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BLOOD KNOT: June 2012
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The strength of intangibles. June 25, 2012. Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change. The worst cynicism: a belief in luck. RULES I (try) to LIVE BY (with) -. Humility, or, more importantly, the ability to simulate it, provides an effective cover in many situations. It is advantageous to master and nurture this facet of your fishing personality early on. Silence is nearly always golden. Well, two, actually.
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BLOOD KNOT: November 2012
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The strength of intangibles. November 15, 2012. The fly, we reason, is what makes things happen, and so using a different one should make things happen differently. Ted Leeson, Patterns of Behavior,. Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost. It's almost noon on a humid, chilly Friday. The weather this morning had been. Until about a half hour ago, but that has run its course. Rain falls from the dense grayness of the early November sky,. Down, often for days. Self-sustaining fl...
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BLOOD KNOT: The fly.
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The strength of intangibles. November 15, 2012. The fly, we reason, is what makes things happen, and so using a different one should make things happen differently. Ted Leeson, Patterns of Behavior,. Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost. It's almost noon on a humid, chilly Friday. The weather this morning had been. Until about a half hour ago, but that has run its course. Rain falls from the dense grayness of the early November sky,. Down, often for days. Self-sustaining fl...
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BLOOD KNOT: September 2011
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The strength of intangibles. September 21, 2011. Night Shift (They Only Come Out at Night). There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see. I am watching what must be the twentieth spasmodic drift of my third variation on a tiny blue-winged olive theme down through a series of contorted hydraulics. If I'm really lucky, I'll get maybe. Four seconds of relatively drag free drift, if. Be All the challenges aside, I'd really like, with all. This adversity, to fool this fish! My efforts, he maintai...
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BLOOD KNOT: November 2011
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The strength of intangibles. November 30, 2011. To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. Done, damnit, no matter what! That sounds awfully narrow-minded, I know, and it definitely omits all of those who genuinely appreciate the timeless traditions of family, food, gifting and togetherness, but. With only my rods accompanying me, on this day. And secretly, knowing full well that this particular eccentricit...
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BLOOD KNOT: December 2011
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The strength of intangibles. December 22, 2011. It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know.". I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know. I hooked a nice fat one on my first cast. The articulated leech curled up and across through the water column as I began my retrieve and it didn't take long. My son stood upstream, hands deep in his heat-packet engorged muffler. To be frustrating, but, who am I say. The ability to cast a fly fu...
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BLOOD KNOT: October 2011
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The strength of intangibles. October 6, 2011. What Never Changes Never Stays the Same. If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme. Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting. It's a swimming caddis; my newest. Rendition. This must put me somewhere between seventy-five and a hundred different concepts since I decided to get serious about this. Particular part of the journey. I must, at the risk of jinxing myself, say (in my defense) that that. Variety o...
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BLOOD KNOT: November 2013
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The strength of intangibles. November 19, 2013. Slipping in the back. quietly. Of course your own life is your truest story and it blinds you unless it is heavily edited. P2, Off to the Side. Maybe that's what derails me. Trying to connect all the dots. The weather was nearly perfect, cooperating to the extent that I got a little superstitious and made a bit of a conscious effort not to take notice, without much success. But, when caddis were out and. Fish were willing to come to the surface, I swung sof...
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BLOOD KNOT: April 2012
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The strength of intangibles. April 23, 2012. I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity. Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook. I'm thirty years younger and. Haven't been up since two-thirty in the morning, although the thought has (and still does) run through my mind. Develop a passion for something! A real, honest-to-goodness passion! Or, more realistically, take what you think. Is the easy way out and continue to find excuses for living your life as you have always lived it (n...
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BLOOD KNOT: February 2012
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The strength of intangibles. February 24, 2012. Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life. I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. I finish the fly with a couple of half-hitches, dab some Griff's on the head and stand up (a little too fast), noting again the lag in my equilibrium's ability to keep pace. That's happens more often now as I get older, and get lost. Time just kind of goes away. It really. Does Well spent, mind you, albeit not like all. I really do have. Been years like...
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