I live here. That is most of the value.

A booking site can show you photos. It cannot tell you whether the water will be fishable on the weekend you booked.

How we ended up on Halls Island

By trade I am a technologist — cyber security is the day job. It is why this place runs on numbers instead of adjectives: the flow, the drive times, what the river is actually doing this week.

I was born in Guyana, in South America, and spent six years in Antigua and Barbuda. That is where I got the taste for property — villas and custom homes, watching how they were put together and what separates a house that works from one that photographs well. During the pandemic I started thinking about a space of my own, somewhere built around being outside: fishing, hiking, and country worth driving to see.

It took months of looking. Then I found Altmar. Open land, the lake, and the Salmon River five minutes down the road — a seventeen-mile river with twelve miles of public fishing rights on it. I bought 5.2 acres and built the cabin on it, first so I could fish here myself, and then so other people could have the same thing: somewhere quiet for a couple, for an angler, or for anyone who just wants to be out in it.

I also answer the phone myself. That part matters more than any of the above.

Ask us anything before you book

We would rather answer ten questions than have you arrive at the wrong time of year.