This last Friday saw good numbers of dawn tarpon, permit, and bonefish. As a " Japanese sunrise" unfolded, I tossed a live crab upcurrent of a stilt house. In moments, a big permit's bulged head surged through the water's surface, gulped the crab, and cut me off on the pilings in less time than this sentence takes to read. After running a mile north to Mashta Point, I found tarpon rolling in Cape Florida-they were "happy," but unresponsive to flies, jigs, plugs, crabs, or shrimp. How different these fish are from their silvery comrades in North Bay! As the sun rose, I eased up on a sandbar that featured a good flow of falling tide: a bit of chum and in a flew a nice-sized bonefish. A quick cast well upcurrent of the fish sunk the shrimp to its level and the bone gulped it down. Five minutes later, I released a beautiful six-pound specimen into summer seas and an eastern sun.
When my engine starting tilting up by itself moments later, I tried the engine tilt switch and found it was shorting out. I managed to stabilize it long enough to come back to the marina and made a short day of it. I later learned more about what I could have disconnected to stop that "Sorcerer's Apprentice" behavior from my mechanic-next time (never, I hope), I'll know better.
Back in the shade, I dwelled on rememberances of "places past". I had some time and chronicled some destinations-each place was a uniquely-colored building block that, together with the rest, made a mosaic of recollected adventures, pleasures, and friends. Some destinations were deliberately for fishing, where I lugged rod tubes all over the globe. Other destinations offered fishing as a co-feature rather than a primary purpose, and then I generally toted a small travel pack with a five-piece rod and ultralight reels. Still others revealed fishing I did not anticipate and the best I could do was dream and drool. Here are some of them. Maybe you've been there or you plan on going....In any case, good luck and safe traveling!
Jan Maizler Angling Partial Travelography
Alaska-
-Anchorage
-Juneau
-Ketchikan
-Skagway
-Prince of Wales Island
Bahamas-
-Abaco-
--The Marls
--Sandy Point
--Green Turtle Cay
-Andros-
--North and Middle Bights
--Fresh and Cargill Creek
--Small Hope Bay
-Bimini, North and South
-Grand Bahama Island-
--Water Cay
--South Side
-Long Island-
--Deadman’s Cay Region
-Little San Salvador Island
-Coco Cay (Little Stirrup)
Belize-
-Goff’s Caye
-Belize City
-Belize River
-"Big" Flat
Bonaire-
-Salinas/salt pans
-Lac Bay
British Columbia-
-Masset, Queen Charlotte Islands
-Whistler
-Pemberton
Central America-
-Costa Rica- Tortuguero Canals
-Panama- Gatun Lake
Curacao-
-Willemstad
-Caracasbaai
-Piscaderabaai
-Westpunt
Fanning Island, South Pacific-English Harbor
Florida-
-Jupiter
-Sanibel/Captiva/Pine Island/San Carlos Bay
-Rookery Bay/Naples
-Biscayne Bay
-Key Largo
-Islamorada
-Marathon
-Little Torch Key/Contents
-Key West
-Marquesas
-Placida
-Punta Gorda
-Charlotte Harbor/Cape Haze
-Mosquito Lagoon/Indian River
Jamaica-
-Port Antonio
-Black River
Grand Cayman Island, British West Indies
Little Cayman Island, British West Indies
Mexico- Riviera Section-
-Cabo San Lucas
-Puerto Vallarta
-Acapulco
-Mazatlan
Mexico- Yucatan/Quintana Roo State-
-Cozumel- flats, drop, and offshore
-Xel Ha/ Tulum south flats
-Ascension Bay
-Bahia Espiritu Santo
Bay Islands, Honduras-
-Roatan
-Moret
-Barbaretta
Windward and Leeward Islands
-Jost Van Dyke, British Virgin Islands
-St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
-St. Martin
-Antigua
-Saint Lucia
-Dominica
-Martinique
American Errata-
-Cape Hatteras, North Carolina
-Franklin, North Carolina
-Cowee Valley, North Carolina
-Long Island, New York
-Portland, Maine
-Ocean City, Maryland
-Savannah, Georgia
-St. Augustine, Florida
-San Francisco Bay, California
-Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Jan Maizler Partial Travelography/Residence
Antilles-Lesser and Greater-
Haiti
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Jamaica-
-Montego Bay
-Orracabessa-Residence
-Ocho Rios
-Kingston
-Spanish Town
-Mandeville
Bahamas-
-Freeport/Lucaya
-New Providence/Nassau
-Salt Cay
Central America-
Mexico-
-Mexico City- Residence
-Tasco
-Cuernavaca
-Guadalajara
-Oaxaca-Residence
-Merida-Residence
-Playa del Carmen
Costa Rica-
-Limon
Panama-
-Colon
-Panama Canal
Belize-
-Belize City
Europe-
England-
-London
Austria-
-Vienna
-Salzberg
Lichtenstein
Switzerland-
-Lucerne
Iberia
Portugal-
-Lisbon
Spain-
-Barcelona
-Madrid
-Mallorca-
--Palma
--Valdemosa
Mediterranean
France-
-Paris
-St.Tropez/Nice/Blue Coast
-Marseilles
Gibraltar
Greece-
-Athens
Italy-
-Lake Como
-Florence
-Naples
-Positano
-Salerno
-Sorrento
-Civitivecchia
-Rome
-Venice
Israel-
-Acco
-Jaffa
-Golan Heights/Mount Herman
-Dead Sea/Masada
-Haifa
-Tel Aviv
-Jerusalem
-Eilat
Morocco-
-Casablanca
-Marrakesh
Morocco, Spanish-
-Ceuta
Turkey-
-Istanbul
-Kussadasi
Windward, Leeward, and ABC Islands-
-St. Johns, Trunk Bay
-St. Kitts
-Barbados
-Grenada
-Trinidad
-Aruba
South Pacific-
-Tahitian Islands-
--Tahiti/Papaette
--Bora-Bora
--Moorea
-Hawaiian Islands
--Hawaii/Big Island
--Honolulu/Oahu
--Lahaina/Mauai
--Kauai
Canadian Maritimes-
--Saint Martins, New Brunswick
--Saint John, New Brunswick
--Halifax, Nova Scotia
Jan Maizler
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