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"Excuse me, was somebody shooting up here?"
"You’re goddamn motherfucking right I was shooting at those goddamn grackles they eat all my fucking minnows."
We had traveled five hours from Minnesota for a friend’s wedding. I had a morning to myself in an area reputed for some fine trout [...]
I almost didn’t go fishing tonight. All afternoon as I closely monitored the weather radar it seemed like I was looking for some excuse to go home and sit on my ass. I wanted a good June evening of fishing, but I haven’t felt very confident since getting skunked a week-and-a-half ago, and not being [...]
Last Thursday night I was driving home from work. As it has been all the time lately, the sky was a high gray, threatening drizzle, and the wind was steady from the northwest. I was thinking about the politics of a small community of people. Bitterness, harsh words, personal attacks, long grudges, difference chosen over [...]
You rock / rock. / The rock just sits and is. / You show us how to just sit here / and that’s what we need.
It is cold here in Minnesota right now. I don’t know if the rest of the nation is aware of that. It is windy, rainy, damp, dreary. And it [...]
Erich over at Cached Memories summed up the weekend-before-last in southeastern Minnesota better than I could, but I still feel obligated to post something…
Here’s the rundown.
I did a lot of
But only caught one
There were
and
everywhere.
It was just really nice to just spend time around
See a beautiful, new-to-me
and drive some good
I had been fishing all afternoon without much luck. One fish briefly on. The river ran parallel to the highway, with a quarter mile of field inbetween. For a ways, a grass airstrip separated the river and the road.
I was situated at what I knew to be a good, deep hole with some big [...]
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