A Trip With A Legend

My good friend, Val Atkinson, is hosting a trip to the Palometa Club this March. It’s a fantastic opportunity to not only have fun and fish the flats for permit and bonefish, among other fish, but to also spend time with a true legend in the fly fishing world. Val has spent a lifetime exploring the world behind his lens. He’s a kind and sincere person and full of great stories and is just an all around great person to spend time with. The long and short of it… check out the details below and email Val with questions / inquiries: val@valatkinson.com

This is, unfortunately, not a trip I will be on (I’ll be in New Zealand).

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Damselfly Take 3

Damselfly Take 3

Full Moon at Faraway Cayes

Excited to have a two page image in the new, issue 10.1, of The FlyFish Journal. It’s their 10th Anniversary issue. Check it out!

Below, Kendall Witt is hooked up to a bonefish on a full moon night just feet from Faraway Cay, Honduras last March. I know it took a lot of work, replete with ups and downs, for Steve Brown, owner of Fly Fish Guanaja, to set up the heli operation at Faraway Cay. It’s a special place and I feel really fortunate to have had the chance to experience Faraway. Hats off, to you, Steve.

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Full Moon. Faraway Cay, Honduras. Mosquito Coast. March 2018

A Sun Valley Shepard

About a week ago, I received a WhatsApp call from Leonardo. Out of the blue. Assumed I had made no great impression on him when, earlier in the summer I had stopped along Trail Creek Road to get a few images of him. I had sent him the shots via WhatsApp. He asked me to come out and visit his new, albeit short term, location near Hailey. I brought a few beers and we talked for an hour or so about his nomadic life here in the States and his family back in Peru.

Leonardo. October 2018

Leonardo. October 2018

Leonardo

Leonardo

Lost River Range, Idaho

Snow up high. Saturated river bottoms; cottonwood leaves holding on to one last bright gasp before dropping. A deeper-blue sky. Greater shadows. Skittish mule deer.

October, 2018

October, 2018

Lost River Range

Look at a fire map of the West (InciWeb) from California to Montana and you will see dozens of blazes. Fire and to a larger extent, smoke, is the new norm in the west. July and August in the mountainous areas and in some places along the coast, year-around. 

Smoke Light. Lost River Range. August, 2018

Picabo, Idaho

A bit of smoke and lots of sun and hot weather too. Late July, Picabo, Idaho.

Summer. July 2018. Picabo, Idaho

Summer. July 2018. Picabo, Idaho