I know things more or less ground to a halt around here for a few days (WIFI on the island was spotty) but I am back from Blue Horizon Belize and playing catch up. I have a few posts to put together from the trip to Belize and still just really blown away by the experience.
SPOILER ALERT - I didn't end up catching a permit on this trip but I learned an incredible amount from guides Lincoln Westby and Ransom Nunez. I feel that it will happen on the next trip. I've been replaying a handful of shots at tailing permit that didn't end up with a connection and on how to make it that much better of an approach for the next time.
Yesterday I spent part of the day unpacking and giving all the gear that touched or was around saltwater a good bath and scrub. Fly rods, fly reels, fly lines, pliers, flies, etc. It's amazing where sand and saltwater made it into and getting things thoroughly cleaned up now will ensure that the gear is ready for the next trip. Everything is laid out on a large towel on the back porch to dry. Fly lines will all get stripped from the fly reels and put back in their boxes, fly rods stowed back in their rod socks and tubes, and everything else will get put away as well.
The Gink & Gasoline's Sunday Classic post on "Camera Care In Saltwater" was timely. Thanks Louis for reposting that. I need to keep the Nikon D7100 working after trips like this with a lot of exposure to the elements.
It feels weird but I don't have another multi-day fly fishing trip planned for the rest of the year. Family and work life will pick up over the next several months but hopefully I'll be able to sneak off at least a couple more times on day trips to the coast or mountains.
I'll say it again I'm sure in the upcoming Belize posts but thank you to Scott Thompson for the invite and arranging all the details for this trip. Blue Horizon Belize (along with IZE Resort) will be somewhere that I'll go again, and again, and again...
SPOILER ALERT - I didn't end up catching a permit on this trip but I learned an incredible amount from guides Lincoln Westby and Ransom Nunez. I feel that it will happen on the next trip. I've been replaying a handful of shots at tailing permit that didn't end up with a connection and on how to make it that much better of an approach for the next time.
Yesterday I spent part of the day unpacking and giving all the gear that touched or was around saltwater a good bath and scrub. Fly rods, fly reels, fly lines, pliers, flies, etc. It's amazing where sand and saltwater made it into and getting things thoroughly cleaned up now will ensure that the gear is ready for the next trip. Everything is laid out on a large towel on the back porch to dry. Fly lines will all get stripped from the fly reels and put back in their boxes, fly rods stowed back in their rod socks and tubes, and everything else will get put away as well.
The Gink & Gasoline's Sunday Classic post on "Camera Care In Saltwater" was timely. Thanks Louis for reposting that. I need to keep the Nikon D7100 working after trips like this with a lot of exposure to the elements.
It feels weird but I don't have another multi-day fly fishing trip planned for the rest of the year. Family and work life will pick up over the next several months but hopefully I'll be able to sneak off at least a couple more times on day trips to the coast or mountains.
I'll say it again I'm sure in the upcoming Belize posts but thank you to Scott Thompson for the invite and arranging all the details for this trip. Blue Horizon Belize (along with IZE Resort) will be somewhere that I'll go again, and again, and again...
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Excellent, can't wait for the pics. Be sure to rinse your ears too.. I'm still dipping silt from mine after the week near Santeetlah.. I swear the stuff was airborne..
Excellent, can't wait for the pics. Be sure to rinse your ears too.. I'm still dipping silt from mine after the week near Santeetlah.. I swear the stuff was airborne..
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