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A momentary flash of brilliance
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Early September is a fun time to be on the water. The heat of the summer has died down, but it’s still warm enough to wet wade and fish dries. I’m at one of my favourite stretches of water and the fishing is great, as good as it gets, really.…
A brief encounter
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I’m in the middle of a stolen moment and fishing on the side of the road as I slowly make my way back home. I’ve been staring at this run for years, but have never fished in. But today I have the time. A pickup comes down the road, hauling…
Beavers, brook trout, and bow casts
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There are two things that I don’t normally enjoy – early-season fishing and showing people my spots. Today I was doing both. To be fair, I wasn’t really showing someone my spots. I was fishing with another human, something that rarely happens. And, if I’m being really honest, these weren’t…
The swamp
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There’s a spot not far from home that I fish every so often. It’s not a great spot, per se, but it still calls my name a few times a season. For starters, it’s a beaver pond – that mythical body of water we’ve all heard about. They are, according…
Looking for trout on Turkey Day
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“Catch anything?” I called out to the guy fishing down the creek behind me. I’d popped over to one of my usual spots to kill a bit of time while the turkey was cooking. I knew I’d see someone on the creek today, but hadn’t expected to find someone perched…
The posthumous adventures of George Graw, fly fisher
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George Graw and I started fishing together about two months after his death. Although neither of us knew it at the time, George and I met towards the end of his life. We met through our local fly fishing club and got to know each other better once I joined…
Golden Stoneflies – My Six-Legged Obsession
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As I slowly become a better angler and better at things like reading the water and paying attention to what’s going on around me, I’ve started to develop an appreciation for some of the flies that I’ve had in my box for a long time, but never used. Few flies…
In Need of an Anchor
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I have been in need of an anchor lately. It was something that I hadn’t really realized until I read this post by my buddy Walt over at Rivertop Rambles, but as soon as I started I realized that’s what I had been experiencing. Winter does that to anglers. The…
A Creek of One’s Own
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When I was about 12 years old, my best friend’s dad bought a house on the opposite end of the island we were living on at the time. When I asked him why his dad had bought the place–they already had three places that I knew about–he told me that…
Chasing Rumours
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The fishing season is winding down and, as tends to happen, my thoughts are drawn to the year’s fishing. As I’ve talked about in the past, it was a bit of a funny year. Forest fires, courses, backcountry closures, smoke and everything you can think of made getting out on…