Travel Links That Will Improve Your Next Fishing Vacation
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, with full credit, of course. Here are some recent links that have resonated and will help you be a more satisfied fishing traveler.
How to Protect Your Home During Extended Vacations, From Security Systems to House Sitters
No one wants to come home from the trip of a lifetime to discover that you’ve been burglarized or vandalized. So far, knock wood, we’ve been lucky (although we did one time come home from Mexico to a broken freezer and 30+ pounds of rotting salmon fillet), but it always pays to be hyper-vigilant. Here are some relatively simple ways to minimize your chances of being victimized.
5 Tips for Planning a Saltwater Destination Trip
If you want to do it right, trust the experts at Orvis, who’ve been doing it longer than we have. My favorite tip (spoiler alert): “Stay for as long as possible.”
For Those Once-in-a-Lifetime Trips, You Need a Travel Specialist
You’re going on the fishing trip of a lifetime, to a remote location, with difficult logistics. A travel generalist might be able to help you, but you’re almost always better off finding someone who’s been there, who knows the jargon, knows the equipment and knows the competition. Money quote: “[W]hether a specialist can successfully pull off an adventure always comes down to on-the-ground experience.”
Five Ways to Pack Better for Your Next Fishing Trip
Hanna and I are chronic overpackers and we’re constantly also looking for ways to be more efficient with the things we “can’t live without.” I find that it’s a game of incremental benefits rather than wholesale change, and these five tips are good reminders of ways to lighten the load and keep it safe.
These Are the Biggest Trends in Travel, According to Our Specialists
I’m not sure how many of these apply directly to anglers, but here were a few quotes that I liked reading: (1) “With one of the highest vaccination rates on the planet, Brazil is bouncing back in a big way; (2) “The trend I’m seeing so far for travel in 2022 is longer stays”; (3) “I’m seeing more and more clients living in the present and pulling the trigger on their ‘someday’ trips.”
You may be poor, but you don’t have to fish like it.
Gink & Gasoline is one of my favorite fishing blogs, and even though they’re fly-centric, they still offer lots of tips (and fish porn) that apply to all of us. This particular piece builds on our theme of getting more for less, spending when you have to but also not giving up on dream trips just because they’re a little bit out of financial range. “I have never let a lack of funds get between me and great fly fishing,” author Louis Cahill writes.
9 ways that TPG’s staff members are beating expensive summer airfare
We’ve experienced the 2022 increases in airfare firsthand, and while in some cases we’ve found ways around them and in other situations we’ve learned to grin and bear it, no one likes paying more than absolutely necessary – especially for a product that seems to be declining in quality. Here are how a bunch of professionals, people who fly much more than we do, are easing the pain.
