“Bienvenue à Polynésie Française.” Some of the islanders welcome us in French. Others welcome us in the Paumotu dialect. And even though we don’t understand either, it’s enough to signal that the day-and-a-half journey to the Anaa atoll, a 15-square-mile dot in the Pacific some 220 miles east of Tahiti, is finally over. Cool salt […]
Scott Murray, co-owner of River Haven Lodge in Murchison on New Zealand’s South Island, sits at the far end of the lodge dining room table with his legs splayed out. A cup of tea rests in front of him next to a plate of eight slices of toast covered in honey made just a few […]
With each new course, we lose a hitchhiker. Tripe soup with marjoram petals sees a young man in a ratty track suit off into an orange Fiat. Schab bosmanski—a.k.a. “Bossman’s pork,”—a total eclipse of the pork by an even larger piece of pork—attends to the departure of a Slavic carnival worker, his whorled comb-over an […]
In Bosnia, everyone has war stories. The Flyfish Journal’s Jason L. Rolfe toured through Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia as a fisherman—not a war correspondent. Yet people he met and the tales he heard—all intertwined in a war that ended almost a decade ago—made the trip an unforgettable journey with filled with small moments of brilliant peace […]
The Goshen County Two Shot Goose Hunt, the Platte River Two Fly, the Governor’s Invitational Antelope Stalk—I don’t know how you feel about outdoor competitions, but I try to avoid them at all costs. The Cape Cod Fall Classic, the Jackson Hole One Fly and the Old Milwaukee B.A.S.S. Nation Championship—I place fishing contests right […]
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