Okay, this posting every day thing might be a greater challenge than I thought. Yesterday I could have written something but couldn’t get online… Alas, hate to make excuses because it’s only my own goal I’m falling short of, but just know I’m not giving up so easy. I’ll post more than one thing a [...]
A Numbers Game
July 9, 2006
It had been a while since I was out fishing last. Summer, in all its glory, has found one obligation after another for me, and a day on a weekend that I could justify spending the entirety of out mucking around on a stream has been rare.
With the Fourth come and gone, it’s hard not [...]
“Never Gonna Breathe This Air Again”
March 14, 2006
Fisherman and I are at a birthday party at a bar in St. Paul Saturday night. We have made plans earlier in the week to fish Sunday, but we haven’t decided much in regards to details. Normally, we’d at least know what river we were going to fish: the Rattlesnake River (yes, that’s a psuedonym), [...]
The last flowers of late summer
October 2, 2005
The last day of the season. The last time stringing up my rod. Last flies tied to tippet. Last casts. Last time clipping off the fly in the parking lot. Last time putting the rod back in its tube.
The sun setting, me awed again at what its low angle does to the thick still-green grasses [...]
Rivers, Roads, Trout, and Mountains
September 30, 2005
More to come. Click on the photo to see a larger version.