Fly’s ability to speak both Spanish and English is a great asset in the fishing industry, and he made his first trip thru the Panama Canal to fish the legendary Zane Grey reef in Pinas Bay Panama in his early twenty's. Over the next four years he bounced back and forth between the St Thomas summer blue marlin season and Venezuela to catch everything thing imaginable aboard the Toplesss with Capt Billy Borer. During his time on the Toplesss they were the first American boat to make it back to Venezuela after their tragic mudslides of December 1999.  In November of 2000, Fly started fishing with Jim Lambert and Capt Eddie Herbert aboard the Reel Tight. He averaged over two hundred days a year fishing on the 80 foot Merritt and got the best on the job training one could ask for. Traveling from Florida, Bahamas, Mexico, Bermuda, St Thomas, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Panama, and Costa Rica..