Finatic Charters

TBT ~ Sort of... In 2010, my short fiction "Time Flyz" was published in The Yale Anglers Journal. I wrote it for all of us dealing with the onset of Alzheimer's in a parent.

Flash forward to circa 2013, I adapted it as the script for a short film drama of the same title but didn't get it produced. Kinda just sat in the figurative desk drawer.

LOGLINE: Two grown sons cope with the onset of Alzheimer's in their widowed father set against the family's passion for fly fishing the Yellowstone River.

Flash forward again to 2024. Space Dream Productions, who is a Linked In connection, created a short film screenwriting competition, so I decided to submit "Time Flyz". On September 2nd, heard I was an official selection. To borrow from Rodeo vernacular, didn't make the short go, but placement of any kind is always encouraging. Thanks Space Dream Productions 🙏

Hope, optimism and fly fishing in a post-Jimmy Buffett world I don't want to live on that kind of island No, I don't want to swim in a roped off sea Too much for me, too much for me I've got to be where the wind and the water are free. — Jimmy Buffett, Cowboy in the Jungle

TBT ~ Back in the mid 90s, deep drop fishing was not widely popular in the Florida Keys. But my neighbor was an avid enthusiast and introduced me to it. His preference was the deep (700 feet and deeper) dwelling species Snowy Grouper, Gray and Golden Tile, and Rose Fish. My biggest Golden Tile(rarer than Gray) went about 40 lbs.