Tag: Baja

"After the Man"

"Yeah, I think that's why they're so special and why it drives me crazy because I can be on the beach for a week or two and throw a hundred flies and not get one to eat. And then you change something up just a little bit and you'll get one to eat. It's just amazing. I mean I don't know how to describe it. A really nice fish is a 30-pound fish. 40-pound fish...

Mexico–Baja California Sur: “Fifty More Places To Fly Fish Before You Die”

AT THE OUTSET of the award-winning short film Running Down the Man, angler Frank Smethurst offers the following summation: For the longest time, everybody has told my brother and I that you cannot catch a roosterfish on a fly. Here you are in this giant ocean, in big water, with a silly little fly rod, trying to catch this giant, pretty, brilliant fish. I...