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APRIL BITES

fishingpoet — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:35:48 +0000

Pike on the St. Lawrence with fishingjones and his brother. April ain’t easy.

THE BOYS OF NOT-YET SUMMER

fishingpoet — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:00:26 +0000

The morning started at 5:30 with a couple sausage, egg and cheese breakfast wraps, coffee and an apple fritter on the ride to a permit-only lake. Grant had a couple backpacks with his camera gear. I had my 5 wt. and several boxes of warm-water flies…and a spinning rod in case I needed a “rain-maker.” [...]

RIVER-RIGHT

fishingpoet — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 03:33:16 +0000

I pull up my chair most mornings and find no words. The sun is up. Traffic is purposefully outbound. I watch. Drink coffee. Listen through open windows. Birds. The neighbor’s dog. Other morning sounds. Still no words. Like undisciplined watercolor brushstrokes, the days are running together in odd hues. I’ve been seeking out far-flung sorties for fish and fellowship [...]

THERE’S NO WAY THEY COULD’VE KNOWN

fishingpoet — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:00:42 +0000

10, 9 and 7 years ago. Swaddled and warm in their loving mother’s arms, just hours after their respective births. Brand new in this great big world. Awash in soft, far-away dreams as their dad cradled and paced and crooned stories of the great adventures they’d have someday. There’s no way they could’ve known what life had in store. But [...]

HARD WORK, SON.

fishingpoet — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:02:13 +0000

The Pere Marquette was a lesson in the art of disciplined optimism. This is not sunshine-and-puppies optimism. This is not a-bad-day-on-the-river-is-better-than-a-great-day-at-the-office optimism, which we all know is bullshit anyhow. This is optimism that punches back instead of turning the other cheek. Rugged and backboned, half-mad and unwilling to holler Uncle. Disciplined optimism. ** Alex Landeen and I [...]

TRIFECTA

fishingpoet — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:30:58 +0000

One trip. Three videos. All from the same footage. No…not win, place and show. Win, win and win. Big props to the editorial-stylizations and just plain good-dude-ness of Alex Landeen and Matt Dunn. The PM will not be the same. Well, we hope it’s not on our next trip anyhow. (official heads-up: strong language [...]

PRETTIER THAN A CATFISH IN SHALLOW WATER

fishingpoet — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 02:13:56 +0000

It’s been a while in the making, but Pulp Fly, Volume 1 is finally here. This eBook anthology of stories written by fly fishing writers is a first in the industry — and it’s good-looking body of work. The collection includes the literary machinations of Pete McDonald, Alex Landeen, Matt Dunn, Bruce Smithhammer, Bjorn Stromsness, [...]

YOU PAYS YOUR MONEY, YOU TAKES YOUR CHANCES

fishingpoet — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 03:37:11 +0000

Then all of a sudden, there we were. Straight from the airport. Three of us and a drift boat and a river unhinged and in the trees. Gusts to 30, temps in the 20′s and maybe two hours of fishable light before a 6 p.m. pull-out in the ice dark. It’s all good though. [...]

a.m.

fishingpoet — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:22:26 +0000

Flight, flight, Grand Rapids by 10 a.m. I’ve been told Michigan knows how to welcome a fella. All I can tell you is that I’ve been working out and my beard is now good-n-healthy.

HEADING FOR WATER

fishingpoet — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:01:59 +0000

Back in late-April of last year, Grant Taylor, Dean Milliman and I got together to do an advertising/awareness campaign for a local (Upstate NY) Trout Unlimited chapter. In addition to a poster series and some stream-side signs, we had designs on trying to shoot a short video as well. This would be Grant’s first foray [...]