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Tag Archives: blues
A Purple Haze
The evening’s Genesee was too warm (72 degrees F.) to fish at Shongo so I drove upstream and found safer water (68 degrees) for trout, in case the dry fly action turned out to be good. It turned out to … Continue reading
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Tagged Adams, berries, blues, dry flies, fly-fishing, Genesee River, Hendrix, nature, poetry, Purple Haze, trout, wildness, writing
10 Comments
Monster Blues and Salmon, Too
The blues I’m referring to are not a giant saltwater fish. They’re a form of musical expression that I find quite useful for moving beyond a disappointing and even frightful political season this November. In a moment or two I’ll … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Head Todd, blues, Clemens Center, Fall Creek, fly-fishing, landlocked salmon, marriage, moonrise, Mud Morganfield, music, nature, photography, politics, Ronnie Brooks, sunsets, Thanksgiving, Willie Dixon
23 Comments
Good Morning, Steelhead (Wherever You Are)
At last, on the first full day of spring, a day that followed an unusually difficult winter in upstate New York, I was out there fishing and moving once again…I felt like a steelhead, perhaps, off on a “swim” from … Continue reading
Like a Song by Taj
To angle, as I see it, is to fish in an endless act of exploration and discovery. To angle, in a realm of small streams and rivertops, can mean an exploration of those blue lines on a topo map, those … Continue reading
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Tagged angling, blues, discovery, exploration, fishing, mastodon, poetry, psychology, song, Taj Mahal, Thoreau, Time, wild trout
16 Comments
“Never Felt No Fishing Blues”
I almost called this post “The Soul-butter Fishing Blues.” Samuel Clemens used the term “soul butter” in Huckleberry Finn, but I think the term had a negative connotation, as when the king and duke defrauded villagers with their version of … Continue reading
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Tagged BJ Sharp, blues, fishing blues, heartbreak, Karen Lovely, Love, Mark Twain, never felt blues, soul butter, Yellow Breeches
19 Comments
In the Name of Trout
I discovered modern music about the same time I discovered the joy of fishing. Since my age hit the double digits, I’ve had a lovely run with both. As a kid, I used to lie awake at night with a … Continue reading
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Tagged blues, Bluesbreakers, exploration, fishing, music, trout streams, Walter Trout, what'sinaname, wildness
12 Comments
Fishing With Thoreau
A summer daydream, or maybe something more. 1 I went to the creek to examine my motives for trout fishing in a hot dry month. For fishing when most streams had minimal flows and marginal water temperatures, when most stream … Continue reading
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Tagged artificials vs. bait, blues, fishing motives, God/Artist, H.D. Thoreau, personal freedom, summer streams, the Wild, trout dreams, Walden
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Rivertop Rambles 