Monthly Archives: April 2011
Thinking Rope
This is not a noose. Fishing knots are so final, but a bowline is a simple feat of engineering and utility: The fortitude to hold a 6,000 pound boat to a mooring ball in a Noreaster, and then be untied … Continue reading
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Crackhead in the Park
Oftentimes it seems presentation trumps selection, but sometimes it really is the fly. Thanks JP, for the carp crack.
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Moving To Water
I’m sitting in the Roscoe Diner eating a bison burger with an order of potato pancakes on the side. It is 11 degrees fahrenheit outside and snowing and my two-year-old is throwing her carrots. I’m in the heartland of Eastern … Continue reading
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First Act of a Desperate Man
Nick Murray posts a photo essay of his first striper quest of the season, hoping for the first Hudson schoolies to show up in the Bronx.
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With Orange Accents
This is kind of what it looks like to sight fish for peacock bass. It’s an iPhone photo so it’s lo fi, but if you look just beyond the drain pipe you can see the orange flashes of the … Continue reading
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