Hey, fishing noodle heads, nitwits, and numbskulls! My name is Kujo, and I am a die hard fishing nerd—the kind that spends years writing books, testing waterside, and racking gear to imprint fishing history, fishy locations, and angling methods into my melon. I realized that I better start writing these things down before I forget. I have this oddity where I have to write things down or I will forget… and if I didn’t read it, then it never entered my brain. So reading and writing is important, as it enabled me to learn. Now I want to spread that knowledge.
I am building an archive of journal entries, notes, charts, maps, and photos for non-fiction and fictional storytelling, which at the end of the year becomes a manuscript for a book. I’ve fished on and off most of my life, but before 2018 it was casual—something I did, not something I studied. Between 2018 and 2022, fishing stopped being a hobby and turned into full-time research. I read everything I could get my hands on, tested methods in the field, took notes, made mistakes, and fished enough hours to know when I was wrong. That stretch of obsession eventually turned into my first book in 2024, Bank Angling: A Journey Through Time and Mind, followed by Saltwater Fly Fishing: A Hawaiian Odyssey in 2025. I’m currently working on my most ambitious project yet: The Mad-Angler Challenge: A Basic Fly Fishing Manual—a book about how to fish, why I fish, and what fishing teaches when you slow down enough to listen. This isn’t a guru book. It’s a manual with field notes, a study of fishing. Fishing has a way of smuggling math, patience, and philosophy into your life whether you ask for it or not. This project is my attempt to make sense of that without ruining the mystery. Mad Angler Fishing Hub exists to document the process, not just the catches. If that sounds like your kind of water, pull up a chair.
You can find my random fishing thoughts at: https://watersidethoughts.blogspot.com/
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