The first previews for the second season of Buccaneers and Bones is now live. Check it out.
The first episode will air Friday, December 30, at 12:30AM and 6:30AM, and Saturday, December 31, at 10:30AM and 5:30PM (all times Eastern). Future episodes will air in these time slots in the following weeks.
Now, I’m looking forward to this. I like the guys doing the fishing and I like the places they are going… and… I kind of love the fish. So, yeah, I’m looking forward to this.
Now, there was a time in my life when I’d have lots of fly fishing loot to report out. This isn’t that time in my life. My big gift was a couch, which is key for my new single-dad-life.
This year was much, much more about that little girl. She had a blast. I think she had more gifts than the rest of the family put together, and it was wonderful. She woke up excited, bouncing up and down. She marveled at the eaten cookies that had been left out for Santa and she excitedly ran to embrace her doll that Santa had brought her.
It was a fantastic day.
She did well this year.
We did watch the DVD Connect that I got for my dad and enjoyed the footage of Yellowstone and Cuba most. That was about the most that fly fishing played in my Christmas this year. My daughter did receive a copy of Olive the Little Woolly Bugger. That’s promising.
Hope you had a great Christmas and hope you find yourself on some bit of water soon.
Deneki has a habit of pounding out really exceptional bonefishing content. 2011 was no exception.
Here is a list of their top bonefishing posts from 2011.
This was the year that I got to go to Andros South. It is a very special place. The Slack Tide Bar, the food, the guides the WATER. Exceptional.
Great Place.
Sorry if you are one of my Non-American readers. I just have been thinking to myself that I thought the end of the Iraq War would be met with some more fanfare. I think of those pictures of V-E day, those big headlines, the masses in the streets… the end of the war in Iraq seems to have been met with a whimper. I’d just like to take a moment to thank the brave men and women that went to fight in Iraq.
Regardless of how you feel about how we got there, I think we can mostly agree that those vets did everything we asked of them and more. Many gave their lives and even more gave their limbs.
Thanks for your service.
Hey Santa, what’s up? Remember me? Yeah, I’m doing fine. I’m actually doing great. I want you to look over that list of yours and I’m pretty sure you’ll see my name solidly in the “Nice” column. So… let’s get to the loot.
My wish list this year…
The thing I’d want more than anything is time. There just is never enough of it. I don’t live in a place where bonefish are an hour away. They are hundreds or thousands of miles away and it takes a small pile of money to get there. I have a few tricks to make the pile of money required smaller, but I have yet to find a way to expand the calendar (or the allotment of days off given to me). I’d love to get another couple of weeks to chase bonefish. That would be my number one Christmas wish.
Now… let’s talk more material things.
I am still waiting on that Orvis Hydros. I’m pretty sure I’ve told you about this before. You taking notes? Why the Hydros? Simple… it is as good a rod as the Helios for -$250. It is light, strong and a fish catching magic stick.
I need a new 8 wt. reel and would really like one or all of the following… a Hatch, a Galvan or a Nautilus. I have been REALLY good, so I’d take all three.
Lastly, if you still have a little room, I’d like Hank’s Place, which is still on the market. It’s been in a constant state of for sale.
I’d also like to fish with a few people… Shane, Andrew, Jim, Butch and many more of the great people I come into contact with through the blog.
Alright Santa. Do what you can. Oh, and if you don’t do right by my daughter I’m going to break your legs. Kidding.
Bjorn
PS – not kidding about the legs.
OK… if I had just slayed them, I probably would be a little more elusive about where exactly I went. However, having spent 3 & 1/2 days in pursuit of bones in Kauai, I feel comfortable revealing which island I was on.
Mainly, I feel comfortable doing so because if you head to Kauai with the sole intention of catching bonefish, you are mad… MAD, MAD, MAD!
I certainly won’t go back to Kauai JUST for the fishing. I may very well go back there. I love that place. If I go back, I’ll bring a rod, for sure. However, the fishing leaves a lot to be desired… like a lot more fish that are considerably less spooky and much more easy to find… to name a few attributes that could improve things a tad.
I wrote down a list of thoughts I had from the trip… here are a few:
Yeah... not what you think of when you picture Hawaii.
I heard that sentence yesterday and I thought about a few of things. My daughter, my rivers and the flats. I hope more people fall in love with my rivers and the flats so they will be protected forever. As for my daughter, you keep your sons away from my little girl, ya hear?!
Yeah, OK, a departure from my usual bonefish heavy posts, but I thought this was pretty frigging cool.
For the 90% of so of BOTB readers who are from the US, Happy Thanksgiving.
The grandparents are in, my brother comes in later today and I have my girl for the Holiday.
There is going to be a turkey and it is going to be wrapped in bacon.
Let me say that again… a bacon wrapped turkey.
So, clearly I have a lot to be thankful for.
As I look around the living room I am also surrounded by another thing that I love… bonefish.
I have a bonefish sculpture on the wall, my fly tying desk is there, the new pack from Fishpond is out, the rod from Redington is in the corner. There are little bits of my upcoming Hawaii trip (I leave a week from today) leaking out around the house.
Yes, I have a lot to be thankful for. Happy turkey day to all of you.
It’s Thanksgiving Week so I’m thinking about what I’m thankful for. Here’s a sample.
I’m thankful for my little girl.
I’m thankful for tropical places with wonderful people where I make memories to last a lifetime.
I’m thankful for the good people that work for and around the Bonefish & Tarpon Trust.
I’m thankful for this little community that has formed around this thing I write. It may not feel like a community to you, since you guys don’t usually interact with each other, but I get to hear a lot of stories and have made some friendships through this blog that I never could have otherwise.
I’m thankful for a solid, top shelf childhood and the gift of fishing.
I’m thankful for Diet Coke… no, really… I am.
I’m thankful for ellipses… they are so… useful.
I’m thankful for the people who have taught me what I now know about bonefishing and I’m thankful to the people I’ve yet to meet, who will teach me more.
I’m thankful to all the folks I’ve interviewed who gave a little bit of time to share their stories.
I’m thankful that I’m going to Hawaii in a week and a half and I didn’t have to clear anything with “central command.”
Thanks to all of you for being a reader and sharing your own thoughts and stories and pictures.
This is what I'm most thankful for.
