Sorry, it's been a while.

It feels good when the content works.

Let’s blast into this like I haven’t skipped out on four years of blogging.

Recently I did a shoot with Captain Sam Atwell for Columbia PFG. The goal: catch a tarpon on fly in the Indian River Lagoon. Sam had a plan, and it was a good one. This was our first shoot together for Columbia as Sam was just recently added to their Ambassador program. So congrats to Sam on that! I hope we get to do many more of these.

Check out the Short Reel:

Sam Atwell: A Tarpon on the Fly.

Filmed Spring 2024

And then we had a concept for getting a snook using live bait. For this part of the shoot we really wanted to focus on the shoes and benefits of wearing a good watershed while fishing in shallow mangroves.

Check that out here:

Sam Atwell: Snook Stuck in the Mangroves

Huge thanks to our buddy Kent Krebeck who turned his boat into the camera boat for the morning. He also nailed the land angle shots of Sam setting the hook and the epic jump. I was on drone duty, he absolutely nailed the long lens. Thank you, Kent!

Sam and Jess shared the insights from Instagram and I gotta say it feels good when the content comes together. I’ve linked both these images to the Instagram Page. Please do visit and watch them there.

The next Columbia PFG shoot will be published on this blog soon. It’s already been filmed, and let me say it’s pretty freaking cool. Hint: It has some unique interactions with sailfish.

Stay tuned, I might actually start using this again.

-Nathaniel Harrington

Tarpon Strings on the Treasure Coast

Went off the beach yesterday with Capt Chris Yergans and met up with Scott Crippen.

We didn’t get bites from the fish we wanted but is sure was cool to see the tarpon daisy chaining on the treasure coast like this.

Gotta look close but that is a pack of Tarpon headed straight at us.

Scott taking a cast. no eats :/

Some big ones in the back!

Ya know, sometimes they just do not bite. These fish had their sensors on and would dive deep before getting up to the boat. They had very little interest in eating a fly, so they swam on.

-Nathaniel Harrington

the Southern Eagle

Getting bait yesterday with Captain Chase Cornell and Jack Hendrix. I was working on a little film production for them when I snapped these Images of the vessel, Southern Eagle, just of the coast of Florida.

The Southern Eagle

She’s absolutely Beautiful.

A new video post will arrive soon with some teasers of this crew working their boat.

-nathaniel harrington

CNY's photographs of hooked Tarpon.

I got my hands on some of Captain Chris Yergans memory cards and wow was I ever impressed with what I found in them. He has taken some of the most incredible Tarpon jumping photos I have ever seen.

Here’s a couple I edited.

CNY on the Fly, Tarpon Jumping

Tarpon Gulping Air as is pulls the boat along.

This one is epic. Big Leap!

Its apparent how much time chris has put into chasing these fish. Not only is he great at guiding people into the fish but he is very good at photographing them as well.

Well done CNY. Well done.

Glimpse at Florida's incredible eco system.

Hey Hey and Hello!

Ive been working on a very cool video project with a good friend of mine, Chris Yergans, AKA CNY on the Fly.

These are a few frame grabs from insanely amazing moments during this past month of June. We have been fishing all over the state of Florida enjoying its many, many different creatures.

Mana Ray

School of Bull Reds

CNY on the Fly with a Tarpon caught on Fly

Very Large Tarpon caught on the fly by Chris Yergans, CNY on the Fly.

Jumping Tarpon hooked up on the Fly

CNY and Myself cruising speed on the 18' Maverick

Full Crew off the Beach. Boat swap about to happen.

The Silver Tarpon is a Migrator that recently came back to the beach after spawning in the deep ocean. The smaller green back tarpon would be more of a Florida Coastal fish. That smaller male will now follow the larger female for as long as it can, possibly forever, looking for the chance to also spawn.

Paradise

Spotted Eagle Rays

Line of massive Tarpon Swim past just out of casting range. These Tarpon are daisy chaining and were doing some shallow water spawning.

Brett Martina leaders a big Tarpon

I love this place.

We will be releasing some of this footage in the near future on this website as well and CNY on the Fly’s Website. Stay Tuned..

Thank you for visiting!

-Nathaniel Harrington

To the Press

Editing some photos last evening and I re-opened a folder from a show I shot with Carter Andrews. In this show we were chasing down some schools of jacks right off the beach on the treasure coast of Florida.

Its pretty abstract, maybe even confusing to most people who don’t know what they are looking at. But when you see it, its mesmerizing.

These Jacks are huge fish, averaging 30-40lbs. Carter targeted them on Fly and Top Water which turns into a spectacle to behold. Complete mayhem as these fish eat without much thought to it. They blast out of the water in every direction and when you hook up you better be ready for an intense tug.

Anyways this one will go on metal and find a home for one of the filmers I shot the show with. It will probably become a great topic for his guests.

Carter Andrews Boat nosed up to the Bait in the surf.

Here’s a teaser edit I did for the show. Sets the mood. Check it out!

Thank you all for visiting!

-Nathaniel