For the angler, is there any anticipation quite like being taken to a secret spot? We all want to cast over the classics at least once — the Tongariro and Mataura, Macquarie and MacLaughlin,…

The cobia lit up as it aligned on the fly… Here we go, I thought, but it didn’t charge the fly. It would be a stretch to call it a chase; a better description would be that it followed. As I…

Captain Brian Esposito, my regular Florida Keys guide, had been insisting for a number of years that I should fish with him in Louisiana. A native Floridian, every year he heads to the…