Author Archives: Pete McDonald
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
Filed under Fly Fishing, Stupid Stuff
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
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
Filed under Fly Fishing, Inshore, Travel
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
Filed under Fly Fishing, Other Blogs, Salty, Travel
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
Filed under Fly Fishing, Save the World
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.
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
Filed under Fly Fishing, Media, Northeast
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.
Filed under Fly Fishing, Media, Stupid Stuff
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
Filed under Florida, Fly Fishing, Freshwater
