What the hell, spring?
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winter
Springtime in Michigan!
No end in sight
In a spark of genius, I decided to wear nothing but underwear under my snowpants.
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Pipe hopping
This, right now, seems like the middle of winter. It's not as cold as it was, but all the snow and ice and cold is getting old. The ice on my guides every time I go fishing isn't a novelty anymore, it's an annoyance. I still enjoy catching bluegills on little flies, but long for…
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CB makes some videos
I've taken many hours of video since I got my fancy new GoPro camera. I've learned a lot, like how boring it is to watch someone cast for hours on end. And then there are the exciting moments when you catch a fish. I put together two videos this week; the first is a short…
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Still out there
As the year winds down, I still find myself outside with a line in the water. [caption id="attachment_6685" align="aligncenter" width="739"] A rare third-person view of yours truly[/caption] The activity on local message boards has died down; most ponds in the area have frozen over, and bits of snow have found their way into the grasses…
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I'm a fishing fool
It doesn't take much for me to get obsessed with something. If I like it, my google search history will be a fairly good timeline of my obsession. Looking at my phone's search history, it proves that I've been thinking about one thing a lot. "Prince nymph," "How to tie tenkara flies," "green drake fly,"…
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A few minutes with some flies
I don't have any great story, pictures of fish I caught at lunch, or any pictures at all. It was 33°F, the wind was blowing at a very reasonable 7 mph, and there were little remnants of the season's first snow in all the shadows. With my thick pillowy jacket and goretex fishing gloves, I…
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2012: The Year of the Skunk?
The pondIt was recently brought to my attention I haven't been blogging much lately... It's not that I haven't been fishing, or cooking (I finally made a roux!), or making music (working on a dub album right now)... Or playing video games! (Minecraft is a seriously amazing game.) But for some reason, it hasn't seemed…
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