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The Water’s Violin

Apr 13. 2022
Poetry A poem about fly-fishing inspired by Bela Bartok
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Trout Bohemia

Dec 6. 2015
Excerpt “I need to go away for a while. Let’s put some time and space into this.” Read the first chapter of Derek Grzelewski's book Trout Bohemia.
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The pike that stared

Feb 2. 2015
Memories This was one of those fish that staid glued to my inner eye for a long time. The largest pike I ever caught gave up a very good and pretty harrowing fight.
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School of roach

Jan 28. 2015
Memories I'm not picky when it comes to fishing and any day I can catch 12-15 fish is a good day - even when the fish are humble roach.
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My first salty pike

Jan 23. 2015
Memories I love pike fishing with a fly rod, and my first encounter with pike in the salt made a lasting impression.
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Of lead and chrome

Jan 3. 2015
Memories One was lead colored and slim, one was bright chrome and in perfect condition, bot both these south Swedish sea trout were memorable.
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King of the moonfish

Dec 30. 2014
Memories Moonfish are odd but fascinating creatures, and I have the honor of having been called king of the moonfish during a family trip to Florida.
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Mangrove tarpon

Dec 26. 2014
Memories I was never really taken by tarpon fishing. I've done it a few times and caught a few tarpon, but never felt the thrill that I see people get from fishing for these fish.
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Summit opener

Dec 22. 2014
Memories This was one of those days where things just worked out, and I took advantage of it and behaved slightly out of order.
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Jewel of the Rockies

Dec 18. 2014
Memories Little jewels of the mountains, greenback cutthroats cruising along the shore, easily visible from the rocks and eager to take almost anything offered.
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Buying some Schwiebert flies

Dec 15. 2014
Auction A story about a group buying some of the Ernie Schwiebert fly collection.
Read Mike Hogue's story here
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My float tube is a sputnik

Dec 14. 2014
Memories I enter the water... I enter another universe. My tube is a sputnik suspended in the space above a lunar surface of sand and stone. I'm the astronaut. The clear water is my vaccum. I turn on my mental time lock and make the first cast.
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The man with the silver waders

Dec 10. 2014
Memories This is about a steelhead - a sea run rainbow trout. We don't have wild rainbow trout here, so all rainbows we catch are escaped hatchery or sea farm fish. And most are butt ugly. But not this one.
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My most recent decent fish

Dec 6. 2014
Memories Oddly enough the first fish I thought of when I started writing this series was my most recent decent coastal sea trout, which I'm ashamed to say was caught more than four years ago.
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I remember that fish

Nov 13. 2014
Memories In spite of having caught quite a few fish in my life, some stand out. Not the biggest, not the most spectacular, not the most difficult... just some...
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