Fishy Photography Fun

Playing with my digital camera, acclimating myself to the multitude of shooting styles. Subject matter: Oceanic Aqua Scape. Models : SnowFlake Eel and Broomtail Wrasse.

Locks of love.

After nearly two years, I've finally cut my mop. It will be sent out to Locks of Love shortly. In the mean time get a laugh at my goofy mug with these fun before and after pictures! Also note my favorite shirt to wear when I go kiting!!(thanks brother)..

Thursday night Gables Garage session...

Skating again?! Right-o my lovely readers.. Went to a nice lil' private garage last night with a rookie skater, who just so happened to have video recording capabilities on his cell. So without further adieu:


This has gotten me completely pumped for a whole new level of fun at other garages!
BTW if your thinking about getting into longboarding. Ride a loaded board. No other board begins to compare!

Kiting Sunny Miami in the Summer...(some know it as waiting for wind)..

Got a kite session(and a half) in this week, made decent riding progress(I still suck) before my kite became inverted and dropped/spun into "fifth-line hell"(that extra line is for safety right?), forcing my trudge back to the beach to return the lines to proper working order. I digress, I did manage to "get-up" and ride for a few minutes both goofy and switch(I'm a goofy-footed rider) but was unable to set an edge; ergo no upwind riding, yet. Yesterday the good folks at Ikitesurf.com predicted a 12-14mph afternoon at my local spot so I loaded up and hit the beach! pumped up my big Vegas kite and I managed my first self launch! One quick ride later and I found myself relaunching my very wet 18m kite only to have it invert(seeing a pattern yet?) and loop/roll into "fifth-line hell." well the wind was light enough to just haul the monster back to the beach, followed by the now customary re-rig. I just knew the wind was enough to get out there, or so I thought. Some pedestrians helped with the launch on this attempt, but once again the wind let up, the kite crashed from twelve o'clock landing just a few feet in front of me. It was time to give up; so head down, tail between my legs and kite becoming more frustration than fun I made my way to shore and set the kite to dry. As I coiled down my lines I heard a fire-cracker like pop as my center strut bladder had just popped. Great. One more reason I probably should have not bothered with yesterday. I've got to go fix that bladder, maybe there will be some wind next week. Tomorrow looks like flats fishing as the forecast is for 1-2 mph of wind, but of course I'll get out on the canoe only to have it be better weather for kiting than fly fishing.

My bucket list.....

1. Catch Bonefish in Hawaii
2. Sail to Fiji
3. Longboard the roads of the Swiss Alps.
4. Learn 4 more languages
5. Teach a blind person to Fly fish
6. Own a 1970 Camaro
7. Own a 56' Chevy Nomad
8. Go to Alaska
9. Look down on the world from the Eiffel Tower
10. Pyramids of Egypt
11. Set a world fishing record on Fly
12. Drive across America
13. Fly a glider
14. Change a bad law/ordinance(I could name a few)
15. Kite-Surf every chance I get, everywhere I go
16. Mud-fest
17. See my friends attain their dreams
18. Train/own a S.A.R.S. dog
20. Train/own a Perigrine Falcon
21. Stop a Panic

More to come, I'm going to go knock out # 21.

Garage Sessions..

Ever ridden a skateboard down a big hill? How about a parking garage? Well if you haven't surfed "the concrete wave," go ahead and put it on your list. Carving pavement and whirling slides(gloves recomended) make for an excellent event. Cruising and carving, or as-fast-as-you-can bombing; downhill long-boarding has seen a country wide surge in popularity. I'm stoked that the police don't seem to mind our late night antics! Unlike "aggressive" skaters who sometimes damage the obstacles they ride on, long-boarders like their spots, we even clean up a little. (On that I have to rant about picking up some random a-holes trash, STOP LITTERING YOU IDIOTS!) I've even read of some guys who called the cops when they saw some thugs tagging the walls of a favorite Miami garage! The biggest fear with new riders are high-speeds, the "wobbles," and learning how to stop quickly. Before you go, consider at least a set of slide gloves(homemade instructions are easily found online, several companies also produce them) a helmet and whatever other safety equipment you need to ride confidently. So next time your sitting around wonder just what you should do with yourself, grab a board, head to the nearest empty(or not) garage and give a go!

Bonefish Sunday

went on the flats on the canoe Sunday, got a late start! (on the water @ 7:30) caught the last of a falling tide, had two great shots at some smaller schools, missed the hook set on both. So now it was Sonny's turn. After about half hour of not really seeing fish, the tide kicked around and started flowing across the flats, and up came the Bones, within 5 minutes we had stalked down two groups of fish that seemed to be working a 50m x 50m area, Sonny(David East) made two or three false casts (in order to load enough line to reach the fish) then dropped his fly right on their noses. Now unlike my attempts there was no hesitation, and Dave hooked a massive Bonefish. The line screaming off his reel as canoe began to swing around as it was being towed by the fish, straight towards a crab trap. At the trap the fish immediately turned to right around it, causing much friction on the line, pole in hand I stood up and propelled us to the crab traps float as quickly as possible. Sonny quickly dipped his rod tip in the water and brought it up clear, with good tension on the fish. The Bone' made one or two more small runs before it was landed, photographed and released. Called it a day as it was now 11:00 am and I had to return home(dog-duty). Fishing in Biscayne bay from my Canoe, a time to remember.