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Here are a couple short videos of our latest outings.  The first is from our trip to Campeche, Mexico (Sam gets a little crazy at the breakfast table).  The second is just a quick glance of a creek up in the Little Belts. 

 Here is a new video from Loop Tackle.  You thought Jurassic Lake looked cool?  

Here is this month's Catch Magazine by Brian O'Keefe.  Click on the Jungle Cock to be linked to July's Catch.

When I stepped off the plane in Baja my initial reaction was extreme concern.  I had invited 5 friends to come with me thinking I had picked an optimum time to catch Rooster from the beach but the heat was so intense stepping off the plane it seemed unfishably hot.  I literally couldn't wait to get back in to the customs line where there was some AC.  I would recommend May/June to anyone... not July in Baja... never again (unless grande Roosters were in shallow in which case I would Speedo up and purchase a handheld misting machine and go anyways). 
The next confusing issue once arriving in Baja happens 10 minutes after you cope with the heat.  How do you get from where you are standing to the Sea of Cortez?  Well... we sat on our bags and there is a beer stand to the left and a taco stand to the right (with my complaints of the heat you can imagine what happened with that).  Then this taxista pulls up named Jorge and comes over to us like he is selling drugs in an alley and shoots us off a price much less expensive than the other 100's of offers standing outside.  So we got in his Suburban.  I am not going to go in to detail about this man's life stories but let me tell you it is worth the ride.  Due to his situation he dropped us off a block away from the hotel so that nobody would see him and then told us if we need a ride in the morning to call him on his cell and meet at the same spot but not to tell anyone at the hotel who we were going with.  The rest of the week is history.  Here is his information if you are looking for entertainment to start your baja Roostercation.




















 

It's Thursday... if you are sitting in your office getting amped for the weekend, click the pic and fuel the fire.

"I really wish we had more time to fish," is the thought that went through my mind on an annoyingly repetitive basis throughout my trip in Puerto Rico.  My family who lives there constantly talked about how their are tons of Tarpon all over the island and no fly fisherman are ever around especially not outside of San Juan where they get a few anglers each year.  Eating dinner we would see Tarpon swarming waiting for guests to hand off extra chicken and fish, and in the marinas the Tarpon fins were rolling as we came to dock.  I need to go back, we need to get some hard core anglers and check it out.  It's not like I was a seeing a few baby tarpon in the mangroves... these were like 40-100lb fish just laying around chillin' out.  This video is of an island off of Puerto Rico that my family was telling me has a lot of Tarpon on a lagoon at the end of the point.  I thought I would share it so you can see how nice it would be to spend some days on the water in this atmosphere.  Looks like paradise to me.

Here is a story I came across on fishing for Nile Perch in Egypt.  Never thought much of attempting this myself but this article makes it sounds like quite an adventure.  Click the pic to read all of Mike's adventure in Egypt.

This is the new Hey Zach photo report from Brian O'Keefe in Guadalupe.  Pretty awesome photos.  Click the picture to read the story from O'Keefe's latest adventure at Idylwilde.com

Could there be more fly fishing in Puerto Rico than we thought?  Although I didn't get much time to fish on this trip we did see a number of species with out trying.  Snook, Tarpon, Jacks, Cudas, Pompano, Dorado and more.  We waded a few flats and caught a variety of "randoms."  However, a dedicated fly fishing trip may be in order.  I figured out some great areas to explore, know how to get boats and where to stay... the fish are there... there are just very few people exploring it con la mosca (with the fly).  There are lots of Tarpon... on many parts of the island...

How do you explore new spots?  What if you google a spot you are going to for "fly-fishing" and nothing comes up... like nobody's guiding it, there is nothing written, there are no blogs about it?  Sweet, that makes me excited, and there aren't too many places anymore where you can't get good information off the internet.  One good tool that I have used a lot is Google Earth.  The basic package is free to download and it shows water depths pretty clear and easy to manuveur. 

I'm leaving Friday for Puerto Rico for mostly a family trip but I've had people asking me left and right if I am bringing fly rods and gear, and I sort of just look at them like...duh.  Do you really have to ask me that...YES! of course I'm bringing my stuff.  Here's a small bit of the R&D for Puerto that one of our buddies sent me... and I have furthured my studies since then to figure out how I can get a boat and some other things.  However, the point is that just because nothing is written on area or information is hard to get doesn't mean "don't fish there, it's no good"... it means that no one has figured it out yet or the people that have are "Good Ol' Boys" and "they ain't tellin."