Tropical Storm Fay: WorldANGLING Gets Whacked

Posted under fly fishing reports by Will Benson

On monday Tropical Storm Fay blew into Key West and dumped an impressive 8” of rain flooding my entire property, tackle room, Rathole Studio and screwing Mike Allen out of yet another scheduled fishing day.  And then…it sucker punched Dave up in Naples.  Not that he’d know as he was passed out after a long day backing up way too much computed crap.  Not to worry because he’s back at it after a quick phone call with me to discuss the entire future of World Angling, and few small things we should do to the website.  So… look for an entirely new homepage and layout sometime before the Drake Film Festival on September 14th.  We are planning on releasing our film on the website right before we head to the theater, so if you can’t make it out to see us in Denver you can certainly catch us right here at www.worldangling.com .
Speaking of catching… lately we’ve been catching up on some well deserved time off. Denny and I went to Chicago to connect with Gannon and see Rage Against The Machine, John Butler Trio, Nine Inch Nails, Gnarles Barkley, G love and lots of others at Lollapalooza.  Since Key West doesn’t really attract those kinds of bands, it was great to get a chance to see them live in concert.  Capt. Bill Houze and I have been heading out spear fishing lately and we are working on putting together a film about what fly fishing guides do on their days off… Head out as far as the little skiffs can go and Kill Fish!   Besides sleeping in, shooting guns, and raging at concerts, I’ve also found some time to squeeze in a bit of the old buggy whipping.  Mike Allen and I stuck our redemption permit on Friday, a hefty 28# fish.  Finally the monkey is off our back as we turn our attention to the redbone.org Superfly and SLAM tourneys where we will be defending our title in the 1 day / 1 fly event, and looking to capture the overall grand championship title using only fly rods.  I had a very relaxing yet ultra productive day fishing with Rick Orcutt on Saturday.  Rick managed to catch his first ever grand slam!  After releasing a 20+ pound permit to complete the slam we both just stood there looking at each other thinking…did we just do that?  It was hard to believe considering that we didn’t see as many fish as you would think.  Congrats Rick!