Author: Capt. Andy Mezirow

I wrote a report for BD Outdoors two years ago about a remarkable trip with Nomad Sportfishing in Australia.  It was really a trip of a lifetime. The only missing part of our fishing excursion to Queensland was the lack of marlin on the Great Barrier Reef. They came a week after we left and that season was a good one, with a late start. My fishing partner Vince Ward and I know better than most, that regardless of how good a fishery can be, that timing is everything. So this year we booked a short four day Great Barrier…

A decade ago my Alaskan charter service had a booth at the Fred Hall Sportsman’s Show in Long Beach California. Right next to our booth was an expedition fishing service from Australia, Nomad Sportfishing. They had a 50-inch screen, with some of the most incredible videos catching huge reef fish and pelagics on surface lures from the northern Great Barrier Reef. The owner was there and he was a heck of a nice guy. I watched as passing fishermen were mesmerized by his images of clients catching massive dogtooth tuna, giant trevally, barred Spanish macks and wahoo on a fly.…

LONG RANGE FISHING: Seward, Alaska Some locations grab a hold of a fisherman’s attention and stay with them for their entire life. Alaska is one of those places. It draws fishermen like a moth to a light. Once you see a photo of a halibut the size of a barn door, or a salmon so giant it takes two people to hoist it up for the camera, you can’t help but imagine a trip to the final frontier. Add in the wild landscapes and remoteness of this gorgeous country and it’s no surprise that just about every angler has Alaska…