Summertime Fishing Travel Link Buffet
It may be occasionally too hot to fish, or too sticky to travel, but the news never rests. Here are a handful of stories that we’ve read recently that may inform your future fishing travel.
Peacock Bass Fishing Legend Passes at 72 — Pour one out for Terry Jertberg if you’ve ever gone to the Amazon and ripped a “chopper” or dreamed of doing so.
Applying for a Passport Just Got Easier — After I had to scramble to renew my passport last year, it’s nice to know that the often unfairly-maligned postal service has worked to make things easier to get one.
You Can Now Get TSA PreCheck at These Airports — More good news: Travelers going through Washington-Dulles, San Francisco, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Houston-Hobby, Houston-Bush and Long Beach Airports will be able to quickly enroll in PreCheck on the spot.
A growing interest in Guatemala from younger travelers — We’ve loved our trips to Casa Vieja Lodge and we branched out by visiting Antigua last year, with a few days at Lake Atitlan in a few months. It’s easy to get there and it’s affordable.
Inside the Smithsonian’s tropical research island in Panama — We’ve seen so many amazing things in the Panamanian jungle, and on the water, and it’s nice to know that new discoveries are still being made.
Low water levels in Panama Canal due to increasing demand exacerbated by El Niño event — Until our most recent trip to Sport Fish Panama Island Lodge, when we toured the canal on the way home, we didn’t truly understand what a marvel of engineering it is – and how much it can affect world commerce.
Black alligator gar are rare but real. A Texas fisherman just caught one. — One of our bucket list trips is to fish the Trinity River for monster alligator gar – we don’t care what they look like, just how they pull.
Rare fish that lives in complete darkness washes ashore on Oregon beach — We visited Cannon Beach on Hanna’s 50th birthday trip in 2018, but I’ll make no jokes about seeing prehistoric critters on that trip, for fear of jeopardizing my marriage.
