Category: Fly Fishing
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The Bechler
“He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea.” -Thoreau, “Walking” It’s autumn. Eh. The kids know what this…
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More pointless bullshit
I’m not saying that television is vulgar and dumb because the people who compose the Audience are vulgar and dumb. Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests. -David Foster…
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A Question of Scale
Paige emailed me today asking about the progress of the Alaska move. The real and only answer is that I’ve been thinking about it, a lot. She did attach her and Luc’s argument in the affirmative. (I heart Ronald Jenkees.) That argument, in more prosaic terms, is that Alaska has big wilderness of a kind…
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The Indeterminacy of Translation
“…in point of epistemological footing, the physical objects and the gods differ only in degree and not in kind.” -W.V. Quine Sandy and Larry descending to the river. This past weekend, with three others solicited from packrafting.org, I paddled what might be the premier 2-3 (or more) day packrafting trip in the lower 48. In…
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16 hours
TrailLite Designs, modified. Those tires have been good to us, too. Sometimes you just have to get out. To make it happen. As I was driving home early this morning local NPR was telling me about a winter weather warning above 6500′ this evening. We’re sure to have many sunny days to come, but the…
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TrailLite Designs Ebira review (and some extras)
Quite a few months ago, Thom Darrah at TrailLite Designs sent me this, free and unsolicited, to review. Fishing season has taken quite a while to get going, but the last few weeks have been exceptional and my Ebira has gotten a ton of use. It’s a simple idea: a shoulder sling/pouch for a tenkara…
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Trout!
I am a lazy fly fisher. I like to fish when it’s easy, during the low and clear water of high summer and early fall. Those conditions have taken far longer than usual to arrive this summer, but in the last three weeks things have taken off, with alacrity. My family arrived for a visit…
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Quiet secrets
Pre-park artifact in Glacier NP. I was all set to go down the South Fork of the Flathead this (for me 3-day) weekend. Hiking, boating, fly fishing, and in sharp contrast to last year, warm weather. Work got done last week, we bought a second car Thursday, and Friday afternoon I ran around, bought food,…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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