Archive for October, 2010

Can't All Be Dead

Posted on October 28th, 2010

The thing about last winter was, Florida is not supposed to be that cold for that long. Things died. Iguanas dropped from trees. I fished in April and the temperature was barely 60 and at all my spots the peacocks that had not died made themselves scarce. I have been bummed. I love those peacock bass. And I hadn’t been back to know. I had time to spare and drove by my ditch. The largemouth showed strong, and the mayan cichlids, and this. Never have I been more excited to catch a tiny fish. The survivors are reproducing. I saw mama; all of six pounds she followed my fly to the bank but wouldn’t commit. No worries, I’ll be back down here again and…

Gotta Be The Shoes

Posted on October 13th, 2010

When I first tried out for JV football I didn’t worry about blowing out a knee so much as going bald. At the time it seemed like almost every NFL and MLB player had a receding hairline and the leading theory was that wearing a helmet or baseball hat all the time caused hair loss. Yeah, that’s what it was. Just like all those stories about how baseballs were wrapped too tight and how the 220-pound kid worked really hard in the weight room in the offseason and put on 49 pounds of muscle. I think about this as I’m sorting through the mother of all gear reviews, compiled by Alex Cerveniak for Midcurrent. It’s intense, pretty much covering everything new in fly fishing…

  

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