the other night i dreamt i caught a brookie

November 24, 2004

i’m always revising what i write. and with my story “every cast the opportunity for perfection,” i’ve been meticulously going over it for about the twentieth time. there’s many reasons, some which i’ll keep to myself, but mostly it’s because i can’t wait until next season when i intend to keep a detailed fishing journal. [...]

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I sit on a mid-stream rock, my head in my hands, dazed and exhausted.

November 23, 2004

On our last night in Russia, Swenson and I decide to fish after dinner, in the haunting gray gloaming of the late Arctic summer, and we hike a few miles upstream, then hopscotch our way down, fishing each pool with intensity. At midnight, I stop at Peter’s Pocket, a small pool boxed in a canyon [...]

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fishing with nicklaus

November 18, 2004

i didn’t know it, but golfer jack nicklaus is also a fly fisherman, a self-described “low-handicapper” with the long rod. he has a piece in golf digest about a trip to russia (hmmm, maybe the kola penninsula is my dream trip…) with his sons to fish for atlantic salmon. it’s really quite good. there’s lot [...]

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all i want to do is dream…

November 17, 2004

dream, dream, dream… it isn’t hard, but i think i’ve narrowed down my dream fly fishing trips to argentina and new zealand (alaska is just a given and i hope it doesn’t have to be a once-in-a-lifetime deal when i make it up there): Most serious anglers dream of making the pilgrimage to the South [...]

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me fool fish

November 8, 2004

from Dances With Trout: So maybe what you should do when you catch a great trout is go back to camp and make a pot of coffee because there will not be a bigger or better fish today. Sooner or later your partners will wander in and you can tell them all about it. That’s [...]

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