Sam Wike

Want to float the Missouri River? Read this.

Rockport Redfish- A trip in the past that is paving a Redfish future. Jeff takes Sam and Rob on a skiff and shows what it takes to make it happen.

A guide for floating the Smith River that actually shows and explains each of the campgrounds you can choose from for your journey. This guide also includes recent updates from FWP on the Smith River Float.

The Rod and Gun is a time capsule of what Old Florida was like and was the exclusive hunting and fishing club in the Everglades for presidents like Roosevelt and Eisenhower, as well as celebrities like John Wayne, and Ernest Hemingway. We paid the current owner through the window of his Ford Taurus standing on the lawn outside our cabin; cash only.

If you haven’t read the book Trout Flies by Gary LaFontaine, “You betta ask somebody.” I recently purchased a new copy of this book off eBay (new to me) actually signed by LaFontaine. It’s signed, “For effective flies -Gary LaFontaine.”

Yes. I mean pretty much right? When Ken Morrish invented the Morrish Hopper it was new and awesome BUT… it is a foam hopper. We’re not inventing new insects so in some capacity we are mimicking something that’s already been mimicked.

In high school I was a pretty poor fisherman, I certainly didn’t realize it at the time, but I was bad. There was a whole crew of us, and we were all bad at it. Relatively bad, as in we were probably better than most our peers, but we just didn’t know what "better than what we were" should look like.

I believe that if you really care about your favorite water way that keeping it a secret is not going to protect it for very long. In fact, I believe that when many anglers try to keep a river a secret it actually becomes more desirable to try to get to.