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.

For the fourth straight February, we ventured to Casa Vieja Lodge in Guatemala to escape the cold, relax a little, and battle loads of sailfish. As has become the norm, we took a different path to and from Guatemala – part of that was flight economics, part of it was because we had to spend a few days on the way back in Nashville for the Safari Club International Convention. Here are some notes, in no particular order.

Getting to Casa VIeja Lodge from the United States is remarkably easy but there have been slight wrinkles and differences on each of our tree trips. Learn from our experiences so your next journey will be flawless.