Patience

essays and musings on fly fishing for native trout

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Fishing – Delayed Gratification

January 24, 2009 ⋅ 6 comments

There is a creek I know, unremarkable to most. Looking at it you wouldn’t think much of it: willows, dogwood, river birch, aspen and a single fir clutch its banks. It meanders through sagebrush sprinkled meadows where free ranging cows occasionally flatten the vegetation and punctuate the air with a pungent smell. Above the meadow [...]

Teaching Your Child to Fish

July 11, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

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 cares. It was hers, all hers! And just who is the dipstick who forgot [...]