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Written by Gene Langston
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Friday, 27 June 2008 08:44 |
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DuRoss slid into the water quietly, sitting on the river’s bank and putting both feet in at the same time, trying to make as little ripple as possible. The cold water lapped around his ankles and began to work its way upward, through the feet of the hip waders.
Next time I’ll wear heavier socks, he thought, but then, a little cold had never stopped him before.
He had seen the ring left by the fish’s rise as he was driving down the dirt road beside the river, a ring with a hole in the center, as big as a tractor tire. If he caught the fish who made it, he’d tell that to his friends down at the Seed and Feed store where men gathered to drink free coffee before going about their day.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 27 June 2008 08:47 )
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Written by Bob White
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Wednesday, 18 June 2008 10:30 |
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)
As some of you may know, the current issue of Fly Rod & Reel magazine marks my one-hundredth column with John Gierach. Our very first collaboration occurred twenty years ago, in July of 1988, when I illustrated his article "East Big Fish" for what was then called Rod and Reel.
 After Lee Wulff's tragic death in 1991, the editors at Rod & Reel asked John to write the magazine's closing column, and they asked me to illustrate it. Our first regular column together, "The Sporting Life," was published in March of 1992. This July marks our 100th column together, and I wanted to do a painting of John fishing his home water to commemorate that event.
Today’s image is that painting, and is titled “Close To Home”.
To mark the event, Lisa has created a 100 Painting Retrospective, and for the very first time, visitors to our website will be able to review all 100 paintings from John's columns in one place.
When she suggested that we build this retrospective, I found the idea both exciting and frightening. Did I really want people to look back over sixteen years of my artwork and be able to compare and contrast what I did then with what I'm doing now? In the end I decided that we all start somewhere, and if I wasn't getting better at what I do... then I should be doing something else. Besides, I like some of the early paintings as much as I do the recent work.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 18 June 2008 10:49 )
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A Memorable Moment at “Labranche’s Junction” |
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Written by Eric Peper
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008 15:47 |
It was early September, 1974, and through a set of remarkably fortuitous circumstances I was scheduled to spend a weekend fishing in the Catskills with Al McClane. I was working for Field & Stream at the time, managing a book club, so while meeting Al was inevitable, catching the globetrotting fishing editor for a fishing weekend was nothing short of a miracle.
At the time I was a member of the Debruce Flyfishing Club, so our accommodations for the weekend were very “Catskill traditional,” if not luxurious. We planned to cover the Debruce water as well as the lower Beaverkill and possibly the Delaware. I knew the Catskill area pretty well, but Al knew it better than I, so there was every expectation that we’d run into plenty of fish.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 17 June 2008 15:51 )
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Written by Len Harris
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Thursday, 12 June 2008 14:18 |
He went to the big trout stream in the sky November 1967. He left behind a 39 year old bride and 6 children. Five daughters varying in age from 17 to 3 years old and one son 10 years old. This was not how Len Harris Sr. had pictured his life ending. He had always believed that he would live to be an old grandpa with many grandchildren. He could not even envision his bride being left alone again. Fate could not be that cruel twice in her lifetime.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 13 June 2008 12:26 )
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Written by Len Harris
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Saturday, 31 May 2008 07:31 |
 He stands stream side. You guess him at about 65-68 years old. He is a large man. Back in the day
he stood close to 6'04" and about 250 pounds. Now all you see is the beautifully colored brook trout he
is unhooking from his line. He loves to trout fish. He is a firm believer in catch and release. Bob is a worm angler. Bob says that
brook trout are one of the most beautiful creatures God put on this earth. Bob is not a "big" trout guy. He likes to catch lots of trout
and all sizes.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 13 June 2008 12:25 )
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Written by Doug Gilmore
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Thursday, 12 June 2008 14:09 |
Somewhere in eastern North Carolina, I stopped to eat at one of those cinder block-walled barbeque joints that pop up out of nowhere around places like Jacksonville, Beaufort and Greenville.
Almost immediately after the waitress had sat the hand-pulled pork plate in front of me, my cell phone rang. It was my wife. I knew immediately that something was wrong. My wife hates telephones; if she calls me, there is a problem at home. If she calls me when I’m out of town on business, something terrible has happened.
“Your father called. You need to go see him, Jack. He says he’s dying.”
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 12 June 2008 14:15 )
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Written by Doug Gilmore
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Friday, 23 May 2008 23:14 |
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 On a particular Monday in May, I go fishing. As is my usual custom, I travel alone and I fish alone.
This particular Monday hosts an annual bacchanalia of drink, barbecue, and outdoor fun - the unofficial first day of summer. The rivers are crowded.
My favorite streams are packed with corn-chuckers, bait slingers, and hardware throwers. Not the sort of halcyon fishing environment sought after by most fly fishermen, and particularly not by solitary types like me.
The crowds don’t know about Sweetwater Falls and the rhododendron lined brook above it, tucked two miles back in Juniper Hollow, all two miles accessible only by feet that know the pathway and have the permission of the land holder. That permission would be hard to get these days. I buried him four years ago after the old wounds finally caught up with him. He left me trustee over a piece of land timbered and old and green and gray and wrinkled.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 23 May 2008 23:28 )
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