Its been 15 days since I have had to wear thermals aka long johns, hallelujah! February was cold and wet, thankfully we have had a 15 day break from rain with temps in the 50's to 70's, its been glorious. I have just finished up guiding for musky until Fall, why you ask? Well the [...]
Well the groundhog got this one right, six weeks more of Winter. The past few February's have been mild but not this one. Another snow storm hit Virginia a couple days ago followed up with some freezing rain. Looking pretty snotty over the next 5 days so maybe doing a lot of fly tying. Two [...]
Its the last day of the craziest year likely all of us have ever experienced. I really have nothing to complain about other than I didn't get to travel to Brazil and Belize. This has been my busiest year guiding, also one of the wettest. The Fall was a struggle cancelling and rescheduling do to [...]
October is just about done and wow it was a busy one. The Fall bite for smallmouth bass was very good the past two weeks. High fish numbers brought to the net and some very healthy fat bellied specimens. Game Changers and Tequeelys did the best on exciting the smallmouth. One bass upchucked a 6 [...]
I apologize it has been a while since I have posted. 2020 has been a crazy year as you all know and I'm ready for it to end. The amazing thing is how busy I have been so won't complain about that. I'm never in a hurry for the temperatures to change when Fall approaches [...]
It has not been a normal August but what has been normal this year? This August has been filled with thunderstorms almost daily and more flash flood warnings than I can count. Normally one of busiest months of the year became one of my slowest with cancellations and rescheduling trips due to high and murky [...]
Whew dog its been a hot one this July. Humidity some days reminded me of the Amazon. Unfortunately I will not be going to Brazil this year. All trips have been pushed to 2021. I had a hosted trip scheduled this Fall as well for Belize but with so much uncertainty I have pushed that [...]
Finally its warming up, last month was the coolest May I have ever seen. It was also a wet month and the rivers stayed high for a couple weeks. We now have great river levels and clear water. I ran one more trout trip to the Jackson River. We had higher flows so streamer fishing [...]
I have returned home after a awesome two weeks of guiding two charters a day in Weldon, NC. The first week of May the river was very high at 20,000 cfs. Even with the high conditions the bite was great the whole week. Lost more flies than I can caught having my anglers throwing up [...]
Does anyone remember when we had normal weather? The past five years seems to be storm after storm in the Spring. Its really messing me up! I'm always excited for April because the striped bass start making their way up river to spawn. The problem is the rain is all or nothing it seems and [...]