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Best Fishing Day In 18 Months!
This was the best day I have had fishing in at least 18 months! Both stalkerS were on the prowl today near the headwaters of West Fork of the Bear River. Within seconds of entering the water, I knew,...
View ArticleTeaching Your Child to Fish
Dry feet are great, but the first fish on a dry fly by your eleven year old daughter is MUCH BETTER! Yeah, that’s what I’m talk’n bout! So it was a brown. No big deal. It was only eleven inches. Who...
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MacGyver Fishing (AKA Red Green to the Rescue)
All right, it wasn’t all peaches and cream when I took my daughter on her first fly fishing excursion. Besides forgetting the camera, I forgot to bring a pair of polarized sunglasses for her. And when...
View ArticleLiterary Outdoor Blog – StoryArc
Do you like reading well-written fishing stories? Enjoy "Gray’s Sporting Journal" but wish it came out more frequently so you could read some decent outdoorsy type poetry? Are you a closet writer?...
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Sleepless Autumn Night
I grope toward the bed in the half dark as my eyes adjust to the diffuse light of the rising Harvest Moon glancing through the five bedroom windows. I strip off my clothes and pause for a moment to...
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Last Foray?
Our last foray into Idaho this year? Quite possibly. It didn’t start too well. I swung by Dan’s house as I was heading home. He was putting siding on his shed and I honked. He swung toward me and...
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Sowing and Reaping
“Hey, Dad, check it out!” Ben says, pointing to something along the edge of the river. A green cloth, partially in the water, caked with mud. Looking a little closer I see it is green flannel. I reach...
View ArticleSouth Fork Boise – Prelude to Fishing
I never thought a female would become such an integral part of our spring excursions (which I kind of think of as a “guy” thing). But Judie is starting to become a part of our Idaho fishing world. And,...
View ArticleFischer and Spassky? Not Quite.
I’ve found a couple of interesting articles and a book (I purchased and am waiting for) related to my cruelty piece. Until then: The first fly tied on while gut-deep in the lotic tumble is a gambit I...
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The Kryptonite Hatch
Time. It’s not a luxury everyone has, so I try and flaunt it take advantage of it every chance I get. You see, some things that are supposed to run like clockwork don’t always keep their own timetable....
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