Austin Kane – Nov 10th

Topic: DIY Saltwater Flats Fishing

Austin’s presentation will focus on tides, tactics and tips for on-foot saltwater sight fishing and how to utilize google earth and tide charts to effectively plan your next fishing adventure. An Atlanta native, Austin is passionate about wild fish in wild places and utilizing on-foot sight fishing to drive conservation of shallow sea fisheries.

This Month’s Meeting – Wednesday, November 10th
@ 7:00 p.m. @ Manuel’s Tavern
Virtual & In-Person – Zoom info will be provided via group.io

Bio:

Born and raised in Atlanta, Austin Kane  learned the beauty of catch & release fishing at a young age dunking worms for brim in a backyard creek. 

His fish fascination returned in college, courtesy of  farm pond bass near Athens, GA. In danger of graduating early from UGA, he added a second major and snuck in a week of fly fishing in Slovenia before a study abroad in Vienna. Slovenia was his first taste of international fly fishing and things would steadily derail from there. He persevered through a few years of post-grad investment banking, fishing himself single during tarpon season #2, but by mid-2017 he decided it was time to be outside. 

Seven months of fishing followed, highlighted by an exploratory mothership trip to a remote Indonesian Atoll with Solid Adventures. The comradery of this trip inspired him to start a new kind of adventure company. In late 2018, Kaniak Expeditions was born to bridge the gap between DIY fishing and luxury lodges. The company specializes in on-foot sight fishing, driven by the belief that first hand experience in the outdoors creates committed conservationists. 

Based in Atlanta, Austin enjoys working at the Fish Hawk when in town but spends most of the year on the road. He spends summers in Alaska guiding for Katmai Trophy Lodge, early falls in New Mexico guiding elk hunts for LOH Outfitters, and the winter and spring months running trips for Kaniak to the Caribbean and Central America and hosting anglers at various destinations for Solid Adventures.

Robert (Rob) Prytula – July 12th

Topic: Fly Fishing for Bream

Rob is a native Texan who grew up in middle Tennessee. He enjoys chasing any species of fish with a fly rod. His favorite species to target are big bream, earning him the title of bream bum. He has actually traveled over 1250 miles one-way to catch a species that only exists in a certain part of the country.

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February's Meeting

February 7th.
New meeting date, same time.

The date was changed for the guest speaker and to avoid Valentine’s Day.