A Weekend Down South

May 11, 2005

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 [...]

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Confluence

April 22, 2005

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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The May Flowers Should be Pretty Good This Year

April 17, 2005

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 [...]

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Three Squares a Day: The Entree

April 8, 2005

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 [...]

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Three Squares a Day: The Salad

April 6, 2005

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 [...]

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Some Sorta Wonderful

March 18, 2005

“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 [...]

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