Author Archives: Pete McDonald

About Pete McDonald

Lead singer of the Good Ole' Boys and drivin' the Winnebago.

Agent Foster Grant*

I dig cheap sunglasses. I used to buy counterfeit Oakley jackets for five bucks in Midtown until I feared they were burning out my retinas. And I started fishing heavily. On the water switching from regular (street-legal) polarized to Costa … Continue reading

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Apps We Want

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The Only Time I Bit The Cork

Thanksgiving 2002. I don’t know why I felt compelled to do it, maybe an insecure need to prove I actually did catch that bass on a fly rod. Although in reality it proves nothing; it could have been a stage … Continue reading

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Filed under Fly Fishing, Inshore, Northeast

The Drinking Man’s Guide To Drinking

He was a Brit living in Singapore and he smoked cigarettes that smelled like incense. He kept buying us expensive vodka as a reward for our work and, at some point, suggested it would be a good idea to snort … Continue reading

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Things That Matter on the Flats

 You motherf&*$&*rs got no creep,” -Kima Greggs, “The Wire” Season 2 The bonefish started moving away from me the second I raised my rod to throw and I had no accounting for it. But Ellie, my guide, gave me a … Continue reading

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Support the Bonefish Tarpon Trust

We like the Bonefish Tarpon Trust because they have a cool sounding URL – tarbone.org – and because everything they do is driven by scientific research, and the desire to keep doing it. So when Aaron Adams dropped a note … Continue reading

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Like Novocaine

Standing in hip waders casting to rainbow trout from the truck. Snapping the neck and sliding one into the creel. Knowing that by June the water will warm until they can no longer stand it.

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Filed under Fly Fishing, Freshwater, Northeast

SOMERSET: We Rocked Out With Our Pens Out

We almost got trampled to death by the mob of black shirts, met some cool people,caught up with old friends, paid $4.5o for bad draft beer and all in all improved the world for the better. Thanks to all who … Continue reading

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Indicators of Mayan Accuracy

The Trout Underground has been gathering evidence of the coming apocalypse for weeks now, but in the depths of Penn Station I saw all I needed to start construction on the panic room.  

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Stolen

When there is no time afforded you have to steal some. Five casts. Fifty casts. Five hundred. Whatever it takes to make something out of another thing that you don’t rightfully have. One jump should suffice to bend it back … Continue reading

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