tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20357865109912812962024-03-12T18:23:32.424-07:00Trout ShadowsPlumbing the transparent mysteries and swinging through the whorls of light and water and shadow, trout shadows appear and disappear revealing truths to the fly fisher's lie. One voice in the chorus that is singing in the eddies, coursing through the rock gardens of a thousand tumbled torrents ... of words over throwing these banks. These are only the occasional visitations of my home waters.Steve Therrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11578866649024556052noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035786510991281296.post-42325152465772061122016-02-27T11:22:00.002-08:002016-02-27T12:10:49.168-08:00a place within a space<i><br /></i>
<i>Sometimes you just go out there because you need to feel the press of the river and the heat of the sun on your back. It's a little early. The iced up snake guides are a welcome annoyance. The ache of the arthritis in the thumb joint is just a reminder that you're still here on this good earth and on the water again. You'll take that over a slippery commute or changing out a dead battery under a subzero hood. There's movement and the vault of the sky and birds active in the trees. It's what makes you and shapes meaning and purpose. You'll take it because its what you do.</i><br />
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place within a space<br />
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is made of</div>
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unseen physics,<o:p></o:p></div>
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universal mechanics of<o:p></o:p></div>
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gravity, fluid dynamics<o:p></o:p></div>
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incline and pull<o:p></o:p></div>
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flow, swirl, friction,<o:p></o:p></div>
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mixing potential and hope<o:p></o:p></div>
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evidence that in all piscatorial endeavors <o:p></o:p></div>
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a spot in a spot <o:p></o:p></div>
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is a sure thing <o:p></o:p></div>
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that drifts through the present,<o:p></o:p></div>
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connects belonging <o:p></o:p></div>
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and place with the past<o:p></o:p></div>
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but a place within a space,<o:p></o:p></div>
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seems of probability,<o:p></o:p></div>
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drawn expectation from a seam<o:p></o:p></div>
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the real of seduction <o:p></o:p></div>
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a reasonable bet<o:p></o:p></div>
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lured into the temptation of reliability<o:p></o:p></div>
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mesmerizing fascination <o:p></o:p><br />
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exploits a possibility of promise<br />
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in defiance of those actions <o:p></o:p></div>
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that would be reasonable <o:p></o:p></div>
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even in the grip of obsession,<o:p></o:p></div>
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the warmth of truck heater <o:p></o:p></div>
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standing next to a fire <o:p></o:p></div>
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holding hot coffee in a tin cup<o:p></o:p></div>
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to thaw gnarled fingers from a frozen fist,<o:p></o:p></div>
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ice bricks back into feet<o:p></o:p></div>
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not to quit <o:p></o:p></div>
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when the rain <o:p></o:p></div>
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has pounded the river flat<o:p></o:p></div>
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a place within a space,<o:p></o:p></div>
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where a flash of scale<o:p></o:p></div>
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under the muscular press<o:p></o:p></div>
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and lacey flow<o:p></o:p></div>
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where all things stem<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>where all things
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>made of this
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Steve Therrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11578866649024556052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035786510991281296.post-66468795789543623392015-07-10T14:43:00.000-07:002015-07-17T20:00:02.042-07:00Fishingh on the Shoulders of Giants: Dave Pinczkowski and Tim Pearson<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tim Pearson</td></tr>
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<i>I spend a lot of fishing time watching other fishers cast. The best casters amaze me every time. The switch and spey casters are a phenomenal group of fly rodders. The best of them seem to defy the laws of physics. They also have the honor of pushing the boundaries of what is possible. Some have been real pioneers. Dave Pinczkowski and Tim Pearson in particular bring to two-handed casting something entirely different. After you meet them both you realize that they are chasing something more than the fish. From the vise to the anchor, the take and the release, Dave and Tim are thoughtful about the experience, sometimes bordering on theology and metaphysics. Never dogmatic about their approach, but mindful that they are a small part of larger elements at play. </i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dave Pinczkowski</td></tr>
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<i>This one is for them.</i><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">nuthatches
mutter soul poetry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">(for the
sultans of swing) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">spend their
days at odds with gravity <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">and with traced
invisible wave crests,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">cross the reach
of the river’s great turn <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">pondering from
their vertical rutted <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">white-pine bark
perches<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">the mathematical
structure of flow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">nuthatches
mutter soul poetry,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">fluttering by
an earlobe,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>wing tips brush-stroking the air canvas, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">fly by hope
messenger, courage friend, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">of a fishless
day, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">of forward
stroke, rod arched, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">of endless
furling of line rolled out, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">of mending into
the dim light <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">of up stream mysteries
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">of eddy and
current, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">whorl and oneness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">of fluid
turbulence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">nuthatches
mutter soul poetry,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">in the very
last moments<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">before the
drift reaches the point<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">where lifting
the rod doesn’t matter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">a world lights
up in the seeming of seams<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">chrome boil
beneath broken <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">sinuous surface
ripple <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">where line
heavy with fish perfect<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">sings the song
of swing <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">where through
the river’s muscular press<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">and the failing
light of sunset<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">where time
ceases and truths <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">greater than
what exactly happened<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">remade the
events that could have happened<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">shaping what will
have happened.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">nuthatches
mutter soul poetry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">on their way to
the truths behind <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">a muted
eloquence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">a flight back
across the sweep<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">of uncertainty
and doubt<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">above the
surface tension<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">just as the
river curls over the edge <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">tumbling,
broken, folded, mixed,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">a wing beat swirls
the mist in the lucid flow of air<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">and the steady
assurance of tight line <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">harmonic hum,
audible above<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">rushing river
voices<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">in the liquidity
of fluid adaptation,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">and a transparent
and watery flash of certainty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">nuthatches
mutter soul poetry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">because they
can, even though<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">their metaphors,
stanzaic structure, their meter <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">fade when dusk has
squeezed the last hint<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">orange glow out
of the sky<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">from where all
rivers run into <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">the great
inland sea, north<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">boots have felt
the bottom back<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">across the
relentless press<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">long rods tap
their line cadence <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">along worn trails
back to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">the world filled
with things that <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">don’t matter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">the nuthatch
still mutters soul poetry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">harmonizing the
river voices<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">that surge and
stem, rush then<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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coursing their chorus<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">way into and
beyond the growing dark.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Keep a tight line!</span></div>
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Hank’s Creation (2014)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">We’d just finished having dinner at
one of the wide spots of the upper Brule River, known as Big Lake.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Down stream a few fisherman in canoes had
positioned themselves to wait for the Hex hatch.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">While we had prepared dinner for our clients
we had decided that we’d wait above a place called the Rocks to see what would
develop for the evening bite.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">My guiding
partner at the time, Dave Spencer, and I parked our canoes side by side so our
clients could pass the time reminiscing.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">They had been fishing partners, whose time on the Brule reached back
thirty years.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I’d just started guiding
on the river in great part because Dave Spencer introduced me to it (that is a
story for another time).</span></div>
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Neither of us were particularly
chatty that evening, so we spent most of the time watching dusk come on in the
mirrored reflection on the surface of Big Lake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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“You ever see one of these?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dave said dragging me out my own
thoughts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seeing the fly in the palm of
his left hand, all I could think of was “bass bug and butt ugly.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“What the hell is that?” I asked
sounding as though I was about to retch.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I know,” he mumbled trying not to gain
the attention of our clients.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“It’s
Hank’s Creation,” he continued in a near whisper and asked me if I had ever
heard of it before.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“No,” sounding like I was denying an
accusation of heresy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Can you tie it?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Why would I want to?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Because they work!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s all you need to hear from a guide
who’s teaching you the ropes to drive the bug (pun intended) right in, but
somewhere in the back of my mind I couldn’t help but feel that I was being
played. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dave gave me his example.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told him that I’d give it a shot.<o:p></o:p></div>
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After examining it in “the light of
day,” I realized I was looking at something incomprehensibly hideous. Hold up a
Hank’s to any of the traditional patterns that have been used on trout water
over the years and one can easily see that Old Henry should probably stay in
the tackle box until needed for bass and pike fishing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bill Stieger, fly-fishing writer and bamboo
rod fanatic, described it as “more <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Narrow";">of
a shrunken head” than a fly.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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As an art form, fly tying realizes
its highest expression of the art in salmon fly tying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brian Van Erem, a competitive salmon fly tier,
from DePere, Wisconsin, was recently asked to tie a display quality version of
the Hank’s Creation complete with shadow box for the local fly shop in
Superior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The completed project was delivered,
beautifully tied (not easy to use beautiful and Hank’s Creation in the same
sentence), with a short note:<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Forgive me father for I have sinned.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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I examined the fly carefully to
understand its construction and to catalog the materials. I still couldn’t help
but wonder, “Who the hell was Hank?” “What else could you call it, but a “creation”!
and “Why me?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the vise, when I
finally got around to begin recreating the Creation, I had visions of
Frankenstein’s monster with electrodes sparking it to life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“It’s alive! It’s alive!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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A good fishing friend from Florida,
Ken Malmberg recently asked for “the recipe” for the Hank’s Creation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why he wants it, I can only guess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Morbid curiosity?<o:p></o:p></div>
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The following is the current materials list:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mustad 33903 #2 or larger (if you can find them)<o:p></o:p></div>
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#2 (or larger) Slotted tapered cork, flat-faced, painted
silver with painted eyes on the flat face (black on a red background).<o:p></o:p></div>
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Deer hair for spinning.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Red kip tail.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Red buck tail.<o:p></o:p></div>
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White buck tail.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mallard Flank feather (gray).<o:p></o:p></div>
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The original example given to me by Dave Spencer over 30
years ago was somewhat different than the current version of the “Henry.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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The original had a wood body, flat
faced, that tapered down the shank to the tail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The kip tail was an original material tied in bushy, 1/3 the length of
the hook shank. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Onto the body three
mallard flank feathers were tied in, centered on top, making sure they followed
the taper down the shank of the hook, extending slightly farther that the kip
tail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then clumps of stacked white buck
tail were tied onto both sides of the body at about the same line as the eyes
making sure the tips extend slightly farther than the kip tail and mallard. The
remaining gap between the buck tail and the mallard feathers was covered with dyed
red goose wing feather making sure that the feather tips pointed down the
inside center line of the fly to the tail and extended as far down the fly to
the kip tail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the materials tied
onto the cork combined should create a paintbrush look to the tail of the fly.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Twice a week from the beginning of
the season in May through to the Fourth of July, I guided for a local fly
angler, Ray Russell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Brule River
had been his home river for more than 40 seasons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was in his mid-70’s at the time and
retired from the two creameries the owned in town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During one of our weekly outings I asked him if
he had ever heard of the Hank’s Creation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Yes,” the distain in his voice was
obvious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“It’s one of those night
fishing bugs!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said “night fishing”
as those he were trying to clear his throat of cat hair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His love of dry fly fishing was made fairly
obvious to me as well when he launched into a half-hour rebuke of all other
forms of fly-fishing, other than the regal dry fly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Night fishing in Ray’s opinion was especially
odious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The dry fly is the only fair
way to take fish from this river.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That
Hank’s Creation is nothing more than a Cal-Mac knock-off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just a lousy popper used to catch bass!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a slippery slope when you start using
that type of artillery.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He made it
sound as though even touching one put you in the same category of loathsome
character that would use slack lime, dynamite, and gill nets as a means of
taking trout.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Nothing but meat
fishermen those night fishing characters!” I didn’t tell him that I was tying
them on the same vise that produced his beloved Rat-faced McDougals. <o:p></o:p></div>
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of bass fly angling history. In the
early 1900’s, wood bodied poppers were used to fly-fish for bass. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Narrow"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Cal
McCarthy produced the famous Cal-Mac.
Introduced in 1910, the Cal-Mac was the forerunner of the commercial
popper. It’s flat face and forward
facing painted eyes with miniature broom tail with hair wings swept back over
the hook became its signature look.
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Vintage South Bend Cal-Mac Wood Fly
Rod Popper Red Painted Eyes<span style="color: #262626;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Narrow";">Hank Denney, a grocer in Brule, developed Hank’s Creation for
night fishing the Brule.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The original
example I used was tied using a balsa wood body flat faced and bullet tapered
down the shank.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On my first run of
Hank’s, I stuck to using the wood body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Drilling them out and shaping them by hand was very time consuming not to mention fraught with peril.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Using X-acto
knives and drilling small pieces of balsa wood can lead to small cuts and holes
in fingers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A poorly aimed drill bit
destroyed many nearly completed bodies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Getting the straight shank to stay glued to the wood, even when using
chenille, as underlayment, and epoxy, made me appreciate the ingenuity of the
grocer from Brule, Wisconsin. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of my
first modifications to the original Hank’s was to use cork popper bodies and
specialized hooks, which eliminated the time consuming process of carving and
drilling the bodies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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A first, I questioned the whole
enterprise as more lure making than fly tying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now, more than 30 years later, I’m wondering why I ever leaned away from
truly calling it a “fly.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The materials
used in patterns across the spectrum of tying today have crossed over boundaries
that were nothing more than thinly veiled biases wrapped in the honorable
mantel of tradition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last year I caught
a nice brown on a foam bodied, sulpher spinner that had not a lick of natural
materials.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Within a week, I reproduced the
Hank’s Creation and gave Dave his original back with a half dozen newly minted
friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a few weeks, the phone calls
started.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>River gossip is swift.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The calls would begin something like
this:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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“Ya?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“You ever hear of a fly called a
Hank’s Creation?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Hey, Steve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I heard from Wes that you were tying Hank’s
Creations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Could I get….”<o:p></o:p></div>
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I hadn’t even wet one before I had
tied two dozen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In short order the same
anglers were asking for more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I felt as
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Narrow";">Their durability became another issue when it became apparent
they were a “go to fly” for night fishing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We all accept that a good fly can fall apart
after a couple of fish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Especially those
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</span>A popper should last awhile. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hank’s
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Narrow";">When the thread would cut and unravel, I started tying the wing
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Narrow";">The modified version also replaces the red turkey wing with red
buck tail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The red turkey wing would
split and tear off after one fish. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px;">The modified Hank’s could take a beating but still ends up showing battle scares and eventually goes the way of all flies “that work”: retirement.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Narrow";">Tom Heffernan, a long time friend and fishing partner of mine
uses a battle hardened veteran Hank’s whose Buck tail and mallard flank over
wing dressing has been reduced to a shredded mallard feather and a few sprigs
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Hank’s Creation
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Hank’s Creation has been the source
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</span>Until she passed away, Hester Holbrook, whose family has lived on the river
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One of best night fishers I have
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forgotten his night fly box with his Hank’s Creations tucked inside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He asked if he could borrow one of mine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a few drifts, that rainbow took the fly
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back up stream then broke water in a cartwheeling jump.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fish broke the heavy leader as it drove
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Note that in the photo this version of the Hank’s uses the
traditional turkey wing cover (what’s left of it).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The buck tail replacement material in the newer versions provided
better coverage and was more durable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yes, it is “Jim’s” recovered fly</b>)</div>
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Most Hank’s addicts refer to Hank
as a living entity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The late, Rick
Mosse, fellow guide and talented artist, insisted that Hank’s didn’t work
unless you verbally abused it with some colorful profanity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Good friend and fellow night angler,
Mark Sullivan, won’t allow the light of day to shine on a Hank’s for fear of
losing its charm of summoning large brown out of the depths. One of the largest
browns I have ever witnessed Mark Sullivan hook and land happened on a single
cast into a small back eddy under over hanging cedars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fish took the fly without a sound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mark’s swift and sure set was the only
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cast, one fish.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Late one July night nearly thirty
years ago, I guided a dentist from the Twin Cities down from Stones
Bridge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had been having a fairly good
night catching about a half dozen browns, two of the browns pushed twenty
inches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Close to midnight and with the
moon starting to peek over the treetops to the east, I pushed Bill Berge down to
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off a little side chute in the river.
About a week before a client had moved a large fish it that spot. With moonlight already illuminating the other
side of the river, working that spot would be our last chance at a good fish. Holding the boat in the run opposite the side
chute, Bill cast his Hank’s into the darkness hoping to catch a seam between
the side chute and rocky shallows. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">After
about five casts, Bill was ready to head for the landing.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">I wasn’t hearing the Hank’s hit the water the
way I expected it and the way that the fly swung out from the chute told me he
wasn’t getting the cast in far enough.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">Bill adjusted his cast by adding three feet of line.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">The fish blew up on the fly so hard you could
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large brown thrashing in the shallows.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">The line shot off the reel when the trout headed down the riffle into
the deeper water below.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">Bill reeled up
on the fish only to have it race down the full length of the deep pool and
clear the water in a jump that had hung time an NBA star would envy.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;"> The fish in the bright moonlight, the water
drops, silver pearls in the cool blue light still are etched very clearly in my
memory.</span></div>
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“moonlighting” on the Brule</span><!--EndFragment-->
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Narrow";">On the last day of the season, a number of years back, a long
time client of mine and I were closing in on midnight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The season would literally be over in a
little less than an hour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had fished
the best water of the upper Brule and had fair evening of fishing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few years earlier, Carl Nelson started a
new job after working many years for Honeywell in the Twin Cities so he hadn’t
been on the Brule for a few years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was his big outing of the year!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Narrow";">My approach to guiding is that every trip could be the last
time this fisherman is on the Brule so give them the best trip that my efforts
can summon from the available conditions and time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I create memories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Narrow";">His fatigue showed as we shared a cup of tea. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told him we were going to fish the run just
across the river from where we stood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Narrow";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“We can skip it and head for the
car, I am beat.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Narrow";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“We have a shot at a lake run brown
in this hole,” I urged trying not to be too pushy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Narrow";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“That’s, O.K., Steve, we can it skip
for another time.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Narrow";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Generally I don’t push when a fisher
wants to call it a night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet, I knew
this run was ready, it had to have a good fish in it, and I really wanted Carl
to hook a memorable fish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just wasn’t
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Narrow";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Reluctantly, Carl agreed and
promptly put his first back cast into the trees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It took us the work of a few minutes to get
old Henry out of the cedar behind us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
checked my watch: 11:40.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With his
reluctance newly restored, I had a hard time coaxing Carl out on the river for
another chance at the run.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Three casts
later Carl was into one of the largest lake run browns I have ever landed for a
client.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After we released the fish, Carl
sat back in the front seat looked at the bright stars and said, “That was
great!” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After paddling fisherman for a number
years on the Brule you can read in the set of their shoulders and from how they
carry themselves in the front seat, how they may be feeling and what they may
be thinking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Carl is not a chatty
fisherman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rest of the trip was
filled with the sounds of traveling the river at night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I paddled us down river looking at the
moon lit pines and star frosted sky, I was guessing that Carl felt a little
less tired and his thoughts were on the fish he hooked, fought and landed, and
perhaps he felt he was reaching out into the night sky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know I was.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Narrow";">Hephaestus, Greek god of metalworking, depicted as swarthy,
heavily bearded and hairy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The reaction
he received from his mother, Hera, at his birth, was to be thrown off of Mount
Olympus resulting in his being crippled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I think we can take that to mean that she didn’t find him an attractive
child.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His personal story is always one
of being at times marginalized and ridiculed for his looks but lauded for his
cleverness and thoughtfulness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think
that if the Greek gods fashioned flies for trout fishing, Hephaestus would have
made something like a Hank’s Creation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Not very appealing, but very clever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Narrow";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>All of what we do in fly fishing
distills down to a moment where an object, most of the time smaller than your
thumbnail, sparks the attention of a creature we have given so much energy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though our encounters with them are relatively
brief, the meaning we derive from these encounters can last a lifetime and can
be so personal and so affirming that we have trouble putting words to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hank’s Creation has turned many an evening of
sliding down a dark river, staring into the darkness hoping, into one filled with
illumination and wonder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My initial
rejection of Hank’s Creation has been replaced with admiration and respect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hephaestus’ charm was in his thoughtfulness
of his creations and what they could do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Over time Hank’s utilitarian value has helped mitigate his lack of
aesthetic appeal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all, my
motivation in tying my first Hank was because “they work.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They work their way into our night fly boxes, and they work into our affection as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="text-indent: 0.5in;">One
of the pictures on my writing desk shows my son with a toothless little boy
grin holding up his first brook trout with two hands. The picture reminds me of a lot of what
makes fly-fishing the passion that it is for many. Almost all it is a reminder
of my first experiences trout fishing.</i></div>
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<i>Some
anglers know who inspired them to become a fly fisher. </i><br />
<i>I was a convert to fishing by the “brothers”
who practiced the art of angling with “garden hackle” for pan fish. My first experience fishing was with cane
but not the split variety: one long, in
the round, piece of bamboo, a long piece of black braided trolling line, a bobber,
a sinker, and a hook. So I suppose that
those most responsible for my foundation in angling would have to be my father
and grandfather. If I had to identify a
person most responsible for getting me “hooked” on the obsession of angling for
brook trout, my Uncle Jerry would be the one who baptized me and forever left
me bemused by the transparent mysteries of trout fishing. <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
“Why did it always smell like worms
when it rained?” I wondered as I waited by the front door of the building. I watched the headlights arch over the guard
railing of the highway turnoff hoping the next set would turn. It was always dark, quiet and rainy when he
came to pick me up for fishing, the just before sunrise dark. You’d hear his car before you saw it, loud
and powerful. I’d just lost my front
teeth; I was in the second or third grade. We lived in a small basement apartment behind
the International House of Pancakes off of County 81 just south of the Crystal
Airport, in Crystal, Minnesota. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
A big engine and loud muffler would
make the turn under the streetlight. He’d
pull up to the curb and the front passenger door would swing open. Then the big voice would beckon me onto the
front seat, “Let’s go!” <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
Thrown back against the seat we
speed up to the corner and out onto County 81, tires barking at the turn. No seat belts back then just hang on to the
door handle and grab the edge of the seat.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
We’d go to breakfast at one of
those places where truckers, heavy machine operators, and construction workers
would go to get coffee before they headed to work. A place where everybody knew him by his first
name, “Hey, Jerry!” He had a big smile and a big handshake. He walked through the diner’s cigarette haze
and got us a place at the counter. Coffee
and Old Spice and newspapers mixed with eggs and bacon and toast. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
We walked out to the rain-dappled
car after breakfast and headed into the growing gray morning. It always seemed to rain when we went
fishing, the foggy type of rain that wets
the windshield but not enough to keep the wipers from squawking every other
pass.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
How many fishing stories start with
the sentence: He knew this place? This is the mystique of any trout-fishing
story, I suppose. The more obscure, the
more enigmatic. So if I said a small
sect of monks who hired my grandfather and uncle to do excavating work for
them, in turn they were allowed to fish the small stream that wound its way
throughout the monastery’s property, would it sound too incredible? Would it be equally implausible to say that
to this day no one else has fished this tiny freshet, this gush of secrets that
is the spawning gravel of my fly-fishing life?
<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
I was nearly falling back to sleep
when we turned off the main road onto an overgrown two track. I was probably the best kid to take trout
fishing because to this day I haven’t a clue where we went.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
Uncle Jerry threw me a key attached with a
tarnished copper wire to a short piece of an old yardstick, the numbers fading
into the weathered gray wood. I’d seen
the key hanging from the tag board over my grandfather’s workbench in his
garage. The gate in an old moss covered
rock wall groaned with disuse as I walked it open. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
“Lock’er up behind me,” he called through
the open window as he rolled the big car through. The exhaust swirled out of the dual pipes and
curled up over the bumpers, the brake lights turned it pink. I stared at the wet rust stain my hands wondering
how I’d be able to wipe them clean.
Grabbing a few fern fronds, I rolled them between my hands. The explosion of that fresh scent of crushed
fern filled the warm interior of the car as I closed the heavy door. I hadn’t noticed it outside of the car; the smell
of high-test gasoline exhaust over powered it.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
“Hey, you know, I like that smell—ferns,”
he said as a warm smile spreading across his face. “It says were gonna’ catch some fish today!” A over hanging limb of hazelnut bush plucked
the antenna and turned my attention toward the thick cover and tree tangled
covert that hid the creek. The muffled throb
of the engine as it was goosed to make a turn up into a parking spot along the
two-track road said we had arrived. I
remember being so excited that I grabbed the crude cane pole that lay on the
back seat pulled it through to the front seat backed out the open front door
only to have it swing shut catching the front quarter of the pole. Opening the door I discovered that I had
crushed the tip. The pole my uncle had
told me he’d have rigged specially for our trip was wrecked.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
He had said over the phone that he
was making me a special pole for our trip, a smaller version of the one we used
for fishing sunfish at the lake with Grandpa.
Instead of trolling line it had a fine monofilament line and a hook, no
sinker. “That’s because we want that
worm to wash right down in that stream,” he expounded as we pulled out of
parking lot after breakfast, “like we
just tossed it there for those brookies to eat.
Stinks slowly with just he hook,” he explained using his hand to
indicate the worm just floating and fluttering along with the current.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
“Hey, Stevie, that’s the beauty of
these things,” he said taking the pole from my hand and pulling out a pocketknife. “See here pal, you just cut the broken part
off,” the knife cut through the thin cane tip clean. He quickly nipped the line as well and tied it back on the new end. Handing it back to me, the hook stuck in the
butt end, he said “Be sure and watch out
for the tip now when we walk by the brush, it gets tangled pretty easy.” He winked and turned as he pulled his rod and
creel from the trunk. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
We walked an old grassy path toward
the creek, under a canopy of hardwoods.
The stream snaked itself through a narrow grassy meadow where it
disappeared into the woods again. In the
meadow, the stream was wide enough so you could step on the rocks and cross in
a number of places. The over hanging
grass on the banks and the darkness of the water at the turns drew me towards
the water. My uncle’s hand steered me
clear of walking through the grass to the bank.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
“Hold on pal. Save that water for me. I’ll show you my secret spot,” he said, in
almost reverent tones, stepping ahead of me on the trail. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
The creel bounced on his hip as we
walked the trail out of the meadow and into the trees. The stream flowed through moss-covered rocks
that lined the banks with mixed hard woods creating a canopy. Grasses and ferns hung heavy with rain near
the water. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
“There will be a fish behind that
boulder,” he said pointing his rod, “so remember to slip your worm off to the
side of the rock and then let ‘er float around in behind.” <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
Farther up the trail we encountered
a grove of old cedars whose heavy green foliage darken the path. The water poured over a series of shallow
ledges. The trees had dug their roots
into the limestone so that they appeared to grip the rock with great gnarled
fingers. We came to a pool at the base
of a cliff where the stream poured from a narrow opening in the wall of
limestone that rose above us. The over
hanging foliage at the top dripped rain water and the exposed rock wall seemed
to weep, but it was the dark opening, the source of the tiny stream that amazed
me and held me fast. I watched as the
silver tongue of flow as it entered the pool.
The hole created in the turbulence there darkened the water and gave the
pool the appearance of a great eye. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
Jerry showed me how to the bait the
hook: “…hook the ring of the worm, not
the way we tread the worm on for sunfish.”
He gave me the pole and told me to swing the worm over the hole and let
it drop on top of “the tongue” coming from the rock… “That’s the only way you
can catch ‘em is this hole.” He told me
to “… put ‘em in the creel, “ and pointed at the old wicker basket he left on a
rock. “There’s ferns in there already,
but put some more on ‘em when you come down the trail,” he instructed. “You ready? “ his question was as if we were about
to embark on a quest of greatest consequence.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
I accidently dropped the worm into
the pool at my feet. Looking up to see
where my uncle had gone, I saw that he had turned around in the trail to watch. Walking backwards, he called out, “The worm
box is next to the creel.” I set the
pole down next to the pool and walked over to the rock. The cut off milk carton with a hunk of moss
as a cover sat next to the wicker creel.
When I got back to the pole, the line had swung down stream and the hook
was bare. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
I baited the hook and attempted to
swing the worm out over the pool and onto the tongue. I came up short but allowed the worm to fall
into the pool. A school of hungry minnows attacked the worm. It reminded me of a scene in a Tarzan movie
where Tarzan tricked the bad guy into swimming into a school of piranhas. After another baiting, I put more effort into
swinging the worm out over the pool and out onto “the tongue.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
I remember it took me awhile to get
the timing right so that the worm landed on the tongue. The sound of the water pouring into the pool,
the movement of the water as it spread away of the roiling head, and the dark
overcast seemed to have suspended time.
Perhaps it was my first encounter with what I have come to know as the
many facets of “river time”: the
suspension of time, the loss of feeling for the passage of time, the “honey, I
am sorry I am late, but I lost track of time.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
The worm disappeared into the
opening in the rock only to reappear in an instant disappearing again into the whirling
currents directly under the opening. The
line straightened immediately and bent the tip of the pole. The throbbing of the pole as I lifted brought
the trout twirling to the surface, out of the water, writhing on the end of the
line as it swung toward me, only to drop off of the hook. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
The darkly colored fish lay stunned
at my feet. I pounced with both hands
and clung to the treasure. Then I was touched by it all. The rich earthy aroma, a mixture of moss and
wet soil and decaying leaves and bark, cool and clean and fresh and full—of
blooming and growth, of vibrant expectation, of all that would come and came
from the all cedars that dotted the banks of the all creeks, rivers and
streams. From the wavering beds of watercress that seemed to glow with a deep
mysterious vibrant green, a color that can only emerge from sounds of dripping
water as it tumbles off of limb and leaf and falls to the grass and puddles on
the banks, of the musical tune a spring run plays as it courses over and
between rocks, of the voices that speak in whispered tones through the rush and
push of a riffle, of the distance roll of a large rapids as it empties into a
lake or pond or that silent sound of whorl in the current’s flow, spinning
minutely, as a wide section of river sweeps by like a great movement of the
earth’s mechanicals. It was there in my
hands in colors so rich and true. The
eye catching blue and red spots that speckle the flanks, the vermiculate
patterns glowing a olive-yellow, the white on black fin markings, the orange
and the olives of it skin, hiding an iridescence that reveals itself in just
the right light, a light at the margins of our sight, an iridescence that connects us somewhere beyond
our conscious understanding, somewhere from the very beginning of the movement
of water, the very beginning of flow, of life.
I still search for it in every brook trout I catch. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
I wanted Uncle Jerry to see
it. I carried it over to the creel and
slid it through the square opening in the woven lid. Picking up the worm box and pole, I headed
back down the trail. The air was thick
with the scent of fresh rain and the distant rumbles of a storm.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
When I got to the meadow, he was
standing looking down the small stream that wound its way through and back into
a tangle of alders and distant trees. At
his feet, two brook trout almost a big as mine, lay in the grass, gilled and
gutted. A flash of lightening in the
distance drew my attention to the distant darkening sky. He turned toward me, in his big hand a third
fish, larger than the others. The cut from
anal fin to the gills a red line started to spill blood over his fingers. The guts and gills came clean from the fish
in one motion. He knelt and washed his
hands and the fish in the cold water of the stream. I picked up all three fish and slid them
through the hole in the cover, pulled more ferns and put them over the
trout. Uncle Jerry nodded and smiled at
me and turned looking back up stream.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
“Pretty, pretty ain’t it?” Pretty wasn’t a word that I expected from my
uncle, and I wasn’t sure if he was talking about the fish in the creel, the
mist as it swirled in the breeze over the meadow, the pool and the rock wall, the
stream as it flowed over the limestone, the cedars, or all of it. Or maybe it was just that moment when you realize that it is all good, the being in that moment, truly there with the all of the senses receptive, mind cleared, soul wide open.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
When we opened the creel at the
car, my uncle lifted the largest fish from the wicker and ferns. “That’s the one you caught, the best fish of
the day,” he lied. I didn’t know what to
say. I knew that it wasn’t my fish, so
did he. He smiled that infectious smile
that you now see on the faces of all his sons.
He took a bottle of beer out of the trunk and popped the cap off and
handed to me saying, “Just a sip now.” I
handed it back to him, and he winked at me, and I smiled a big toothless grin.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
I rode all the way back to my
Grandmother’s house with the smell of trout on my hands. When we got there, we would be treated to an
early dinner of fresh brook trout and fried potatoes. I didn’t stop to fish that rock he told me
about and never went back to fish that little mysterious creek--couldn’t find
it if I wanted to. I never fished with
my Uncle Jerry again. He recently passed
away as do all trout anglers. It would
take me another decade to awaken the passion for fly-fishing and brook
trout. It has been over fifty years
since the first time I had the smell of brook trout on my hands.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
An old fishing partner of mine used
to say that “trout fishermen come home late, smell of strong drink, and the
truth is not them.” I guess that may be
true. I know from time to time, when I see the white stripe on black fin or whiff a bit of brook trout on my hands, I smile and remember my Uncle Jerry, his
secret place and my toothless grin. It
must have been as big a toothless grin as my son’s toothless little boy grin
with his first brook trout.<o:p></o:p><br />
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<i>Did
I mention that I have three uncles… they’re all named Jerry? It’s the truth!<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<i><br /></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<i><br /></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<i>Keep a tight line,</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
<i><br /></i>
<i>Steve</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">everything falls sometime <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">whether heading upstream moments before the crossing: through the alder<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">a split cloud cover canopy
distraction <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">one side: the unretractable gray ceiling on
this trail <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">the other: mare’s tails whipping across <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">azure and hot white afternoon <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">sun rings radiating out <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">or<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">crossing above the rock dam<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">shuffling between shin barking
rocks and
the slime <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">that turn all into stumbling
drunks covered
ones<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">with rods held out for balance <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">against the press of current
(can be reassuring) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">past the edge of conformity and
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">comfort in the shadow <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">of a passing front <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">or<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">the sudden sun wash of light inlaying each wrinkle <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">in those places where in the dark metal surface <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">we send our self to silence with silver foil <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">where our souls sometimes come
and go <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">where there are no human rights
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">and everyone is known as Nohbdy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;"> we fish<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;"> we fish there <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;"> with measured intent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">stand in the shallows on the
other side of the crossing <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">only to strip the sweater off
and stuff it in the vest<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;"> enjoy <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;"> the cooling damp <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">in shirt sleeves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">watch the young of the year
dart about the wading boots<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">only to look up into the
wavering clouds of Hendrickson spinners<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;"> climb up <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;"> the riffle <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;"> at head height, thick and shifting in their clumsy
flight <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">to dab at the surface, grasp at
each other in their ephemeral moment<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">only to climb again, curled
tail heavy with their pregant weight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">each egg sack <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">translucent yellow glowing <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">awakening dream scape of color
and light<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;"> on unsure footing waiting <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;"> for the fall<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;"> for the trout in their ficklness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;"> won’t rise from their<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">but watch the mayfly dance silent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">through their wrinkled silver
windows lie <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">a collective refusal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">of egg rich sexuality<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">and submissive protein<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">how long before staring into<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">this flight before time
lost<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;"> we’ve fallen
into it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">Keep a tight line,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">Steve</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dave Lucca in the midst of a Hendrickson spinner fall</td></tr>
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<!--EndFragment-->Steve Therrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11578866649024556052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035786510991281296.post-41732807894510355362012-12-25T08:32:00.000-08:002012-12-25T08:32:01.349-08:00"It's coming on Christmas they're cutting down the trees..."a few<br />
wisps of cotton white in<br />
slow float through the cherry red<br />
dogwood, sparkle<br />
in the sunlight<br />
that cracks this gray sky<br />
the vanguard of inches<br />
to come, long night’s sleep,<br />
bright white ski hill climb, and the dark<br />
twist of ice exposed river muscle.<br />
<br />
we brought the tree down off the hillside<br />
to the caroling of the chickadees
<br />
and the mutterings of the nuthatches<br />
and heard in the rise of the wind<br />
out of the valley<br />
the river song and<br />
the voices of all those<br />
that have sung
this hymn with us<br />
when we’ve gone to get the tree.<br />
as the last chord is strung and we<br />
turn onto the road north and home<br />
the melody of Christmas scent<br />
to come and those past<br />
a stickiness on our hands<br />
the reminder that the voices<br />
in the branches’ redolence<br />
is your song “…of joy and peace.”<br />
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Merry Christmas and a Joyous New Year<br /><br />Hyvaa joulua Onnellista uutta vuotta<br /><br />Keep a tight line,<br /><br />Steve TherrienSteve Therrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11578866649024556052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035786510991281296.post-12120543406700456042012-02-14T13:13:00.000-08:002012-02-14T13:21:37.098-08:00From that which runs on(for the woman that holds things together)<br /><br />maples wait in the deepest cold to trickle<br />currents of obligation, from that which runs on<br />all others abide the mechanics of flow<br />once started in prime movement, still races to the sea<br />the side hill spring spills into<br />cascade, spate, and rush all from that which runs on<br />flux and wane, catalyst of consequent<br />fixed in the solution’s mix, merged element bound,<br />unfrozen, unyielding, loved<br />you<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJLwpdpKzpMfpwsKSzGyLAyPDOkyPHvWQr6HlHbM2a45nVzoPpnVtJ12-ZJU5k2x0K8Vf_G_m-imBd7H3ssRnU6ZDncE0hweYiyVyYgmkEFr2T-1jazVDE5xK5zXktgEWcUHaHzR5QJa8/s1600/DSC00930.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJLwpdpKzpMfpwsKSzGyLAyPDOkyPHvWQr6HlHbM2a45nVzoPpnVtJ12-ZJU5k2x0K8Vf_G_m-imBd7H3ssRnU6ZDncE0hweYiyVyYgmkEFr2T-1jazVDE5xK5zXktgEWcUHaHzR5QJa8/s400/DSC00930.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5709103405878890402" /></a><br /><br />Happy Valentine's Day<br /><br />Keep a tight line,<br /><br />Steve TherrienSteve Therrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11578866649024556052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035786510991281296.post-63464017412187029002012-01-02T15:02:00.000-08:002012-02-14T13:25:25.262-08:00Sutton River Memoies<a href="http://troutshadows.blogspot.com/2010/11/catching-biggest-brook-trout-of-your.html">See previous posts about our trip to Hudson Bay.</a><br /><br /> Over time long trips into the wilderness evolve in our memories. The moment-by-moment experiences fade into key memorable stories that fix onto the memory of the trip with a number of episodes that become emblems of the whole experience. These are just a few stories that are those emblems.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGqtJ7rpPiH0jxd38XLSgK9IAZx_H4hCctB6PoHwAyZSRoteEQFfkS3gBj7lDlbLJx6VhEgrL-P3hzhjDrI7u2m_r0I8H03827zVw_5K3oM4_2woUgnHtb7vc-DzI-R8HnrNhf-SQsnfM/s1600/IMG_0047.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 228px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGqtJ7rpPiH0jxd38XLSgK9IAZx_H4hCctB6PoHwAyZSRoteEQFfkS3gBj7lDlbLJx6VhEgrL-P3hzhjDrI7u2m_r0I8H03827zVw_5K3oM4_2woUgnHtb7vc-DzI-R8HnrNhf-SQsnfM/s400/IMG_0047.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5704208021188367122" /></a>About a third of the way down river from Hawley Lake to Hudson Bay, the Sutton River starts a pattern that continues until it gains volume from the Aquatuk River, 30 miles before the river enters Hudson Bay. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtdAnWRrnAP8xSE7XhBT9S6DRxnaWSUymGYA1qA9Wcp4Q3kZpMmvdeIelw3pj40xWjhUcOKedgFM4OQ2VPLXxB-ZH5Tekmxr8HNF3iM_eg9D9rrY0drqyth4MhT4dSHY-Z2Ykchh6Ebfw/s1600/DSC02567.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtdAnWRrnAP8xSE7XhBT9S6DRxnaWSUymGYA1qA9Wcp4Q3kZpMmvdeIelw3pj40xWjhUcOKedgFM4OQ2VPLXxB-ZH5Tekmxr8HNF3iM_eg9D9rrY0drqyth4MhT4dSHY-Z2Ykchh6Ebfw/s400/DSC02567.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5693181242661898258" /></a>Rolling down gentle glides the Sutton will braid out into rocky shallows with long exposed gravel islands bordered by wide grass and willow covered high benches accented with stunted aspen. <br /><br /><br />Large bends in the river carve deep rocky turn holes that level out at the tail outs then empty out into deep bank runs opening up down river into a shallow braided channels. This pattern repeated itself for most of way until you encounter the confluence of the Aquatuk River. Though deep turn holes fished well, we found, as we progressed into this middle third of the trip, the long stretches of shallow water got longer and the turn holes held fewer and fewer fish. In this long shallow section we were forced to get out and walk the canoe through.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1um1BHsKx2ywhURvRNVWvkS6RGfubLK_h6OE0tobixOOisNdfLa1rHO5v6BzHEiiN1gz6VtSQ1JtCO3e6Pi8YazT7P3zYjCkxqN2cR_8eNazjctzf8mNFWrXV1hyphenhyphenPPN5hMkatBA73Uno/s1600/IMG_0103.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1um1BHsKx2ywhURvRNVWvkS6RGfubLK_h6OE0tobixOOisNdfLa1rHO5v6BzHEiiN1gz6VtSQ1JtCO3e6Pi8YazT7P3zYjCkxqN2cR_8eNazjctzf8mNFWrXV1hyphenhyphenPPN5hMkatBA73Uno/s400/IMG_0103.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5693183922780718098" /></a>The landscape of the Sutton River can arrest your gaze for minutes at a time. Beyond the spruce stands that lined the river, plains of sphagnum moss, Labrador tea, scrub willow and stunted aspen and spruce spread out to the horizon and beyond, a land of haunting beauty and transfixing solitude.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL0Ao-Xpg4OI0m2X93xB62QiWoN_1LPEm2eqEpdz31IlDsH81eBdnIewy6j65YK3ANjWJJRmIZoA-emH4VVp-eMB8wa_YJv0-XVnwMnuIinwHyzuLH7gvzpWrMyxUloMEevEuqw0qbMlY/s1600/DSC02683.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL0Ao-Xpg4OI0m2X93xB62QiWoN_1LPEm2eqEpdz31IlDsH81eBdnIewy6j65YK3ANjWJJRmIZoA-emH4VVp-eMB8wa_YJv0-XVnwMnuIinwHyzuLH7gvzpWrMyxUloMEevEuqw0qbMlY/s400/DSC02683.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5696151023517515090" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl5DcPpRVUVMh0X3gJ6Mfax3-71MIGSioVJeidPZuzRw6aSjo4lJLJn_qPXU-q3TUxbCX2oiBJqcREyR87OEIceePPQrCgAJsxmuGJVAv66GOf7nfqoKxJjPJGGkVVKCrYG5m7JxX3vM8/s1600/DSC02621.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl5DcPpRVUVMh0X3gJ6Mfax3-71MIGSioVJeidPZuzRw6aSjo4lJLJn_qPXU-q3TUxbCX2oiBJqcREyR87OEIceePPQrCgAJsxmuGJVAv66GOf7nfqoKxJjPJGGkVVKCrYG5m7JxX3vM8/s400/DSC02621.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5696153964993945010" /></a>The volume gained by the addition of the flow from the Aquatuk increased the depth of the river so we didn’t have to get out and drag the boat across miles of shallow gravel runs. The quality fishing increased as well. We were forced to lay over for a day on a mile long section of the river where the main channel of the river flowed deep long the far bank of the river from where we chose our camp. All along this section numerous gravel bars had formed stretching from our side river out into the main channel giving us multiple access points to fish. Our lay over was not something we had planned, but a a change of plans when we woke to a mixture of wind and rain. We had built a lean-to shelter with our tarp quickly in the morning. After breakfast we decided not to move down river until the weather let up.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4vauzouLW-22LeoVJ3PQhVDlHcgEt7OCZUOaSyMTsTlEsQEQRoV3xpMcKZtsd9OE9A1qUNqeT8u0RXcjZwHS0YR7FqOU4imFoEOe5sM7KZvPN_HZsihBEx05Eof-d4MwdITu52eLcozI/s1600/DSC02632.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4vauzouLW-22LeoVJ3PQhVDlHcgEt7OCZUOaSyMTsTlEsQEQRoV3xpMcKZtsd9OE9A1qUNqeT8u0RXcjZwHS0YR7FqOU4imFoEOe5sM7KZvPN_HZsihBEx05Eof-d4MwdITu52eLcozI/s400/DSC02632.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5696151963099574818" /></a><br />Charlie retired to his tent, and I sat under the trap to kick back. It soon dawned on me that was I sitting under a trap on the banks for a World-class brook trout fishery with bombproof waders and rain gear sitting out inches from my reach. I’ve fished my home waters of Northwestern Wisconsin in worse weather. Why would I past up the opportunity to fish now?<br /> In short order I was geared up and walking out onto a gravel bar near where we watched a number of fish roll near the surface in the fading light the day before. Fingerless mitts, fleece, stocking cap, hood up and reefed down as not to catch the wind, I wondered whether Charlie had made the better decision of the day. The channel off the gravel bars waded easily and getting into position I wondered how would I make casts in the gusting winds. Looking up river you could see sheets of rain fly down stream on the gusts. Though the wind was sustained, there seemed to be pauses in the intensity that would allow me to try a cast. My back to the wind, which came directly down river, forced me to cast primary across and down. The sink tip line I was using didn’t cast well in the wind, but it was perfect for getting the streamer into the water column. <br /> Waiting for a opening in the wind, I stripped out line and prepared for a short cast. When my opening came, I back cast once and let line out on the first false cast. The next gust flatten my back cast just as I came forward with the rod causing my fly to bounce off my hood with a loud thwack, right next to my ear lobe. The wind carried the line and unfurled it out over the river. I watched the fly settle into the clear water. In the over cast light and broken surface, I could still see the fly scoot along as it swung in the current just above the gravel and rocks.<br /> Immediately three dark forms chased and darted at the fly. As soon as I gave the it a short strip, one of the dark forms struck so hard that the #2 Zoo Cougar set solidly. Turning down stream, the fish pulled the few feet of slack I held loosely against the cork straight through the stripping guide. It was hooked and on the reel taking out line before I could raise the tip. I walked and fought the fish into the calmer warm below the gravel bar. Earlier in the trip, we started using 12-pound test tippets so that we could play the fish quickly and release them.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM3qJPwyHVbaynxC-uAHNAKjUJkMciwaiQwn8nvVu99_v2mX2IWRcsktkgMalmQZfN_yFd1LfX8eGkvxI1XfpvfHC_xId5QH8HImsaGbDcOx6D1-gAceC0QxqK4nMKGJJ_5fgWKx_Ofng/s1600/DSC02625+1.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 261px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM3qJPwyHVbaynxC-uAHNAKjUJkMciwaiQwn8nvVu99_v2mX2IWRcsktkgMalmQZfN_yFd1LfX8eGkvxI1XfpvfHC_xId5QH8HImsaGbDcOx6D1-gAceC0QxqK4nMKGJJ_5fgWKx_Ofng/s400/DSC02625+1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5704209420952541810" /></a>Very few casts came up empty. I found that using a water haul and immediately punching out line was the most effective cast I could make. Fighting the wind with a 9 ½ foot rod can wear an arm out quickly. Fighting brook trout, both native and sea-run ranging from 2-4 pounds, can add to the fatigue of a casting arm. Every strike was aggressive and the fish chased the fly from great distances, sometimes taking the fly just as I was about to pickup and cast. <br />As I released fish number 38, Charlie emerged from his tent and shouted, “How many?” He couldn’t hear my reply through the wind. I needed to put on a fresh Zoo Cougar, so I set my rod down on the gravel bar and stood with my hands in the air and flashed him 3 sets of 10 fingers and then held up eight. <br />“Thirty-eight?”<br />I nodded.”<br />“Jesus!” he shouted and ran for his waders.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi90CcOELvVt77-t7bFpW7VW9ONKN35f4AW90U8Z7vqhbnbDTKfq2olTXoVvtJ8bcZRsQKymi-Y8Yhbbhr164LnFjkuj9vq3D9QD_w08rf4lVikicBpDQPtE_PSfKJcTsMr_IaaqcBz-P4/s1600/IMG_0113.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi90CcOELvVt77-t7bFpW7VW9ONKN35f4AW90U8Z7vqhbnbDTKfq2olTXoVvtJ8bcZRsQKymi-Y8Yhbbhr164LnFjkuj9vq3D9QD_w08rf4lVikicBpDQPtE_PSfKJcTsMr_IaaqcBz-P4/s400/IMG_0113.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5704213567197095874" /></a><br />While tying the fly on, I realized how fatigued and cold my hands were. I watched my hands move through the tying ritual as though they belonged to someone else, someone much older. Even though it took much more time to tie on a fresh fly than <br />usual, I still caught two more fish before Charlie reached the end of gravel bar.<br /><br />The wind and the rain passed and the sun poked through just just as the sun set. We woke the next morning to clear blue skies, warm temperatures and no wind.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiRRPf2zSvslCwFB5Ox2blB5n_cGDdsV51PyfJmgX9d77is3ppGL12JENgFO9UM3AZJs2QC3YsPphdEtJr0iR2D8jNBUtVVcWyxW64vyE7ApJJDHOU0_hOl1VUpVeKZ0H4I3c8V3etWlA/s1600/DSC02638.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiRRPf2zSvslCwFB5Ox2blB5n_cGDdsV51PyfJmgX9d77is3ppGL12JENgFO9UM3AZJs2QC3YsPphdEtJr0iR2D8jNBUtVVcWyxW64vyE7ApJJDHOU0_hOl1VUpVeKZ0H4I3c8V3etWlA/s400/DSC02638.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5704211691721535762" /></a><br /><br />River travel sets a rhythm unique to each body of water. The Sutton’s flow a steady sweep down stream established leisurely pace. As with all wilderness trips camp life sets patterns: looking for a camp, setting camp, breaking camp, and travel. When the patterns and the pace feel routine, one should be mindful that all rivers are changing environments. Breaks in the pattern such as sudden change in the weather and the need to adjust the travel routine to meet the changes the river presents keeps the river traveler alert. It is too easy to get lulled into a sense of security when everything is going well.<br /><br />We had traveled the river for nine days and where close to where the river transitioned from the Hudson Bay Lowlands to the Barrens of Hudson Bay, a region before you get to tidal flats of the Bay that is considered tundra. Tundra below the Artic Circle is rare. Seeing this unique corner of the world was a primary reason for our trip. Stopping on a rock bar at the end of a wide turn of the Sutton, we broke out the lunch bag and made sandwiches. The bank of the river was about waist high. With the cutting board set in the grass, we cut bread, cheese, and hard smoked sausages. Fishing had been fairly slow for most of the morning and so we were in no hurry to fish the tail out of the turn after lunch. <br /><br />Across river a caribou came out of the tree line and moved cautiously out onto the bench. Winnowing the air and slowly grazing, it moved down river towards us. Moments later it broken into a run down river. Something must have caught its attention. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7sa7eCqu2SHsdPTPXbdOl4daWZ0QhwMwbvmmapiq3CxHGEgY4t9qOnWcP0pefChjc-ryyW-m7V63LLcpva3GO6QVZTllsUUk0P5nH9zyOgRwOov-uK4d22NCxqRKPJevAmNYfGpBaJCU/s1600/DSC02640.1.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 271px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7sa7eCqu2SHsdPTPXbdOl4daWZ0QhwMwbvmmapiq3CxHGEgY4t9qOnWcP0pefChjc-ryyW-m7V63LLcpva3GO6QVZTllsUUk0P5nH9zyOgRwOov-uK4d22NCxqRKPJevAmNYfGpBaJCU/s400/DSC02640.1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5704214608571627074" /></a><br /><br />We had seen one other caribou a day before. As we watched the caribou disappear around the bend in the river, we both remarked about how few larger animals we had seen on the trip. Shore birds, ducks, eagles and ospreys were common throughout the trip. Returning to the cutting board to cut a an energy bar in half, I was immediately distracted by a snort from the brush forty feet up the high water mark near the tree line. <br /><br />The sight of a polar bear sticking its head through the trees does not register immediately in one’s brain as a threat. I think we are all conditioned to believe that polar bears live on the pack ice, the frozen tundra, generally places where they look like they belong. White animals on green backgrounds generally doens’t usually give one the impression that they “belong.” <br /><br />Charlie and I were both slow on the up take, which is not a good reaction to the situation we found ourselves. The largest land predator in North America, one that can run full speed carrying a seal the size of a NFL linebacker in its mouth, should get the warning siren screaming in your brain. But it didn’t. The only thing running through my brain was that we needed to get this bear away from us or we needed to be prepared to kill it. The third possibility was not an option a far as we were both concerned.<br /><br />We had brought a 12 gauge shotgun, an air horn, and flares all in the event that we would encounter a polar bear. The gun was the only thing we had readily available.<br />Fortunately, the polar bear didn’t charge immediately. This gave us the time to get to the canoe and uncase the shotgun. Moving closer to us, the bear nosed the air as he approached. I told Charlie to shoot over the bear’s head. The first two loads in the gun where buck shot. Shots three through five, slugs.<br /><br />“Before I shoot, take a picture,” Charlie said handing me his camera. Point and shoot digital cameras work great in these situations because you can literally, one-handed, point and shoot. While stuffing the camera into Charlie’s jacket pocket, Charlie aimed and shot over the bear’s head. It had little effect on the bear’s progress. Jumping up and down, waving my arms, and shouting profanity had worked on a curious black bear once, but had little effect on the polar bear as it continued to approach. I hurled rocks and continued to hurl insults as well. Most of the rocks fell short of the mark because their size made them far heftier than my ability to pitch them.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuM2PKZrtvlH0YeBNfiHlI0xn8SGUT6MDxuTQL6gZ_yIQKTRAO9168PXMk-lrkYMJ76XovuYFXQIBwv-ntyeT3AGEQapNUoP7zaJDcfQ4gHSfnGKPUcb7wcjZpy7hlWbqGDpGeNIdz2OY/s1600/IMG_0121_2.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 274px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuM2PKZrtvlH0YeBNfiHlI0xn8SGUT6MDxuTQL6gZ_yIQKTRAO9168PXMk-lrkYMJ76XovuYFXQIBwv-ntyeT3AGEQapNUoP7zaJDcfQ4gHSfnGKPUcb7wcjZpy7hlWbqGDpGeNIdz2OY/s400/IMG_0121_2.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5704215718290947330" /></a><br /><br />The second shot had no more effect on the progress of the bear than the first. I continued to throw rocks as fast as I could find them and heave them. At about thirty feet, a softball size rock hit the bear between the eyes. The lucky toss sounded like a rock bouncing off a coconut. The bear wheeled around and ran into the trees. We wasted little time getting the canoe off the rock bar and down river.<br /><br />We didn’t stop paddling until we were miles down stream. Even though we put miles between us and the bear, we both where constantly glancing back up stream checking for a white form on a green background. For the rest of the trip, our awareness that we were a part of the food chain sat a little farther forward in our attention.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaGmXIPDpDBNimpORXYjSrVbtndgo5uSwN7_Xg_qoBa2ZU4SkLlPNSWhVLGfRw4Fg6oSQ-JrY3jEz8LQkdyJJFnBmPINkpJ5qlfBJCvRuddYWq305OhGhyce9FSADV3b36CUoSz1fFQDg/s1600/IMG_0125.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaGmXIPDpDBNimpORXYjSrVbtndgo5uSwN7_Xg_qoBa2ZU4SkLlPNSWhVLGfRw4Fg6oSQ-JrY3jEz8LQkdyJJFnBmPINkpJ5qlfBJCvRuddYWq305OhGhyce9FSADV3b36CUoSz1fFQDg/s400/IMG_0125.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5704216212303658562" /></a><br /><br />Close to its mouth the Sutton gains even more volume from its tributaries. We encountered massive turn holes and long deep straights. Some of the turns were lined by huge eskers, evidence of the massive power of the Sutton during its spring ice out. The scars on the trees along the tree line throughout the trip were further evidence that this gentle river when in spring flood sheds a massive amount of water and with monstrous chunks of ice.<br /><br />The Sutton widens out as it flows through an area referred to as the Barrens—tundra below the Arctic Circle--an almost treeless landscape of mesmerizing beauty. With two days on the river remaining, we picked a camp on a long wide section that had a commanding view both upstream and down.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif7UwZTdB-B6S1SFj-q9tpX6YuOnUzTG7mqIz12CTeQZXkCIoBWwJJvm4DxQIqQ39HuvDv2zkygKtBWYbDiMlcWR4M8ZFZeuI3iBM_CTQy45-JJQwSr2__Q8LMFIZrXy7B1MwmrJ5xoFo/s1600/DSC02648.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif7UwZTdB-B6S1SFj-q9tpX6YuOnUzTG7mqIz12CTeQZXkCIoBWwJJvm4DxQIqQ39HuvDv2zkygKtBWYbDiMlcWR4M8ZFZeuI3iBM_CTQy45-JJQwSr2__Q8LMFIZrXy7B1MwmrJ5xoFo/s400/DSC02648.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5704217062442730322" /></a><br /><br />Throughout our trip we used various mice patterns to fish to rising trout. The most effective pattern for us was the Morrish Mouse. Fishing the mouse dead drift was far more effective than waking the mouse through the surface film. Waking the fly usually got the fish to follow the fly; letting the fly float and drift down stream brought on the most aggressive strikes.<br /><br />Fishing to rising brook trout has to be one of the stream fishers greatest joys. Fishing to brook trout 18 inches and larger, with dead drifted mice, indescribably delightful. Charlie and I spent our last evening on the river catching brook trout on the surface well past sunset. We truly lost track of time. <br /><br />We cooked our last dinner on the river in the dark sharing the last of our bourbon and rerunning the incredible sight of brook trout heads rising out of the water to scoop in mice. Sleep came easily that night. I no longer dreamed the dreams of the other dreamers.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5BjFbnBg6PaQbMH5kQUjbvho8NBv_vtpqWLv2xZQnbZAUghcGNKh8GJeMBhEenqQ2jhaK84qxlgk7dSqZ3CvZdooGo4WHZiS7etdKG-9c8NDCc5-SSjgLUY8u6sQbnJgnrvBhKIbIPuA/s1600/IMG_0141.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5BjFbnBg6PaQbMH5kQUjbvho8NBv_vtpqWLv2xZQnbZAUghcGNKh8GJeMBhEenqQ2jhaK84qxlgk7dSqZ3CvZdooGo4WHZiS7etdKG-9c8NDCc5-SSjgLUY8u6sQbnJgnrvBhKIbIPuA/s400/IMG_0141.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5704217552037848178" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Last day on the river <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNUFyjJDhc1kVhilAyIH8apBjnGoj4pi5dPHSg_HFG6voJevQgf5vT6VutIiahzaZZyfEsRJQbHxUA0fbEcRy8Af9JcHR5TSqJmz9jczmhQuGmVKiaMv1CYSSm8E283Tf6DLoEvBrTVc8/s1600/IMG_0155.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNUFyjJDhc1kVhilAyIH8apBjnGoj4pi5dPHSg_HFG6voJevQgf5vT6VutIiahzaZZyfEsRJQbHxUA0fbEcRy8Af9JcHR5TSqJmz9jczmhQuGmVKiaMv1CYSSm8E283Tf6DLoEvBrTVc8/s400/IMG_0155.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5704218403161897010" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://troutshadows.blogspot.com/2010/09/i-dreamed-dream-of-other-dreamers.html">See the previous post about the trip to Hudson Bay.</a><br /><br />Keep a tight line,<br /><br />Steve TherrienSteve Therrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11578866649024556052noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035786510991281296.post-60405930069589452072011-07-23T14:57:00.000-07:002012-01-04T13:34:05.178-08:00You'd Have to Be Nuts to Put up with That<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_AcouppkpWF4hBZbrynU4vFPPuforVxgAAC_Mr8IpY9SdlWbWQSIYtQRILzL_WAfWq-IgQG2GpGpDfgAeHZbHP3X-fp80du7nyf03RIKvLZcYzsQ4S77xXg2E5J5yI2kDwXYJBS425Xw/s1600/DSC00898.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_AcouppkpWF4hBZbrynU4vFPPuforVxgAAC_Mr8IpY9SdlWbWQSIYtQRILzL_WAfWq-IgQG2GpGpDfgAeHZbHP3X-fp80du7nyf03RIKvLZcYzsQ4S77xXg2E5J5yI2kDwXYJBS425Xw/s400/DSC00898.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5632673989668206674" /></a><br />“Much Madness is divinest Sense -<br />To a discerning Eye…” <a href="http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/emilydickinson/10387">Emily Dickenson</a><br /><br /><br /><br />“I don’t start fishing until the air temperatures are in the sixties and the frost is out of the ground,” he said looking over his tying glasses and tying vise. “You guys that go out in that early season are just nuts!” He raised his hand with index finger pointed at the ceiling for emphasis and to keep me from responding “I know you catch fish, but you know, if a guy has to go out and drag his ass through the water when the ice isn’t off the banks then I guess the fish will just have wait for me, because it isn’t my cup of tea.”<br /> What’s to argue there? By their very nature fly anglers are a different breed. Some of us really do go to the extremes. Destination fishing has proven that. Fly-fishing for <a href="http://fishmongolia.com/">Tamen</a> in Mongolia or<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dorado"> River Dorado</a> in Brazil take the angler to the extremes of travel, and the target fish of the trip sound other worldly compared to the brook trout and brown trout found on my home river. Let’s not even talk about tackle and methods because we push the limits there as well.<br /> So, I go out and fish the early season and get a little cold. In these cases, the rewards are always personal. For me, skiing is just about done, and the opportunity to get out and fish relieves a little of the house bound feeling that accumulates over the course of our long northern winters. <br /> I am always rewarded. Getting out to see how the rivers have wintered over, affords me the time to reacquaint myself with the waters we fish and to get to know the river at a time of the year when it is waking from the sleep of winter. Wading through sections of the river in the early season helps to spot springs that may not be visible at any other time of the season. This in turn may give the angler clues as to where trout might hold when the water warms later in the season. Spawning areas can be seen by the clean spots worn in the river gravel that might indicate the success of the years spawning run. <br /> The river’s barren appearance, akin to the skeletal look of the woods before spring’s green push, has its own beauty. The angler can see the shape of the bottom more clearly. Underwater cover visible in the early season may be hidden by weed growth in early June. <br />The light at that time of year has a different intensity. When it is bright, it is remarkably clear and blinding. When there is a slight overcast, the diffuse light can be surreal as it to bounces off of the snow in the woods producing an almost shadow less world. A more pragmatic reason for angling in the early season when the leaves are down and a hard snow pack is still in the woods may be that getting to some of the remote sections of stream is easier without the summer growth of the under story.<br /> The fish target the few hatches of insects that are active during this time. If the water temperature warms enough, trout will pursue smaller fish especially the big brown trout. Though the fishing strategies are narrow in focus, they are not as complex as a river in full bloom. Anglers still have to be careful of their presentation and approach to the fish. <br /> However, trout will eat just about anything they sense as food. A few years back my fishing partner and I watched a sizable brown trout vomit a desiccated bullfrog just before we released it. We wondered about how the fish got a hold of a large frog at that time of the season. A year later at about the same time of the early season we watched as a dead bullfrog tumbled down stream on the bottom of the same river.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_rBp2KBNKaQLbAJ2_xErJQZFy97Fg0OMrIpJyCT6DG2oyLO0wZ5Fj-U0-_WMhb5iNLCyGxvwMa-F_KMUOkCNk6Npzx3hXljp_ydDiWjMshJr2U_UvCCvup4gPxGmKu2fUnYzLtA2iwFY/s1600/DSC01920.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_rBp2KBNKaQLbAJ2_xErJQZFy97Fg0OMrIpJyCT6DG2oyLO0wZ5Fj-U0-_WMhb5iNLCyGxvwMa-F_KMUOkCNk6Npzx3hXljp_ydDiWjMshJr2U_UvCCvup4gPxGmKu2fUnYzLtA2iwFY/s400/DSC01920.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5632685945739522210" /></a><br /><br /> I recognize that the weather can eat into your reserve of tolerance. Trout do not always go for what is put on the table. Patience can be replaced by a deep need to get back to a warm truck, to drink hot tea and to drive thinking of the waiting sauna. What keeps me coming back during the early season is how very elemental this part of the season can be. The black-capped chickadees have started their summer songs. The little black stoneflies crawl out onto the snow and ice covered banks. The geese are moving north. Large sheets of ice float down stream oblivious to all things they encounter. Things are moving along the river.<blockquote></blockquote><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8-xMwLM8ommXGoVpBw5x2pemhEswOM-bnGajwoIAIT2sfpA1Lehaq3Oc0BXR1US15L0yinnXCEoyfoj26N6p3gYEMcrRV89Eh4S5rEl_A0W3lVuCOFfEblAwQe4d7oQrZE-oLJCeWkN0/s1600/027.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8-xMwLM8ommXGoVpBw5x2pemhEswOM-bnGajwoIAIT2sfpA1Lehaq3Oc0BXR1US15L0yinnXCEoyfoj26N6p3gYEMcrRV89Eh4S5rEl_A0W3lVuCOFfEblAwQe4d7oQrZE-oLJCeWkN0/s400/027.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5632762975494272610" /></a><br /><br /> We’ll catch fish. The first pulsating lunge of the rod since the close of the season is the reward for waiting through a long winter: the reassurance that the river and its fish made it through another cycle. The season’s turn comes just as the days get a bit longer and the sun a little higher. It’s warmth a balm easily soaked in on a bright March day. Those of us that are crazy enough to go out know why we are out there. We all are surprised at what we find. The beauty of a cedar bough, ice coated, as it bobs into the current and out. The grace in a brace of trumpter swans as they grab air to get into the blinding blue sky. Sometimes we’ll be surprised at the bright flash on the bottom that stops the fly in its mid-current swing. The dark shape takes off in a rod-hammering run down stream. The iridescent golden shine in the bright spring sun surprisingly vivid after being play in mid-stream. I guess you’d have to be nuts to put up with that.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdyW9qNIURGOpdaT8vLK6PPFVjFqW6X-o9AdQECOFpEFTxAa5eCm-XuwvKAZ-HeemieM66F-ENoJO5aWROeiADm21ETiTgSe7ZVBzT2486_gV9GWW0R40OxxCpEw7Y9-bCQ87fblAiQmQ/s1600/028.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 246px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdyW9qNIURGOpdaT8vLK6PPFVjFqW6X-o9AdQECOFpEFTxAa5eCm-XuwvKAZ-HeemieM66F-ENoJO5aWROeiADm21ETiTgSe7ZVBzT2486_gV9GWW0R40OxxCpEw7Y9-bCQ87fblAiQmQ/s400/028.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5632763443091016322" /></a>Steve Therrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11578866649024556052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035786510991281296.post-24398265685075416562011-04-06T08:56:00.000-07:002011-05-09T11:09:44.509-07:00Fishing on the Shoulders of Giants: Bob North<span style="font-style:italic;">The blessing of having fished with numerous talented fly anglers over the years has enriched my life and my fly angling experiences as well. Some of my most cherished friendships have been because of fly fishing and more specifically because of the river I call my home water: the Bois Brule River. I don't remember when I first heard the phrase "standing on the shoulders of giants." In that regard I am "fishing on the shoulders of giants." The debt I owe to those whom I have traveled the river is a debt that I will never be able to repay. Perhaps it is better to tell their stories and past their wisdom on to others</span>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjVQvk2TF1h3Nr4yyUD1yyHj3L6b9hhnLcnDl3YcmQKZ0BJG2QTdNwpwNvpvyi1hPn3JQTbBrJih5_PAAaaIpbbDXxdaiztFsKQLNHWgJpg_jQzOQxRAUvlGhZxM7J5sYV3nixn8hjbO4/s1600/bob.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjVQvk2TF1h3Nr4yyUD1yyHj3L6b9hhnLcnDl3YcmQKZ0BJG2QTdNwpwNvpvyi1hPn3JQTbBrJih5_PAAaaIpbbDXxdaiztFsKQLNHWgJpg_jQzOQxRAUvlGhZxM7J5sYV3nixn8hjbO4/s400/bob.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592502841368082450" /></a><br /><br /><br />The fly fisher skillfully unfurled a number of false casts to get the distance right for what appeared to be a difficult cast under a low cedar. His guide, Lawrence Berube, slowly back paddled the canoe to hold it in place. The caster never lost focus, he never glanced our direction as we passed them quietly giving plenty of room to work. A small shade shrouded spot under a cedar was clearly the point of his concentration. This was how it was supposed to be I thought to myself. When you fished the upper Brule River, you fished from a canoe, worked as a team: the guide holding the canoe in the right position and the fisher concentrating to make the perfect cast. Both skills work in unison to cast for trout. Truly this was fishing together. <br /><br />The sunlight played with the line and leader magically reflecting their color and slight shine. The fly, a big tuff of feathers, floated lazily through the air as each back cast, then forward cast, cut through the heavy summer air. The whole scene seemed to slow down as we watched waiting to see the final presentation of the fly. The line seemed to be an extension of the fisher’s fingertips as the fly was launched by the curving arch of the line with as much dexterity as it took to flick a moth from a coat sleeve. The tuff of feathers disappeared into the shadow of the overhanging cedar and appeared for an instant in a sliver of sunlight that poked through the dense cover. A hole appeared in the dark glassy surface. The fly was gone.<br /><br />The trout never had a chance. It was played, expertly netted by the guide, and dropped into the live well of the canoe. They had done this before. The old man’s head turned and looked directly at me in way that gave me the impression that he had just become aware of my presence. With a smile and wink he said, “Well, young fella, what did ya’ think that?” Lawrence smiled and waved, and we moved on down river. That smile and wink still shines in my as memory as one of those unique moments that makes it hard to forget. A few years later I would get a phone call from an old fisherman that would make that memory burn even brighter. <br /><br />School had started, and I returned to the classroom to begin another year of teaching English feeling great about the summer break. I had gained a few new clients and had a good number of returning customers so I was content with the success of my recent season of working as a fishing guide on the Bois Brule River. So receiving a phone call about going out for more trips on the river with a new client was pure gravy. Even richer when I discovered that I’d be guiding the old fisherman with the smile and the wink.<br /><br />We had agreed to meet at Stone’s Bridge for a half-day trip down to Buckhorn Camp and back. He said his name was Bob North and that he had been going out on the river with Lawrence Berube for over thirty years and needed to find a new guide because Lawrence was retiring from guiding. Bob North was a well known on the Brule for his efforts in rebuilding and maintaining Hidden and Buckhorn Camps after the straight line winds came through in July of 1983.<br /><br /> The trip down river was uneventful. Generally, this is a good thing in everything except guiding a client on a fishing trip and especially the first trip where the client has the high potential of hiring you again. Bob make it quite obvious that he was not impressed with my abilities to get him into fish.<br /><br /> “Sure looks like we’ve got the stink of the skunk on us!” he blurted out after a pause in our conversations that were more job interview than fishing trip. I was not doing well in impressing my “new boss.” The Brule was more the Dead Sea than the Sea of Galilee so we decided to pull into Buckhorn Camp eat sandwiches and head back up to Stone’s Bridge.<br /><br /> “What you think of Reagan?” Bob asks out of the blue, taking a bite out his sandwich and giving me a look that gave me the impression that he was looking for the right answer.<br /> “Not much,” wasn’t the best I could muster, but I had come to the conclusion that we were not getting along well, so I thought that I should not hold back on my opinions. Besides he insisted that he pay me for the trip in the parking lot before we started the trip. <br /> “You know what they say, ‘When I was young and foolish, I was a liberal, when I grew up I saw the error of my foolish ways,’” he said as though he’d had a great deal of practice. “Reagan will turn this country around!” The two topics a fishing guide tries to avoid at all costs are politics and religion. I got the impression that Mr. North was not one that would quibble when it came to either. <br /> “It’s OK with me as long as he doesn’t screw up the fishing,” I quipped, “Let’s go fishing.” <br /><br />Things were looking dire in the half-light of dusk. We hadn’t been on the water for more than five minutes and Bob started his critique of my “resume.” “You sure you know what you’re doin’?” and “You don’t seem to know any more about fly fishing than you do about politics,” and variations of the first two mixed with a questioning of the whole idea of night fishing and the sanity of those who take up the pursuit. After about a half hour of Bob’s critique, he settled into a string of low grumblings with occasional outbursts.<br /> <br />“I can’t see worth a damn,” he remarked after a long period of river silence and quiet concentration. In the growing darkness, I still could make out the fly he was casting as it drifted back towards us. I prayed for one fish, one fish that we both needed. A big brown trout to come out of nowhere and just blast the oversized Rat Faced McDougal he was casting. Right on cue, the fly disappeared in a enormous slashing rise.<br /><br />Over the years, I have come to discover that perfectly competent fly fishers suffer the temporary loss of skill when the lights go out. Bob was no exception. Whatever prowess he’d developed over the years fishing with Lawrence Berube disappeared. The image of that the caster on the Brule I had in my mind dissolved.<br /> <br />After a few moments fumbling with the line and reel, Bob got control of the fish, which turned out to be a brown trout of about four pounds, and regained enough of confidence to play the fish and steer it to the net.<br /> <br />The whole temperament of the evening changed. Bob’s interest in night fishing peeked, his confidence restored, he was a man on a mission and for the rest of the short trip back to the bridge we caught fish. Fish obliged us by hitting the fly so hard that they set the hook on themselves. The bag limit back then was ten fish per day, and we nearly filled out Bob’s bag limit in little over an hour. We neared Stone’s bridge, Bob dragging the fly in the water next to the canoe while I moved the canoe into a better position. This would be the last spot to try before the night was over. I could hear the metal of the hook faintly tapping on the side of the old aluminum canoe. Something slammed into the side of the canoe at the water line startling us both. Quickly realizing he had a fish on, Bob managed to get control of his line and the fish the whole while laughing at the sudden surprise. <br /> <br />“That’s ten! Let’s head for the barn,” he exclaimed. With a complete bag limit in the creel we headed for the landing. “I didn’t think much of this night fishing, but I could be a new convert,” Bob conceded as we approached the landing. “This was worth the price of admission,” he said with a genuine sense of awe.<br /><br />With a feeling of total vindication, the canoe slid in near the landing. Before I could get the canoe settled next to the elevated part of the landing Bob stood up. This unexpected maneuver would have concerned me more if I had known how unsteady on his feet Bob really was. For some reason I thought that he has been out with Lawrence for years so he knew his way around a canoe. <br /> <br />He gave away the unsteadiness of his stance when I felt him rocking the canoe from side to side. I reached for the stubbing poles too late. Bob shuffled his feet in a move to turn and take a step onto the landing, however the motion had the opposite effect. Instead of stepping up, the motion to turn caused the canoe to tip in the opposite direction depositing Mr. North into his beloved Brule backwards and head first.<br /> <br />I managed to stay with the canoe and right it by pitching my weight to the high side of the roll. His legs were still in the canoe when the boat righted keeping his head and torso underwater. I flipped his legs into the drink and quickly leapt into the water. Grabbing him under the arms to get him on his feet and making sure he could stand on his own, I threw the gear that I saw floating in the river back into the canoe. Helping him out of the river, I heard a mumble about going to get the car. What I thought I had regained in a trout feeding frenzy disappeared in what most guides will tell you is the worst thing a canoe guide can do short of murder: baptism. Mr. North was wet, his ego bruised, however he was not injured.<br /><br />As I collected gear to load into his car, I imagined that if I saw Bob North again it would on the river with another of my peers. I heard the car pull up to the landing, but I couldn’t bring myself to look the old man in the eyes. The ambivalence of having one of the best and worst days on the river reduced me to wishing the whole day would end. I kept thinking just get the stuff in the trunk and get the old guy on his way.<br /><br />I kept my back to him. The trunk opened. I just couldn’t turn around. I wanted to avoid him at all costs. There wasn’t much more I could do but turn and start loading the car. Before I could turn, I felt a hand on my shoulder. When I turned my head to look, I noticed a wet twenty-dollar bill lying on shoulder.<br /><br />Bob headed back to the car and sat in the front seat with the motor running and the heater turned up on high. I loaded the car. Bob rolled down the window when I closed the trunk and shouted, “I’m cold, and I’m going home. If it’s alright with you I’ll see you next week same time, same place.”<br /><br />The Lincoln Town car pulled out of the parking lot, the low growl of the engine faded into the night. Mr. North and I would meet again before the end of the fishing season. For nearly twenty seasons, Mr. North and I would fish the Brule together. We would talk about politics and religion and would rarely agree, and we would catch lots of fish.<br /><br /><br />Keep a tight line,<br /><br />Steve TherrienSteve Therrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11578866649024556052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035786510991281296.post-60732446468432726372010-11-02T14:05:00.000-07:002012-02-03T12:59:59.032-08:00Catching the Biggest Brook Trout of Your Life<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj8rZ511jKiOX1syyl1bG2_kI9B-CAwnGDzgrCsJrQWAwI6tK4Shr0fv0LAAzsZMB7qc7lqwcQ1rqZ2rdQC-mSmQyCcZtM9uBnKYIydWK2zIWge8s3nT_Sk_Y5V4bWnxQ4Wu7Avw9tuPI/s1600/IMG_0045b.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 231px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj8rZ511jKiOX1syyl1bG2_kI9B-CAwnGDzgrCsJrQWAwI6tK4Shr0fv0LAAzsZMB7qc7lqwcQ1rqZ2rdQC-mSmQyCcZtM9uBnKYIydWK2zIWge8s3nT_Sk_Y5V4bWnxQ4Wu7Avw9tuPI/s400/IMG_0045b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5704206788093478898" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://troutshadows.blogspot.com/2010/09/i-dreamed-dream-of-other-dreamers.html">See the previous post about the trip to Hudson Bay.</a><br /><br /><br />As soon we got our canoe loaded at Albert Chookomolin’s landing on the north end of Hawley Lake, Charlie and I started down the Sutton. The flight in roughed us up more than and I expected. Flying under a thick, gray cloud deck at 500 hundred feet over the Hudson Bay Lowlands can put a dark cast unto the start of any river trip.<br />Taking the back seat of the Turbo Beaver turned out to be a mistake. Low altitude, a headwind mixed with rain all made the flight a stomach turning ride from hell. With no way to see a horizon line out of the tiny side windows of the plane, I managed to hold back my first technicolor yawn for over an hour and a half of a three-hour flight. Two brothers followed the first before we landed on Hawley Lake. The waves of nausea passed quickly as we paddled down river. Gusty waves of rain that rhythmically pounded us on the trip north didn’t however.<br />It felt good to be on the water regardless of the weather. The river channels through a summer’s worth of weed growth were far too narrow for us to try to fish. In the gin clear water, we saw small schools of brook trout scoot under the canoe. Small numbers, big fish! The surreal nature of a school of brook, average size 17 to 20 inches long, swimming under a canoe still makes me smile in disbelief. <br />The Sutton in its upper section close to Hawley Lake runs slow through huge channelized weed beds. The banks were low to the water and lined with tag alder, scrub willow and high grasses with the tree line close to the bank. We started looking for a camp when the banks appeared to be more accessible. What we saw for the first two hours of paddling was very low and marshy. We arrived at some sharp bends in the river, a place called the First Rapids (not much of a rapids) where we were told by Albert we’d find a camp on the second bend of the first set of rapids. Almost on command as we came around a turn and there it was: our first camp. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZWLymfU0Hhpz2CcT4hH7b6BLHoa1Y5TG_bxXVrSBvcYAXRuPJoOKrRtTp4b_XPhw0wa2gN4_GeQNauACVVxcGJ3snGwnuqGltoX46y-FFppRXl_QG9UyXmb7BP0rHhhfBvVeNbNwuVPE/s1600/IMG_0037.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZWLymfU0Hhpz2CcT4hH7b6BLHoa1Y5TG_bxXVrSBvcYAXRuPJoOKrRtTp4b_XPhw0wa2gN4_GeQNauACVVxcGJ3snGwnuqGltoX46y-FFppRXl_QG9UyXmb7BP0rHhhfBvVeNbNwuVPE/s400/IMG_0037.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578093640666716034" /></a><br /><br />Setting camp helped to settle the feeling of being exposed, a feeling I hadn’t felt this intensely on a trip before. Perhaps, it was the flight in over the inhospitable land, the weather, or the fact that Charlie and I would be traveling down a very remote river alone for thirteen days. To be honest, the fact that we were traveling through polar bear county loomed in the background. Even though the trees along the river made it appear we were in a northern pine forest, it only took a short walk through the trees to be reminded that the open and relatively flat Hudson Bay lowlands and it tundra like appearance stretched for miles away from the river. The vast stretch of the landscape inspired a healthy respect for the rugged strength of this land that has been the place of spiritual quests for the native Cree for generations and an appreciation for the awesome beauty of the stark landscape.<br /> Setting tents, stringing up a tarp, stowing gear and cutting and stacking fire wood gave us a opportunity to slow our pace and start moving to the rhythm and the time of the river. The urge to get out and fish took hold immediately when we started to see fish rise in the run directly out front of our camp. While we strung up rods, the wind gusts mixed with rain and challenged our tarp and rain suits but didn’t put down the occasional trout the rising in the big bend turn hole just off of the landing from our camp.<br />I crossed the river to fish the runs coming into the bend turn. Two casts later I hooked and landed the first of many Sutton River brook trout. The wind and the rain challenged us. The casting was tricky, but nothing we hadn’t expected or experienced on our home rivers during the early and late seasons of Wisconsin or the exposed windy rivers of Montana.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7pPN_cOIztrTUeJJnbZ1iH6h9URmHrshAe0V3Y0nZq8JfXTWn7JHuqWl1CcJgTsk88CzW8Lm0AngrOndBM18nzU0jHUgONtVucte1HJ5rq1ro4zFmTi9w2MlMUCcWip-2FzK6Drsn8vU/s1600/IMG_0046.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7pPN_cOIztrTUeJJnbZ1iH6h9URmHrshAe0V3Y0nZq8JfXTWn7JHuqWl1CcJgTsk88CzW8Lm0AngrOndBM18nzU0jHUgONtVucte1HJ5rq1ro4zFmTi9w2MlMUCcWip-2FzK6Drsn8vU/s400/IMG_0046.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578095707397898914" /></a><br /><br />Though the weather was obviously working against us we still caught fish. The aggressive way they took the fly was impressive. Equally impressive was the way they fought. Both presented us with an immediate problem: hook mortality. These brook trout would fight to exhaustion. Quite literally if we did not bring them in quickly they would be far too stressed to revive—one sea run brook trout literally ruptured its gills! We immediately started flatting barbs and strung our leaders from 6-8lbs. test to 10-12 lbs. test. Even though the Sutton runs very clear, the larger tippet size did not affect the fishing and allowed us the comfort of playing the fish more aggressively.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6JDFg0Dv-spaKt1XkQKmEZhvBQcs0GLSGtm0Zy8_wLZgI5vXFzf9KUV_R5V5jTCiw37yq3e7Jwns_w02P0hnrHh8BLEK22RlNPXxV1kReXSxBSayd2eDDlQ-TxbKAd0xArMT68zH7Ptw/s1600/IMG_0039.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6JDFg0Dv-spaKt1XkQKmEZhvBQcs0GLSGtm0Zy8_wLZgI5vXFzf9KUV_R5V5jTCiw37yq3e7Jwns_w02P0hnrHh8BLEK22RlNPXxV1kReXSxBSayd2eDDlQ-TxbKAd0xArMT68zH7Ptw/s400/IMG_0039.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578094990378333490" /></a><br /><br />We fished until late afternoon amazed at the quality of the fishery, the size of the fish, and the raw beauty and the unique nature of the Sutton River. It was truly like catching the biggest brook trout of your life over and over on a river we had quite literally to ourselves.<br /><br /> <a href="http://troutshadows.blogspot.com/2012/01/sutton-river-memoies.html">See our next post about our trip to the Sutton River</a><br /><br />Keep a tight line,<br /><br />Steve TherrienSteve Therrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11578866649024556052noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035786510991281296.post-74540666544000390452010-10-16T20:47:00.000-07:002010-10-20T07:01:38.615-07:00then to the trust of rivers<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizV-FsIHlXotmLGqC0aMGARaspNyGm63pPHK01tAxyGYsJMK25fa_iRn_LNT5egLdcJssJ0FR1HAYxh4gIoNJrgULyP7ySc1Dzq5etXPwPO630FQOgXLf0H0RlPrZSXQrHnES8FKfBuco/s1600/IMG_0082.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizV-FsIHlXotmLGqC0aMGARaspNyGm63pPHK01tAxyGYsJMK25fa_iRn_LNT5egLdcJssJ0FR1HAYxh4gIoNJrgULyP7ySc1Dzq5etXPwPO630FQOgXLf0H0RlPrZSXQrHnES8FKfBuco/s400/IMG_0082.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5528857761543833058" /></a><br /><br />as if falling from that place <br />where all things go when they are lost<br />or if, for an instant, the mechanics <br />of time unfurled themselves<br /><br />the trout move <br />then to the trust of rivers<br />towards where they<br />as spawn <br />broke out <br />from the uterine thrust<br />of rain fed spate<br />up and through <br />their story wrote in water<br /><br />the scent of the depression<br />muscled out of the gravel for generations,<br />at the tail out<br />of the big bend hole <br />overhung by willows<br />back across their own juvenile history <br />their origin<br />this spot<br />that mystery <br />fills currents born of silent flow<br /><br />screaming a call<br />echoing through rock and water<br />lingering ghosts of<br />waiting female and competing male<br />the compelling musk<br />of sand and granite<br /> rotted cedar log<br /> whorling maple leaf in a back eddy<br /> moss covered ledges<br /> and stone<br /><br />driving them <br />to dominate or surrender<br />to dig deep into the stream bed<br />of their ancestry <br />or to tumble lifeless, <br />back down into the moon lit pools.<br /><br /><br />Keep a tight line,<br /><br />Steve TherrienSteve Therrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11578866649024556052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035786510991281296.post-55978374836622295592010-09-22T11:56:00.000-07:002012-02-03T12:36:00.801-08:00"I dreamed the dream of the other dreamers..." Walt Whitman<span style="font-style:italic;">This is the first of a number of posts about a "dream" trip to Hudson's Bay</span>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbaiO_alzS9uvRjcppnFtTw67f_MfVOE4NN2BAVk0vUgh0KyVwZYqi_ylq4LNm1fvKcVIljmDhers5cuhBBH7it742HRH678kOO184qQTwwEr6RjRNNR10n2C3uNkd3-Tg_pwJkPJgl80/s1600/IMG_0121.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbaiO_alzS9uvRjcppnFtTw67f_MfVOE4NN2BAVk0vUgh0KyVwZYqi_ylq4LNm1fvKcVIljmDhers5cuhBBH7it742HRH678kOO184qQTwwEr6RjRNNR10n2C3uNkd3-Tg_pwJkPJgl80/s400/IMG_0121.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519814379616919698" /></a><br /><br />Walt Whitman emerges from American literature as the 1st urban poet. His poetry, a rich mixture of detailed imagery and a kaleidoscope of experiences, is effused with vignettes of 19th century urban life, and, at times, transcends experience into the metaphysical. In other words, he can get a little freaky. "I dreamed the dream of the other dreamers...." I'll get to the picture of the bear eventually which is other worldly in its own right. In his poem "The Sleepers," Whitman walks about his world experiencing the lives and dreams of a whole host of people.<br /><br />I have long dreamed of fishing in the usual exotic locals: Alaska, Patagonia, Iceland, New Zealand.... Besides the occasional trip to some of the famed waters of the lower forty-eight, I haven't taken a trip to exclusively fly fish for an extended period of time. When it comes to trout fishing dream trips, I have for the most part "dreamed the dreams of the other dreamers."<br /><br />The Sutton River got added to my dream trip list twenty years ago when I read about it in a magazine. Big brook trout in a remote river that flows into Hudson Bay, all of the things that dreams are made of. The Little North of Canada, the region between Lake Winnipeg, Hudson Bay and Lake Superior has been a destination for me on other trips to paddle some wild rivers. However, I had never made it to the Bay by traveling through the unique region of tundra below the artic circle that rings the Bay, known as the Hudson Bay Lowlands. Its stark beauty and unusual wildlife, polar bears and seals and whales, makes it a fairly exotic place to travel only 500 miles north of where I live in Wisconsin.<br /><br />Charlie d'Autremont, a good friend of mine, and I have talked of doing a remote river trip for a few years. Finding the time and the right river seemed to be the only things standing in our way. We started looking into the logistics of the trip about a year ago. Being a fly-in/fly-out trip presented some cost challenges. Coupled with the idea that we were to travel 90 miles by ourselves in one canoe in a remote part of Canada gave us additional challenges as well.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ottertooth.com/Reports/Sutton/sutton-index.htm">Berger and Terry's description</a> from the web site ottertooth.com was a great help in trip planning as was their book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Canoe-Atlas-Little-Jonathan-Berger/dp/1550464965">Canoe Atlas of the Little North</a>. <br /><br />There are few air services interested in flying into the Sutton River. <a href="http://hearstair.wordpress.com/">Hearst Air</a> of Hearst, Ontario, specializes in flying into the Sutton from july to August and has canoes stored on the river. They work closely with Albert Chookomolin, a Cree Guide, who runs a remote fishing camp on Hawley Lake (<a href="http://www.albertsfishcamp.com/bodyhome.htm">Albert's Fish Camp</a>). He has rustic accommodations for fisher and hunters that want to home base out of Hawley Lake or to stay in his outpost lodgings on the river. Albert was born on the Sutton River and is a great resource for trip planning. <br /><br />Once know as the Trout River, the Sutton is known for its big brook trout,<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs0JkC13otJHcZpECLwntlirXaynXO7CPeumAcfXz6CsaW0Vo_BorU7M0-yA9HzCQgCKlV7gPLsM1MktHXwZLVf3cAUjL443hZd5RrluAW5vyahlP8gSIwguTitxIJ3mIUh71XzFKQZDg/s1600/DSC02529.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs0JkC13otJHcZpECLwntlirXaynXO7CPeumAcfXz6CsaW0Vo_BorU7M0-yA9HzCQgCKlV7gPLsM1MktHXwZLVf3cAUjL443hZd5RrluAW5vyahlP8gSIwguTitxIJ3mIUh71XzFKQZDg/s400/DSC02529.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534770295016256978" /></a> its stark beauty, its clear running wadable water and its ability to inspire a soulfulness that I will never forget. It's gradiant drop is evenly spread out through its run to the bay which makes it a fairly easy river to run. The Sutton runs through Polar Bear Provincal Park. The likelihood of encountering one of North America's ultimate predators is very real. Besides resident brook trout, the Sutton also takes a run of sea-run brook trout starting in July.<br /><br />For thirteen days Charlie and I paddled and fished down the Sutton and never encountered another human soul. The only man made sounds were our own and the occasional distant sound of an air craft. Evidence of other travelers along the river was minimal. I have traveled in remote parts of North America numerous times. Never in all of my other trips have I encountered a more enriching experience in such unexpected ways.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQFKASGTlnBwfCMLI26jMwPTsmh42iVuKWidrI45q4dK2aoXc4gEAgizEQMH0XJjXnNJ1zsJfi8ozlXsrr8zpoT3hmf5z1WNB16y120GmgNZa9MNqhHjJ5G03KTPVG6bYfHZxrH5E88qc/s1600/DSC02654.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQFKASGTlnBwfCMLI26jMwPTsmh42iVuKWidrI45q4dK2aoXc4gEAgizEQMH0XJjXnNJ1zsJfi8ozlXsrr8zpoT3hmf5z1WNB16y120GmgNZa9MNqhHjJ5G03KTPVG6bYfHZxrH5E88qc/s400/DSC02654.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534766349162030338" /></a> Sun set on the lower Sutton.<br /><br /><br />More about the trip and the encounter with a polar bear at twenty paces in my next few posts. <a href="http://troutshadows.blogspot.com/2010/11/catching-biggest-brook-trout-of-your.html">See next post about our trip to Hudson Bay.</a><br /><br />Keep a tight line,<br /><br />Steve TherrienSteve Therrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11578866649024556052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035786510991281296.post-11263070282300545152010-03-07T11:06:00.000-08:002010-03-08T07:38:06.825-08:00The Delivered Fly<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzfYiPJMUMQJQOPJ98NpSwJ84PPnnC5juj-AWFGJlSBWJqVMLjNFxAl8ipc6_P0TreaWABxUeo1bsR57RajypUxU1lYBUG8nowS4xGI-x2Eq6tmZmVyhLsPPj6JqurCUlWTkA_eCtBHyw/s1600-h/DSC02425.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzfYiPJMUMQJQOPJ98NpSwJ84PPnnC5juj-AWFGJlSBWJqVMLjNFxAl8ipc6_P0TreaWABxUeo1bsR57RajypUxU1lYBUG8nowS4xGI-x2Eq6tmZmVyhLsPPj6JqurCUlWTkA_eCtBHyw/s400/DSC02425.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446054982189515042" /></a><br />When the water pools on the ice that has had the river locked up since it froze over about mid-January and in places the river opens, its lacy currents playing in the bright March sun, I mentality wander around pondering piscatorial pursue that we are on the cusp of…<br /><br />My wife scoffs at the idea that fly-fishing is sport. She views it more like an illness that comes on in late winter and leaves around mid-November with various relapses throughout. She is a wise woman and is probably “more right” about her observation than she knows. Though she fly-fishes, she’s not as “bit with the bug” as I. <br />The phone calls about the coming season start coming from clients, friends, and the one phone call I always expect from by friend and guiding partner: “Are we taking our usual trip out on the opener?” This is the beginning of a “slight fever.” The calls are only a few of the harbingers of the coming on of that sweet sickness that I willingly surrender to. The urge to spend time at the tying bench, the dreams of fishing, I even believe I hear the rush of water as it flows round my legs—though I probably have a touch of tinnitus—it all tells me, much like a sore throat and a headache tells me, I am about to get a full blown case of it. <br /><br />The internet has done a lot to cool the fever that starts to rise in me even before “the fit is upon me”: surfing around, reading old fishing reports, reading fly-fishing message boards, looking up fly patterns. Though I really do miss the days when I’d start thinking about fishing, which usually sent me to the literature on the “sport.” I did a lot of reading, research and contemplative repose back then. I still do. Some might call it waiting, quietly on your own. Back when I was younger I had more time and I would take trips down to the river, locked up for winter and see if there was anything going on. On warm days when the thaw was going good, I would even go so far as to donning the waders and walking around in the cold current. Occasionally, I’d spook a few holdover steelhead. <br /><br />It’s different now. People seem to be more connected. We reach out to each other: E-mail, IMs, Tweets, Message Boards, and Facebook. In that regard I find what’s happening just as interesting. The solitary contemplative repose I would have drifted into years ago has commingled with the digital world of the Internet. I find my random thoughts leading off into a discovery of the joyfully unexpected. <br /><br />I was reading my guiding partner’s fly of the month column on our service’s website (yes, a shameless plug). So I got to thinking about that fly pattern: The Pass Lake.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDgoCmHWrQ7jO2-e3JZV7VGPCKVWejALD8Z_wrw3ZmrB3SnpcbqGCcZ9uVLU8ytOgRQ9laBxj7Bec_QjN9DfL7gOGmR9eVL-Z7dqxcwcQBsIJdjVoZfNTZpfEBsJFF-u4V7ks13yQo_tA/s1600-h/Pass_lake_500x357.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDgoCmHWrQ7jO2-e3JZV7VGPCKVWejALD8Z_wrw3ZmrB3SnpcbqGCcZ9uVLU8ytOgRQ9laBxj7Bec_QjN9DfL7gOGmR9eVL-Z7dqxcwcQBsIJdjVoZfNTZpfEBsJFF-u4V7ks13yQo_tA/s400/Pass_lake_500x357.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446055576362602402" /></a><br /><br />After looking at my guiding partner’s version of the Pass Lake I got to thinking of why such a wide difference in materials—if you compare both of our versions you’d think they were two different patterns. Not to mention a third found on the internet. I know that patterns evolve this way. One tier takes the pattern and puts their own twist on it. Regional differences on popular patterns often will change a pattern in this way. That’s what makes the “sport.”<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHO_Tm_sFA6nIzOP8Su3j7GCx0E1fUgAevARZL54wf4ON0Ga2qCmg2_wRkoEMI5_n3FxNcYtL3wavqfa6upFTR7xaObUOrAAmnqhEZK7cRfhdMqlCDVxT24YxTQLfPFn47g8jLnu003nw/s1600-h/DSC02435.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 314px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHO_Tm_sFA6nIzOP8Su3j7GCx0E1fUgAevARZL54wf4ON0Ga2qCmg2_wRkoEMI5_n3FxNcYtL3wavqfa6upFTR7xaObUOrAAmnqhEZK7cRfhdMqlCDVxT24YxTQLfPFn47g8jLnu003nw/s400/DSC02435.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446287260771978898" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTv9zRx0yRQJGdCeXlYAQl_2Z-zlDn6-U37Cr7WFuKHv2l-J2ErX_9g3Fh4ybmexpcppkiHN-t5IQbQi6MtYSfeTA3_1kl57sLSMMWEKG7wnKT0-zVvI1Ro8XB5o3r-SakiDMNtsvfstI/s1600-h/passlake.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 276px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTv9zRx0yRQJGdCeXlYAQl_2Z-zlDn6-U37Cr7WFuKHv2l-J2ErX_9g3Fh4ybmexpcppkiHN-t5IQbQi6MtYSfeTA3_1kl57sLSMMWEKG7wnKT0-zVvI1Ro8XB5o3r-SakiDMNtsvfstI/s400/passlake.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446056208600802546" /></a><br /><br />Fly patterns account for a good portion of the word count of all that is written about our “sport.” Hook and materials fashioned into the perfect dupe. It is always surprising what trout will take. Back when I cleaned the catch for my clients, I would always check the stomach contents. (You wouldn’t believe how many cigarette butts I have found besides the real trout food that ends up in the guts of a fish.) I once had a client have a eight inch brook trout take a small Pass Lake, only to have the brook trout disappear in the maw of a monster brown as long as my arm. The poor eight inch brookie didn’t survive the encounter neither did the client’s leader when the big brown realized there was something just not quite right about the brook trout firmly held in its kype. The leader parted when the trout decided to shoot out of the hole as quickly as it appeared, shocking the client into a “death grip” on the line and rod, leaving the molested trout to float to the surface. We retrieved the fish with the Pass Lake still firmed planted into the corner of the significantly smaller fish’s jaw.<br /><br />The Pass Lake has been a part of my fishing arsenal for a long time starting as a wet fly pattern in sizes #12 and #14. Working as a guide for Cedar Island Estates introduced me to the fly as a real go to streamer pattern in larger sizes. Years later, I learned that it fished well as a dry fly pattern. When, on mid-morning in late June (1985), a client hooked and landed a brown of about 25 inches on a Pass Lake dry fly, I came to believe that the legend of the pattern deserved the attention it was getting in all of its variations, a real midwestern legend that has stood up to the test of time.<br /><br />Out of curiosity I searched for the Pass Lake on the Internet and found a discovery of the joyfully unexpected. On the Wisconsin Fishing Forum “Duke” Welter held court on the history of none other than the Pass Lake by relaying the words of the late Larry Meicher, “The Pass Lake Kid.” At the time Larry evidently didn’t have a “hook up” to the “Net.” (You can read it <a href="http://www.wisflyfishing.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1173852181">here</a>.)<br /><br />It has amazed me how interconnected we are. You talk to someone coming off river from a day of delivering a fly like the Pass Lake and start a conversation and end up making all sorts of connections. Places, patterns, people; they all commingle waiting for a discovery of the joyfully unexpected. Larry Meicher fished the Brule with me nearly 30 years ago and introduced me to the Pass Lake.<br /><br />Things do run full circle.<br /><br />Keep a tight line,<br /><br />Steve TherrienSteve Therrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11578866649024556052noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035786510991281296.post-55243356698931116492010-02-25T16:27:00.001-08:002010-02-25T16:54:14.851-08:00a water sign<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCRLU09FFqZ0jHTwyj3WDXDzPmI2j-1aHpFEqFiZ7iZbW37NlTMyhd6qXswAkPbiKF7c3FTY6JitWaxgerZ8U3jeu-VAZcoyvPJABLNsr81hbRX-Anp22QPM1LmlVxLC4HzNWUbIGjtDk/s1600-h/DSC02192.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCRLU09FFqZ0jHTwyj3WDXDzPmI2j-1aHpFEqFiZ7iZbW37NlTMyhd6qXswAkPbiKF7c3FTY6JitWaxgerZ8U3jeu-VAZcoyvPJABLNsr81hbRX-Anp22QPM1LmlVxLC4HzNWUbIGjtDk/s400/DSC02192.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442349087929149074" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">a water sign</span><br /><br />we are sent by water<br />into this world of air<br />only to be<br />drawn back to its<br />feathery tangles<br />whirling eddies<br />current and tide<br />wave train that crashes folds into<br />a whorling pool foam granished<br />after a long race over cold stones.<br /><br />each encounter is a reminder of<br />liquid life that speaks in a language<br />of living motion and primal buoyancy<br />where water was mouthed first <br />before air, before sound only<br /> the measured meter of the heart<br /> the arbitrary noises of human plumbing.<br /><br />our random beginnings<br />a discharge<br />in the transparent flow <br />of the ancient element<br />to live then is<br />to give drink of the essential knot<br /> to water something<br /> down, to submerge it<br /> in the flood taken <br /> from a colorless source<br /><br />or<br />a bottle of it bought off a duck’s back<br />poured carelessly down the drain<br />to eventually run under the bridge <br />or over the dam.<br /><br /><br /><br />Sorry to have been hibernating.<br /><br />Keep a tight line,<br /><br />Steve TherrienSteve Therrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11578866649024556052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035786510991281296.post-77094295807529749502009-12-15T09:50:00.000-08:002009-12-21T10:07:16.485-08:00Transparent Mysteries<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGvclNpIRGeFggT-jUapLmtvqdnZKVBs4noQbch0r6LxtBp9MIMA34zf_JAeEyJaizyEwZTSH5GoBTh-rf_eo-T1Hjv4kc8VOaBKfAgMA8i13x7Pb4Kkz96bhOYcgXJFn1SSbp2ncjoaI/s1600-h/yikestrout2.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 244px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGvclNpIRGeFggT-jUapLmtvqdnZKVBs4noQbch0r6LxtBp9MIMA34zf_JAeEyJaizyEwZTSH5GoBTh-rf_eo-T1Hjv4kc8VOaBKfAgMA8i13x7Pb4Kkz96bhOYcgXJFn1SSbp2ncjoaI/s400/yikestrout2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415522098166898466" /></a><br /><br />Pleading our lives <br />like the woven intricacies <br />of two streams mixing <br />through rock and sand and wood <br /><br />we reach out<br />ruminating on the iridescence of trout<br /><br />can’t help but wonder at the mystery<br />as color’s shifting splash<br />and subtle shift in wave frequency<br />change in angles of light<br />nerve impulse stimulation<br />electro-chemical twinge light reception <br />measured in foot candles <br />in lumens all in<br />discrete packets, zillons of them<br />the photon, quantum of the electromagnetic field, <br />how then does it translate<br />to beauty?<br /><br />Merry Christmas and a Joyous New Year<br /><br />Hyvaa joulua Onnellista uutta vuotta<br /><br />Keep a tight line,<br /><br />Steve TherrienSteve Therrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11578866649024556052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035786510991281296.post-24746636132560576872009-09-30T09:17:00.000-07:002009-10-03T11:52:23.461-07:00Bemused<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXx1QqIeJSmUaqrPl7yYzFX92NlmiOumoISDACvGumeG7MbFa0PdGPUL2u2gbhBLDYv74GcJYltrTJYQkyGGGVlnHvhuJVcLfoxDSglyEA_T5AWDLG0yxNAYxJORYcQk9LxWGpTgNTOkY/s1600-h/DSC02185.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXx1QqIeJSmUaqrPl7yYzFX92NlmiOumoISDACvGumeG7MbFa0PdGPUL2u2gbhBLDYv74GcJYltrTJYQkyGGGVlnHvhuJVcLfoxDSglyEA_T5AWDLG0yxNAYxJORYcQk9LxWGpTgNTOkY/s400/DSC02185.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388448425438651634" /></a><br /><br />The eddy line where everything either gets swept under a low overhang of cedars or gets slammed by the whole of the main run taunted me from the moment I waded into the pool at 5:00 in the morning. I had cast into that magic suspension of currents, using at least three different strategies, for at least a half hour. Before you start accusing me of buggy whipping the hole, I'll say that at 5:00 in the morning its dark enough to cover most of my miscues (if any), and I gave pause enough for any beast to feel secure enough to venture forth.<br /><br />The previous night I had held the canoe for a client in the press of the run so that he could skate a fly through the eddy line in hopes of moving a least one good fish. This place always holds good fish. However, it hasn’t produced anything for a number of seasons—not even a “drive-by," "how-are-you," or "No-I’m-not-interested.” I have reasoned over the years that when good spots stop producing, a big fish has taken over chasing out all rivals. This theory has shown some validity when big fish are caught from these previously quiet places. Usually big lake run browns. We worked the fly for a good half hour before we strung up the rod and headed down stream and into the night. So I returned after a few hours sleep to try and reconfirm the theory.<br /><br />I stood and watched the eddy slowly push the foam up to the top of the eddy and then slowly swing it down along the undercut bank and back down to the end where it met enough of the push from the main current to start it cycling through again. Bemused by the movements of the river, I may have fallen sleep on my feet or somehow had one of those strange experiences where you find yourself loosing any sense of the passage of time. Driving to work comes to mind, where you discover yourself at work, but you’re hard pressed remembering the drive. A hot shower can spend time for me. What I thought was a few minutes turns into a cold shower wake-up.<br /><br />The bump of a canoe hitting a rock at the top of the run brought me out of my trance. Surprised not by the canoe that was yet to make the turn into the final part of the run before the pool, but the sunlight pouring through an opening in the cedar canopy. What had been a dark, shadow-shrouded hole was now fully illuminated by the low angle of the sun reaching the over the top of the valley. Rocks, woody tangle and the sand spout of a bottom spring shown clearly. The shadow of the cedars had moved out into the run with the edge of the shadow hovering over the sweet spot of the eddy: the current break between the main thrust of water and the cycling turn of the eddy. How had I missed the transition from the nether world of the half-light before dawn to this? The canoe bumped another rock. I glanced up the run. As my head turned, I glimpsed, out of the corner of my vision, a large silver shadow dart down the eddy line, flash brightly through the sunspot on the bottom of the eddy and slide under the undercut and dissolve into the mystery of those velvet thoughts that are marked by the revolving question: Did I really see that? Or was that what I wanted to see?<br /><br />I am pretty certain I said hello to the canoeists as they slipped by and rounded the next turn. The sound of the rapids rushed through my head for the whole of the trip back to the car. The rest of the day was bemused by the movement of water.<br /><br />Keep a tight line,<br /><br />Steve TherrienSteve Therrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11578866649024556052noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035786510991281296.post-47428712669050805282009-07-17T14:55:00.000-07:002009-07-18T06:52:58.670-07:00Waiting<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV2fNRe-BtFI0ymK_ZCd9WxftztD7Zz9-ql_t3qG3zTzf4zLM19AHBuXt62_AxfjGp4hxiH8Oqs8fJvGa1DoncHWQT7gOdrimATeLhcwDIBlUfrutBeeOvEMIva91Y9Iml4gMsiAFHgL4/s1600-h/DSC02022.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV2fNRe-BtFI0ymK_ZCd9WxftztD7Zz9-ql_t3qG3zTzf4zLM19AHBuXt62_AxfjGp4hxiH8Oqs8fJvGa1DoncHWQT7gOdrimATeLhcwDIBlUfrutBeeOvEMIva91Y9Iml4gMsiAFHgL4/s400/DSC02022.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359554803895157426" /></a><br /><br />Fly rodding involves a lot of waiting. Waiting for the just the right conditions: light, stillness in the air, humidity, time of day, feeding activity. I am always taken back by what appears to be. A stretch of river absolutely lacking in feeding activity can come alive in the course of a few minutes. Wait a few minutes and things can change. Where you'd think there couldn't be a fish-one appears.<br /><br />I sit and drink tea while I wait. Will the wind settle down? Ponder the state of man? Did I remember the bug juice? Sip tea. Fight the urge to fish the water. Did I choose the right pattern? Sip tea. Check the sky. Not dark enough, yet. Wonder about whether I locked the car. Too bad, I'm not going back to lock it anyway. Stretch the shoulders. Think about who won the ball game. Check out the fish that rose next to the log upstream. Watch the mink as it snakes its way downstream, ducking under branches, submerging then emerging next to the moss covered rocks. It scrambles up onto the trunk of cedar that has grown curving out from the bank. Shaking its body body in a quick blur, the mink clears the water from its fur and moves on nosing its way through the ferns and sweetgale. Sip tea. The wind is calming. Mental flossing directs your attention to those occurrences that happen all about you. A mosquito flies off so heavy laden with my blood that it nearly drops into the river before it gains enough altitude to fly off--I usually feel their faint sting. <br /><br /> First Brown Drake spinner of the night takes its clumsy flight over head then others appear, followed by more. Its getting darker and more still. Did I mention that I drink tea while I wait?<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyq9uGzbWq9KrydTCWQlR8aKuW96W25PWfrE9kPWbwlC9WE2yxVGRbZExrGEX0wmedpHeH0Rv3-qlLci2T6YKkfn05It40VwFXp9BVt2cf7GCoty33RVK0enLTbhB-m8EPzAxtASyFED8/s1600-h/DSC02054.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 282px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyq9uGzbWq9KrydTCWQlR8aKuW96W25PWfrE9kPWbwlC9WE2yxVGRbZExrGEX0wmedpHeH0Rv3-qlLci2T6YKkfn05It40VwFXp9BVt2cf7GCoty33RVK0enLTbhB-m8EPzAxtASyFED8/s400/DSC02054.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359553611246342514" /></a><br /><br />The first fish takes a spinner as it struggles in the surface film. I watch another fly flutter an inch, writhe, then disappear in a swirling rise that looks like a miniature toilet flush. Other fish join in. Each has its own distinctive take and sound. Splashy and bold, soft with a distinctive sipping sound, gentle dimpled ring. In the course of a few minutes there are more than a dozen fish actively feeding. I've waited long enough. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyvY7hYPReY72R80zBX5hXWWR-NJGL2L5zvz7Gt8rJqj9qy5iLBAjJcqdsoXo2cB-OomHNx2HjuUmmSsBF_mhHjl59b9PfLOFLXpTpvRoObcrpI2cBonUzjUYFaRhaTlB-0Od2tki-ONA/s1600-h/DSC02030.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 251px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyvY7hYPReY72R80zBX5hXWWR-NJGL2L5zvz7Gt8rJqj9qy5iLBAjJcqdsoXo2cB-OomHNx2HjuUmmSsBF_mhHjl59b9PfLOFLXpTpvRoObcrpI2cBonUzjUYFaRhaTlB-0Od2tki-ONA/s400/DSC02030.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359552681668204770" /></a><br /><br />I've been away from the computer fishing the June hatches and guiding. The keyboard is foreign to the touch and being indoors is starting to feel confining. I gotta get out again.<br /><br />Keep a tight line,<br /><br />Steve TherrienSteve Therrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11578866649024556052noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035786510991281296.post-35787088872074538992009-05-27T11:14:00.000-07:002009-05-27T11:31:46.604-07:00river trails<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJou8j_YOcTJw4LQD_DscbsfL_5-_HrY6gMl6cpAqgTNT7GOxmYjPnlGrH-kkMgD0l6ORFfFvapjzLkoJpiVebXqsyse2Jk_Wos7nyJkS2wwdpIJeE0Dgr6QwlWKJAk_-tlUfMWGlnOfo/s1600-h/DSC01610.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJou8j_YOcTJw4LQD_DscbsfL_5-_HrY6gMl6cpAqgTNT7GOxmYjPnlGrH-kkMgD0l6ORFfFvapjzLkoJpiVebXqsyse2Jk_Wos7nyJkS2wwdpIJeE0Dgr6QwlWKJAk_-tlUfMWGlnOfo/s400/DSC01610.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340572918901823698" /></a><br />always narrow, weedy and mud slicked<br />boot polished smooth and sun baked hard<br />twisting through willows thick,<br />dip and shinnied around skin barking stones <br />crossing hot meadows and wind corroded snow<br />through cedar shade cool<br /><br />in blackberry tangle grab<br />low under the alder rain drip<br />over wire fence cautious straddle<br /><br />woven roots in the well worn<br />way looking<br />at<br />the direction of the imprints<br />of familiar souls<br /><br />the path wear<br />points the way to where we came and<br />the other to where we can go<br /><br /><br />Keep a tight line,<br /><br />Steve TherrienSteve Therrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11578866649024556052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035786510991281296.post-91287242879862326852009-05-13T13:42:00.000-07:002009-05-13T13:46:45.467-07:00quiet water<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt8Ccb7mzsvq8Oi0dBFJtb-05nv7WfNPeUkmnvESgkWQeqO4UfhKZFlvfukfV0a3NWeeMaoQAeEAOvlOwvDtcWZrXUTq-e-YgrRcqKoHnc7rUo3mvl3W-DwgQBRBeLJKO_p425hFBvw4I/s1600-h/DSC01956.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt8Ccb7mzsvq8Oi0dBFJtb-05nv7WfNPeUkmnvESgkWQeqO4UfhKZFlvfukfV0a3NWeeMaoQAeEAOvlOwvDtcWZrXUTq-e-YgrRcqKoHnc7rUo3mvl3W-DwgQBRBeLJKO_p425hFBvw4I/s400/DSC01956.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335412351184148434" /></a><br />quiet water<br /><br />under<br />the shimmering lace <br />the blooming transparency and <br /><br />mesmerizing flow<br />a tail shadow flies over <br />illuminated sand and gravel<br /><br />dissolving in momentary <br />feathery whorls of <br />shadow cast one on <br /><br />one to break as<br />the surface rolls and pushes,<br />divides and plunges into <br /><br />darker quiet water<br /><br />and in it<br />its ability to tell lies<br />and to reveal truth<br /><br />finds comfort honestly<br />evades us easily <br />even though we traffic in <br /><br />the best of human guile<br />they elude us<br />in the reflective glare<br /><br />we are mere imitations<br />water ghosts locked up in <br />windowless rooms of our own reflection<br />bound to strong currents<br /><br /><br />Keep a tight line,<br /><br />Steve TherrienSteve Therrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11578866649024556052noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035786510991281296.post-6040316552579726092009-05-04T13:12:00.001-07:002009-05-12T07:49:42.009-07:00They're here!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1TU52UzXRhlr-9er2kUqFSjURkTt6hh82af_5MkPn7enqUF7oLIBF4jhAzm_PRpNgzqMSSk1xj-GjOU67p3-E_yDcPQ-v_i7PIc6LHC8b9jicJywTarWzt0F7HUWzlko4_s_6FCHwbTI/s1600-h/DSC01964.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1TU52UzXRhlr-9er2kUqFSjURkTt6hh82af_5MkPn7enqUF7oLIBF4jhAzm_PRpNgzqMSSk1xj-GjOU67p3-E_yDcPQ-v_i7PIc6LHC8b9jicJywTarWzt0F7HUWzlko4_s_6FCHwbTI/s400/DSC01964.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332064533964723506" /></a><br /><br /><br />Opening weekend and Hendrickson hatches have always had a special place in fishing the seasons of the trout calendar. Everything about Hendricksons speaks to fly rodding for trout or at least what I envision as fly rodding for trout. Trout will feed activity on all stages of the insect's life cycle. I have even caught fish using a size 22 egg sack pattern--a tiny ball of yellow dubbing! Some of my fondest memories of opening weekend have been because of these storied of mayflies. <br /><br />This past weekend, with the wind howling down the river, E. subvaria (old school latin name) came off at about two in the afternoon despite the wind. Many of the duns skated on the surface like iceboats racing with the wind until they fluttered off lost in the gusts. The number of insects coming off would have made for a perfect hatch by fly fishing standards enough to keep the trout looking up but not too many to make imitation an impossible feat. Mysteries of the behavior trout won out again. With abundance of available fodder and no fish feeding--not on the bottom either, I could see them still and lock jawed--the hatch continued for an hour while I looked on. Some times it is better this way. Waiting in humble silence, contemplating in the moment, knowing full well that fortune is a harlot.... It was a beautiful day filled with blue sky and clouds and small flights of ducks and the occasional flash of a spooked fish or those that drove by to have a look. Most of it familiar yet it still refreshes the memory. <br /><br />After the hatch let up and with just a few bugs popped off the river, I moved down stream to a run that is some times the haunt of other fly fishers. Some that I have known for years. I am of that age that I can say that and envision a good hand full of people. A few of whom have passed away. Their presence is still sensed there and at times I can hear them as they back cast or wade slowly to the next position closer to the feeding fish. The local cemetery is just a hundred yards away so I am sure there may be a few haunting this run even as you read this.<br /><br />The remains of an old bridge still stands on either side of the run as I looked up river. As the river glided around the bend and narrowed in front of me I thought I could hear voices up stream. It happens to me a lot lately. Running water speaks its language, and I forget where I am and suddenly I am hearing conversations that took place years ago, but only in bits and pieces. I even mistake them for voices that I believe are actually speaking in the here and now but are masked from recognizing because the rush of water over rock confuses my hearing...or the voice gets muffled in a gust of wind.<br /><br />There was a truck parked in the space where we all have parked our vehicles at this place. I stood looking up stream for awhile listening to the bits and piece of the conversations trying to recognize the voices. Then I heard it. The sound of a wading staff hitting a rock. Faintly at first then steady like an angler moving back down stream, wading through the run not fishing. The figure appeared at the top of the run, and I took him for the driver of the truck. I hoped that I would recognize him. He appeared ghost like in the shadows. "Well, it's all over they've come and gone. You 'miles well wait until dusk and see if there's a spinner fall," the shadow spoke in a loud and familiar voice. "Did you come with some one or are you by yourself?"<br /><br />He stepped into the yellowing light of the afternoon sun and smiled. It was Dave, the fly tier, an old fishing friend. He said that it was his first time out, "Would you believe it?" He shook my hand with a familiar wry smile on his face and climbed the bank.<br /><br />"I do," I said. "You're retired and don't have to pound the water like the rest of us on the weekend's"<br /><br />"I gotta go to church. Michelle said I had to get out of the house for awhile," he added putting his rod down next to the truck. Dave is serious about his fly fishing and his Catholicism. "I've been retired nine years now and there isn't a retired person that I've met that doesn't pray." He paused and faced the river holding his hands above his head in praise, "Thanking God, for the time to do stuff like this. Opening weekend, for a few hours at least. I can go anytime, you know, but opening day..."<br /><br />"Maybe there will be spinner fall."<br /><br />"If the hatch has been on for a few days, it's possible and if the wind comes down. I gotta go," he replied<br /><br />We chatted for a few more minutes about what we saw on the river and if we had seen or heard from any river people we knew. I didn't tell him about the voices I been hearing lately.<br /><br />As he drove off, I thought about the possibility of fishing the spinner fall. I had heard voices in the water, then Dave appears. There are all sorts of emergences on the river. I let the spinner fall and fishing wait for another time, another opening day.<br /><br /><br /><br />Keep tight line,<br /><br />Steve TherrienSteve Therrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11578866649024556052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035786510991281296.post-39221224497563217132009-04-29T12:23:00.000-07:002009-04-30T06:58:59.572-07:00Temptation<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXG2odV9-Mneiptzdtx5nSCSOEh6Ipf4CWfqb8ShEqv3GyA7R_xBnpGxrZjuhS_-126znU4GLQW-Ra66MUe7lttA5VP4mzU5V4yls5W7MEOlqZmNzLXjNqi72sFn8dNRR3xy_ltDXjzmM/s1600-h/MQ5X3649.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXG2odV9-Mneiptzdtx5nSCSOEh6Ipf4CWfqb8ShEqv3GyA7R_xBnpGxrZjuhS_-126znU4GLQW-Ra66MUe7lttA5VP4mzU5V4yls5W7MEOlqZmNzLXjNqi72sFn8dNRR3xy_ltDXjzmM/s400/MQ5X3649.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330202154017226466" /></a><br /><br /><br />walking the river on the edge<br />of someone else’s trout boundary<br />temptation gets the better<br /> so I cross barbed wire <br />pulled tight by hoist and muscle<br /><br />ignoring the sign<br /><br />makes the bending wire hard<br />complicated by fly rod <br />the hole widening in a fence line<br />becomes a wrestling of two egos:<br /><br />those that build<br />those that want through<br /><br /> if the bending isn’t done right,<br /> standing too soon... <br /> a hand slips...<br /> a tangled rod tip ...<br /> a rusted point could catch your waders<br /> your skin<br /> with righteous indifference<br /> could make it nasty later<br /> scratch <br /> cut deep<br /> puncture<br /> but the wound<br /> wouldn’t be much <br /> to the thing that drives<br /> the crossing of fence lines<br /> <br />laying on to the pulse of the forbidden<br />the effort and the risk of it<br />when someone slips through strands in a fence<br /> then looking back over<br /> where you’ve been <br /> to<br /> what is <br /> that is there<br /><br /> heart throb that<br /> hums when the wind whispers through <br /> the wires <br /> and ripples the surface<br /> of the transparent mysteries<br /> that tempts us <br /><br />that speaks through it all<br />below the surface<br />finning through the lacy eddies<br />that hug and caress river rock<br />ambivalent to the trespasser’s boot<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />With the opener (just around the corner), I hope this greets you well. I pulled this out of an old folder. It was from a time when my enthusiasm for the "quiet sport" would sometimes blunt my ethical governor. Today, I imagine the ghost of my former self beckoning me on from the other side of the wire. We all confront the sign sometime.<br /><br />I hope you all encounter the tight lines we all dream on...<br /><br />Keep a tight line,<br /><br />Steve TherrienSteve Therrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11578866649024556052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035786510991281296.post-84284209197951933252009-03-26T13:45:00.000-07:002009-03-26T13:58:23.850-07:00river crossings<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcP4QVLrGg77_QSrYly8vIwHUGTV2I4iZrljPNaG3zQLs5WeIh7oDHaQz1w2m4um0hBwsTOChUE6zAKEpy8SGkKXIUDP0InS_ZR6aUMZNiIaJ-1rlCMtrqCt7w3EozLYCXgQP_F9J-H4Y/s1600-h/DSC00146.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcP4QVLrGg77_QSrYly8vIwHUGTV2I4iZrljPNaG3zQLs5WeIh7oDHaQz1w2m4um0hBwsTOChUE6zAKEpy8SGkKXIUDP0InS_ZR6aUMZNiIaJ-1rlCMtrqCt7w3EozLYCXgQP_F9J-H4Y/s400/DSC00146.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317603721646458114" /></a><br /><br />become well marked by<br />the river of boot soles that<br />have for the seasons marched<br />with collective calling<br />and necessity<br /><br />then the path submits to<br />muscular wrestlings of river<br />water and rock and trees <br />and the complexities that<br />mix and boil the possibilities<br />and the uncertainty of flux<br /><br />a good crossing makes suckers of us all<br />a slow submersion can quickly disappear<br />in the midstream weight and<br />toe tracing boulders<br />unsettled footing erodes the sandy gravel<br />roils out from under felts and studs<br />and deepening press toward down river<br />baptism and transformation<br />cloudless blue <br />then emersion <br />mixed and bound <br />to river music <br />until the next fishable run<br /><br />there are those where <br />“returning were as tedious as go o’er”<br />that squeeze time out<br />into those few moments when<br />we can embrace solitude by<br />making the other side<br />of mayfly emergence and<br />ants on the wing <br /><br />in the small places<br />nothing is new<br />otters chew brook trout heads <br />steelhead crash the alders <br />but for the passage<br />of few whorling eddies<br /><br />we<br /><br />inward turn <br />possibilities open <br />when we cross over<br />to something or from something<br /><br /><br /><br />Keep a tight line,<br /><br />Steve TherrienSteve Therrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11578866649024556052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035786510991281296.post-17473541580596843992009-03-17T11:51:00.000-07:002009-03-17T12:33:23.991-07:00a good lie<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm5Ni8u88dIRSQ9vwa1L2GzNlKOYnn9Kpt87r3ZB7gk5spnbr7J2DFoHiTSfOkXuEXL4UmRm6-UdbgBSDz4Izq5BVYJOmCDngS27eHueU_aiTo-8P6pAiGwx2ScfBHuimAv5_0T4yjKbY/s1600-h/Damianat+Pf+copy.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm5Ni8u88dIRSQ9vwa1L2GzNlKOYnn9Kpt87r3ZB7gk5spnbr7J2DFoHiTSfOkXuEXL4UmRm6-UdbgBSDz4Izq5BVYJOmCDngS27eHueU_aiTo-8P6pAiGwx2ScfBHuimAv5_0T4yjKbY/s320/Damianat+Pf+copy.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314231798135587906" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />finding the right drift in new water<br />tests one’s curiosity in the unknown <br />riffles and back eddies<br />fishing out what we want most<br /><br />adjusting the perception of the mix <br />to trace the line just so the drift <br />might lure out the lie of those<br />who need convincing most <br /><br />each step up against the current’s press<br />through rock and gravel, sand and mire<br />adjusting the cast to tumble down, mend line <br />to slow it against the arguments in surface tension<br /><br />a repetitive exercise in patience<br />persisting in a lie, to be fooled <br />by the anticipation that something <br />in fortune might change <br /><br />to see a slight pause or envision <br />through broken sparkle<br />shadowy movement toward the fly and<br />the sudden surge of line and rod<br /><br />play upon the presentation<br />arch and pull<br />fish or hooked to the earth<br /><br />the fish or the the fisherman<br />taken in by the lie<br />that a fly works as truth<br />that a fly is the truth and will be taken as such<br />for some, one swing through the run is enough<br />for others, getting the right drift is a matter of casting<br />over and over, until it is the truth<br /><br /><br />Keep a tight line,<br /><br />Steve TherrienSteve Therrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11578866649024556052noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2035786510991281296.post-36667281921445284732009-03-11T17:30:00.000-07:002009-03-17T08:05:36.099-07:00We Should Learn to Share and Share Alike<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0WrUS26FKp3eUorOxq1tU_bbqfkCA-CFrqoTUoGe7oDE56bX8yTjv5_6NqKJznZNl_XqVkUXE7blc5V6jQtYSjNVTlJc-jiOlsIWTH93Ljn2SmqktXiwinT6DZBBNpq-62THj3ch6jNw/s1600-h/DSC01736_1.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0WrUS26FKp3eUorOxq1tU_bbqfkCA-CFrqoTUoGe7oDE56bX8yTjv5_6NqKJznZNl_XqVkUXE7blc5V6jQtYSjNVTlJc-jiOlsIWTH93Ljn2SmqktXiwinT6DZBBNpq-62THj3ch6jNw/s400/DSC01736_1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312385615642168306" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><br /><br /><br /></div>“With more and more folks looking for the same thing, how we approach the water, as well as the attitude we bring to it, will go a long way in defining the quality of the outing, the height of its enjoyment, and the depth of its significance.”<br /> Jerry Kustich—At the River’s Edge<br /><br />The fly angling world has become more crowded. More people are fly-fishing in a variety of waters. More information about where to fish and how to fish is shared freely. Because of the way we share information, the community of fly fishers has the potential of being brought closer together. In all things on and off the water we should learn to share our understanding, the resources, and most importantly ourselves. However, it seems that the very thing that could bring us together has distanced us. The phrase used in a lot of the literature I read as I grew up in the sport, “the fraternity of fly fishers,” seems to be disappearing.<br /><br />Car rides to the river have their own mental rituals for me. I always run through the mental checklist: gear, where to fish, what flies I’ll use. The anticipation can brew a strange mixture of expectation of fish rising and the steady and strong pull of a good fish. After about ten minutes, I can catch a half dozen good fantasy fish in those special places with that certain fly all placed by perfect casts in the slow motion only my imagination can supply. Turning off the highway onto the dirt road to the river I get pretty wound up, and an odd feeling of entitlement starts to grow within me.<br /><br /> I don’t think anyone starts a trip to the river with the idea of getting into any conflicts. To assume that all fly anglers are righteous people is naive. If we believe, only a few muddy the waters for the rest of us, we are being equally naive. The growing lack of civility in the world and the conflicts it breeds is also evident in our sport. It certainly isn’t just the actions of “those other guys.” The rest of us have to take responsibility for a growing lack of civility that has emerged (pardon the pun) on our waters.<br /> <br /> The parking lot was empty when I arrived. Late July fishing on this river is mostly an evening affair. I wanted to get to a series of turns in the river that started at a wide sandy spot and to fish down through the turns then walk back to the car after dark. The high banks all through this stretch of the river valley grow stands of red pine. The under story near the river is punctuated with cedars and alders, willow and sweet gale, and ferns. The turns in the river cut deep bank holes that are littered with sunken logs and rock. The long shadows of the setting sun, the sounds of the river settling into dusk, the smells, of humid earth peppered with sweet pine resin, invigorated the car ride’s mixture of anticipation, expectation and daydream. <br /> Even though it is thought of as the quiet sport, there are a few recognizable sounds in fly-fishing. The sound that a rod makes as it cuts the air can carry a good distance in the right conditions. Hearing it halfway to the river was the most unwelcome sound. I was angry.<br /> <br /> I’ll call it anger because I am not sure what else to call it. I know this moment well because over the years as a fishing guide I’ve witnessed it in the actions of other fishers and myself. A frustrated boot kick in the shallows of a back eddy, a rock thrown into a pool of holding steelhead, a canoe purposely paddled over a fly line are just outward manifestations of strong feelings. I know we all have been to this place where our behavior should take a right turn, but it doesn’t.<br /><br /> I was frustrated and disappointed as I stood watching what turned out to be a father and son fishing through the spot that I had already mentally claimed during my drive to the river. Father and son were enjoying their moment on the water, catching and releasing trout. The sight of it made me upset. How different would it have been had I arrived fifteen minutes later and they were out of sight? No trace of their being in the same stretch of river but a few current eroded wader prints. <br /> <br />The passion that we bring to our sport is often our undoing. We often fish by ourselves to be in those places where our solitude and the flow of the river can renew us. I wanted the chance to catch a “mermaid” as the poet of Frenchmen’s Pond once said. While I watched the father and son disappear around the bend of the river, I came to realize that it is not just about the desire to fish. It is about the disappointment when the fantasy-fishing daydream doesn’t match reality. This sets us up for conflict.<br /><br />In my mind I owned that stretch of the river. Finding myself in an odd feeling of territorial encroachment, I decided to wait silently and quiet myself. I sat on the high bank looking down on the currents and “read” the water, to rest it, to watch and listen as the Bible instructs us to. Tom McGuane in his book, The Longest Silence, notes “...the best angling is always a respite from burden.” Why had I come out to the river in the first place? Over the years of fishing and guiding fly fishers, I have personally gotten away from the pursuit of catching every fish in the river and the pursuit of the monster trout. McGuane also points out that fishing is a source for renewal. When we go to the water, we should, of those uglier motives we carry around in the world, “Leave as much behind as possible... if we expect to be restored in the eyes of God, fish, and the river, which reward you with hollow waste if you don’t behave.”<br /><br /> We are visitors regardless of the notions of ownership that we bring to the water and in that sense our best behavior is expected. Expected not because it is written in the fish and game laws but because it rises above law and helps us gain a deeper insight into why we fish.<br /> <br />Fly-fishing has evolved through the hard work of some its more ardent proponents. As a whole fly anglers have grown up. Progressing beyond the “put and take” ethic of perhaps a generation or so before, our collective understanding of the sport has been made richer because we have recognized the contributions of those who came before us and learned from them.<br /> <br />A generation ago fly anglers were primarily brought to the sport by mentors--a family member or friend who showed the way. Much of my early development as a fly fisher seemed mysterious. A fisher’s mentor took the time to demystify fly fishing and to pass on much more than “how to” information. The traditions of the sport and the rivers we fished were incorporated along with casting and presentation instruction and yet an understanding of how to conduct oneself on the stream was never left out.<br /><br />We come to the sport differently today. Fishing clinics on DVD, the local fly shop, and a whole host of regional and local publications have revolutionized the way a whole new generation of anglers discover fly fishing. We are knowledgeable and skilled fly anglers today. The Internet has helped in ways that my mentors in the sport could never understand. Message boards and blogs, e-mail and web sites, have elevated the amount of information available to fly fishers. As a fishing partner of mine said, “You can’t be too ignorant about how to catch trout with a fly these days.” There are very few secrets and that includes where to fish. GPS devices and guidebooks have all helped pull back the curtain on the secret locations. In the rush to get the latest new technique, hot fly (don’t forget to trademark them), must fish locales, and the absolutely “cannot do without” new product, we’ve forgotten to pass along how to conduct ourselves on the water. Humanity and civility can’t be taught on a DVD or weekend class. It is the relationship with the rivers and the people who fish them that teach us over time. How to conduct ourselves, wisdom and civility take time.<br /><br />Sometimes it’s better to sit and watch the river move on, let the water rest and see if something will happen. The father and son were around the turn and the smaller fish in the run had started to work again. A few of the larger fish showed themselves chasing smaller fish in the shallows on the far side of the river under the overhang of an ancient cedar.<br /> <br /> I had taken my time to string my rod and tie on a leader and fly. I like fishing small streamers just under the surface. The low light of dusk is perfect for it. Easing into the river and slowly moving into a good casting position, I stripped enough line to get the streamer to swing under the cedar. One false cast down stream to check the distance ... a stick snapping in the bank down stream and noisy entry into the river... a pile cast short of the cedar and a large trout racing through the sand shallows and into the deep snag filled hole up stream.<br /> <br />The son, from the father and son pair, had crossed over the hog’s back on the opposite side of the river, proceeded down the path and marched into the river. He crossed the river and took up a position twenty-five yards downstream from me. While I watched with mild interest, the boy started fishing up stream toward me trying very hard not to make eye contact. I got the impression that he really didn’t believe I was standing up stream. When his cast got within range of the end of my drift, I reeled up and backed out of the stream. I noticed his father watching his son from the top of the path on the hog’s back. I am not sure if I was angry or just deeply disappointed.<br /><br />Rules of conduct don’t always apply in every situation. The unique nature of each fishery sometimes helps to develop local etiquette. The Atlantic Salmon Fisheries of the world are notable for their regulations and their own unique fishing protocols. Our local rivers often develop their own unique protocols as well. In Minnesota on the North Shore of Lake Superior, the rivers run a short distance up stream from the lake before encountering an impassable falls. Migratory trout and salmon running into those streams stack up in a small number of holes and holding spots. Over the years anglers there have developed an understanding that they fish very close together, helping each other to net fish and reeling up and getting out of the way of an angler moving down stream to play a trout or salmon. These are understandings we come to as a community.<br /><br />Distances that on other streams would definitely result in harsh words are not a problem for these North Shore anglers. However, miles south of the North Shore of Lake Superior, on the Bois Brule River in Wisconsin, distances anglers give each other are considerable by comparison. How much space we’d prefer giving each other on the water is relative to the situation and the region. One fisher’s too close could be close enough but not a problem for another. Damian Wilmot, a guide on the Brule and a good friend and fishing partner said it best, “If you think you’re getting too close you probably are.” We can’t know every nuance of etiquette for every new stream we encounter. We can however try to discover them through the same resources that anglers today use to become more skilled and more knowledgeable about the fisheries we visit. We could try a novel approach and talk to each other.<br /><br /> I watched the father and son pull a canoe out of the brush. They both ignored me as they paddled past. I tried to make the best of the situation by waving. No response. The hull of the canoe and the paddle stroke of the father in the stern were the only visible movement. Making the turn, the canoe left only a thin visible wake as it too faded into the darkening backdrop. As the canoe disappeared it came to me that I had encroached on the water they had left. Although no heated verbal exchanges took place, being ignored was a bitter pill.<br /> <br />In a phone conversation with a good fishing friend the other day I heard a similar tale. This time the conflict was between two old friends. My friend on the other end of the phone drove to a series of holes in an S-turn of the river. The familiar truck in the parking lot indicated that his old friend was there already. Instead of moving on, he pulled in thinking friends share.<br /><br />It is a big place with enough space for two even three anglers to fish sometimes out of sight of one another. My friend was surprised when his old friend shouted his disapproval instead of a greeting—apparently feeling he should have the place to himself. The story of their verbal exchange made me wonder about where the fraternity of fly fisherman had gone.<br /><br />After further thought I realized it was still there, fly fishers have to keep encouraging it. Relationships need to be maintained. We can take for granted almost anything that gets too familiar. I have to believe that when we are agreeable and show respect and try to be inclusive we are maintaining the relationship we all have as the result of being involved with the sport. Regardless of what level of development we may find ourselves, we should always remember to share.<br /><br />Fishing the Buffalo Meadows section of the Firehole in the late 70s, I felt overwhelmed by what I encountered on the water. Elk and buffalo grazing directly across the river and mountains in the background not to mention the phenomenal caddis hatches that occurred every evening the week that I was there. I struggled the first day. Wading, reading the water, casting in the wind, it all took getting used to. Though I tied my own caddis patterns, none that I thought would work actually did. I didn’t want to bother anybody or embarrass myself by exposing my ignorance. These were obvious master anglers who didn’t need to be disturbed by the likes of me. I finally mustered up and walked to the closest angler while he sat on the bank tying on another fly. As I approached he looked up and smiled and asked how I was doing.<br /><br /> “Not good,” I replied.<br /><br /> “Really?” the question had a little disbelief in it. He must of sensed my lack of self-confidence and offered to show me what he was using. It was about a size 16, dark-brown elk hair caddis. The first I had ever seen. He demonstrated how to fish it in the complex currents using a series of up stream mends. When the fly rode high in the water, the rainbows took it greedily. He gave me a few samples, and I went back to the river and caught fish. My first trip west was made memorable by the sharing of a little time, a little knowledge and a few flies.<br /><br />I haven’t lived up to that example of generosity and kindness very well. I will try to honor all acts of kindness I have received from other anglers. These simple offerings have stayed with me and have remained woven among my life experiences. They have contributed to my development as a fly angler and in retrospect made me a better person. I hope I can be worthy of all those unselfish attempts to give back to the sport that has given me so much.<br /><br /><br />If you have comments for me please feel free to post them. <br /><br />Keep a tight line,<br /><br />Steve Therrien <br /> <br /><br /><br /><div><br /></div>Steve Therrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11578866649024556052noreply@blogger.com0