tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57921551522346506192024-03-13T08:37:43.603-04:00The Angler's CulvertI want to walk in the woods, fish and drinkEnglish Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583165989353165951noreply@blogger.comBlogger243125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792155152234650619.post-68009929655450830162018-11-15T21:43:00.002-05:002018-11-15T21:43:41.072-05:00The Steelhead Habit<i>Preamble </i><br />
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<i>I'm recording this here to keep our shit together, in all likelihood just so I can find it later when I'm old and unable to find the bathroom. Things are already pretty jumbled. </i><br />
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<i>They say your parents fuck you up, but I think it depends who they are. I took my kid Harris to the Salmon River last week. We stayed in a warm cabin for three nights, ate well, and fished a good river for a day and a half, hooking, losing and landing enough steelhead to make this a fine trip. We had a good time. </i><br />
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<i>I think that's pretty good parenting. </i><br />
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<i>I've been going to the same river for 8 years now every November. Occasionally I've been in December, and there were a couple of trips in deep winter that were really stupid but good fun. Harris has been asking to come in recent years, so this was it. </i><br />
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<i>The sheets in the cabin at Roger's place smell the same as they have each year. The dead King's smell the same too. Both really good smells. It's the kind of physical reaction that becomes more noticeable as we age, and makes you want to write things down. My Dad always said write it down. </i><br />
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<i>But I don't really know why these smells are worthy of a note. Maybe it's compensation for failing eyes.</i><br />
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<i><i>It's a great joy to note that this fishing trip really got to us both in the way you hope
things will but can't predict. </i>I made <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4esTXpZ5Bn4">this film</a> of our time in the car and on the water, and wrote this note when we got back to Connecticut. </i><br />
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<i>Tight lines, </i><br />
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<i>Jonny </i><br />
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The Steelhead Habit<br />
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Bill’s fish runs up and across, wrapping a submerged limb, then out and
quickly downstream, into the backing to find a protruding tussock
grass. Miraculously still attached, she uses the river’s breadth,
pulling a big belly of fly line under the water, a long way from where
this started - more backing out. He shouldn’t land this fish. But
finally, not quite spent, into the shallows.<br />
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After all this improbability a botched net job provides an air of b<span class="text_exposed_show">ad feeling all around, especially mine, the net man. Apologies are made and no hard feelings. It can happen. </span><br />
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Steelhead fishing is a sensual affair. The fish are shiny prizes:
pristine despite their bastard status in the Great Lakes tributaries.
The Salmon River, its carbide scars and high-trafficked byways, is a
quality fishing river. Riffles, pools, runs, twists and braids that
split the main course into rivulets and island adventures. The woods are
the real deal. The lake effect weather is too. Fishing hours are
governed by competition for bank space, food, wool and dryness.<br />
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Dead salmon lay here. The reason we and the steelhead are here. Hanging
bent from log jams. Lying as the high water left them - once good
looking fish. Sizable.<br />
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And their smell. The scent tells you
you’re back. Like a place you grew up. Visiting grandparents. Stoking
distant home fires. Wool blankets and thermostats. Absolute comfort. The
smell of the laundry at the cabins hasn’t changed for eight years. The
recognition is unambiguous. This is now officially a habit.<br />
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We’ve come a long way, driven five hours over the Hudson to one of the
most depressed areas of New York State to fish for the ultimate
pleasure. My son said it is the salmon graveyard. <br />
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Amish traps
don’t bother with lights. Make sure you miss them on the drive to your
early morning spot. Over three days the river is big, then falls by a
half, then another quarter of itself (Winter will arrived in 12 hours
and river levels need to be managed.) Mid morning on your second full
day you hook a 10lb buck on the fly rod. More backing and into the pool
way below. Strong, strong fish. That logjam should see him free, but
after three passes to the net he’s done. On his first visit to the big
river your son crouches and lifts the net, bringing the fish in as you
should have. Neither of you will forget this journey away from home.<br />
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<i><br /></i>Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10936146258233861130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792155152234650619.post-4383382229870434542017-04-20T23:30:00.002-04:002017-05-04T20:23:26.505-04:00Responding to Spring<style>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">In almost every respect spring is as close to a blessing as I can
expect. But I've noticed some challenges with it, probably more my own making, and wanted to try to understand them better by writing them down. They are not negative things. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">A</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> lesser irritant, and as obvious as it gets, is noted principally for the benefit of friends in temperate climes whose seasons blend together. In New England, spring explodes from a status of absolute dormancy. Throughout winter, December through March, the
woods appear lifeless gray, lawns a dry brown if not covered by feet of white. Everything shuts down and
hides away (why <i>we</i> don’t, I don’t know. Evolution should correct for this
eventually?) Then, in April, all life appears – and with it a mass of pollen
and seeds coat the car, and everything else, in dense green dust. Spring is as much a deluge as winter snow. Eyes smart,
throats scratch, and energy lags, such is the effect on the body. It’s a small
price for what’s unfolding, of course. Color from monochrome; life affirming in
real time, reliable and rightly celebrated every year as a good thing. But nothing here <i>emerges</i> so we can truly savor it. Spring here is sudden, and we need to respond. </span><br />
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bass are moving from major rivers and from far south, and they’re here now in
the local salt marsh. Flowering Forsythia and chirping osprey chime with this spread of fish, motivated by blooming grass shrimp and tight shoals of alewives. For the first time since autumn my clock sets to local tide cycles. Narrow
windows have to be juggled with work, family obligations, and maturing laziness.
To be present for the turn of high tide at my place is a quiet wonder that goes
unnoticed by people driving past, and I want to be there. Inland a distance from Long Island Sound and connected by channels and bends, the marsh’s full water level is
delayed and difficult to measure, with slack high tide hesitant the briefest of
moments before tilting away. Such a large movement in the earth’s behavior, all happening so
peacefully and without fuss, appeals to me greatly.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> [In fact, as I explain this to my son, I'm describing how the tide on the outer, Sound-ward side of the marsh turns a full two hours <i>before</i> the tide on the inside of the marsh, such that water is going out and coming in all at once in the same body of water within the space of a half mile. If you don't agree that this is wonderful, I fear you've read too far].</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Full high tide and one half hour after it should happen at
dusk to be just right at this place, but when this will actually happen involves
guesswork that requires time and thought that are beyond me. What's certain is that the windows of opportunity grow too late, as they are tonight, and I’m left with the awkward
knowledge that the fish are there to be caught, but not by me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">I
should take up ice fishing to smooth out the year and lessen the sudden spring, but for now nothing in winter can truly be called
tempting. Spring, then, brings double the commitment as the need to hook striped bass verges on necessity, or at least this seems to be emphasized the more I fish alone. It's a very welcome and intoxicating arrangement that still surprises and excites me every year. </span>
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English Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583165989353165951noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792155152234650619.post-23075439747740577182017-03-28T21:18:00.002-04:002017-03-28T21:18:53.669-04:00Guest Post - "The Epic Midge Hatch"This is guest post from my friend Steve Zakur. He writes a fair bit in the angling press, and a good thing too. This is from a piece he sent me today. I think it captures the simplicity and detail of our sport very well indeed.<br />
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<b>The Epic Midge Hatch</b><br />
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By Stephen Zakur<br />
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<i><span><span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span>Fished an epic midge hatch on the Farmington today. Water was frigid with all the snow melt. Not a trout moved.</span></span></span></span></span></i><br />
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<i><span><span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span>There's nothing to lose. </span></span></span></span></span></i><br />
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<i><span><span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span>Z</span></span></span></span></span></i>English Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583165989353165951noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792155152234650619.post-34632142660662629482017-01-09T11:01:00.000-05:002017-01-09T16:59:05.296-05:00Chances are good<style>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adventure ain't what it used to be.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span><span style="font-size: large;">hat first trip to the Salmon we played how many can we
catch. We’d get lazy and stretch out in warm November sun after tangling with another
nature-defying steelhead. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It wasn’t meant to happen again, but exceptional years
became normal. Another year followed when the river was all ours and we lost
count of monotonous ten pounders, each as pristine as the wildest salmon, and
twice the fight. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">These steelhead made us dream of going back; to thinking
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">well </span>of six hours straight </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">along 90 West; looking forward to staying
at Roger’s place; rising before December dawns to all that inevitable weather. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">S</span>teelhead<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> numbers have fallen away <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">in recent years<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and</span></span></span> now we’ve got cold
feet. Adventure is taking a backseat because the catching isn’t the way it was.
We’d have to fish all day for no takes, maybe only one chance for the hero shot
the whole trip. Those odds aren’t good, so there’s no need to long for
something we never thought attainable. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Going now would be “like real steelheading is meant to be”,
and we’d s<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">till </span>have everything else – pretend cabin comforts, friends distracted from
work, the whiskey and music, and likely more rested river than ever before. We’d
have to work for a fish, to hunt the river like we always wanted to before all those<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>fish spoiled <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">us</span>. </span></span></div>
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PS. I wrote this to highlight what, to my mind at least, seems like an imbalance between what I've come to expect and what I actually always wanted. Multiple fish days are great, but I got to asking myself whether they have dented my sense of adventure, and the greater satisfaction of attaining something that is harder to come by. Mostly it's my own reminder to go and find out, to put in more time exploring the river for the chance of a fish that deserves our effort, rather than waiting to see what will happen. <br />
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English Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583165989353165951noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792155152234650619.post-45623558133760224012016-08-21T19:16:00.003-04:002016-08-21T19:53:31.551-04:00Floating the Glorious 12thHere are some pictures and minimal film with detailed instruction of how one goes about getting burnt by the sun. I made it because it was a really lovely time; paddling, wading and basking in warm waters. When it's January or March I will look again and feel the warmth. At least that is my thinking. <br />
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We didn't catch much - blues mostly, and we were tired by the time we found them and I couldn't be bothered. Anchoring in a busy shipping channel isn't an evolutionary stable strategy, and when you hook a 3 pound blue the return is quickly diminishing: some seconds of violent thrill for the high probability of hand lacerations. I was tired and didn't want to be bitten. I couldn't cast no more. We'd set out at 6.15am and returned to dock, sore arsed and dehydrated, the back of 3pm. <br />
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I'm not sure what happened in the intervening nine hours. We did sight cast to striped bass on the flats, but didn't catch any. It's a lot like carp fishing in that respect. Thankless, hard, and great. We'd get bored, walk back to anchored boats, and talk. (Next time I must bring ample gin and tonic.)<br />
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The pictures of stripers in the film are from earlier in the season when they were much easier to catch. They are meant to dupe you into thinking they were heroically caught on this particulalr trip, but they were not.<br />
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We paddled over deeps and shallows, got out and tethered our boats, waded blue flats and watched horseshoe crabs hump. We ate beef sandwiches and remarked how great it was to be away from everything a mile or more off land. We were on the ocean for half a day and it was over quickly because getting into 12 feet of plastic and shoving yourself to sea is an adventure that is worth it every time, fish be damned. At one point I was standing next to my boat in three feet of water, changing flies. I decided to just lay down in the water and feel how great it was, because I could. You can't do that in Pulaski. <br />
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I've also been drinking really good malt whisky and contemplating what makes a good blog. I recently heard myself say that the best blogs must be time limited. They should peak and die, having found good form that must rightfully fade or become something else. Or perhaps these things come in waves? Any road, forgive us this quiet time, as we forgive those who have quiet time around us. Perhaps dormancy is better than the prattle or padding required by those that have appearances to keep, sausages to massage, platforms to maintain, and bills to pay?<br />
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I couldn't possibly say. <br />
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Best,<br />
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JonnyEnglish Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583165989353165951noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792155152234650619.post-76455294199810405152016-01-01T19:44:00.002-05:002016-01-01T19:44:27.025-05:00Self-explanatory<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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T.J. Brayshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16310669690861175884noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792155152234650619.post-34705383789757644482015-12-10T08:50:00.001-05:002015-12-10T08:50:04.791-05:00Jim Harrison's Face<span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span>“I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony.......I would rather give full vent to all human loves and
disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.”
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Jim Harrison</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Short <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.erikpetersenphoto.com_jim-2Dharrison-2Dphoto_&d=AwIFAw&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=HNiKGqWTb4x6g_Ypcdl9dIcAURezhMRFe3KK9jilcdY&m=-GD8BKruCstjMdWt2-7v7uUtYiM16Citzn6WmJkfygg&s=GP7mqz4ceE1W4ycplMHxDKM9o2VTE6z58MrXxqNZyfc&e=">article</a> about a guy who's been photographing Jim Harrison over the years. And <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/video/183">here's a nice PBS interview</a> with some of his poetry. </span></span></span><br />
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</span></span>English Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583165989353165951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792155152234650619.post-2017518903980919712015-11-25T08:51:00.000-05:002015-11-25T08:51:30.357-05:00Nothing to see hereWe fished in up-state New York over the weekend. After considerable planning and effort, Andrew flew in from India. The fishing had been painfully slow, and we confirmed this over three full days exploring the river. Few fish were hooked, and fewer still landed. <br />
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Happy Thanksgiving.<br />
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<li>Notes that it is November;</li>
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<li>Welcomes the first jaded, brown leaves of late fall when all others recoil at the loss of vibrant color;</li>
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<li>Consults lists from last year, and begins to source bottom toiletries, headlamps, swivels, foreign licenses (nb. there must be moisturizer);</li>
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English Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583165989353165951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792155152234650619.post-45518251960883318172015-10-17T16:13:00.001-04:002015-10-17T18:12:09.453-04:00It's silly to fret about squirrels<div class="MsoNormal">
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about one part hippie, one part country boy and one part scientist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And this turns out to be a good mix, because
while in their purest forms each is almost always intolerable, when properly
diluted and mixed each has something to offer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">After I fished with Ben once
or twice, I mentioned to a friend that he seemed to rarely if ever swear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not a foul-mouthed son-of-a-bitch by any
stretch of the imagination, but if there is any time when I let fly, it’s when
I’m fishing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I gave my friend the
news, he said “That’s really sad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope
he can get his life turned around.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Well, he has.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Probably, he was fine from the beginning but
was just holding back lest he offend me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I wish I could take credit for teaching him to swear, but I know that’s
not the case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Anyway, we fished off and on
much of the summer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We fish well
together. You know what I mean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re
both competent enough that the other doesn’t have to teach, but humble enough
to take advice when we’re on one another’s familiar. We fish at a similar
pace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We tend to recognize the same
attractive pools and lies, but are happy to hand them over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And usually, we both catch very, very few
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We hunted together for the
first time a couple weeks ago. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was
Ben’s second or third time out for fox squirrels, but my first time in about
twenty years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I write that, I can
scarcely believe it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was a time in
my life when fishing was just what I did to pass the time until hunting season
opened again, but for reasons that seemed fairly innocuous at the time, but
somehow occupied two decades, I stopped hunting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We chatted about it, and Ben
mentioned he had permission to hunt the woods behind his house for
squirrels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I decided to take him up on
it, so I got out my .22 rifle, a fabulous Ruger 77/22, and we put a few rounds
through it with the intention of sighting it in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The gun has lived in a hard case all these
years and, to my surprise, the scope was as I left it: five rounds at about 30
yards – my preferred squirrel distance – went almost into the same hole, so we
called it good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But not after we also
let fly with my .22 revolver, a Ruger Single-Six that also has gone neglected
for far too long.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We fished a beautiful stream
that evening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the sun went behind the
trees, the air cooled. Summer steps aside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We got a few smallmouth bass and agreed to meet in the morning to hunt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I had forgotten how much I
like squirrel hunting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some forms of
fishing are indeed a lot like hunting. Carp fishing, for example.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But they’re different in important ways too.
For the most part, one’s ears play a minor role in fishing but hunting –
squirrel hunting, anyway – is as much about hearing as it is about seeing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d forgotten how simultaneously calming and
invigorating it is to sit in the woods with all one’s senses on “high”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Ben drops a squirrel solidly
and we both visually mark where it falls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But when we get there, it’s nowhere to be found. Squirrels are
incredibly tough and it’s entirely possible that despite being hit, the
squirrel may have managed to run off through the underbrush undetected. But we
search for a long time before Ben finally says “Fuck it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Circle of life.” and we move on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The disappointment in his voice is evident
and despite the fact that an outsider to the event might interpret it as
callous, it’s clear to me that what Ben is disappointed in is himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is confirmed some time later, after I’ve
forgotten about the lost squirrel, when he grumbles to himself – but out loud –
about hating to lose a wounded animal like that. It's silly to fret about squirrels, but he does anyway and it's why we hunt together well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We’ve now been twice and we
both got squirrels each time. Squirrels are a bitch to clean and I’m clearly
out of practice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ben was not quite
finishing his second when I finished my first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But it’s silly to fret about squirrels, so I didn’t. I pan-fried one
that evening and poured the gravy over some mashed potatoes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rest are currently in the freezer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ve had a glorious Indian Summer fall so
far, so I thought I’d save the others for a hearty stew for when it’s
colder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My son and I picked over 100
apples from Dad’s tree and I’ve made four pies and two cakes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The garden is spent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m to join Jon for steelhead in a
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T.J. Brayshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16310669690861175884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792155152234650619.post-71668832199856138532015-07-22T08:27:00.001-04:002015-07-22T08:27:43.735-04:00Pay Attention<div id="fb-root"></div><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));</script><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/RetroFishing/videos/1603549939888884/" data-width="500"><div class="fb-xfbml-parse-ignore"><blockquote cite="https://www.facebook.com/RetroFishing/videos/1603549939888884/"><p>Pescuit la musca in Irlanda, anul 1955.Fly-fishing in Ireland, 1955.Video: British Pathe.</p>Posted by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/RetroFishing">Retro Fishing</a> on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/RetroFishing/videos/1603549939888884/">Monday, March 30, 2015</a></blockquote></div></div>English Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583165989353165951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792155152234650619.post-54898724586555493672015-07-21T14:32:00.001-04:002015-07-21T23:19:57.906-04:00Life Imitating Art<div>
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had a friend who died in a car crash a few years ago after he had been
away on one of his Carp Adventures. Fell asleep at the wheel apparently
but that's
another story. Vince used to make his own boilies and if you went
around to his house it would stink of rhubarb and custard one night and
the next it would be sour apple and raspberry and so on.</span></div>
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He was crazy about his Carping and he just went AWOL for days on end.</span></div>
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He was married with a daughter but he never hardly saw them so one day
Stacey his wife had had enough and she left him a Dear John on the
kitchen table and off she went with bags packed and the daughter. They
moved in with her mother until she managed to get
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After a week and a half she hadn't heard anything so she went around to
the house to see if he was there. Of course he wasn't as he was fishing.
The letter was still there unopened so off she went back to her
mothers. A few more days past and still nothing
from Vince so she went back to the house again. This time the letter had been moved so he'd obviously been home but it
hadn't been opened. It was on the floor under the kitchen chair. He must
have knocked it off when he'd been back to the house for more supplies. Stacey thought about what she'd done and realised that leaving him wasn't the right thing to do so she went back. The thing is is that she'd left Vince for nearly 2 weeks and he hadn't even noticed!!!!</span></div>
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To be honest he was a kind, gentle, loving guy and everyone loved him. He
just had this passion for Carp as many do and it took over his life
until he died in the car crash. The car was full of gear. Rods, reels, bite
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If you are to raise proper children, you must - at the very least - teach them those little grains of truth and wisdom we often refer to as "life lessons". None are self-evident, at least to children. But many will improve your life in immeasurable ways (e.g. #2: Treat women with respect; #3: Chew your food thoroughly; #5: Keep your knives sharp). It isn't always easy to teach them because some deal with difficult subject matter (e.g. #11: For the rest of your life, people* will amuse, inspire, disappoint and anger you. Often, a single person will do all of these. Sometimes that person will be you.) But sometimes the challenge to imparting them is just that you want to do it right. I've been losing sleep over this one, mostly because I recognize I've been so delinquent. I learned life lesson #7 at a much younger age. My own father was very good, very early on, about this one and many of the other related life lessons. Maybe not so much #s 4 and 13-16, but he pretty much nailed it on #s 5-9 before I was even eight years old.<br />
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[*This is also true of any device that depends upon an internal combustion engine. Coincidence? I don't know.]<br />
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Anyway, I decided the time was nigh. <br />
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We loaded the vehicle and drove north to the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. When we arrived, much to the delight of my children, the lake was roily. We weren't yet prepared for swimming, so I instructed them to say out of the water.<br />
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During the night before, we heard several barred owls calling back and forth. In the morning, the peewees were calling. A red-shouldered hawk was perched in a deadfall nearby. Some frogs still croaked. I made the bacon and stacked in on a plate while I made the eggs. The coffee was already made. My boys asked if they could each try a strip of bacon while they waited. I said "Sure." and gave my wife a knowing glance. After my younger son tried his bacon, he said to me, quite emphatically "Dad, I don't know what kind of bacon you bought for this trip, but you need to buy THIS KIND every time from now on!!" My other son, mouth still full of bacon, muffled a "Yeah!!!!" and vigorously nodded his head. The Time was now. </div>
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T.J. Brayshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16310669690861175884noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792155152234650619.post-24379906680740203452015-07-02T19:22:00.000-04:002015-07-05T06:54:37.315-04:00Summer, Part OneSince I've been too busy to write, I can only assume you all are too busy to read. So here are some pictures from May and June (Summer, Part One). They describe summer about as well as I can.<br />
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July and August are Summer, Part Two. I hope it's as good.T.J. Brayshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16310669690861175884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792155152234650619.post-25012821742271323662015-06-23T11:34:00.003-04:002015-06-23T11:34:54.622-04:00Coming Clean<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oTsUjKiG5-E/VYl8aQgFXQI/AAAAAAAABq0/NRtjyAhR4Is/s1600/IMGP1968.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oTsUjKiG5-E/VYl8aQgFXQI/AAAAAAAABq0/NRtjyAhR4Is/s640/IMGP1968.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No, this is not the spot.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I took the kids to daycare
on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays but my wife’s part-time job left Tuesday and
Thursday mornings for fishing. If I was on the road by 3:30am, I could be
fishing by about 4:00am, leave when the bite slowed, and still arrive at work
by 8:00am, long before anybody else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Unlike my other co-workers, though, I was a worthless bag of protoplasm
by about 2:00pm because of sheer exhaustion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And if the fishing had been good, I’d get almost nothing done because
I'd replay the events in my head all day and plan the next trip. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I would roll into my job at the Ivy
League university where I worked with “bass thumb”, I’d look at all the
geniuses around me and say to myself “I know things you don’t know.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I loved everything about the
striper scene I came to know in my few years on the east coast. I liked the
gritty industrial environment, including not just the rusted cranes and
decaying buildings, but the people as well. I saw Augie a few times when I met
others there to fish weekends or nights but he left once there was a crowd,
which to him seemed to mean more than one or two other anglers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once I started my pre-dawn Tuesday-Thursday
routine, though, he and I were often the only two fishing and before long we
started to expect each other. One morning as we were leaving, Augie said to me
"I want to show you a different spot on Thursday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can't fish this spot except at the bottom
of a big moon tide, but it will be right <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thursday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There will be herring too, so bring big flies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don't tell anybody." He gave me
directions to the spot and I realized immediately that although I’d never
fished it, the spot he was referring to was, in fact, hardly a secret. It was popular
with bait fishermen and plug casters; I'd read reports on one of the local
internet forums.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he was right about
one thing: because there was no backcast room under most conditions, we could
fly fish the spot only when we could wade far enough from the bank and this
could only be done at the lowest of lows.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I got there early and alone.
As Augie had said, the tide was low enough that I could wade far enough out for
a backcast and still be only waist deep<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was 3:45 am when Augie arrived 15 minutes after I'd started and though
he hadn't seen me catch the three 30 inch fish I’d already landed, as he waded
out he smiled and said "It's good, isn't it?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">At the next tide cycle I was
back in our spot one morning and saw Augie in the distance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I waved and asked him if he was having any
luck and he shouted back something I couldn’t make out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I got closer, he shouted again and this
time I could clearly understand him: “Get out!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You told!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">“What?” I said as I got
closer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently one morning Augie had
run into two of my friends in the same spot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He knew these guys well and saw them often, but never here, in the
morning, on a moon tide, during the herring run.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">“You told.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How else would they know when to come?” he
shouted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">“It’s a moon tide,
Augie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everybody knows this.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">“How did they know to bring
big flies?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">“It’s the herring run.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everybody knows this, too.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The truth of the matter was
that folks were talking about the herring run, and big stripers, on all of the
local internet boards. Augie didn’t know this because he didn’t use the
internet - at all. He simply had no use for it. I was angry that he was blaming
me for the arrival of two fishermen when the knowledge necessary to predict
that this was the place to be was free for the asking to anybody willing to do
a little internet research. But although I hadn't admitted this to him, he was
right: I had told my friends about my success.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I just couldn't keep my big fucking mouth shut about it. I think if
Augie had known everything – the public advertisements, the internet chat
boards – his reaction would have been the same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’d revealed to him that I wasn’t one of them - "them" being
members of the secretive and serious striper angler society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That morning he seemed more disappointed than
angry. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was the last time we
spoke.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I never fished there again, and
two years later my career took me far from the ocean.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The urban striper sharpie
has to solve a multidimensional puzzle that includes all the challenges of
access (including, sometimes, not just getting to the water but also doing so
without getting mugged, or worse), but also the timing of tides, river herring
migration and light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What this means is
that by revealing a spot - a physical location - you’ve committed perhaps a
minor misdemeanor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But if you reveal not
just one, but all of the dimensions, the penalties can be severe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You serve your sentences for revealing tide,
season, light and location consecutively.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[This piece was published in
a slightly different form in the Spring 2015 issue of "<a href="http://www.drakemag.com/">The Drake</a>"
magazine. Thanks to Tom Bie and
"The Drake" for putting it out there.]</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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T.J. Brayshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16310669690861175884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792155152234650619.post-38289136531936701142015-06-09T08:02:00.000-04:002015-06-23T13:22:24.550-04:00BugsEventually, I'll put up some sort of fishing post.<br />
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Been playing around with a new macro lens.<br />
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<br />T.J. Brayshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16310669690861175884noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792155152234650619.post-70240390492159464812015-05-04T19:58:00.000-04:002015-05-04T20:38:29.252-04:00TAC REVIEWTAC Review: Roscoe, NY, "Trout Town USA".<br />
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The pretty little town of Roscoe, New York, is the gateway to the Catskills and some of the best, most storied fly-fishing waters in the United States of America. People know it as "Trout Town USA", and with good reason. The rivers are many and beautiful; the trout are honking big and wild.<br />
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The main fly shop should have a crapper and the cigar options should stretch beyond two brands filed away in the recesses of the local gas station (the one I bought unwrapped within moments of the first blessed toke). Otherwise, the people in the fly shops are nice.<br />
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That was a review of Roscoe, New York, "Trout Town USA".<br />
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<br />English Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583165989353165951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792155152234650619.post-72872654093743386912015-04-30T09:49:00.000-04:002015-04-30T09:49:53.898-04:00It's only words, and words are all I have<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It struck me today that Spring is the best and Winter the worst, and that the word spring says it all, but just to confirm: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Season following winter, the <i>vernal season</i>, c. 1400, earlier springing time (late 14c.), which
replaced Lent, the Old English word. The notion is of the "spring of the
year," when plants begin to rise, from the noun in its old sense of
"action or time of rising or springing into existence." It was used
of sunrise, the waxing of the moon, rising tides, etc. Old English <i>springan, </i>"to leap, burst forth,
fly up; spread, grow," (class III strong verb; past tense sprang, past
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Old English winter (plural wintru), "the fourth and <i>coldest season of the year</i>,
winter," from Proto-Germanic *wintruz "winter" (cognates: Old
Frisian, Dutch winter, Old Saxon, Old High German wintar, German winter, Danish
and Swedish vinter, Gothic wintrus, Old Norse vetr "winter"),
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from PIE *wend-, from root *wed- (1) "water, wet" (see water (n.1)).
On another old guess, cognate with Gaulish vindo-, Old Irish find “Horrible,
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English Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583165989353165951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792155152234650619.post-72112740132230510582015-04-26T20:38:00.002-04:002015-04-26T20:39:28.198-04:00Inspirational*<br />
To the New England hills today to make like a mountain goat. The scenery was breathtaking, the fish plentiful, the company excellent. It was a treat, is all.<br />
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</span>The problem is two-fold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First,
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website that covers “Fly angling topics ranging from the useful to something
less useful, but always amusing.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Useful? Check.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">If you’re not fishing for white
bass right now for the same reason I’m not, then I think we both agree that
this little tidbit was useful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s the
Culvert way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I tried to snap a few more
photos from the instructional video.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
following one captured an interesting transition between images.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The editing was so superb, I didn’t even
notice it was happening during the film.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was only later, when sending the images to Jonny during the live
stream that I noticed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ve been
searching for a Culvert logo for our hats, and I think we’ve found one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The procedure itself was
largely painless, and quicker than you can tie a wooly bugger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nonetheless, I got a little light-headed and
nauseous during the surgery and I don’t think it was because of the pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right before the doctor started, I caught a
glimpse of the instrument tray.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you
know anything about vasectomies, you know there are a lot of little hoses to
snip, clamp and suture so most of the instruments on the tray were no cause for
alarm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8gtoSJXe6bo/VTKSaQxr3FI/AAAAAAAABbM/NyAFkrnVSes/s1600/0417151535.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8gtoSJXe6bo/VTKSaQxr3FI/AAAAAAAABbM/NyAFkrnVSes/s1600/0417151535.jpg" height="400" width="240" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But the little metal bowl? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could only think of one thing – well, two
really – that would be in danger of rolling off of the tray and there was no
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I checked the bowl on my way
out, though, and it was empty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The nausea
passed, and I think we’re all good to go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I hope you’re able to get
out there and catch the white bass run before it’s over!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The clammer for spring </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Everywhere is sex</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Happy Days</td></tr>
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<br />English Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583165989353165951noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792155152234650619.post-32700092460688683612015-03-27T21:41:00.001-04:002015-06-23T13:23:41.083-04:00The Loch at the Back<style>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">A version of this yarn seems to have appeared in the Summer 2015 Edition of <a href="http://www.drakemag.com/">The Drake Magazine</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">We were 17, just legal driving age, when we first went to Colin's
parents' cottage in the north-west Highlands of Scotland. The Assynt region is
as remote a place as exists on the British mainland, and probably the isles
too. The house was two windows and a door, two wind beaten bedrooms upstairs,
an outside toilet when we cared to reach it, and for many years no shower or
bath. It sits on the side of the Atlantic Ocean. Across the sea is the town of
Stornoway, the hub of the Outer Hebrides, and then America. Sheep graze the
grass, but otherwise the place hasn't changed in centuries. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">We'd already been hooked on fly fishing by our
first visit when my friend Grant wandered three-quarters of a mile up the hills
at the back of the cottage to see what he could see. The cliffs to the ocean
were steep, but over the final brow he saw a puddle, no more than an acre and a
half, two at most, nestled in a hillside bowl. Cows and sheep roamed the unwieldy croft </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"> and an old sheeling ruin sat at the access point to the water; designed, no doubt, to provide shelter and amenity to </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">the farmer and his cattle. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">We fished it the night after Grant's discovery, and
like most Highland puddles we found that the Loch at the Back contained
free-rising wild brown trout. Five or more to the pound, mostly, with the odd
surprise in the 3/4lb bracket, and maybe an old cannibal, though we never found
out. Colin reminds me that we fished with Invicta, Loch Ordie, Silver Butcher,
Alexandria and a few others. Probably a Greenwell's Glory. They weren't as
romantic then as they seem now. They were just how you fished. </span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-a3ik1Nk_Sak/VRf99JqaGZI/AAAAAAAABg8/mp1Zv2Go0ts/s1600/404079_10151229717454747_794385540_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-a3ik1Nk_Sak/VRf99JqaGZI/AAAAAAAABg8/mp1Zv2Go0ts/s1600/404079_10151229717454747_794385540_n.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">The place is special because we were kids. Nobody
went there, and nobody goes there. You'll never visit. But this is where we
learned what fishing was and a bit about the lesser matters of how to do it.
Don't stand in one place, and before you get there, cast your fly-line onto the
bank, only leader touching the puddle's margins, and trout will swirl and take
– this is the sort of magic that never leaves you. In moorland acid, the fish
were stunted from only wind-blown heather flies and other spartan fare. Midges,
mostly. I learned not to wade at this place. I probably learned to smoke there
too, purely out of self-preservation. The dreaded midges were murder on a calm
night, and we'd beat it back to the cottage to play cards and evolve our way
through varied drink and recreational drugs. </span></div>
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and we came back every year for what seemed like 10 years. A bit early for
sea-trout, and back then too broke for summer salmon, but in early June the
trout would be awake and still reliably hungry. It became our home and a place
we cared passionately for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I remember going to the Loch at the Back on my own
a few times. Appealing things were going down in the cottage and the hike was
unappealing for a teenager and then later for a twenty-something, but that last
brow before the water was something. I've never been surer of exclusive rights,
and the trout were plentiful and easy. One night I crested the last hill and
saw a red stag at the water. The paintings call this guy "the monarch of
the glen" - more a Scottish cliche than shortbread and bagpipes - but the
sight will make a lad feel rightfully small and rightfully humbled. These are
the experiences, I think. Walking alone on a Highland hill and seeing
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Grant reminds me of an important point. Leaving the
Loch and returning to the ocean for our downhill walk to the cottage wasn't
just a bonus. This being the longest month in the North, the sun dips for only
a few, cloudy hours, and only enough to make the Atlantic look like the largest
thing you can imagine, the faraway street lights of old Stornoway visible in the west. I
thought it was the edge of the world. Another 50 pence for the Cottage's
electricity meter and lights up; we'd get on with being teenagers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Years later, and now transplanted to America, I
took my girl back to the cottage and proposed to her right there on the beach
below the Loch. I don't think she minded sharing my bond with the place, and
I'm glad about that because I don't go there now and I have more reasons to
remember it. This year Colin's father parted with the cottage and I suspect it
will feel bad for them for some time. It was my home too, but I can only be
grateful. My friend sent me a picture of the Loch at the Back today. Other than
our own photos, it’s probably one of just a few, and one that even fewer will
see. I opened it on the 38th floor of a skyscraper overlooking Central Park in
New York City.</span></div>
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Yesterday, Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed into
legislation a bill that is raising grizzly flatwing hackles all over the state,
and it seems, even beyond. Before we
explain the bill's content, a little background is in order: Carp and suckers are notoriously finicky fish. They will refuse to take a fly that, to the
angler, would appear to be flawless in form and presentation. We all know this. What we also know is that, until now, these
carp <i>et al.</i> were at least required to provide a legitimate explanation for their refusal. We've all heard the excuses: "It was too deep." "It was too shallow." "It was moving too fast!" "It
was moving too slow!" Roll your
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Pence's new legislation throws it all out the window. Carp are no longer required to provide any
justification for refusing a fly, other than "Because I didn't like
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For carp anglers, this is puzzling but Pence made clear his
motivations. "My base is made up of
these bottom-feeders. Like carp, I myself am a
bottom-feeder. I suck. For far too long, we
bottom-feeders have had to justify our behaviors, and that's just wrong. Whether to spit or to swallow should be our choice and we shouldn't have to explain it."<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Ich bin ein bottom-feeder!"</td></tr>
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<!--EndFragment-->T.J. Brayshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16310669690861175884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792155152234650619.post-28422886809414234082015-03-23T20:36:00.001-04:002015-03-23T20:38:03.035-04:00In Brief: A Whole Different ThingSome ten years ago, pre-migration, I visited Connecticut for the Christmas holiday. Scrabbling for an initial point of connection, I remember my father-in-law greeting me with great enthusiasm and a bellowed question: "DID YOU BRING YOUR AUGER?" Back then I was starting to realise *how foreign I was. I could've employed a full-time interpreter and awkwardly I asked him to repeat the new word. But nothing in his spastic fist twisting suggested anything other than a man who liked an early sherry. A good sign, but no explanation.<br />
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A year or two later, post-migration, I started to fly-fish my way down a list of new and truly great fish. The ponds and rivers remained largely familiar; with the exception of the Brookie, trout were still trout. The ocean was a new thing, and if pressed, I'd say it's become the place where I most want to be. All said, I've established a roughly workable calender of fresh and salt water fishing, with good options through spring, summer, fall and winter, frozen rivers and other burdens notwithstanding.<br />
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<i>I always suspected that too many reliable men where doing it for it to be anything but right. They asked if I wanted to try it the way they broke steelhead to me - the crack cocaine of all fish. Reverential tones, voices lowered, words at a loss to explain. There would be no going back. </i><br />
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We all have tolerance limits, and ice fishing always <i>looked</i> like a whole different thing. Flies and even rods exchanged for spending time in company, a counter dose of lunacy for the mental drag of dormant New England winter. Sure, a reason - any reason? - for desperate men to be outside in January, February, March. At least, that's what ice shanties meant to an ignoramus like me.<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lesson #1. A shelter is essential for preserving the pungent beauty of sausages </td></tr>
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Last night the seal was broken on new territory, and of course I remain, sirs, entirely ignorant of its workings. But I recognize the rare and rather exciting feeling for a new thing uncovered, and of double-edged gratitude for this spiked curiosity, more wondrous ruin. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Walleye are great looking fish</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Simply, genius</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Guinness is Good For You</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">**I pity you, for you have no idea how good this tasted. </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Short but welcome. Andy is 6' 3.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A hole different thing</td></tr>
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Setting camp on a frozen lake on a mild March night, the mist-laden reek
of butter-fried kielbasa and pierogis, scanning and running for the occasional
Zander, is as good an explanation as ever I needed.<br />
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Jonny<br />
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* Like spelling realise correctly, I've come to greatly enjoy alien-ship as a permanent pass-time.<br />
** Several orders of magnitude better than indoor Collinsville salsa. <br />
English Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583165989353165951noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792155152234650619.post-33906354166261445402015-03-23T18:33:00.001-04:002015-03-23T18:33:24.200-04:00Writhing in Mud No peeping yet, but the light has changed and crocus are poking up. In a few weeks I'll be lathered in hot mud and consumed by gyrating, horny worms.<br />
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Here's a very short film to watch when you're on your own. <br />
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