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WALLPAPER:  FAVORITE WINTER HAUNT

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

CHILLI RELLENO = BREAKFAST

Guacamole = Lunch

pepper steak = dinner

WALLPAPER: CHILI RELLENO

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.. We've been told that a balanced diet is important for success in catching trout in our neighborhood.
.. It's also been said that variety in food and flies is the spice for catching those trout.
.. The neighbors, bless their hearts, say that all food is better if it's made at home. We're doing our best.

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WALLPAPER: GUACAMOLE

WALLPAPER: PEPPER STEAK

A Fine Soft Day

NOT A HINT OF BREEZE

 Very Diffuse Shadows

fish noses and midges

WALLPAPER:   SOFT AND STILL

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.. It could be rain. It could be light snow. It could be fog. It could be cloudy. It could be overcast. Whatever it is it's soft and still.
.. Slurping is louder than rustling. Fishing is sublime. Catching is electric. We get one of these days all too infrequently. It's nice.
.. Breakfast comes after catching.

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WALLPAPER: A REAL BREAKFAST

Some Sun - Some Warm

TAKE FIVE TWENTY

Out To The Suburbs

tickle a fish

WALLPAPER:  SIGNS OF SUBURBIA

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BIG AS A MATCH HEAD

.. It's not far from our neighborhood to the suburbs.
.. It's just down the road and a quick left turn and we're out there where folks measure their land in acres - not square feet.
.. It's out there where streams form the boundaries of fields and summer pastures. Out there where they have to drive to the mailbox.
.. It's out there where we can easily find a fish to molest. We can tickle it's maw with the tempered steel of a fluffed-up hook.
.. It's out there where we can take a quick break from the noise and idiocy of our little tourist town's stupidity of exorbitantly priced park tours and the frenzied snowmobile chaos on our streets.
.. So, on some mornings, when the sun warms the snow to a fine and ethereal ground fog, we hitch up our trusty steed and trot to a little pool where the fish play. We stick one and call it a day. Even if it's not yet noon. Short days this time of year.
.. That's success in our world.

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WALLPAPER: VEILED SUN AND GROUND FOG

Unfinished Business

REDUCING CLUTTER

Scattered To The Winds

Arundinaria amabilis dispersed

TREASURES FROM A MISSPENT YOUTH

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.. The lovely glasses and grasses from over 60 years of scrounging, hoarding, and rat-holing are now being dispersed to new homes.
.. We have cried a little. We have laughed a lot. We have declined enough dough to retire on. We are transferring stewardship to loving and appreciative homes.
.. From the Palakona classics to the Central Valley lovelies and from Aroner to Winston, all have been sundered from their dark nooks and crannies to see daylight again. We feel holy and righteous. Hundreds gone. Hundreds to go. Ever seen a 10' one piece Leonard? The reels are next.

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TREASURES FROM A MISSPENT ADULTHOOD

The Lake Beckons

REAL FOLKS & REAL FISH

No Tweedy Fishers

flies are the ticket right now

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.. Not much to say about the smoke in the neighborhood. Giant whitefish are meeting their demise and being cremated in our village.
.. It's something that happens every year about this time. Trout fishers are oblivious to the joys of freezing their butts off on solid water. They prefer to freeze in running water. So be it.
.. River fishing between the lakes continues to draw far fewer folks than usual and the fishing is very good with gentle temperatures and howling winds.
.. The catching on the lake and the river is good to great and interestingly, the same fly is doing the job on both.

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Small, Close, Cold.

UNMOLESTED

Save By Us

10 minutes away

WINTER ESCAPE: CRAWL TO THE FISH --- DROP FOOD IN IT'S MOUTH

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.. The cold inhibits visitors. The neighbors dash to the small ones. The fish are hungry. Catching is not easy but it is simple. Use the best stealth techniques available. Wear a single piece snow suit for wriggling in the snow. Use small binoculars for observation. Just drop a fly in the maw of the fish. A three foot leader. Two feet of line. Overline the rod or use a nine weight. Ten foot or more. Play and return quickly.

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THE SNORTLE SEEMS TO BE ATTRACTIVE RIGHT NOW