Portraits of Fly Fishing Guides

Below are portraits of four fly fishing guides from Fly Fish Guanaja and Faraway Cayes in Honduras. I was able to spend three weeks down there this winter. 

Edwin

Deron

Rankin

Pablo

Fly Fishing Guide Portrait

A long term project of mine is taking portraits of fly fishing guides all over the world. A guide's hands also tell a story. Below is Ronald Green. He's a guide at Mangrove Cay Club on Andros Island in the Bahamas. He's 31 and I would happily fish with Ronald any day. He's a genuine person.

While Andros is the largest island in the Bahamas it has a really small population. Mangrove Cay lies in the middle of the island and the people there are soft spoken, warm, and kind. There's no rush. People have time to talk. Kids play basketball after school on dirt driveways in bare feet. Other than at lodges, tourism is not apparent.

Ronald Green. Fly Fishing Guide. Mangrove Cay, Bahamas.

Mangrove Cay, Bahamas

Bull Shark

An Andros Island bone being released

A young tiger shark

Villa Nirehuao, Chile

Woman In A Store

A Kind Man

Villa Nirehuao Street

Ubiquitous Wood Burning Stove

Don Betto

Puma Skull

Argentina / Chile Gauchos

Images of gauchos from a recent trip to Patagonia.

The Drake Spring 2018

Excited to have a piece on Damselflies in the new issue of The Drake. The images were shot last summer during about a two to three week window of incredibly prolific bugs.

Faraway Cayes, Honduras II

Faraway Cay, Honduras. This tiny gem took 27 hours by boat to get to, and only 90 minutes by helicopter to return from. It's part of the Mosquito Coast located about forty miles off the southern Honduran mainland.

Barracuda

A young Miskito Indian at Faraway Cay

Steve Brown heads back to base. Faraway Cay

A Farawy Cayes bonefish

Archie and a sea turtle

One of many large schools of bones just a mere steps onto the flat at Faraway

Miskito Indian

Young Lobster Fisherman. 15 years old

Kids who have been out at sea for over eight months on trap boats, stack wooden lobster traps at Faraway Cay to store for the brief off season. Many of these kids are only 15 and 16 years old and have brutal working conditions.

Lobster Fishermen at Faraway Cay

Lobster fishermen

Archie and a little down time...

Archie. Guide and waterman

Archie. Guide and waterman

A pristine flat

A tailing bone

Guide Portarits

A long term project of mine is taking portraits of guides all over the world. 

Here are two from my recent trip to Honduras:

Rankin

Edwin

The Mosquito Coast

Lots of images to come from my recent trip to the Faraway Cayes located in Honduras on the northern part of the Mosquito Coast. In short, it's a frontier in the fly fishing world: Nobody is out there other than Miskito Indians and trap boats (lobster fisherman). There's a distant but real threat of pirates showing up at any time to seize water and fuel and food and whatever else they need... This fishery has seen virtually no pressure to date and is massive in size other than the fact that the key we stay on is tiny.

A Miskito Indian in his panga on Faraway Cay.

Faraway Cayes, Honduras

I’m on about day 8 or 9 in Guanaja, Honduras and about to embark on an expedition, 160 nautical miles, in a 40 foot snapper boat, out to the Faraway Cays, on the Miskito Coast.  

We will be prepping (I’ll be photographing the journey) for the first guests of the season who will be arriving by helicopter about a week after we get there.  

We will be motoring around the clock straight into the east trade wind. I’ve downloaded Paul Theroux’s novel The Mosquito Coast to reread. 

We may encounter some Miskito People while out there as they should be wrapping up their shark fishing season. As it is, the plan is to stay clear of them. 

The area is also know as a cartel trafficking route which is why two members of the Honduran Army will be part of the team.  

The treasure as they say, has evolved from gold and silver—hundreds of years ago—to cocaine, fuel, and cash to now, at present, permit. 

While there are allegedly schools of hundreds and hundreds of bonefish, the draw is permit. There are also 100 to 200 pound tarpon out there and part of the preparation will be to find them... 

More to come in a few weeks... 

Steve Brown cranks out a few permit flies in preparation for a 24 hour boat ride from Guanaja, Honduras to the Faraway Cays.  

Steve Brown cranks out a few permit flies in preparation for a 24 hour boat ride from Guanaja, Honduras to the Faraway Cays.  

Big Sky Journal

Excited and honored to be featured in the new issue of Big Sky Journal. The piece is titled, "The Art Of The Insect." It's written by Allen Jones. It's on my macro photography. While I always prefer to see images in print, check out the digital version on the BSJ web site: The Art Of The Insect.