Field Notes

Method, destinations and dispatches. Everything here is written from the beach, not the spec sheet.

The Method

How this is fished
Sept 2026

The starting kit

What's going into Baja, item by item, with weights. Not the answer — the baseline everything else gets measured against.

Live
Sept 2026

Reading a beach

Bait, birds, current, structure. How to decide where to start on water you've never seen — and when to walk away from it.

Queued
Sept 2026

Covering water on foot

How far, how fast, and when to move. Covering ground beats waiting, almost always — here's the almost.

Queued

Destinations

Shore access, honestly
Sept 2026

Fishing Baja on foot

Beaches, estuaries, cuts and rock piles on the southern cape — what's reachable without a boat, and how to plan a day around the tide.

Queued
Oct 2026

Shore fishing Fiji

Customary marine tenure, village permission, and what's genuinely reachable from the beach without a guide boat.

Queued
Oct 2026

Beach fishing the Andaman coast

Thailand on foot: where the mangrove edges meet fishable sand, and what the humidity does to your tackle.

Queued
Oct 2026

Can you fish from shore in the Maldives?

A straight answer to a question the internet currently answers badly — restrictions, protected species, and what resorts actually allow.

Queued

Practical

Getting there with your gear
Oct 2026

Flying with rods

Airline rules, rod tubes that survive baggage handling, and what to do when the counter agent has never seen one.

Queued
Oct 2026

Hooks and lures in a carry-on

What TSA actually permits, what gets taken anyway, and how to pack terminal tackle so it doesn't cost you a morning.

Queued