
A road-worn angler walks from the Hemingway Home to the flats of Key West, chasing tarpon and bonefish as the sun roughens the salt. The tale threads memory and water across a state line toward Everglades City.
December 29, 2025
Bluebird Sky, Snow-Lined Trails: A Long Pike Morning
A hunt for northern pike along snow-lashed tributaries under a hard bluebird sky after a cold front, drifting indicators along seam edges with wind-chilled water and patient hands.
December 25, 2025
Frozen Seas, Skittish Bones
A winter chase across ice-locked flats for ghostly bonefish, where dawn light bleeds over frost and the ice shelves sigh with the tides.
December 22, 2025
Bluebird Sky, Sloughs, and Long Northerns
In the Everglades backcountry, under mangroves, chasing pike as a cold front slips out to sea.
December 15, 2025
Bonefish on the Volcano’s Edge
A night run through Pacific volcanic lagoons where bonefish chase stacked perch, while dawn light finds water and danger in the same breath.
December 11, 2025
Dawn on the Windward Flats
A quiet, windswept morning chasing skittish bonefish along bright flats at first light, with breath fog and careful casts drifting along seams.
December 8, 2025
Snow-Lined Tributaries, Dawn, and Yellow Perch
A dawn vigil along snow-lined Great Lakes tributaries, chasing stacked yellow perch under breath-ghosts and drifting indicators.
December 4, 2025
Dawn in a Pacific Lagoon: Bonefish, Snow, and the Quiet Weight of Winter Steel
A quiet trek through volcanic lagoons where bonefish chase chrome and winter steelhead drift under snowfall, a fisherman learns to read ice, water, and breath.
December 1, 2025
Windswept Flats, Snowfall, and the Chase of Skittish Bonefish
A brisk dawn on windswept prairie reservoirs where bright flats move like distant reefs, and bonefish rise to a jigged spoon beneath a light snowfall.
November 27, 2025
Dawn Cuts: Tidal Lines, Ambush Snook, and the First Nor’easter
A slow-troll along weed edges as tides slice spartina and a first push of winter wind sets the water to glass and shadow.
November 24, 2025
Tannin Rivers, Amber Evenings, and Gulf Speckled Trout
A river rode with tannin and wind. A speckled trout chase under amber light along the spartina. A simple day, a stubborn fish, a quiet end that won’t end.
November 20, 2025
Tidal Cuts and First Nor'easter Push
A dawn chase through spartina wedges as tidal cuts braid through islands, chasing migrating striped bass amid bait clouds and the first bite of a nor’easter.
November 17, 2025
Dawn on Blackwater Oxbows
A cautious paddle through fog-lifted oxbows and the burn of double-8 bucktails as prehistoric sturgeon haunt the depths.
November 13, 2025
Dawn in the Bayou Bends
A quiet paddle for monstrous catfish among mossy elbows of cypress, where cedar smoke drifts and embers hover over spartina.
November 10, 2025
Fog Lifts, Flats Heave: Chasing Striped Dreams on a Gulf Coast Marsh
A quiet dawn on marsh grass flats as fog lifts and migrating stripers edge near weed lines. Slow planers, patient lines, and the first birds answering the morning.
November 6, 2025
Amber Light, Marsh Grass, and the Chase for Brook Trout
Gulf coast flats turn to gold at sundown as ghostly brook trout haunt weed edges and the tide lingers.
November 3, 2025
Salt-Stained Piers at Dawn: Chasing Ambush Snook Under Mangroves
A dawn hunt along salt-stung piers, where ambush snook lurk under mangroves as a nor’easter breathes in from the sea.
October 30, 2025
Tail on the Flats, Cedar Smoke, and the Quiet Beckoning of Dawn
A salt-bronze morning on the gulf coast marsh. Tailing redfish, screaming corks, and the soft heat of cedar smoke rising from camp.
October 28, 2025
Dawn on the Gulf: King Salmon, Marsh Grass Flats, and a Quiet North Wind
Chasing king salmon near river mouths as a nor’easter hints. Slow-trolls, weed edges, and the first sign of weather in the marsh.
October 27, 2025
Dawn on the Salt-Stained Pier: Chasing Night-Walleye
A dawn patrol along salt-streaked piers as fog lifts, chasing walleye off drop-offs with double-8 bucktails.
October 23, 2025
First Push of the Nor’easter on Northwoods Bog Lakes
A slow-told tale of king salmon staging, tamaracks, and planers skimming weed edges as a nor’easter begins to whisper over northern bogs.
October 20, 2025
Dawn on Salt-Stained Piers, Coho in Tow
A dawn patrol along salt-stung piers as silver coho rush upriver, ahead of a brewing storm front. Corks pop along spartina, the water listening for every ripple.
October 16, 2025
Tannin and Moonlight: Coho Currents on Spartina Nights
A river sleeps dark and tea-colored. Moonlight finds the silver, and corks pop along the marsh grasses.