ClimbingSky

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trout fishing

  • True Pleasure

    Yesterday I took the morning off from work and went fishing again. I have been out 6 times so far this year and have caught a grand total of just one trout. That is right, just one! And that was on my first day out this spring. In many ways, trout fishing has always been for me… Read more

  • The gods do not deduct from man’s allotted span the hours spent in fishing. Read more

  • RE-Reading Rivers

    Today I turn 66 years of age. An age that I once thought of as old, but now of course view in an entirely different light. A few months ago, thinking about my brother Paul being gone and how when I think of him I always think about fly fishing, I looked at Sue and asked,… Read more

  • In the summer of 1984, I drove a 1964 Galaxy 500 (Deluxe Sport Coupe) 1713 miles from Dillon, Montana to Saginaw, Michigan with only one companion – a beat-up paperback edition of Richard Brautigan’s Trout Fishing in America. The radio was original with the car. In eastern Montana and western North Dakota I could seldom pick… Read more