I went fishing yesterday. Rainy.
I had planned to fish all day, maybe ’til dark. When I woke up it was raining. Andy, Gabe and Wade had crashed at my apartment and they were planning to play paintball in the afternoon. We sat around for a long time chatting and waking up. Gabe slept through it [...]
Part three of in a multi-part series about last weekend. Read The Appetizer and The Salad for the full meal so far. Stay tuned for more.
After catching several fish on dries, and losing just as many because of the barbless hooks and my own innate incompetency, I realized the fish were rising less and [...]
Part two of in a multi-part series about last weekend. The first course was The Appetizer. Stay tuned for more.
This is a great time of year for trout fishing at this latitude and altitude. The fish are as active as they get, the bugs are hatching and — my favorite part — the streamside weeds [...]
“A good ecologist can put dovetail into dovetail until the whole thing stretches out of sight. We call it an ecosystem now; earlier Americans called it the Sacred Circle. Either way it can make your poor little head swim with a vision of a thing of great size and strength that still depends on the [...]
My opening weekend fishing report. Kind of wrote this up earlier in the week, meant to post it.
I skipped Saturday and waited for Sunday, still not quite sure why… My first water was a new little creek in West Central, a beautiful pasture section with a lot of TU work evident which a fellow young [...]
Fishing on the brain…
As of me beginning this post, there are 0 days 14 hours and 38 minutes left until the opening of the Wisconsin early catch-and-release season. At 5:00 a.m. tomorrow, my nearest and dearest trout rivers open up. There are anglers that will undoubtedly be on the stream at that hour to be [...]
A chapbook I've published containing my writing alongside the work of some other talented folks.
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