Welcome to the Current Fish
This is just a place where we can share great fishing, outdoors, travel and outdoor career stories and information to help others live a full life outdoors
I’m starting these writings to help other anglers. When I changed careers two decades ago to go into outdoors publishing, all I wanted to do was help people get better at and enjoy fishing more. I still want to help anglers get a lot better at fishing on their local lakes and on their favorite fishing trips.
But this will be geared towards a lot of useful fishing topics like ultralight fishing, bait finesse system fishing, what’s new in JDM tackle, panfishing tackle and techniques, fishing trips and travel tips. I will have a lot of cool tackle and technique stuff to share for bass enthusiasts, panfishermen and even fly fishermen as well.
But I also will delve into how I got to this place in life from leaving a career as an IT executive, to becoming a fishing writer, working up to publisher and COO of the top freshwater fishing media companies, to now an independent senior advisor and consultant who helps various companies with content marketing and direction. But I have also afforded myself the opportunity to travel and fish and write for a living for more than 20 years. If that interests you, then I would be honored for you to subscribe to my emails.
I’ve been teaching people how to fish for more than two decades, and I have hundreds of articles that Rank No. 1 on Google. I have written thousands of articles that have helped anglers across the globe catch fish more consistently. My fishing content has been viewed by tens of millions of people, and as I get older I’m moving to a serve the smaller audience of avid anglers who are looking to improve their fishing and their lives around fishing.
I’ve been documenting the movements of many fish species like red ear sunfish, bluegill, black crappie, white crappie, largemouth and smallmouth bass on large reservoirs, small lakes and even rivers and streams for several years in an effort to come up with the most consistent usable patterns and gear you can use to get on fish faster and more efficiently. And I will share all of that here.
I’ve done the same with techniques coming out of other places like Japan. I was mid-strolling a couple years ago before it became all of the rage. I’m usually on the front end of trends before the masses find out, and often I’m the one that clues them in.
I am going to be sharing a lot of this information on migrations of fish, developing patterns, new tackle from overseas and state side as well as lots of hands-on experiences. I will have a lot of video content to share with you showing what these various species of fish do at different times of the year. And why certain presentations and newer techniques are so much more effective in certain windows. So if you want to get on fish consistently month to month, season to season, this will be some of the best content you can find in fishing.
I will mail free emails consistently, however, some of the really granular detailed, documented and vetted information will be reserved for those that support this work. This will include studies, observations and detailed systems, even down to showing specific places and areas that I fish that prove the information works.
I am going to give away a lot of the best information I’ve been able to compile over 20 years of patterning fish all over the country and working with some of the best around fishing. I am not doing this for millions of anglers here. Just a handful of the hardcore anglers who want to consistently catch fish and improve as an angler and human being.
This will be usable information that you can put into action regardless if you have a boat, fancy electronics or just a single rod and reel and walk and wade fish. I want this to be of maximum benefit to all fishing folks and simplify your fishing with proven information, lures and locations. Take all the guess work out if you will.
So I have a ton of insight to share that will make you a lot more consistent every time on the water. I will share a bunch of DIY ways to make super proven and productive lures on your own as well as systems of fishing that don’t require you spending a ton of money on any certain thing. I want this information to be super valuable regardless of your setups. I want it to help good folks catch fish on every budget.
There is a lot of watered-down information when it comes to topics like panfishing out there, and I want this to be something very different that is giving up a lot of the best proven findings other folks won’t share to handful of avid anglers who are looking to get a lot better at catching fish every month, everywhere, consistently.
I taught a generation of anglers how to ledge fish, find schools of fish with electronics, and catch bass on just about every technique imagined, and now I want to provide a more detailed benefit to passionate outdoorsmen and women to make you an accomplished fisherman on your local lakes too.
I also hope I can help you carve a path in your own life that helps you find your passions in and around fishing, the outdoors, traveling to fish, and a whole lot more. My mission is to provide experience and advice to folks through my pursuits over the last three decades to help others find a rewarding fulfilling path full of things you enjoy.
So I hope I’ve piqued your interest. I have a ton to share. I hope it will be way more rewarding than a small subscription fee should you choose to support. Regardless I appreciate you following and subscribing in any capacity.
I plan for this to be not only super beneficial to you but also entertaining sharing a lot of fun fishing experiences on the water in a lot of different locations. And to give you insights you can’t get anywhere else with an extensive network of connections, inside track on trends, and early information before it reaches the masses. And I hope to help you improve your mindset and opportunities along the way in tangible ways as well.
If any of this is something that interests you, I’d love to for you join our small passionate email group!