We love to travel and we love sharing our travel “hacks” and tips with receptive readers, but we’ve never held ourselves out to be all-knowing experts. A big part of Half Past First Cast is documenting and memorializing our learning process. We read and study tirelessly and then share some of what we learn from others.

My 30-pound payara was the fishing highlight of a very good year in 2019, and when my friend Leroy Boss got his replica before I got mine I was more than a little jealous. Two weeks later mine arrived from the great white north and it was truly worth the wait.