Mississippi – Spring Weather, Southern Hospitality, and a Series of Surprises My wife and I just returned from a trip to Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee. Mississippi was the focus, as it was one of the few states left on my 50 before 50 mission. The...
Florida from a New Angle Florida ended my family’s travel famine. Finally, after about a year, we went on a family vacation. 2022 was a tough travel year for us – mainly because whatever put me in the hospital last summer, did so at a horrible time. That...
Striped Bass Fishing around Swapmscott, MA If you’ve read any of my travel blogs, you’re familiar with my mission to fish all 50 states before I turn 50. If this is your first encounter with my travel blogs, tap this link for the background of the 50 before 50...
Trip Report from Our Visit to Oklahoma I just returned from a little family vacation to Oklahoma. Although the thought of visiting the Sooner State wouldn’t even occur to most folks from the Great Lakes region, we gave it a shot and had a blast. We fished, we took...
Experiences are Still the Way to Go – the Pandemic Made this Obvious Since this winter has been particularly slow for business due to all the crappy weather, I found myself re-reading some of my old blogs. I wanted to see if my writing style changed much over...
The People – Why we Keep Doing what We do It’s winter and the conditions have been crappy lately. I don’t know, maybe my memory is flawed, but this winter seems particularly crappy thus far – as measured by fishable days that is. All this time off the water...